it's up to the individual. that individual on a case by case basis can convince people that they have changed. >> what role do you think societal fear plays in creating barriers to excons when they are trying to have a productive life? >> i think it plays a major role. one of the things that i have noticed that when an individual commits a crime they are immediately behumanized and their value is lowered to where society will feel better punishing them. but they also play on the fear that -- i think is within all of us. no one wants to be a victim of crime. no one wants crime in their neighborhood, so they would use us as an example. and take images of especially african american males, and call for harsher punishments and not restore the rights of returning citizens. >> desmond our community jumped on this topic of dehumanization . . . >> lisa? >> i just want to -- >> something that desmond just touched on. nearly 6 million americans cannot vote because of a current or past felony conviction. after the break,

it's up to the individual.t individual on a case by case bases can convince people that they have changed. >> desmond, what role do you think societal fear played in creating barriers to ex-cons when they are trying to reinning great in society and are trying to have a productive life? >> i think it plays a major role. you know, one of the things that i have noticed is that when an individual commits a crime, their value is lowered to where saturday will feel better punishing them. but by doing so, they also play upon the fear that i think it's within all of us, you know, no one wants to be a victim of crime. no one wants crime in their neighborhood. and so they would use us as an example and there would -- i guess take images of especially of african-american males and to cause the public to cry for harsher punishment, long he have sentences and to not restore the rights of returning citizens upon their release. >> desmond our community jumping on the whole topic of dehuman dehumanization, it's difficult to es

in fact, the plan applies to individuals 19-64. anyone over is not eligible for the expansion program. neither are ones who are already in a traditional medi-cal benefit program. so that really totally opens up the world of medi-cal to a very large numbers of people who were previously uninsured. primarily it's for the working poor or people with disabilities that would have resources and assets and would make them in eligible. now they are eligible for the expansion medi-cal. a huge population are those who do have resource or assets that puts them above the threshold for traditional medi-cal. particularly those individuals who are living with disabilities who might have just applied for social security disability and they are in that 2-year waiting period for medicare. they might not have been eligible for traditional medi-cal because of those assets and resources. now they are going to receive services under the expansion medi-cal for medicare. another population are the medically needed with the share of cost medi-cal program.

it's up to the individual. >> individual on a indicates by case basis can convince people that they changed>> what role do you think societal fear plays in creating barriers to ex cons when they are trying to reintegrate into society and have a productive life? >> i think it plays a major role. one of the things that i have noticed is that when an individual commits a crime, they are immediately dehumanized. their value is lowered to where the fact you will feel better punishing them but by doing so, they also play a part of the fear that i think it's within all of us. you know, no one wants to be a victim of crime. no one wants crime in their neighborhoods. so they would use us as an example and, i guess, take images especially of african-american males and to cause the public to cry for hars beer punishment, longer sentences and to not receipt store the. it is difficult to escape when society labels you forever a criminal. when fellons do their time served they carry stigma they aren't bish beneficial. >> something that the desmond just touched on, nearly 6 million americans cannot vote b

and 286,000 individuals are acute individuals. the majority of the inmates don't suffer from significant ment mental illness. it is a very small number who will do anything to hurt others. i have been in the prisons 26 years. i have talked to inmates and had inmates tell me if you release me to the general population or take me out, i will kill someone. i have a duty and obligation to protect the staff and inmates and when someone is willing to tell you if you do this, this is what i am going to do, there are issues with that. >> i appreciate your decades of service. as someone who spent a significant portion of my adult life in law enforcement, i am grateful to the many employees of prison, many who risk their live toes protect citizens every day. it isn't an easy job you are doing. i would be interested what is the value of solitary confinement and what circumstances should it be employed and what are the risks? what are the downsides to using it as tool? >> the value of restrictive housing should only be used with slight necess

hot does respond to those individuals. mobile doesn't operate on a 24-hour basis. it doesn't operate on sundays. so, s.f. hot will respond to that. but i do think that overall, that having jason albert son like the lead clinical social worker for outreach, i think having 4 or 5 people of his skill set leading these teams would probably make it more effective if we also have housing to place people into. so, and the last point is about engaging the public and supporting solutions to chronic homelessness and barbara is going to be able to talk about project homeless connect which i think is amazing. everyday connect has been another dynamic tool that we're using to respond to people. but i think that the most important thing is to be unafraid to talk about homelessness. i think the city has a tremendous amount to be proud of in terms of having compassion, having desire to be a housing first city, having a desire to recognize that, that even though family homelessness is not as visible as single adults, getting involvement with sales force, for example, has been trans

