patty the program director shows here today. >> part of our program is transportation to prepare the par transport from the program to your clients is costs us $24,000 a year for transportation and that's we're asking for one thousand. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. any other questions or comments commissioner sims. >> yeah. looking at the four in totality there is catholic charities calls out alternative funding sources in relation to the dos funds here we do not the cost per client is a wide range when you divide the proposed number of clients served into the dollars we're awarding can you talk a little bit about the rationale behind those budget disparities theories more than 2 1/2 times. >> the programs are each different from each other catholic charities pace close to $25,000 a year in grant that includes the insurance for the facility catholic chiropractors program has been funded for longer some felt other programs i think back to the 90s to it is one of the first program in the city a historical funding of that granted going back to the 90s some of the other programs self

, 26 voucher programs, 21 tax credit scholarship programs, nine individual tax credit and deduction programs and there are five educational savings account programs and together these programs are helping more than a million school children and families. not to mention the millions more students attending public district, charter, home and online schools all of their parents' choice. dc didn't bill any of those programs, citizens in the states did. more than 30 years after creation of the state department of education students are not better off but we can be. after decades of waiving the constitutional barrier to a federal role in education under the guides of partnering with state governments, it is time to dissolve that partnership and abolish the u.s. department of education once and for all. thank you very much. [applause] thank you. >> thank you, so much, vickie. what do you say to someone that says, well, the state, they within the doing a great job before intervention, how can we be certain that we are going to see improvements if we hand it back over? this is a critique that you hea

the programs. but to also get a tutor or practice test were ready for college that leads metadata stark contrast with the of homogenization that becomes a college savings account so i would save you see the success of one state is harder to say the sky will fall and then to learn from each other and instead of coming from the top down. >> we have voucher programs at the higher level and then at the retail level. i very rarely hear anybody say i don't know about the pell grant. so why is there a disconnect how we finance higher education that is affordable but as a student you can go where you want? in how we finance cater 12 and to do some sort of public for pre-k form of a voucher model y that disconnect? >> it is a great question. i love 2.0 in any given day and then to say i faked a pass to do with the of politics here in the history of higher education that had such a flourishing landscape. and private institutions of higher education in there is a natural development there really was no politi

i get to stay in the program and complete the program. to get my certificate. >> the sheriff wants us to work with them to compromise. you have to give a little in order to get a little. i went ahead and gave him 14 days so he can graduate. inmate billiter has been there that long. only got three days. and not cleaning up your room, it's serious on a hygiene purpose but not as serious that i need to throw you under the jail. >> billiter will get to stay in the program, perhaps aided by a lie he told during his hearing. >> are you court-ordered? >> yes, ma'am. really that's the only thing that saved me. i'm really not court-ordered. i'm here to get my certificate to present to court when i go to court but i'm not court-ordered. i just said that and lied about it because i knew sort of what to manipulate. i manipulated that and it worked. everything's working out perfect. >> while billiter can look forward to his graduation day, brandon agner is looking forward as well. his current stay in the jail is the latest in a long string of arrests

a $4.6 billion program i know that has an engineer 70 percent of the cost is new construction i knew i had to make sure that we had harmony out in the fold and make sure we have quality contractor and employ people in the community so we reached out to the building trade and the unions and got the deal of $4.6 billion and the system program is a model of how successful programs could be rolled out and what is really amazing about the mroo is that in times hiring local people they stepped up we had a lot of specialized projects and how to get the community people to participate we went to the union they came up with a training program with people in the community to participate in the training and worked with the contractor to put them on projects that's the model in the community i want to applaud the union for coming abroad >> (clapping.) >> and not only that they're working to help small businesses get on board and role them of course, like them to be union but it is a great opportunity also want to thank my staff where is tommy? tommy the one that has the $7 billion i'm sure he go

