programs. you will see some of those numbers in consequent slides. >> hi, everyone. nice to see the commissioners here tonight. i'm going to talk about the residency program that we have here in san francisco. i think most are familiar with san francisco residency. we've expanded to have a second residency. i will explain a little bit about the fftr and talk about, one, similarities, and the ones with different candidates. we've been working with the residency for eight years. we've recruited s.t.e.m. teachers and bilingual teachers. we have 79% of our graduates still teaching in san francisco unified school district. and 80% of the graduates have completed at least five years of teaching. so we have a relatively good retention rate. 66% of our residents declare as people of color compared to 55% teachers. and the residency is in partnership with stanford and the university of san francisco. and really focuses on a year-long residency is that accompanied by weekly practicum, that can look at wh

it's a huge program. we have talented staff who have developed a database that helps us do that, to issue those checks and to balance to the penny every month. but, it keeps people housed. folks that have been homeless for over 20 years are now staying housed for on a permanent bases, we have about a 9% 8% retention rate of people staying in housing. -- 98% retention rate of people staying in housing. >> so they can stay in the housing that they've been provided or they paying for. >> in this particular program, many of the folks enrolled have a subsidy program through the department of public health, others are living in the community. but the primary thing is stability. and then working with them to say, okay, if half of your income, half of your social security goes to rent how do you survive on the rest? how do you manage the month? how do you get a small amount of your remaining balance one week and more the next? we work with folks so that is whatever resources they have they don't get all at once b

and this program, i've checked all 17 boxes because this program would enhance and be actual programs that support all 17 of the united nations global goals for sustainable development. i couldn't give you a higher grade on your effort. down at stanford, the department of engineering has sustainable systems initiative, they determined that 60% of the global population will live in cities by 2030. they conclude that the successful sustainable development goals localization will be a critical step toward achieving the goals and the success depends on concerted leadership of cities and city networks to take local action towards the global good. i'm almost finished, they had identified the main challenge that we need actionable intelligence at the city level to achieve the sustainable development goals. so thank you very much for your actions. we totally support it. >> my name is sonya, i'm the bay area director for the sustainability initiative called green monday. we educate students on the impact of agriculture. i fully support the good food purchasing policy. our school program is in

the goal of the new community service program pilot is to provide new community service program that appeals to and reaches older adults and adults with disability that are not accessing existing community service programming. and would benefit from having access. additionally rsp 767 specifically allocated funding for a standalone community service program pilot for the adult with disability population. community service program aims to maintain the well-being of adults by providing activity programming, social services and enhanced outreach. all of the community service program pilots presented this morning provide activity programming that is new and designed with the intent of reaching both older adults and adults with disability that are not accessing services and to address their needs. the new programs offer new activities as well as extended hours of operation to include evenings and weekends to reach an unserved population. all of the grantees have included an outreach component in the service design to ensure the intended population is reached. between the 7 grantees it is

this was a program advocated before i joined the program. but people with disabilities that had informal caregivers. and it was also -- it came out of the 2016 doss needs assessment. about 14,000 seniors live in san francisco and are unable to pay for home care and are ineligible for ihss. that needs assessment found that the cost of home care can be $29,000 a year. that was based on a wage of -- a cost of $23 an hour and 21 hours a week. so there is a huge need for this program. we hope to show a great need through serving that number as well as having a waitlist. 100% of the area median income is $80,700. this is a very progressive program, first of its kind, helping in that respect. and i think that -- is that $80,000 a year for a household or individual? >> single adult. mayor's office on housing -- yes. mayor's office on housing has a chart that shows that up to a household of nine what the 100% median income is. >> so basically to re-emphasize that, again, it would really help for recruitment strategy, we're talking about individuals w

