the social solidarity element. that is what would disappear specifically if he were to start to cut and means test social security. i will stop babbling. >> over year, the microphone. >> i wonder if you would speak for just a moment about why the income cap on social security was implemented in the first place. >> was implemented for a good reason i think. the idea is that social security is not supposed to be something that means you rich putative was supposed to be a base income than you could build on. other countries had national retirement systems where people didn't have an employer base pensions or people were not as likely to be homeowners and so there was an assumption in the united states and over roosevelt that what was needed was and a system the would basically pay your whole way but provide you a base you could build on. so the cap came in in the early 80's when the basic idea is you don't want to tax beyond a certain point because people shouldn't expect benefits beyond a certain point. you wouldn't

we often hear that social security is not broken but the social security disability insurance program is starting to face a major difficulties this program pays benefits to workers who have lost earnings due to a disability and the social security administration itself projects the fund to be depleted in just three years here's what brian dawe is the chief actuary of the social security administration has to say about that. for disability trajectory cannot be sustained not only cannot be but it will be i mean that's that's that's pretty clear and the projections were made you know. today over ten million americans. currently collect disability insurance from the government which is three hundred percent higher than what it was just forty years ago but at the same time we have seen advancements in working conditions and medical technology to cruising the causes of disability so why is it that so many more americans are receiving disability payments from the government while on one side they claim that the biggest factor driving the expansion of disability is demographics this can most

of social security, which is the social solidarity aspect. the fact that people of all income levels get something from it, participate in it, and therefore feel a sense of loyalty or ownership over it. it would undermine that. the third idea they come up with that is repeated over and over again, is the chain cpi, which essentially, to be quick and dirty, means adjusting the formula that is used to compute benefits so they go down. now, that's sold as a technical correction, but it would actually be a pretty serious change. it would start to affect people pretty materially within the next decade, and more and more after that. now, the common denominator of these three ideas for fixing social security is that they would all of them strangely enough would exempt the most affluent people. they would say a little bit of reduction in their benefits but that's not a big deal to them. if they live longer, they would see a reduction in benefits, but they've got plenty of other money. it would be a very small hit to them. now, if the cap was raised,

social security later with over roy. also jamie diamond displacing headwinds a shareholder advisory firm has suggested that he be stripped from his role as the chairman of the j.p. morgan board the bank is facing a slew of regulatory investigation everything from failing to detect bernie made off suspicious trading to bilking states for millions in extra energy fees the bankers resident swap expert to blighty masters is also under fire masters who is most famous for it inventing credit default swaps is accused of lying under oath to regulators about this energy scheme one of j.p. morgan's most famous investors one buffett isn't discouraged he says he's one hundred percent for jamie we'll see how mr dimon holds up in our bankers cup duel at the bottom of the show. and at the annual shareholders meeting for berkshire hathaway buffett promise burning or he praised bernanke in calling four and a half years of near zero interest rates and two trillion dollars in bond purchases smart policy bizarrely he distilled leverage call

your social media. you're different. >> big, small. >> i don't know. >> big, bigger. >> yeah. >> she's tall. i'm short. >> let's not go there. >> the first thing i wanted to say this is an awesome day. i haven't seen this until now coming together of law enforcement, educators and industry and a variety of other folks and nonprofits organizations and really understand the issue and dive into it. it's been awesome and a ton of learning has gone into this. alice is amazing. everything that happened with time warner and got together a year ago and partnered up on this and wouldn't it be great if we got two major media organizations together, one traditional media which has a a lot of strength in eaching people via tv and one reaching people socially and if you could gather these together imagine what we can do? and so i think you called sizzle real. it was a sizzling experience to be in a high school in hare land and felt like a football pep rally but it was about bullying and they all took the pledge to s

so africa takes a lead early on social development. but then as humans, and also because human development after the first you get much more biological diversity than anywhere else in the world. all the dna studies have now confirmed this. it makes perfect sense because humans have been there longer. so you might expect africa to retain the lead and develop an over the long run. but what happens is people spread out of africa into these regions across the old world, particularly southwest asia. when the ice age ends, these regions outside africa are the only places where all these domestic coal plants and animals have evolved for people to domesticate. so to get domestication first having a set of africa. it does happen independently but it takes a lot longer because it's harder to do. so africans domesticate into farmers can eventually into government. but it happened later. geography changes its meaning. geography allowed people in south east asia to build a more complex society. as they do so, they then start sending around the coas