patty the program director shows here today. >> part of our program is transportation to prepare the par transport from the program to your clients is costs us $24,000 a year for transportation and that's we're asking for one thousand. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. any other questions or comments commissioner sims. >> yeah. looking at the four in totality there is catholic charities calls out alternative funding sources in relation to the dos funds here we do not the cost per client is a wide range when you divide the proposed number of clients served into the dollars we're awarding can you talk a little bit about the rationale behind those budget disparities theories more than 2 1/2 times. >> the programs are each different from each other catholic charities pace close to $25,000 a year in grant that includes the insurance for the facility catholic chiropractors program has been funded for longer some felt other programs i think back to the 90s to it is one of the first program in the city a historical funding of that granted going back to the 90s some of the other programs self

hosting today's program is lindsey burke. she researches and writes on federal and state education issues as a will skillman fellow at heritage foundation but she focuses on reducing -- and empowering families with school choice. with that, lindsey burke. >> thank you andrew and thanks to everyone for being here today and everyone watching on line as well. we are really excited to welcome vicki alger to heritage today to discuss her thorough and really interesting new book on the failures of federal intervention in education. she doesn't mince words at all. she wrote "failure" the federal miseducation of america's children and she argued that it is time to end, not mend federal intervention in education. dr. alastair explains in her book the federal government lacked education alone for about 100 years recognizing that it was the purview of states and localities. but gradually federal restraints gave way and by 1979 face of the first cabinet level agency for education established. it was the first of the u.s. department of ed

it's how to grow the programs that create the programs. generally with programs we are the first out of the gate. but then we have the friendly rifle and they implement so we go back and forth which is great because the word that's how you promote continuous improvement. i would say i'm going -- usa is debatable. we will be celebrating toward the end of this month and just because we fund schools through government doesn't mean the government knows best. some people would say we should get a government completely out of it. that's going to take more than an hour. dealing with the way things are now, but i love about the education savings accounts as you know, education savings accounts basically all operate the same way. they don't pay for the simply informed the state and the state deposit of what it would have sent to the district or school and parents get a type of dedicated debit card and funds are disbursed quarterly. appearance have to actually submit receipts before more money is disbursed. so none of this in a somehow someone embez

, particularly to the entire programs rather than cash programs. we would away from giving people cash and increased giving people the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stamps and so on are altogether. the same time, the question comes up what we have done in terms of poverty. again this blue line is when welfare reform kicks in. the top line, the light blue line that goes across, that is the official poverty rate from the census bureau. the other lines are the spending which continue to rise. what you see is that immediately after welfare reform, declined comment measured by the official census measurement, poverty rates went down. but then as a graduate has begun to move back up again, went up quite a bit with the great recession, has no level of a little bit again but over all it's still rough they where it was, although it back to the beginning of the war on poverty and see that the official census bureau poverty measures have not moved a whole lot. o

those that were previously on one program now are often on different programs. now, as a result of these changes, changes in the ei gc, medicaid expansions, food stamps replaced by staff, general assistance expanding. as a result of these changes we are spending more than ever. here we go. we are spending more than ever on those at the bottom. this slide indicates expenditures in 1996 and 2011. those were the years that are emphasized in the eden and schafer work. they say welfare is dead. by that they mean there isn't much being spent on welfare. well, if you take a look at these numbers, you see that we used to have a bunch of $20 billion programs. now snap is three times that big. ssi has doubled. unemployment insurance at the time they were looking is more than four times as big as it was in the earlier years. eitc has more than doubled. i didn't put down numbers for the child tax credit, or medicaid, child tax credit one from zero to $30 billion. medicaid went from about $150 billion to $300 billion. i think it is fair to say that the reports of the death o

so thank you. >> (clapping.) >> we'll have a few speakers but a quick program for more than a hundred years the city of san francisco as protected the public health but operating a combined sewer system it collects and cleans sewage sewage and street run off before returning to the bay and ocean over high strourld the southeast supplant that is the heart of city's system this planted and others parts are ending the years of their useful lives this is a multi billion dollars citywide investment building a seismically resident system one of the later projects undertaken by a city agency that agreement within the sf puc and labor unions will help us make sure those projects are delivered on time and on budget project deliver agreements with not uncommon for large projects what exists us the unique nature of that agreement and that about allow to focus economic benefits on community and workers that need it most and will help us cultivate and train the future workforce in the city and county and insures that - >> yes. >> (clapping.) >> - my bad; right? it insures the contractors pate prev