>> commissioner wallenberg: thank you, the program is a great program. >> it is my understanding there was need for new partners, do we know where we're at in terms of, have those partnerships been filled? >> i checked in -- i don't think linda is here today -- but i did check in with her yesterday and my understanding, there is one starting next week, is that right? >> yeah, we're opening a third site. we have a second site on noriega, past 19 and the 20 and a third site is opening out in the ex-sellsier district, i think shortly, like the next week or so. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions. hearing none, any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item h finally. don't you feel as though you've in a production. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with swords to plow shares for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending june 30, 2020 in an amount of $264,210, plus a 10% conting

part of that is the snap program. supplemental nutrition program. which in california is the cal fresh program, or food stamps more generally known. we have the medicaid program which is very important to many of our clients and certainly to all of our ihss clients. we have the medicare program which is important to many -- well not all, but most of our daas clients. so those are out there and you know, there are risks around all those things with the current administration. we also have a set of concerns that come from the state budget. so as i said, in the state budget, we have seen some impacts in the cal works program. which in this case, probably reduce our revenue by about $1.5 million. it's not a daas program, but as i said before, all of the hsa programs are to some extent connected by their general fund. so if we lose revenue in one place, we have to figure out what we're doing there. and if we're that increases the need for general funds in the program. that's how these are all affecting each other. think we're losing a little bit of reven

they are also proposing cuts to the meals on wheels program, senior housing programs and medicare. madam president, today in a highly competitive global, economy, when we need to have the best educated workforce in the world, when the new jobs that are being created require a higher education, hundreds of thousands of bright young students desperately want to get a college education, but they are unable to do so because their families lack the income. but republicans, incredibly, want to make that situation even worse by proposing massive cuts passedbudget they theugh pell grants, major source of funding to help young people get a college education and other financial assistance programs for colleges. in my view, we should be making dublic colleges an universities tuition-free. republicans are making it harder for young people to get the education they need. madame president, during this budget process, when the republicans want to expand $100ary spending by some billion -- $100 billion over the next two years, by far the largest increase in military spending in american history, w

san diego has a great program. cl it's a group that we as a combined arms, best practices, doing it successful, what we're doing is successful and collaborations around the country working together to, again, learn from each other and learn how to best to prepare the veteran for separation from the military. >> terrific. it's worth observing even functioning at 100% we couldn't replace the importance of community involvement. that's something we can't do. as a government. not every solution that comes from the government. i think with community involvement is so helpful. in the time i have, though, the question to ask is about vouchers. in san diego we get reports of large number of vouchers that are not used and i would like maybe, mr. peck, how can you address, how is that possible, how does that happen and what can we do to make sure that the resources we have are employed to make sure that veterans have housing? >> in some instances, unfortunately, it's due to high housing costs which i'm sure is true in san di

head start, senior nutrition programs, and child welfare programs will not be cut from the levels we proposed last year. more than one-half billion dollars has been proposed for minority business assistance. and research at the national institute of health will be increased by over $100 million. while meeting all these needs, we intend to plug unwarranted tax loopholes and strengthen the law which requires all large corporations to pay a minimum tax. just as bold, just as innovative to make government accountable to the people. work again. our citizens feel they have lost control of the most basic decisions made about the essential services of government , such as schools, welfare, roads, and even garbage collection. and they're right. a maze of interlocking jurisdictions and levels of government confronts average citizens in trying to solve even the simplest of problems. they don't know where to turn for answers, who to hold accountable, who to praise, who to blame, who to vote for or against. the main reason for this is the overpowering growth of federal grants-in-aid programs duri

jeopardized these buy-in programs. this bill will provide clarity and protect about 12,000 children in the state of florida who participated in the buy-in program. i support this particular bill. please, let's re-authorize chip for the sake of our children. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman continues to reserve. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, -- pleased to yield a minute where are we here? the gentleman from texas, mr. flores. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. flores: mr. chair, i rise in strong support of h.r. 195, which continues funding the government through february 16. pays our troops and provides for a six-year extension of the children's health insurance program. 36% of the children in my district are covered under chip

the sbir program, the sttr program, have really been successful. for sbir, for every dollar spent through the air force, $12 was returned. in the navy, for every $1, $19 was returned. so these are programs that really work. can you elaborate on what more we can do to encourage the use of small business in these programs? >> i was just speaking with raj shah at diux a couple days ago about how we can take the success they've had at duix because they've had over 60 contracts to work with small businesses who might not have worked with the department of defense otherwise. and i asked him that exact same question, and he told me that there are some constraints on some of the sbir money that doesn't allow it to flow. i don't have the specifics here, but i would love to come back to you. this answers the question of what else can this committee do to help move along towards incorporating commercial technology and so forth. i think this is one of the few cases i've seen so far where another authority or taking away some kind of legislation right now might