individual can be put on medi-cal and insurance plans. the benefit issue is ssi is still based on disability, but not the medi-cal component of that. and i believe over 13, 14 a beesers were kicked off of ssi because they were seen as not eligible for that because there was a story and some data that showed they were using the dollars for drug abuse and they were kicked off literally, not off ssi, but off medi-cal. i know in groups like coalition and ourselves really worked hard getting people back onto medi-cal, but we had to become greatly disabled to do that. with the affordable care act they don't do that. now are qualified and that's why it's important for us to work closely with that population. we did a street survey recently at the request of supervisor farrell just to get a sense and get a little bit closer to the issue. [speaker not understood] went out and touched 100 individuals in haight, [speaker not understood], found that 80% were living outdoors. 50% of them met the criteria for chronic homelessness. 90% have -- >> let me

individuals are in shelter, other individuals are in treatment, in jails, if you start to look at the progress that we've made with veterans, because of the president's commitment tonding veterans homelessness that we've seen just in the past two years a 30% reduction among homeless veterans from having been 17% of our homeless population, now down to 11%. and recognizing to work towards our goal that we can achieve an end to veterans homelessness by 2015. we're talking probably around another 700 veterans being housed. and i think that that makes it more attainable. when you recognize for the first year we did a youth count this year that identified 905 homeless young people in san francisco between the ages of 16 and 24. and when we look at that number and say, well, this is one of the reasons why the board and the mayor supported 3 74 5th street, that's going to provide 40 unit of housing, this is why booker t. washington and larkin street's -- edward ii are very important projects coming forward. then you begin to pull these numbers apart and recognize what's possible to be done.

developing action plans with individuals. it's not case management. it's really more consumer centered and it is something that probably more comes from the independent living center model that we've kind of gotten on board with in the last couple of years. it's a great service and it goes beyond just one phone call. it can be a long term relationship working with that consumer to achieve their goals around their long-term services and support. the new project we started since april and the fund has come through center of center for medicaid services is transitional care services for acute hospital discharges. so this is a very very large endeavor. we get at this point about 300 referrals a month. we are trying to reach to 400-500 referrals a month. the one problem, every great program has a group of people left out. the funding we get is for people who are in medicare a or b. the people with medi-cal, medicare are legible. at this point cms isn't funding medi-cal only. it is for people who are medicare a and b and who aren't through managed hmo. what

and today's legislation is for these very individuals. the fair chance act is for an individual named don he will who was fired from his janitorial job whos was fired for failing to tell about a 1974 arrest for transpesting. the fair chance act is for a woman named sandee who won the lottery at nema across the street, but was disqualified because she failed to pay child support in the late 1990s, even though she served time for that failure. the fair chance act is for denise who was told she shouldn't bother to apply for a job as a cook because she had a conviction for shop lifting when she was in high school. as supervisor cohen mentioned, for one in four adults in the united states, an arrest or conviction record is a stigma that means "you need not apply." these examples are real life obstacles preventing individuals who are actively looking to change their life by getting a job or finding a roof over their head. yet we know having a stable job and housing are the two most colt cal factors that reduce recidivism. so, what if we could c

it also includes individuals and families enrolling in the individual marketplace, in private qualified health plans, as well as enrolling through dchealthlink.com into medicaid. i have to tell you that exceeded all of my expectations. d.c. has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the nation. over the years, we've done a whole lot to expand coverage options for our residents and small businesses. and when we started this, the old census data showed we had about 42,000 uninsured people in the district. we have more updated information and the most current information on uninsured shows we had about 35,000 uninsured. the district expanded medicaid right away, after the affordable care act was enacted. and people with up to 200% of federal poverty level income qualify for medicaid. so we believe huge drop in the uninsured rate is a result of the early medicaid expansion. so when we started to look at our goals and tried to figure out how many people we can enroll in year one, our numbers from the start were a lot lower than kentucky, i have to say. but i thought, with my team, i thought, l

