that's a serious oblem. u see this basic switch, they promise you the american dream but the wkers are waking up to the american nightmare, that's the reality of driving. >> i've never met a driver who describes himse as an entrepreneur. they may say, oh i'm independ bu not that i have my own business and building something for myself. >> the business side of this, converting contractor to employees couldost them money. it could cost business from 45% worker. is t risk is it could lead to smaller economy going out business. >> if you change the rule and the model and everyone now has to abide by this, en, yeah maybe venture capital in the cake a little more mof y. u want to start a company you got to start paying people better to begin with. it might change the model a little bit but if it's kind of across the board, it just might -- >> i think it's going to fair competition. >> meaning what? >> there needs to be certain requirements thaare basic minimums on par with the tax indusory and needse -- the tax in

was interesting, in the decision the opinion said this is mischaracterizization of workers is a huge oblem. it's costing tax payers billions of in loss taxes but mischaracterizing workers. >> the numbers of people who do this type of work is growing, right? because there are studies that shthe past decade or so, that population has grown to the point where it's 16% of the work force and the numbers will keep increasing. there are somers freelan out there who look at this situation and say, you know what, when you rk for some of these companies, there's uber, lyft, tax rabbit, there's many of other companies out there. aside from your point they get some level of flexibility and freedoms, so, isn't there a trade off? >> sub standard living conditions right, that's the idea here. i don't think there's anything about employment necessarily that necessitate lack of freblt and freedom. i'm an employee and i have a very flexible work schedule. i think that's sort of cohe pany line that needs to be undermined. >> i think it's a false choice. would you like to be employed, have benefits,retirement

the oblem is, is that they'v been given a limited set of tools and placed into circumstances where those tools often can be counterproductive. >> reporter: vitale says that modern-day policing was shaped by our country's racial histy. >> policing in the era of jim crow segregation in the southto and ghation in the north was shaped by pretty strong racial politics during that period. and so, in a lot of northern and western cities, one of the major functions of policing was the ghettoization of black populations, the enforcement of racial borders both in terms of social behavior and actual reography. >> reporter: was t specific decade when we saw this change and, you know, an overuse or over reliance on police? >> i think the expansion ofer police preally happened heer the last 40-plus years. and it begins withind of war on drugs, war on crime discourse that comesut of the nixon administration but really acontinues through the '8 even into the '90s and the clinton administration. tifor instance, we see dra expansions in school policing, the war on drugs, borr policing. so, it's been a kin

i just-- i'vnever had such a oblem getting hired before in my life. >> reporter: using money from a workman's comp settlement, keefe purchased me land. and he's hoping touild a small house using found timber. and for now, he still gets snap benefi. but last month, republicans in ngress proposed raising the work requirement and job training age from 49 to 59 for snap recipients as part of t farm bill. meaning keefe, as a 50-year-old could agse access to food aid. >> there has to be some vehicle for poor people to eat. you can't just starve them, you can't do that. >> reporter: the house of representatives is expected to debate and vote on the 2018 farn bill before thof the month. >> sreenivasan: with an aging population, one county in maine is also grappling with the issue of hunger among seniors. hear from those who are affected. visit facebook.com/newshour. >> this is pbs newshour weekend, sunday. >> sreenivasan: president trump is to decide whether or not the united states will stay in the iran nuclear deal in less than one week. rhetoric from multiple parties with an interest in the decisi

. >> reporter: an activist, a mayoral candidate who has done his own digging into the oblem. >> we haveo cash someone and we have to prosecute because this is a crime between our community. >> reporter: how do you catch them? >> they dump during a time frame. >> reporter: residents can call 311 to report the activity. >>> $1 million settlement has been reached between an oakland landlord and his tenants and the city. also agreed to restore kitchen and bathroom iffacilities that tore down. claiming their new landlord created substandard living conditions to force them to move out so he can renovate the building and rent to wealthier. a family found living in a makeshift shack. the family was live anything joshua tree national park with no water or electricity. >> i am hoping they can resolve so st. so they can get their kids back. >> the children between 11 and 14-years old remain in the custody of state welfare officials. >>> joining real estate agents and construction officials in sacramento to promote a package of bill to address the need for more affordability housing. the loss of th