if you look at state tanf programs they're mostly job search programs. they are job search requirements without a lot of help to help people actually overcome the barriers and help them make the transitions. we need to think about, what are the pathways that really will work to help that group of families get to work. ron's idea of wafers to get waivers. one i want to start to start, no way to accomplish things if you don't change the way states can spend their funding and some of it is taking away some of the flexibility they have. two sort of recommendations here. one is requiring states to direct more of their tanf funds to tanf score purposes. so right now nationwide it is about half. you will find states all over the map. some are higher, some are lower and really trying to think about how can you really push states in the direction so that they are spending more on those core purposes. and the other is we know that the block grant has lost its value. it is about 30% less than it was what it was initiated. thinking about how you can begin to add fun

even though the program's status is in limbo. opponents of the program say that's the wrong move. ((adriana martinez/educate nevada now: "we don't know what the supreme court is going to opine in this case, and at this point, so you cannot continue to sell this program.")) ((patrick walker)) "educate nevada now" is opposing the e-s-a program on the grounds that money is being drained from public schools for private education. that's the premise of the lawsuit that led a carson city judge to put an injunction on the program. outside of that... opponents are concerned about what would happen if the state supreme court rules in favor of the state... and parents pull their children from public schools. ((annette magnus/executive director, battle born progress: "i think it's a huge disruption, and i think the court should have decided this already so that we the decision is.")) ((patrick walker)) and if the program is struck down... those who have already pulled their kids from public schools could be on the hook for the bill if their child has been accepted into private schools. for p

doing a diff if program law-enforcement crime control programs. it was published in april i believe last month. >> i've ask yoi would ask you ty something about carper because so much has been done on the recent situation in the '90s and the role of the clinton administration and so tell us what happened. >> one of the things i argue in the book is that deregulation in the administration and the even stronger partnership forged between the public and private sector to solve social problems really begins to take hold in new ways of the administration. so we can see the transition to kind of the key regulatory policies of the administration emerging in the prior administration and i think that people don't necessarily discuss carter in that way. so, it was after johnson to nixon and ford administration we don't get this involvement as it i mentioned in the epilogue and to focus on addressing urban problems such as employment education etc. but with carter ends up doing, and this is reflective of where the goal priority is where and funding allocated

i am also happy to hear the working towards expanding the program and seeing how we get the program enrolled in a quicker way i think going from 50 to 75 is a very positive way to go. i don't see them getting up to 75 because the policies in place that will keep them from getting to that 75 number right away i think it's a good step in the right direction instead scaling back to residential just figuring out how to get that same amount of numbers while building more into this mix. the staff has figured out how to address that and get some of the hetch hetchy power to help supplement the needs your water team will tell you that you never know if next year will be a drought are not. you never know if you have that drought have that energy available. i think that your staff is an excellent job and i congratulate them on doing so. >>tany other public comments on this item? thank you.anything else from the general manager? >>next item is theall matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilities commission, and will be acted u

it is a temporary program. we are going to help you for up to five years, we are going to train you but at the end of five years, you are going to have to work. we have also in this program given the states the ability to run their own program. we believe that the federal government does not have all the wisdom in the world and that states should run their program and what we have done is to give a program -- we have taken a federally-run program and taken the funds that we have spent on that program and we have given that money to the states so that rather than have one program, each state in the union can tailor its program to meet its individual need. i believe that we have put together a positive program. it's a program that asks people to work, it's a program that tries to make americans independent. it's a program that for the first time uses work and family to try to help families escape welfare and to escape poverty in america. >> the siding ceremony for the welfare law took place on august 22nd in the

program.i am very happy to be working on this project and in a way that this project service helps poor low income communities as well as provide disability upgrades for affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you. anymore for the report? >> that concludes my report >> thank you, donna and heather. next up is a presentation about dahlia the san francisco housing portal. i have michael solomon and dairy road are. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon councilmembers. i michael solomon and as my colleague gary roeder would must housing and community development. we are actually here to update you on a presentation from a few months ago regarding our city's brand-new we collect dahlia san francisco housing portal. which, our goal is to be an online one-stop resource for all kinds of affordable housing programs listings, and resources. to make it easier for folks looking for affordable housing in the city. heart of that is, you know one of our primary goals is feasibility and include with usability

tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago.nder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials

federal emergency management agency, homeland secured a grant program.er emergencies. we have had our own struggles with this program in the city of boston. the greater boston area. i think we were helped ironically because of the fact we had the attacks during the marathon, and that the realization of a vulnerability and the threat assessment in that area gave us leverage. but we were not always recognized as an area that needed this funding. there are several cities, that because of the factors that are applied in these allegations, there are other cities across the country, san antonio i know in texas has also been dropped speed we will break away from this program for a short time for the u.s. senate as a meet and a pro forma session. they will need for legislative business on tuesday september 6. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., august 2, 2016. to the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby app

and community programming? how much do you put on the blackout were insurgents into this uncertainty and number two, this is difficult but how would you even suggest a johnson administration, nixon administration to be capable of navigating that dilemma for the organized control programs. >> that is an excellent question and you're right it is difficult to answer. answer. and maximum feasible participation, johnson almost immediately after the federal government begins funding these grassroots organizations like in chicago which is involved in making the disciples and memberships the question is to what extent, and it was aimed johnson administration to local officials oppose this because they didn't want to feed their power to the grassroots organizations eventually as kind of a way to remedy the situation. johnson bough not only institutionalized many of the programs but also gives local authorities do levels of oversight and power within b's community organizations. local officials charged that this was kind

patty the program director shows here today. >> part of our program is transportation to prepare the par transport from the program to your clients is costs us $24,000 a year for transportation and that's we're asking for one thousand. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. any other questions or comments commissioner sims. >> yeah. looking at the four in totality there is catholic charities calls out alternative funding sources in relation to the dos funds here we do not the cost per client is a wide range when you divide the proposed number of clients served into the dollars we're awarding can you talk a little bit about the rationale behind those budget disparities theories more than 2 1/2 times. >> the programs are each different from each other catholic charities pace close to $25,000 a year in grant that includes the insurance for the facility catholic chiropractors program has been funded for longer some felt other programs i think back to the 90s to it is one of the first program in the city a historical funding of that granted going back to the 90s some of the other programs self

they did briefly appear on the landmark work program several years ago and no longer on the work program and of source imminently threatened. thank you very much. >> thank you, any other member of the public wish to comment? if so please come forward. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is steve [inaudible] a tenant at 10 6 south park, the grand orienta hotel and member of the lodge. i'm not here representing in any capacity the grand orienta or the [inaudible] lodge, just here as a citizen. the purchase property of 106 south park was in 1920 when newly arrived filipinos were sent over from the philippines for cheap labor and many of them came to san francisco and they could not find other places to live. somehow they were able to buy the property at 106 south park and for $6 thousand. they sweated and worked hard, this is their pride and joy. they treated of this property-it is great honor for you if you designated this property and to preserve it in their memories and for the history of the filipino community here in san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you. any other member

they did briefly appear on the landmark work program several years ago and no longer on the work program and of source imminently threatened. thank you very much. >> thank you, any other member of the public wish to comment? if so please come forward. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is steve [inaudible] a tenant at 10 6 south park, the grand orienta hotel and member of the lodge. i'm not here representing in any capacity the grand orienta or the [inaudible] lodge, just here as a citizen. the purchase property of 106 south park was in 1920 when newly arrived filipinos were sent over from the philippines for cheap labor and many of them came to san francisco and they could not find other places to live. somehow they were able to buy the property at 106 south park and for $6 thousand. they sweated and worked hard, this is their pride and joy. they treated of this property-it is great honor for you if you designated this property and to preserve it in their memories and for the history of the filipino community here in san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you. any other member