from individuals. humanity is combination of individuals. construction work must start from individuals; then you can make little contribution. then from there, from all sides, no malt ere what derivation, what religious faith. we are human beings. .. >> the difference of the family that was crowned. even if it was in the family. lower the individual. in the boarding something different. with new knowledge or experience so recently cooperation it humanity. because of climate change in global warming. also the population increasing. so not like the ancient times. some people come from the outside. but multiracial like that. with this wonderful nation. but often america is not. but now the reality west indies to you and south asia and north. so now we must think as human beings. no problem. [laughter] so you can see. [laughter] >> so with the future of the community in this century people are ready to become something very, very important. know this century also. as it should be. this century now we must create. they come for action not wishfu

it also includes individuals and families enrolling in the individual marketplace, in private qualified health plans, as well as enrolling through dchealthlink.com into medicaid. i have to tell you that exceeded all of my expectations. d.c. has one of the lowest uninsured rates in the nation. over the years, we've done a whole lot to expand coverage options for our residents and small businesses. and when we started this, the old census data showed we had about 42,000 uninsured people in the district. we have more updated information and the most current information on uninsured shows we had about 35,000 uninsured. the district expanded medicaid right away, after the affordable care act was enacted. and people with up to 200% of federal poverty level income qualify for medicaid. so we believe huge drop in the uninsured rate is a result of the early medicaid expansion. so when we started to look at our goals and tried to figure out how many people we can enroll in year one, our numbers from the start were a lot lower than kentucky, i have to say. but i thought, with my team, i thought, l

they're not individual panels which are to be appreciated individually. for example, during the baroque period or often during the renaissance period, you will have individual panels painted. and they are appreciated individually. here, each image relates to one another. they are part of a whole. they are part of a total picture, part of an entire theological idea or concept that the interior is supposed to unfold to the beholder. so the images, for example, very often, you will start reading them from left to right. there is a starting point where you begin. and your eye will then move in sequence in order to understand the progression of the sequence or episodes that are being told. for example, if and when the interior displays the scenes of the life cycle of christ, there is a beginning point. there is a beginning place. and that's the annunciation, when gabriel announced the birth of christ, and then you continue on through the sequence, nativity, the birth of christ. and then it goes on. baptism. and then it takes you all the way through but in chro

davies: how do these individual species, just with one tree, how do they survive?ow do they produce? the two hypotheses about how rare species get maintained -- the pollinators may be very mobile. they may be able to travel large distances to find their mates, to find individuals of the same species to reproduce. the second one is that they may be self-fertile. that means they may just reproduce themselves. and then they don't need any other individuals nearby. rrator: the scientists have also formed theories on why the common species are unable to take over. and the reason is that common species, when they reproduce seedlings -- they produce more seedlings than rare species, but those common species, the common seedlings get affected by pathogens and pests at a very heavy rate. you can imagine a specialist pathogen or predator that likes a particular species will come into a little patch and it'll eat all the seedlings. it'll kill them all. and we call this density-dependent processes. that means if you're at a high-density, you suffer very high mortality. you die

individuals with this disorder are very prone to a state that we call dysphoria. it's very hard to describe. it's, in some sense, an overwhelming sense of feeling bad, and it may include elements of depreion, of rage, of anxiety, but mostly it's just a state of terrible distress. one of the intriguing things about the disorder ishat this state distress is usually triggered by specific kinds of events-- a real, or perhaps eve an imagined loss, what then happens is equally intriguing and disturbing because these dysphoric stat are so upsetting that the individual has to do something totop them, becaand they take a numberat of different avenues to try to end this dysphoric state sotimes they can find a person, and the person can somehow coort them and modula and d this state. another approach that's us is either taking an overdose wrist-cutting or cigarette burns-- orther forms selinjury. i was feeling ar. i was feeling nelyurns-- um...i was feeling a lot of things that i just needed a release from. but i waselg also feeng ueal, like i couldn't touch ality. my one wa

