you are on with meghan mccarthy. caller: my concern is right now with the the cuts come and work for a school district, but the cuts we're seeing now with a lot of teachers losing jobs, there are a lot of educated people losing their jobs because the money the state to down receive is really hurting them. my concern with medicaid and all of this is that there are a lot of elderly people who have paid into it and they're a lot of people who did not, but at the same time, they still expected, too, because they still pay into it as the work. there are hard-working people that are not reaping the benefits and there are a lot of the people losing their jobs because of the money they did not receive. host: is there more incentive on congress and the state governments and everyone involved in trying to create jobs to put people back to work regarding those who are unemployed to put a greater strain on medicaid? guest: definitely. medicaid enrollment has gone up by about 8 million people since 2007. there is some research th

meghan mccarthy talks about the struggle between the executive branch and state governments over medicaid is washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i find more and more the behavior to be unseemly in the sense that they want hundreds of millions of dollars for the communities, yet they do not really participate in the problems of those communities. >> this sunday on "q&a", sally jenkins of the intersection of sports and public policy. >> the treasury department official in charge of financial stability says the government's troubled assets relate program has been a success story. because of the program will be a fraction of what was initially projected. the remarks came during the congressional tarp hearing on the overall impact of the tarp program. the oversight panel is due to issue its final report later this month. the former delaware senator, ted kaufman, the cheers this hearing. -- chairs this hearing. >> we appreciate your willingness to join the troubled assets relief program. there is no doubt our economy is a challenges today. the stick a moment to imagine that th

meghan mccarthy talks about the trouble between the executive branch and state governors over the status and medicaid. >> wi-fi more and more of the behavior -- i find more and more the behavior of sports owners to be there. the 100 million some dollars. >> remarks came during the final public hearing when the overall impact of the target program. they are due to issue their final report later this month. let's take a moment to imagine that the challenges could be far worse. many lost their jobs in just two months. the highest financial institutions were beginning to topple like dominoes. it is fair to describe this in there as dire. yet, that is precisely these in their that faced our economy in late 2008 around the time congress passed t.a.r.p. into law. today, the panic of 2008 is a slowly fading memory, and t.a.r.p. played a role in turning that grim chapter in american history. or all of its programs successful? not that a long shot. even so, any hearing on t.a.r.p. should begin by recognizing its greatest success, that in a moment of financial panic, it helped to pull our market ba