the fact is at that point the children's health insurance program could have passed the congress win days, but unfortunately the republicans in the other body had some other ideas. from the moment the senate finance committee passed the bill in a bipartisan way, the kids became hostage to the republican political agenda. first the house republicans tried to force ideological cuts in important health programs, including medicare, to allow this deal to go forward. then they conditioned helping the vulnerable kids on kicking americans off their private health insurance. when that didn't work, they took yet another hostage, vaccines and preventive health. for some reason the other body, the house, wanted to cut off programs that make americans healthier by preventing disease in the first place. for obvious reasons democrats weren't willing to sacrifice that hostage either. now, months after there was a bipartisan deal to finally give peace of mind to these parents and children, the house republicans have taken yet another hostage. this time we're talking about the proper functioning of t

program which is a proven program that came out of n.i.h. and c.d.c. research and is a crediting programs all over the country and c.m.s. is looking at the importance of including diabetes s prevention programs so it's not like we made up an intervention we took an intervention and testing is it better in-person at the work site or is it better when delivered online so that was slide 16. slide 17 shows we were able to recruit 158 people and we, i didn't, i had nothing to do with it, kaiser division of research randomized them in to two arms and 80 people and 78 people and of those folks, we asked them to give us their initial measure ment and they attend 12 weeks of classes and hold line or in-person every week for 12 weeks and then they go every other week for a few months and they go once a month for a year so we asked these 158 people to do something for a year which is why we're reporting this out to you two years after we started and it took a long time to get those folks and check them for a year. at the end of the year, we had 43 of t

first of all, i think we saw throughout the programs that mentors in the program and leaders in the program are able to impart to you an ability to excel while being black from someone who has had that experience first hand. i think that's a very powerful thing that these programs are able to do. i think the students that are receiving of this information are getting it from very trusted sources. and i think that that is also one of the features or one of the factors that makes it successful. >> excel while being black, that's a very powerful phrase. >> yes. so, you know, essentially, and i think this gets back to some of the points in the earlier panel, there have been successful african americans and remain successful african americans. i think what happens suspect that the narrative is dominated by those who are not as successful, by those who are struggling, and i think part of it is that success in the african american community largely becomes invisible. and i think one of the things that each these three programs does is it increases the visibility of african american success and the

the program is a sound program at mr. cooper mentioned with the lowest foreclosure rate into delinquency rate that is an indicator of the safety and soundness of the program and as i'm in and in my opening statement the actions we've taken over the years to ensure that we continue to have this te performances is exactly what we need to do for the issues today. it is true that the program had delinquencies and that is a testament to the va and a testament to the deal that officers and folks made themselves. it's a strong sense that this is a benefit that we have to continue to earn a type performing on the loan. we have some lenders who don't seem to be living up to that as well. there's a couple of concrete ways, first as not we wrap up the mortgage-backed security and our recourse meaning of a lender fails on time we have to make the payment for them, whether the borrower makes it or not the borrower fails to that is what oudo this withour guarantee is. the asset that we have recourse to in that case an institution feels

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the notes a program essentially the same thing. were complying with another program.ion of harmonization doesn't change. were not touching epa at all. >> from your observation of the consumers in the process and based upon the discussion, consumers have changed the choices of what they want to go off the lot. >> the 3000-dollar additional costs to customers is from the total cost. tar is not a rule. customers make decisions. in times change. congress got it right the first time by not having a patchwork. you want to consider affordability and they get a car that fits their needs. this is a customer's money. the customer has the right to spend his money. maybe it's a previous if that works for you. maybe you need a truck. >> on from rural america, we like big vehicles and big trucks. i know what is being sold in mina of the woods. finish with this. there's a government initiative underway to the find and understand the costs and benefits of high-octane, low carbon fuels. if your industry were to go in that direction forwarded me for consumer affordability in 2021 and b

i'm all for social programs. host: megan, what about requiring work as the hill is reporting this morning that the president is poised to release guidelines soon for requiring medicaid recipients to work? caller: i think that's a good idea. i do think it's going to be hard. as a mother of a child with autism, my son, i wonder how that would play out. are there positions of the workforce that they could have? we are fortunate that we have great health care insurance and hopefully it will never be an issue for our little guy as he gets older. i just wonder. there are people on the spectrum that are really high functioning and can do well. social skills may be too difficult. host: i believe that there. seung min kim. guest: the devil's in the details and i'm interested to see what the adventures releases. democrats have expressed concerns about the shape of the entitlement programs could get around, but medicaid is such a contentious issue. the general structure of medicaid and how to affect it is a lot of the reaso