and to have them go on to individual exchanges. and he suggested that the cost of doing that would ultimately be much larger than we're currently projecting. he kind of implied that it would be unsustainable. would you be willing to comment on that? >> sure. we've had an employer. based system of providing health care in this country for decades. there was no formal legal requirement that employers provide health care, yet that's where the majority of people get their health insurance. so we have decades of tradition in ploemployee-based health insurance that i think are important to keep in mind as we look at the incentives of the affordable care act. the health care law contains strong incentives for employers to continue offering coverage. it also contains important nondiscrimination provisions that are designed to prevent exactly the kind of cherry picking that you're talking about. so the law includes these protection to ensure that employers are not discriminating in favor of more highly compensated employees and the provisio

you may not get engaged the first time, the same individual, we were engaging the individual, we made headway. senior departments on the street, police, fire, health human services, we had a homeless outreach team with the police department that also got to know people on the street, ems -- you are the ems service, it isn't our progress in 2000 years. it's a prodowries in 2006, [speaker not understood], that was a year and a half of implementation. i think that that vision around homeless outreach has really eroded over time for a myriad reasons. funding, prioritization of case management, in-housing rather than on the street. there are a lot of reasons. we need to refocus and bevan said this. on getting back to that model that was very successful for a number of years -- >> mr. rohr, so, we talk about thing -- >> we haven't followed that bath the last number of years. mr. dufty talked about the education of the workforce. you were talking about the training and education of the peaedv l going to do the outreach. he talked about the people having the coordination, the immediacy of hav

one of our goals is every individual to have a home health. you're aware with general hospital and as you see on mission street, we're almost finished with our building of new san francisco general hospital rebuild. i wanted to spend a moment on this ssi presented disability for homeless this. this was again, a drink between hsa and ourselves. it took 7 years for the federal government to take knowledge. we had a hard time getting paperwork and the background of medical services and they could have. this is population that is the most difficult to get into with the assistance that we have. [speaker not understood]. if we identify somebody with schizophrenia, they can automatically get on medi-cal and take the time to get the paperwork done. so, this is a really important program. and, again, it took us 7 years that this was an important pilot, along with santa cruz county acseeds in san francisco, but also shares throughout the country. on housing area, you've heard a lot about the housing area. direct access to housing, supportive housing is

that's how we caught the individual on monday, with an unmarked vehicle. we spotted individuals running from the side of a residence and started following the vehicle. >> reporter:ny say the burglars typically stake homes out and break in when nobody is inside. he says neighbors need to stick out for one another. >> we may get a security system but it won't be based upon this instance. >> reporter: kron 4 news. >>> still ahead a story you will see only on kron 4, a san francisco firefighter breaking her silence about her role in the angel. how a disabled boat near the port of oakland almost disabled the area's largest transit agency. that's all coming up. that's all coming up. >>> a long lost biological one of the best things about covered california that's all coming up. >>> a long lost biological is that millions of people will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater financial assistance you will receive. enroll today at coveredca.com. sleep train'sor presidents' day presidents' day sale

a lot of people are just individuals. even when they were for big companies, when i have been out visiting google or facebook, when you go in, there is an atmosphere not of structure you cannot go five steps without be able stop to have food or nap or play ping-pong. it is less rigidity and more openness. i think people are attracted to that. it is a libertarian sense of "as long as i am not hurting somebody else, leave me alone to do it i want to do." >> labor unions are almost nonexistent and tech companies. -- in tech for pennies. -- i and tech companies. do you think the happy future in the u.s.? why do you think they often butt heads with innovators? >> i am not against the small guy having leverage against the big guy. the interesting about labor is that when you look at the anti-trust laws, the idea was to keep business from getting so big that the consumer would have -- labour would have no leverage or the consumer would have no leverage. the interesting thing is really right now, the small guy has no leverage. i

ssi advocacy which increases income for individual and individual recently disabled. aloe man pating foster youth. we were emancipating 250 youth at the time. similar to that, discharge planning, we didn't want to discharge folk into the hose advertise. that was part of the plan. so, how well did we do? ~ hospice >> home ward bound is not a -- some folks call greyhound therapy or dumping homelessness on someone else's city or state. but does it work? it's cool, clearly doesn't help the individual and doesn't help the city or us in the long term. what we did was for individuals we came in contact with through our public assistance office, on the street, police department on the street, it sorts of came about because [speaker not understood] a lot of folks saying, i want to go home. i came here, i thought things would be better. i don't have the resources to get home. home ward bound says if you have a homemaker, family member, close friend, employer, social worker, someone who agrees to take you in to be a caretaker, we'll send you back home. we verify it. and say do y