we have fantastic public programs coming up. gravity can tell you about that. >> yes, please. >> sure. i want to mention our family programs are very vision -- very vigorous and robust for our department. there's a gallery guide for this manuel you use in the gallery to interact in different ways with the ideas of the exhibition. also, they're doing a bunch of mindfulness workshops. they're asking you to come in the gallery and draw in on nature and mindfulness. >> you remind me every cultural institution as part of the core looks how art interacts and society and how there's a dynamic dialogue. education, whether symphony or ballet or museum, the contemporary jewish museum thinks seriously about the education component of art. usually it's focused on a particular current exhibit. i want to know if you can give a peek into, how do you think ability the educational aspect of the art piece focused on any particular exhibit. in this case, the piece on the wheel. you were talking about ways in which that is educational for folks. ho

and work on several projects before they graduate from the program.that is what warms my heart. >> my name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. the maus coney ce project is transformation of the convention center and it is not only addition and increased space but also a transformation of the urban neighbor around it in a positive way. >> 25th largest convention center in the country but the c

we have also in this program given the state the ability to run their own program. we believe that the federal government does not have all of the wisdom and that the states should run their program. what we have done is give a program -- we have taken a federally run program and we have taken the funding we have spent on that program, and we have given that money to the states, so that rather than having one program, each state in the union can tailor its program to meet its individual need. i believe we have put together a positive program. it is a program that asks people to work. it is a program that tries to make a americans independent. it is a program that for the first time uses work and family to try to help families as kate -- escape welfare and poverty in america. >> the signing ceremony for the welfare law took place on august 22 in the white house rose garden. speakers included little rock, arkansas, resident lili hardin who was invited to the white house to tell her story about moving from welfare to work. reminder, if you would like to watch this enti

, particularly to in kind of programs rather than cash programs. we have moved away from giving people cash and have increased hitting people of the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stands and so on are all together. at the same time the question that comes up with what we have done in terms of poverty. again this blue line behind me is when welfare reform kicks in. the top rate, the topline that goes across is the official poverty rate from the census bureau. the other two lines are spending lines which you mentioned have continued to rise. what you see is immediately after welfare reform, the official poverty measure declined, measured by the official census measurement, poverty rates went down but then it gradually has begun to the backup. went up quite a bit with a great recession, as now leveled off a bit begin but over all it's still roughly where it was comical all the way back to the beginning to the war on poverty and see the official census bur

in terms of poverty programs? is our goal simply to reduce the deprivation in which people in property are suffering? -- in poverty are suffering? is it to enable them to get out of poverty? or some, nation of them -- or some combination of them? where should the impetus be? why don't we go down the line. >> i do think it has to be both. them.ot sure i can weigh i think where we fall short is a bignot know how to make gain in moving people out of poverty and really changing their life trajectory. i think some of it goes back to, when you talk this morning about we focused our program on changing individual behavior, much more than we focused on changing the structural issues that lead people down the path they take. betweenistention personal choices and sexual choices. i don't think that when -- and structural choices. -- i't think that when don't think that is a fair choice when they have not been given opportunities. i think we have to think about the structural issues and what we have to do to fix them. until w

those that were previously on one program now are often on different programs. now, as a result of these gc,ges, changes in the ei medicaid expansions, food stamps replaced by staff, general assistance expanding. as a result of these changes we are spending more than ever. here we go. we are spending more than ever on those at the bottom. this slide indicates expenditures in 1996 and 2011. those were the years that are andasized and be eden schafer work. they say welfare is dead. by that they mean there isn't much being spent on welfare. well, if you take a look at these numbers, you see that we used to have a bunch of $20 billion programs. now snap is three times that big. ssi has doubled. unemployment insurance at the time they were looking is more than four times as big as it was in the earlier years. i didn't put down numbers for the child tax credit, or credit onehild tax from zero to $30 billion. medicaid went from about one and your $50 billion to $300 billion. to $50 billion -- the death of welfare is greatly exaggerated. press and evenr my academic coll

we talked about things like jobs programs under the family support program. we had toyed with the work programs, of the work participation rate made it real. we had to change the culture, we had to do things differently. as congress thinks about what they want to do, i started at 100,000 feet and i'm not sure i didn't get anne's notes. when you big about the framework you have to think about the outcomes. in the original, we were about job placements and caseload reduction. we started thinking about things like wage rates and retention, and i was a retention is a great example of a good outcome, because it means you have the placement, you have that an income level, a participant satisfaction, employer satisfaction. there has to be agreement on the outcomes. there have to be incentives to drive the behavior. and there has to be aspects of the program integrity. finally, the work participation rate fits into the outcome discussion. i don't think it is working today the way people want it to. i think states are doing a lot of good things to put people to work b