we will also turn our attention to possible changes to wealth care programs -- welfare programs. you are up first. a is veryr. cabrett disingenuous. this is not an entitlement program. i turned 66 in february. i did not retire at 62. most people don't until their 66. by raising the cap and paying into the program all year, millionaires not having to pay off until february, it would add an increase of the program. the medicare program -- the way to fix that is to get a single-payer across the country from birth to death. when you have everyone paying into this programs, billions of dollars will be added to the program. congress should be doing things about the cost of medicines and prescription drug coverage. if they were really genuine about wanted to make changes in what is going on with the middle-class workers, that's what they would be looking at. host: james, a response? guest: there's a lot there. you talk about the health care problems of single-payer versus a bigreforms, there's problem the united states and health care and how to make it more efficient overtime. a single

so we need more small programs. howard: that is a really fascinating remark because the disappointment that we begin this discussion with about shoots programs brings of hope that susan brought to us, now you are telling us the federal programs may help suffocate local imagination, to use your term. in terms of caring for our neighbors, i guess you do really teach western christian thought. dr. bradley: there's a lot of competition. we want local communities to be empowered to take ownership of the issues and the problems in their own communities and not simply be dependent on a federal source. howard: we will have an inspiring story, i know, from dr. ben carson in our keynote. we will have a q&a. yes, young woman in the middle there. policy you are and who you want to tell us who you are and who you want to direct your question to -- tell us who you are and who you want to direct your question to. >> my name is rachel. i guess whoever would like to take the question is fine. one of the things keep being best accu's

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lower court ruling that dismantled that program. just reading those tea leaves, it suggests this litigation is going to still have some way to go, and the judge's ruling may not have -- may not survive the supreme court. that is not to say there is no basis for it. the reasoning was -- the reasoning underlying the opinion is that the government did not give sufficient reasoning for its denial of the program, and on that very narrow ground, it is a possibility that this could be upheld. >> and laura sanchez, in the meantime, what are you telling daca recipients who are coming to you seeking legal help? >> we're telling everyone, first, that it is a victory, so it's a step in the right direction. but we do have to wait and see. as previously stated, we feel that it will be appealed, so we have to see how this will play out in the courts. >> do you think there are potential risks if they do reapply while things are still so murky? >> i think at this point the biggest risk potentially would be losing economic, would be losing the actual

the va program is a sound program. mr. cooper mentioned that for the last ten years we've had the lowest foreclosure rate and that's an indicator of the safety and soundness of our program and as i mentioned in my opening statement, the actions that we have taken over the years to ensure that we continue to have those type of performances is exactly what we need to do for the issues that are brought out today. i do believe that the va has a statutory authority to address the issues and i agree with the education and the veterans can make sound decisions of their own and it's our job that we give them the tools to make those decisions. >> i agree. i would add, it is entirely true that the va loan program has low delinquencies and the best testament to the va, and i think that's a testament to the deal that officers and enlisted folks make with themselves when they apply for the program. there say strong sense that this is an earned benefit, but we need to continue to earn this benefit by performing on the loan and that's a

bond program doesn't have 18-20 million dollars left. is that interpretation correct? anybody know? >> i mean, i was just looking at this, it's june 30th financial report. back then there was a balance of about 12.2 million. >> i can quickly talk about the $12 million remaining in the project, the biggest portion of the 12 million is for set aside for soft costs, for remaining project management and the permit fees. we anticipate about 3-4 million dollars of fees that need to be paid out still. what's remaining outside of the 5 million is about $3.6 million for construction contracts. there's about $3 million of additional set-aside for fall on projects and then about $3.2 million of funds that are set-aside for audit, csa services and another 1.1 for program contingency. >> do we know the legal fees being paid to pursue or defend against the claim? are those being paid by bond funds? >> to the extent that the project program still has funds, we are allocating the city attorney fees toward the project. >> this is my observation, in the v