>> the real problem with social security is in the long run.hat do you -- whether you call it a crisis or something it can be managed when you have between this year and a 75 year time horizon that security uses, cumulative deficits amounting to about $20 trillion, that is a real problem. that would either require huge tax increases or benefit cuts which is why i think the best thing that we could do is to copy countries like australia and sweden that have put in place personal retirement accounts. dennis: nancy, even the report says that social security is safe for only 20 years. neville, a lot faster. bush should we do? >> social security is an extremely conservatively financed program. it cannot pay benefits unless it has in some teeseven, sufficient to pay. so it has a surplus last year, this year and for the next 20 years. then it will make the wealthiest pay their fair share. right now they stop thh pain at $113,700. most workers pay. that would solve the problem and be able to pay benefits. security is a solution to retirement income. it

social justice -- getting education is a social justice issue. we don't want kids to feel they can't go to school or go home. we want other's worth intact and appreciate the worth. justice is a public face of love and 60% of kids who are discipline read likely to drop out of school, so if we attach the same concerns that we have for all of the students and comparing with the evidence base data that suggests there are a lairming rates of suspensions and explullions and how does that push the conversation or do other things that we are innovative with and coming up with real solutions? not just to bullying but all of the social factors that affect students and adults and there are several adults that need training as well. that's my point. >> yeah. actually the work place bullying institute which has good data i am told and found that 35% of american employees say that they have been bullied in the work place. that is about double over the figure for kids so this is not a kid problem, but so are you asking if there should be programs and campaigns

and how one gets there becomes really secondary in getting their, and i think social, not our social media but our television, reality tv and things of this nature, i think show that. not to be critical, but to be critical, i think that that does -- it is a problem. >> i wrote a book on columbine. charles, a couple question. i wanted you to clarify the 70%. because i thought that was fascinating. and i want to get my tweet right. was a 70% of college students thought about -- >> had a homicidal thought in their last year. >> and how did you know that? >> well, i know it from stephen's book, "the better angels of our nature," which is on the fall of violence historically over the years. so he quoted it. so i'm quoting him. >> i was just curious. >> i'm not sure how the study was done. but in the book he does say that one of the students yelled out, the other 30% are lying. [laughter] >> these were male students by the way. >> i was wondering about anybody else on the panel wanted to comment on the whole idea of red flag and how easy they are to sort of seat in retrospect and if you th

social security will be strong for the next 50 years paying out 100% of benefits. do you know whose idea that was during the 2000 nate campaign? a guy named barack obama we want to remind him of that. >> why is he dunz the proposal. senator i've, around the country, i've been in front of a half a dozen crowds. there's no appetite for this. in fact there is a rousing support against the budget to even get it into the conversation an on to the table.

>> she said on social media. so i was curious about your thoughts on that. >> well so, the first one, i did see that video, the wisconsin woman who was defending her weight. i don't generally discuss women's weight in public -- [laughter] spent how can i say this with c-span cameras on? i mean, i thought i thought it was kind of -- an inappropriate thing to be doing on tv. i mean, i understand there was a painful incident but the woman suffered, but all of us as human beings and as journalists take those kind of barbs from time to time, you sort of put up with it. on the second incident you mentioned, i've not read this i don't know exactly what the woman said on facebook, but it doesn't sound to me like somebody simply responded to somebody saying, you know, this is my hair and this is my heritage and i'm proud of it, but that would constitute a firing offense. but again i don't have to be more discussions about should some have been fired or not from their news or decisio the statin because it can be hard in al