more people providing more outreach will get more individuals into services and housing opportunities. second, this legislation will allow the department of public health to increase the skill level of their teams meaning they can hire more individuals with clinical and case management backgrounds. as we heard last week, better skilled outreach workers will deliver better results for those living on our streets. as a result, each new team add will now have the capacity to handle additional 160 new case management clients, meaning they will have more direct people to work with to better their situation. and third, it will allow for the addition of 100 new stabilization vets where homeless individuals will be able to bert stabilize their path [speaker not understood]. in the end i do believe we need new targeted programs for homeless individual and families living on our streets. this is just the beginning of a longer dialogue, but i firmly believe this targeted investment in our homeless team will drive a positive impact [speaker not understood] and pull more people off the streets int

it exist in a very radical individualism. the left in the right is more much radically individualistic than the riot right. but in the libitarians you get the society should take what they want above all. the libitarians are in the no-man's land in the left/right. they tend to end up the right because they think the greatest importance is keeping government small. >> guest: different views about the limits what limits should be set. >> host: i have long argued most conservativ conservatives find a utopian in the past. in college, you have college kids, elite colleges have the food provided, the shelter, security and people clean up after them and they think they are independent people. very quickly, because we are running out of time, the current political climate on the right particularly, the tone of this scholarly, informed, credentials, and not dismissive, but you side with burke at the end. i am not spoiling anyone. that is much out of tempo at the time. and particularly on the right these days. do you think that the ame

chronically homeless individuals who are in a need of complex care management and will be able to better respond to neighborhood needs for short-term localized interventions. the hot team focuses their efforts on areas of the city which have the highest need and the largest concentration of individuals living on the streets. many of the hot team members have clinical and case management experience. some are formerly homeless and all have shown a great com pence it to compel individuals living on the streets to accept treatment, services and housing opportunities to better their lives. at its core, this legislation will allow the department of public health to do three simple things. first, it will increase the number of people who are doing direct outreach on the street. more people providing more outreach will get more individuals into services and housing opportunities. second, this legislation will allow the department of public health to increase the skill level of their teams meaning they can hire more individuals with clinical and case management backgrounds. as we heard last week,

what struck him most was the radical individualism. burke's approach typical thought but also to nature itself begins in holes, not in part. it says his science commits nations more of -- he says human beings have always lived in society and we need to understand the human being and the path that allow us to be happy, the institutions that allow us to thrive within society. he always reasons about managed society. and in turn tries to understand what liberty means, what equality means, what society means they somehow people have lived in the real world, on what has enabled people to live in just and happy ways. to him, society has to answer to human nature and human nature is not the same thing as a kind of physics of political science. the human being is not just a rational animal so we don't just answer the rules. the human being is also a sentimental creature and is also an animal with animal needs and desires. politics has to recognize all of that because to ignore those things is to set yourself up for failure, is too great a syst

we don't have evidence that the individuals holding that handset are in fact the individuals that we're targeting. and so what is effectively happening is instead of confirming that target x is in fact this individual that the u.s. is trying to kill, they are effectively killing the cell phones and this is a system that is rife with error and the u.s. has basically outsourced its human intelligence capacity and it's now relying in some cases 90% or more on the use of signals intelligence or military intelligence and that leaves an area for filling of phones not

we are lucky as the dalai lama said we live in a system that favors the individual's. not all systems, not all countries give us those choices. so glenn talked about the dispersion of power. that's the key. having a system in which power is dispersed and pushed down to the individual makes for a more effective organizations and it's more important that you also have to trust individuals make good decisions. so here for the capital markets and why this relates in the business of making many decisions all day long about people, about markets, about the stock, about all different kind of things. i want to talk about the markets themselves and how they relate to this discussion of prosperity and flourishing and why the markets make the world a better place. there is a common view that financial markets are good in the sense that if somebody has a new idea and there is a venture capitalist they can invest in the idea and that man or woman could create a business around that and innovation and get iphone's out of that system and get medical advances everything from fedex to