don peck lives in washington d.c. and it is always a pleasure for us at the bookstore to welcome a local doctor here especially for debut. so we welcome don peck. we also welcome c-span booktv audience. thank them for joy in us. the format tonight is don peck will speak at this podium for 20. kissel 25, 30 minutes. he will present the book and tell us why he wrote it and we will open up the second half of the hour to you for questions and what we ask is that the one microphone we have this evening can be difficult with a crowd this size but since we are taping and it will keep the talk of a bull for those not here we will field questions from that microphone. we do encourage your questions and your input after the q&a. don peck will sign books up here at this table. his books are for sale in front of the store. that is how we will go. we want to thank you for being here and for don peck. don peck is a national award winning writer of features editor at the atlantic where he covers the economy and american society. act

>> john peck, let me have you weigh in on this.aves and have nots, the haves are certainly getting a beating these days from washington and the media. >> well, they are. and you know, some of that is unfair. we should continue to celebrate people who have made great achievements in their work. i have to disagree with don in one respect. we've kind of reoriented the economy over the past 20 or 30 years. we've oriented it in a way that promotes rapid technological advance, globalization. has advantaged people at the very top of the economy. at the same time, we've expected less and less of those people. marginal tax rates have fallen and fallen since the mid-20th century. so the solution to our national problems is not soaking the rich. but i do think that we should expect the rich to pay a little bit more to help the millions of american american who have fallen out of the middle class rebuild their lives. >> don peck, don peoples, thank you. a potential high school dropout can be spotted as early as fifth grade. my next guest says

tonight, "atlantic" magazine writer don peck on the disappearing middle class. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> auto companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where does it go? >> every penny and more went into bringing energy to the world. >> the economy is tough right now, everywhere. >> we pumped $21 million into local economies, into small businesses, communities, equipment, materials. > that money could make a big difference to a lot of people. >> and by bnsf railway. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: economists sifted through a new pile of data today on the state of the u.s. recovery. and the obama administration lowered i

but again, we just want to welcome you and say thank you for being here and for don peck.ere he covers the economy and american society and actually the september issue of the atlantic which result now and also available here for sale features a cover story by can the middle class if be saved it is an essay adopted from this book pinched and also collect a sacred figure to the atlantic for their help promoting the cement on this particular event. pinched is about the enduring impact the great recession will have on american life. how economic, society and cultural norms have been deeply and acted and subsequently redeemed and will continue to be altered, transformed. work environments, tell the dynamics, the personal identities have been turned on their heads and likely will stay that way. the scars of the past several years and other words will remain in the near and distant future. meanwhile the chasm between the wealthy elites and the rest widens and the concentration of the gulf threatens to halt further hobble the middle class. cities and communities suffer from the s

. >> ladies and gentlemen, gregory peck. >> never seems as fresh and wonderful, as good and evil as it does when seen through the eyes of a child. trying to capture that is remarkable and perhaps that is why one look and the last few years has been so warmly embraced by tens of millions of people. "to kill a mockingbird," winner of the pulitzer prize and just about every award a book can win and now happily "to kill a mockingbird" becomes a motion picture and its memorable characters become vividly alive. some people call him jane louise finch. but she insists on scout. and that's her brother, gym. just a boy until the day he learns there is evil in the world. and atticus finch, the father, whose devotion of justice places him and his children in jeopardy. and party to the defense, john robinson. >> excuse me. >> what kind of man are you? you got children of your own. >> atticus finch. >> this ring that belonged to your mother. you want to tell us what really happened? >> i got nothing to say. do nothing about it. you coward! >> gentlemen, i shall be brief but i would like to use the r

there is a pecking order of cost. incarceration is the highest of that cost, versus diversion or home electronic monitoring or a hybrid there of. many months have gone into the preparation for this. i don't think many counties are quite prepared or braced in the way we are trying to. but since october 1 is just a few days away, the first installment of prisoners coming for san francisco is approximately 30 for october. then they will be staggered in different amounts, and there will be a significant ebb and flow. while we seem to have our ducks in order for the coming year, it is undetermined what it will look like in years after. we have to stay vigilant. if our rehabilitation or realignment is not on top of its game, that will create blow-back in a public safety kind of way, forcing more of a police response instead of the kind of response we hope is satisfied through adult probation through the sheriff's department and the fleet of non-profits, who are assigned for re-entry and rehabilitation. many of these factors

so open-minded pretty soon mussolini hanging upside down on the golden gate with crows pecking out his >> out. >> how did they get involved in all of this stuff? >> bill: from what i understand the city council of san francisco believes that the marketing of gold fish is cruel because they remove the gold fish from the water and they put it in a tank. and that is -- you can't -- the gold fish wants to be free. >> bill: wasn't there a movie about gold fish born free ♪ born free. >> blurb blurb blurb. goldfish may not want to live in san francisco right now it's such a uptight whiney place. okay? i did read today in a story in the chronicle you can still circumcise a gold fish in san francisco. if you have ever seen that he comes in and tiny and frog man gear on and using exsax toe knife. >> hello. >> bill: do you know what the tragedy in all of this is? >> what is the tragedy? [ laughter ] >> bill: the homeless gold fish are in san francisco. >> exactly. i know the radiation comes across the ocean. it is dissipated by wind current and salt spray, but it is reaching the shore of californ

are you thinking of giving any kind of indication peck's -- indication? i am not sure where the code is, but i want to remind us that we are using quite a bit of glass over the five stories of your building. >> i have not thought about that, but we certainly can. commissioner moore: with the department discussed this, if we move ahead? >> i think one of the things the commission could do is ask the project sponsor to comply with the new code. the do not think it is in place yet, but they could treat the glass. commissioner moore: this is a lovely study to understand the study. this lets people take a different look at it. you might appreciate reading what they did to find a way of being creative. i would discourage you to move ahead. i think i am getting more comfortable, even if i would like to see more drawings. that would be a department task to ask for more. president olague: would we have to take dr to include that? >> i can clarify the applicability of the guidelines. because the commission adopted the policy, we are implementing it. it has not gone