it reminds of the term "social justice". we think we know what we mean by it but i can't tell you the emails i get from individuals. >> if "if you don't get me in the school i want to you're denying me social justice" and it's usurping of the teerm and let's call bullying what it is and assault and make it clear to what it is and make it clear to other individuals and there are other grades and issues of classroom management and it's okay and let's get focused and ready to go on the lesson, but when you're talking about hurting somebody's feelings that is often times in my experience been an issue of power. >> yeah, i would like to add to that. i think there has been dialogue in the nation throughout the issue in the last year, and when you look at recent report that the federal department of education presented basically has the definition of bullying in every single state and also a list of i think 37 components and ranks that show you state by state which ones include those components of it. as we heard earlier the federa

state of social security and medicare. eamon javers with the story. eamon? >> hi, maria. the news was about as good as you're going to get coming out of washington today. the report saying, take a look here at some of the highlights, that social security now has enough funds to operate through 2033. it also said that after 2033, tax revenues could finance some spending on about three quarters of the benefits that are promised through 2087. and finally id sate that medicare has sufficient funds to operate through 2026. and that's actually two years later than they had said last year, so that's a good sign. treasury secretary jack lew was cautiously optimistic in his comments earlier today. >> social security and medicare are meeting their commitments today and they will continue to meet their commitments in the years ahead. yet as the trustee's reports have been indicating for a while now, these programs face long-term challenges. >> now, maria, that year of 2033 was actually the same exact year they picked last year, so social security kind of treading water here. and tha

and potential cuts in social security i thought the in. view was last heard of of the easy approaches we could do to prolong the life of social security which is not in jeopardy at this point right now it will be in jeopardy if we if we attach chain c.p.i. to it. this is an example of the president thinking that if he takes a conservative position he can bring that to republicans and they will work with him on anything that's not going to happen he's been doing this for five years yet i don't get it why is he back and he's at his strongest and republicans purely based political point of view he's it is strongest and conservatives republicans are at their weakest when he's aggressive. talking about progressive goals and defining that difference with conservatives his numbers are always better when he's doing that and their numbers are always weaker when george w. bush had high numbers one of the reasons that he had high numbers was because he took conservative opinions that may be unpopular with a wide swath of the american people but at le

thatst a classification given to groups dedicated to social welfare because they are dedicated to social welfare, they don't have to pay taxes, which makes sense. and here's where the scandal part starts, exactly. what exactly counts as social welfare. how does the irs decide if your group applying for the special nontax paying status qualifies? well, here's the irs' own documentation on this classification. the irs lists as examples of social welfare organizations a group aimed at helping unemployed people over a certain age find work. a group working to build a stadium for a school district, a group dedicated to counseling for people in financial trouble, a group that subsidizes kids' tickets to sporting events to get them interested. a neighborhood beautification group and on and on. you basically get the idea, i think. now, those all sounds like the sorts of groups that should be counted as tax exempt and most people are probably more or less fine with that group not paying taxes. now, there has been a very bright line for a very long time between organizations like those and organiz

and what he and others in congress are doing to protect our nation's social safety net. you and senator sanders and a bunch of others are leading the fight to say both to president obama unfortunately and to all the you know the peters's the world and the republicans thanks but no thanks on the chained c.p.i. you want to explain what that is and what you're doing it's a pointy head economists theory that you can substitute things of somewhat equal value when something becomes more expensive the classic i learned in economics is you're eating steak becomes expensive you buy chicken chicken becomes expensive you buy pasta becomes expensive you buy cat food cat food kept it's pretty expensive. you know that yes so i mean there is some cheap. bad food but it's not even good for cats let alone humans so it's you know it's an absurd thing and seniors actually have a higher rate of inflation than any other class of people in this country because they consume more medical care more prescription drugs you know rent utilities fuel for their car are all a much larger proportion of

are you going to book reviews, you you use social media networking sites? how are you discovering this stuff out side of what you have to read for work? >> i still do a lot of browsing. i go for one thing and leave with ten bucks. >> it's nice to know you actually buy the books there. [laughter] >> i do purchase a significant amount of books from. good reeves is the main site of use, but a lot of recommendations, entertainment weekly, it's kind of across-the-board. >> is it something that you came to use? >> good reeves is a great tool. a separate new releases like months and shawn russ. -- genre. you could find that on good reads which is kind of fascinating. i also use the blogs because i also follow the trade journals like some of the library journals that we get. but maybe i'm a little bit more ve out liar because i actively pursue the new releases. i desperately rely on the book reviewers and publishers weekly, the library journal obviously. but i think the biggest one for me and the most influential as word of mouth. and you know, what my friends are