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i think that's a worthwhile program. >> the programs include computer, literacy, ged, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation. >> i hear what you say and i understand what you say. >> but one program aims to reach inmates by fostering and taking responsibility for others. operation new hope uses nonviolent offenders to train dogs that the local humane society considers difficult to adopt. >> this is class number 30, and what we hope to achieve by this is we want to save these dogs' lives. >> lieutenant brooks is one of the jail's training officers. he also founded an overseas operation new hope. >> all these dogs at one point in time had been slated to be euthanized. the reason that they're not euthanized is that you guys have agreed to come into this program and obedience train these dogs. >> these two are puppies. that means that they're still in development mode. >> the inmates are coached by the humane society's behavior mod any indication instructor, jennifer messer. >> you can train dogs. everybody is a team. >> we're correcting all the problems that causes a dog to get taken to the huma

those programs haven't been touched. they haven't been focused on, helping full truth from where they are from where they need to be. and so the progress that has been made over the last 20 years has opened our eyes to what we need to do next, and that means going beyond it, strengthening relationships with the child support enforcement program. what are other ways in which the lessons we learned about establishing paternity, setting expectations, can be applied to other programs that include food stamps or housing or how do we engage fathers? it's also about looking at other programs and how they're expecting work, or not expecting work, and how those things that together. for those of us at the ways and means committee, we have four themes that we see guiding us going forward to not only apply the lessons of tnf but to reapply them to the larger safety net across the programs. and it really continues to be expect work in exchange for benefits, preparing for work, doing something, getting out of the house. that piece re

we have also in this program given the state the ability to run their own program.believe that the federal government does not have all of the wisdom and that the states should run their program. what we have done is give a program -- we have taken a federally run program and we have taken the funding we have spent on that program, and we have given that money to the states, so that rather than having one program, each state in the union can tailor its program to meet its individual need. i believe we have put together a positive program. it is a program that asks people to work. it is a program that tries to make a americans independent. it is a program that for the first time uses work and family to try to help families as kate -- escape welfare and poverty in america. >> the signing ceremony for the welfare law took place on august 22 in the white house rose garden. speakers included little rock , arkansas, resident lili hardin who was invited to the white house to tell her story about moving from welfare to work. reminder, if you would like to watch this entire

the preservation funds is a program of the - it is an add on to the legacy business registry program and may not exist you know - no guarantee about the funding we do know how to utilize it you historic preservation commission is a small portion of the other programs we need i want to completely stress it the registry and the registry the core component of the program we we want to market and promote the businesses because ideally the majority of businesses on the registry won't ned all of the supportive programs they want us to market and promote them. >> director really quick i agree with commissioner president dwight so much and i'll say mix up the registry if the legislative state is the spirit that's an awesome program we're not politician we're small business owners and people manipulated this and put it on the battle so horde hard work to modify and the registry unfortunately, the miscommunication is like we're giving away millions and millions of dollars and us on the body are withholding that from the small business community i think that i actually like commissioner preside

that's not part of the program. i will never have a birth certificate. >> reporter: when her witsec-given passport was lost, u.s. citizenship. one day she received this in the mail. >> this is denying my children medical coverage. because i couldn't supply a birth certificate. >> jackie's citizenship does not exist. >> she says after exhausting all options she decides to walk away from the program and go public with her story, putting herself at possible risk. >> and you didn't fear for your life? >> i couldn't. my children are suffering because of it. so no, i had no fear at all. >> reporter: five years later, jackie says she finally her replacement passport from the marshals. >> why might it take so long to get a needed document? >> in general, the witness security program endeavors to provide swift service to its participants. >> reporter: jackie's incredible story now even part of an upcoming documentary by rumor. >> it doesn't look like anybody is there. >> reporter: and after getting her passport, jackie makes