. >> jon: peck stop taking and cut out that because you wish you didn't say that. >> no, wrong, jon, i stand by it. in fact, i'll say it again in case you edit it out. sophie should have chosen the boy. the boy. >> jon: all right, please. please. let's get back to... you really believe this would have been a big problem if both things happened the same night? >> huge, jon. and the public conundrum would haven't ended there. they still have the option of missing both political events and watching "ghosts caught on cape" on the biography channel. they're ghosts, jon! and they're caught on tape! (laughter). >> jon: but even if the president hadn't switched the dates couldn't peach watch one thing and record the other? >> sure, then you can pull a rabbit out of your magic television before driving your flying car to your hotel on the moon. don't forget to break for unicorns because what you're talking about is science fiction/fantasy. (laughter) right? (laughter). >> jon: i'm... like tivo, d.v.r., you can... everyone has one. >> that is true. but who's going to watch the speech or the de

anecdotally, just by experience, i think we can guess which neighborhoods are in the pecking order, where you might be coming from, but is important is that accurate. -- we stay accurate. maybe you or juvenile probation can speak to this, but it does not mention any stats on repeat offenders, recidivism. i am very interested in this issue. considering the fact that the precursor to our adult issues exactly is this orbit right here, where is that information? >> supervisor, we talked about this earlier. we expected this to come up. certainly, something the jjcc needs to do. i would also encourage your participation. we need to come up with a common definition of recidivism. some folks may think multiple bookings would qualify as recidivism, where others would say, not until the adjudication process is complete and the child is -- a disposition has been made. so we are trying to come up with some common definitions of what do we mean when we say recidivism? when somebody is booked, and does not necessarily mean that they are going to go through the adjudication process and a disposition wil

she gave a nod of the head to newcomers, handshake to semiregulars, peck on the cheek to her regulars and finally, for her favorite few, there was a standup kiss and hug. john p. o'neill, the self-styled secret agent and the new head of the f.b.i.'s national security division in new york, had been a fixture in the best spots in town from chicago and washington to rome, paris and cairo. but his first few times at elaine's in 1991, he was just another face at the bar. he didn't rate even the obligatory nod when he first walked through the double wooden doors, took a spoot -- spot in the crowd and elaine's famous bartender. o'neill's anonymity at elaine's did not last long. he made an impression at the celebrity studded saloon entertaining hunters from scotland yards, the real james bond of the united kingdom. tom carney recalled looking out from behind the bar and seeing o'neill sitting with pals from scotland yard and a few days later, turning on the television and seeing the same investigators back in england searching for clues inside the crime scene tape after a bombing. other forei

supervisor mirkarimi: so in the pecking order of costs on incarceration, the highest would be incarceration on it down the chain of options. electronic monitoring would be on the very low end of the spectrum. >> correct. you could also implement, and i am talking in terms of the sanction, you could also have home detention. then you could graduate to home detention without electronic monitoring. there are gradations of the different types of sanctioning ability we have. we also have, under adult probation, a new authority of day reporting. instead of using of the very expensive jailed bed, if there has been a violation, basically have the individual to mandatory time where they can participate in treatment. they can work on it resume development, work force, education, so there are a lot of alternatives. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> but what the actual loss does is it refines the felonies. it creates the new category of post-release committed the supervision. that was not previously in the penal code. the revocations that we talked about that no one can now

packers don't have enough weapon they took cobb in the draft second round peck out of kentucky.r 3 12 yards and 3 touch downs. fly into theen zone. packers up 21-7 after just one quarter. every fantasy football owner in the country wondering who has cobb financially? can i pick him up. kick off return he almost goes down. spins out of the tackle. keeps his balance. goes 108 yards which ties the record for longest kick off return in history. back comes drew. here to graham who mocks rodgers with a championship salute of his own. saints down 8 with over 2 minutes left. driving back that packer territory the. 3 seconds left. breeze incomplete. game over. no. pass interference. call is terrible. one last shot. rookie ingram stuffed at the 1 and packers hang on and they win a wild opener 42-34. >> good start for us. many about i have to ask myself what would have happened if we had off season workouts? could we have started any faster? scored important points tonigh tonight? >>reporter: scary. colts quarterback manning could miss the entire surgery. he had surgery on nerve in his nec

instead of having to go down and hunt and peck, or contact officers and get the revelation that someone is wanted, one of the officers came up with a system, and now there is a spreadsheet that goes out to violence response teams and officers so they can no everybody that is wanted, as they go around there be, especially with mug shots available in the stations. we should be able to get those criminals most likely to off the street and into court for adjudication. if you look at the 100-day comparison from 2010 to 2011, we reduced violent crime by 4% and property crime by 3%. this was this morning's comstat report. anybody in the audience that would like a copy of the report -- it is over on the table. as you can see, homicides, particularly -- we have a slide for that next. we are on par with last year and the year before, which are historic lows. the last time we had a three- year run with this level of homicides was in the early 1960's. there was only one other year since that rivaled any of these years. that was 1998. that is more than 10 years ago. this is the best. the best one we