this was a social history as activism as it is a social history of disease because it was equally hard to tease out advancements in treatment and research from the patients and advocates that taught tirelessly for them. it is a chronological book that focuses on post world war ii america, which was a time of, quote, irresistible progress, between antibioctoberrics and vaccinations, we had control over acute, infectious diseases and thought we were a step away from curing everything that ailed us. at this point, we were living long enough, we were not dying from commune diseases, that chronic disease emerged as a public health priority. as you heard in the introduction, i'm a lifelong patient myself, and these experiences informed the writing of this book. i have a rare genetic respiratory disease, which is a mouthful, so people just say pcd, if they say it at all, as well as other chronic illnesses and teach writing for the health sciences at north eastern and told the title from a quote from an essay i forced my freshman to read, illness is the night side of life, more honors than cit

you be a human being and have social interaction. marion wolf in her book start worrying, do we read the same way? sitting down in your own sweet time and reading, what kind of people have we become? a lot of businesses that are now saying, there's going to be no e-mail on fridays because i actually want you to get some productive work done. it's better for your soul and better for our bottom line. and you see this the book on distracted. more and more people are starting to recognize in a way they didn't ten years ago, that this may not be good for us, where this will go, i don't know. but to me. at least at the beginning. >> host: which devices do you own? do you ever turn them off? >> guest: do i ever turn them on is the question. okay. i have a laptop, needless to say, an ipad. i have -- my husband has a couple of ereaders which i borrow once in a while. i don't like to use ereader. i don't want to have 150 pain book be 400 pages because that's what they are on the kindle. i don't have a mobile phone. we used could joke any famil

democrats and without social democracy. there never would have been a welfare state. certainly not the kind we have today, without the party and social democracy. >> in 1933, adolf hitler engineered passage of the enabling act. this law allowed him to pass legislation. the communist party was already banned. when the bill came up for a vote in the assembly, the spd was the only party to vote against it. >> for me, that's the most important event and the most important day in the history of our party. and that speech, with hitler looking on, he was composed. and with a steady voice, he gave that speech with those famous words -- liberty and our lives, but they cannot take away our honor. [applause] >> and then he said this -- no enabling act. >> the spd had to wait until the end of the 1960's to influence many of their ideas. the first postwar spd chancellor help build the welfare state -- helped build the welfare state. he also introduced the policy of detente and apologized for german war crimes. in 1998, the party returne

the mainstream conversation. >> social media is all about social platforms and very smart, canny, advertisersho are able to be nimble and react in realtime can use the platforms to get their message across. oreo is a fantastic example, just so nimble, so quick, and really just won the super bowl with that tweet, the dunk in the dark photo. poland springs, they would have been ridiculously dumb not to capitalize on that sip. they could have been more clever about their tag line, but sometimes you just have to do what you can do in the moment. >> sometimes you do something and it is not what you should do. i mean, let's talk about kenneth cole tweet during the political uprising in egypt that read millions in up roar in cairo, rumor is they heard the spring collection is available online. wow. they really got slammed for that. and later issued an apology after an up roar from twitter users. what can companies learn from mistakes like this? >> i think that just learn not to be tacky, i think, that this is a judgment thing. have smart, experienced people with proven judgment who are are manning t

section 501(c)4 of the internal revenue code that defines social welfare organizations for tax exempt purposes defines them this way. civic leagues or organizations not organized for profit but operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare. then the irs code does a magic trick and changes the meaning of the word "exclusively." to be operated exclusively to promote social welfare, an organization must operate "primarily" to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community. it was in 1959 that the irs on its own added the notion that exclusively really just means primarily. so for 54 years the irs has gotten away with the crime of changing the word exclusively to primarily. that was last monday. but as expected, it did nothing to dim the political media's lust for scandal. i continued to harp on the point all week, and then friday at the house ways and means committee hearing where the members of that committee are supposed to be sort of experts in taxation came the first glimmer that someone in congress was actually listening. >> as mr. lawrence o'd