program. so like it hadn't been done before wund have thouge impleme advantage was going to come to an end. and one of the things about implementing advantages the world doesn't come to an end. the fact that we implemented it took away some of the arguments that were protecting the status quo at all costs would normally advocate. reform is never cleat, you need to be completing perpetual -- you know, you build a platform based on one policy change and that allows you to take advantage of that and move on. so what we've, you know, what we proved was that the world doesn't come to and he. 47% of all florida kids go to a school that's chosen by their parents. whether that's universal public school choice which we now have in florida, a berthening charting school effort, the largest virtual school in the country, the largest corporate tax scar ship, the largest voucher for skids with learning disability, the largest esa program. all of these have been fought and people attack and they push back, b

for children, cutting the wic program, cutting the head start program, afterschool programs, and funding for public education. there areident, millions of senior citizens in this country who can barely make it. and i sometimes wonder how in god's name they do make it. on $12,000, $13,000, $14,000 a year in social security. how do you keep your house warm? how do you buy the prescription drugs you need to stay alive? $13,000 ordo it on $14,000 a year. and yet, there are millions of senior citizens in this country in that position. but despite that reality, over to last year we have had fight off one republican effort after another to cut social security, to raise the retirement age, or to even privatize this life-and-death program. republicans have further to the lowssive cuts income heating energy assistance program, which is keeping people warm in vermont today when the weather goes below zero. all over this country, millions of people, often senior citizens, depend upon this program. yet president trump in his budget proposal wants to wipe it out completely. republicans are also propos

when we created the first voucher program in 1999, it was the first statement larger program. it hadn't been done before, and you would have to before we implemented it that the world was going to come to an end. one of the advantages of implementing policy is that the world does not come to an end. butsystem was a perfect, the fact that we implemented it took away the arguments from the people were protecting the status quo at all costs. my attitude is that success is never final and reform is never complete. when you need to be doing is creating perpetual -- you build a platform based on one policy change, and that allows you to take advantage and move on. what we proved was that the world is a come to an end. 47% of all florida kids go to a school that is chosen by their parents. is a universal public school choice, which we have in florida -- a burgeoning charter school effort. largest corporate tax kids, thep -- 100,000 largest voucher for kids with learning disabilities. ,ll of these have been fought people attack, fishback, but once implemented, people move on to the ne

i think it is an excellent program. i think you step medicaid for all. program?anges to the caller: no changes. host: what about more benefits? what does medicaid not cover that you think it should? caller: now i am on the low end of the spectrum. few because of my health. i don't need to make that many demands. i don't require, but other people require. how much are we paying for all those people in congress for their health care? host: what does medicare not cover that you wish it did or that cost to out-of-pocket quite a bit of money when you are living on your retirement savings and social security? below $26,000. 50% have savings below $74,000. 36% of the medicare population has functional impairment. 34% cognitive or mental impairment. 30% have chronic conditions. air/poor health. 17% with disabilities. 13% of this population is 85 or older. we are going to keep getting your thoughts this morning from medicare beneficiaries about the program. what is it like for you to be in it? please keep calling in. we want to hear more from you. before we get to more of

when we are talking about modernizing programs like medicaid, innovating the chip program, and reforming the will bemarket, mr. azar the administration's primary policy driver. he has made clear his intentions to address the growing opioid that continues to ravage communities across the country, including in my home state of utah. this crisis is robbing families of loved ones, employers, and able workers, as well as securities of the safety they once enjoyed. this is an important issue to everyone in this issue, but particularly to me and other members. i look forward to working with to figure out how hhs can save lives. co-authored an act which is recently come under scrutiny with relation to the opioid epidemic. this law requires hhs to submit a report to congress regarding the obstacles to legitimate patient access to controlled substances. , so today i report would like to impress upon mr. of gettingportance this to congress so that we can make any necessary changes that may help to turn the tide of this epidemic. i hope to get this commitment to produce and release this report as so

or different programs? >> director mcspadden: we'll be working with the oversight and advisory committee to work that out. we don't have a plan in place fort $3 million. our department has ideas, but we need to take that and put it together and take it to the advisory committee and then bringing it here to the full commission. >> one of the things that happened in the current year is that the dignity fund increase paid for what we call cost of doing business increases or inflationary increases. in the programs that are covered by the dignity fund. so that's an issue we'll have to face again going forward. so a chunk of that money will go to offsetting increasing costs in existing program. >> are there any questions for shireen from the public? any more questions for dan? >> yes. >> on the commission. >> i like your pie charts. they help me a lot. i am grateful, you're really he helpful. what i would like, if at all possible, when we do the next budget, for this fiscal year, if we could have comparison pie c