we need to electrifye'ehicles, and that's how going to solve california's pollution oblem, and californiaan take the lead and is t ting the lead on gettit done. even though donald trump wants to pretend t that electric cars aretter than internal-combustion cars, they are. vu: how is the administration's policies, viewpoints on climate change, for example, affecting the way that environmentalists are doing their work? pope: what really matters is, it affecting the way american electricity consumers behave? is it affecting the way american drivers behave? is it affecting the way american manufacturers behave? not so much. they all look at the trump administration and say, "eh, he's going to be there for a while he's going to be gone. we're investing in the future." there was a survey done of all the public utilities when trump announced, "oh, i'm going to bring back coal," and only one company out of 42 said that it would change their investment strategy.d, when trump announced, "oh, i'm going to bring back coal," the rest swe're not investing for the next 3 years. we're investing for the n

she came off the pump without a oblem. i'm very happy with the results so far. >> reporter: while this surgery succeeded, big societal questions remain. and according to steven nissen, so does man toll. >> if we don't cure the heroin addiction then we haven't solve the problem and that's where we stand. the legacy of this is going to go on for decades. effect and it keeps on growing. >> reporter: for the pbs tenewshour, i'm kay colby cleveland. >> woodruff: for some mediate post-game analysis of my interview with james comey andwi the political impact of his continued war of words withnt president trump, i'm joined by our politics monday team. ndat's amy walter of the "cook political report"tuart rothenberg of "inside elections."umcs wl and welcome to you both. "politics monday." so james comey has been ouhe the last two weeks ever since the book came out, he's done many inter hews.an a chance to talk to him, amy, as you heard. yu what think?at >> i think your opinions ofof james comey and what -- how he answered your ques

. >> it's a global epidemic.wa therthis huge, pervasive l oblem, not just at m.i.t., but, i believe in nds of places like m.i.t. that we needed to address. >> reporter: daniel jais a computer science professor at m.i.t. several years ago he began seeing a phenomenon on campus that took him out of his area of expertise. >> more and more students wereo coming, usually telling me that they wanted to talk about a problem set or an assignment. and when i sat down with them and talked to them, i would discover that the reat problem was hey had some mental health issue that was holding them back and preventing themfr doing the work. and it was tragic and pervasive. >> reporter: were they saying it?y do ty it to you, or you intuited, or how did that come out? >> well, normally we'd start talkinabout the problem set, and i would ask them a question like, "how much time have you spent on this? why is it proving so difcult?" and then often they'd say something like, "well, actually, i haven't spent any time on it because i can't motivate myself, or i can't get out of bed in the morning, or i don'

even if yosecure permission from the houthis it's getting there that's the a oblem. the airport in san shut. there is one flight from djbouti for humanitarian staff, but the saudis control who gets on that plane, and they're not giving permission to american journalis right now. you could drive, but it's a journey that used to take six no guarantee that you'll actually reach the destination, that you won't get turned around half way, half way there so we went to a village called basateen, on the outskirts of aden, to try to tell the story as best we could. so since we can't get to the north to the houthi controlled areas wee going to talk to some people that have recently arrived to find out what life is like there. living in this one room are t souad, h sons, and daughter-in-law. souad says she fled dail airstrikes near her home in hodeidah one month ago, but the thck of food was worse tha bombs. >> ( translated ): life is diicult there. people are hungry. they are looking for water, g forng for food, look work, but there is nothing. we would eat once a day.ea if we

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. ♪ oblems actually. we're overproducing, overcrowding, and overheating.e've got aging roadways, aging power grids, ...aging everything. you're kinda bumming me out clive owen. no, wait... it gets worse. we also have the age-old problem of bias in the workplace. really... never heard of it. seriously? it's all over the news. i've heard of it. ahh. the question is... who's going to fix all of this? an actor? probably not. but you know who can solve it? business. that's right. the best-run businesses can make the world run better. because solving big problems is what business does best. and doing good is just good business. shhh! sorry. so let's grow more food, with less water. and make healthcare, more healthy. it's okay, i've played a doctor. what have we got here? let's take on the wage gap, the opportunity gap, the achievement gap. together, we can tackle every elephant in the room. and save the rhino while we're at it. because, whatever the problem, business can help. and i know who can help them do it... retail. under pressure like never before. and it