grease on the rich instead republicans who have wanted to cut social safety net programs like social security for years skewered president obama called the cuts the social security brad cohen had a shocking attack on seniors in two thousand and five when president bush tried to prioritize social security democrats blocked him and republicans were largely all in favor of cutting benefits and handing the whole thing over to wall street bottom line here is the republican lawmakers in washington have only one mission and that one mission is to obstruct and sabotage the obama presidency at every chance possible regardless of how much damage that obstruction does to the american people . and make no mistake about it president obama realizes this he realizes that republicans only care about making him look bad after all if this wasn't a republicans only goal and they wouldn't be all over manufactured conspiracies like been gazi and floating around impeachment talk and would instead be dealing with the actual pressing issues that our nation faces like a broken economy a jobs crisis bankers r

inevitably, this became as much a social history of activism as it is a social history of disease. it was equally hard to tease out advancements and treatments and research from the patients in the advocates who fought so tirelessly for them. it is a chronological book that, for the most part, focuses on world -- post-world war two america, which was a time of irresistible progress. between antibiotics and vaccination, we had more control over acute infectious diseases. we began to think that we were just one step away from caring everything. it was at this point while we were living long enough that we were not dying from communicable disease that chronic disease began emerging as the public health priority. as you heard in the intro, i am a lifelong patient myself. these experiences informed the writing of this book. i have a rare genetic respiratory disease, priories ciliary dyskinesia which is enough still, some people say peace cd as well as other chronic illnesses. i also teach writing for the health sciences at northeastern and chose the book's title from a susan sontag quot

she is going to explain more about this term that was used a lot today and social literacy or social emotional learning. alice con is from cartoon network. dave steer to her right is from facebook and next to him is officer holly lawrence, sunny valley of public safety, digital safety program and she's going to talk about which is a powerful thing going national. and next -- is brian here? no. okay. all right. so we're all set and mia i would like you to enlighten us more in all that you're doing in social emotional learning. >> sure. i had some slides but i'm not sure -- no, we have a handout that went around to you and more detail about what social emotional learning is because i think we rise a little bit today and i came from seattle and i know many people have brought up that term today and i get the sense from atyou' high level of discourse and you have a general understanding. could i see a show of hands for those of you that social emotional learning is a familiar term? and those that feel you have a deep understanding of it? okay. great. thank you. i want to introduce myself

democrats and without social democracy. there never would have been a welfare state. certainly not the kind we have today, without the party and social democracy. >> in 1933, adolf hitler engineered passage of the enabling act. this law allowed him to pass legislation. the communist party was already banned. when the bill came up for a vote in the assembly, the spd was the only party to vote against it. >> for me, that's the most important event and the most important day in the history of our party. and that speech, with hitler looking on, he was composed. and with a steady voice, he gave that speech with those famous words -- liberty and our lives, but they cannot take away our honor. [applause] >> and then he said this -- no enabling act. >> the spd had to wait until the end of the 1960's to influence many of their ideas. the first postwar spd chancellor help build the welfare state -- helped build the welfare state. he also introduced the policy of detente and apologized for german war crimes. in 1998, the party returne

it makes sense to most of us, you have it khaifrpb the social norms. we must educate. but we must go beyond thinking more rigor will get us better achievement. we have to remember a school is a community and in a xhuept, people look out for each other. they've got each other's back. how do we begin to promote that idea that we are in this thing together? we believe it's through, unfortunately but truly, self-interest. kids are driven developmentally by the desire to fit in, to belong, to be part of an affinity group. if we can capitalize on their desire to look out for their friends and give them some more tools and opportunities and support, they will begin to do what we need them to do to at least confront it in their own small cell of social influence and the compounding and leveraging of that begins to make change. so the question we have to ask ourselves, are we as adults willing it slow down enough to invite kids to sit down at the table with us and partner? do we have the courage to understand that inclusion takes time and we have have to work more diligently to