i'd like to quickly address the socioeconomic equity measures. the law library, just by the nature of what it does and who it serves, does reflect the demographics of san francisco in every way, economic, ethnic, educational, et cetera. and our resources encompass the options for various groups from materials that are for somebody who has no understanding of the law to more sophisticated materials for somebody who is getting in very in-depth research work. we're very proud of our educational programs which we have been putting on for diverse groups. some of them are geared towards lay people. some of them are geared towards practitioners. we've had two programs in the last several months presented by judges. one program is regarding appellate matters. another program which was extremely interesting for lawyers was about what the judges expect from you when you go to court. we have had programs in preventing violence against women, dealing with debt. it's programs for business owners. this is one of the parts of our work that is particularly near

so, now i want to close by talking a little about what the library does in terms of socioeconomic equity. there are quite a few areas here and if i can call to your attention, first of all, the area of literacy and learning. we take great pride in having had about 10,000 volunteer hours in tutoring adult learners to read. a project read program is one of the highlights, one of the hallmarks of our services. we also have great emphasis in early literacy, working with head start, with day care centers, child care providers, parents, to impress upon them how important it is to get youngsters into the five basic literacy skills. we have a multi-lingual website. i think one of the -- we're one of the departments that does very well in terms of the language access ordinance. we take that very seriously and, in fact, have a very robust website in multiple languages. just as an example, you see it on the screen. we had over 205,000 views of the library in chinese and spanish just as an example. we have about 340,000 books in a variety of languages from arabic to vietnamese. and, again, our staff

. >> and anthony's family said they were being judged based on the race, and the class and the socioeconomic a role in this? >> it is -- and you would never want to say that someone is racist or judging somebody based on the socioeconomic facers to, but what is interesting is that the studies show that people who are wealthier and better educated do better with new hearts. they have better outcomes than people who are poorer, but of course, that does not mean that you would say no to a poor person, but that data is out there, and that is what is out there. so i think that some doctors are thinking, what do we do here? >> and the doctors should exercise caution when looking at the data. elizabeth cohen, thank you for that. for more on this check out cnnhealth.com. >>> well, the star of "duck dynasty" made the millions making duck calls, but could he now be looking for a new gig? why he is getting the call to run for congress. that is right after this break. ♪ if you have high cholesterol, here's some information that may be worth looking into. in a clinical trial versus lipitor, crestor got m

way that we could create access throughout the 11 supervisorial districts, throughout different socioeconomic communities in san francisco, providing opportunity. and it was something where he had said hello. it meets the mission of sf city which is essentially to engage our member companies in innovative solutions, historic problems facing the city. and we're certainly glad to be a partner. it is a great day for parks, but it's a great day for san francisco. we are lucky to be san franciscans to have great leadership. and as someone who has worked within city government and has seen how the sausage is made, per se, we're lucky to have a supervisor like mark farrell who has vision, who has dedication, a mayor who is very open to private-public partnership and innovation, department heads and leaders like phil ginsberg at rec and park and companies like google who care deeply about communities not just here locally in san francisco, but across the globe. we're proud to be a partner. proud to be here today and look forward to working on this, you know, in the years to come. so, with that i'll h

neither one of them is true, it's a socioeconomic story. >>> watch this, on a new cable news channelere in america, but are you watching? see >>> it is 4:00 p.m. in the eastern time zone. and this is the first-ever "news hour" from al jazeera. >> welcome, everyone. the new cable newschannel available to american viewers as of tuesday owned and funded by the oil rich persian gulf state of qatar and sister network al jazeera. jim, some people used to call al jazeera jihad tv, how is it doing? >> it was hilarious to give americans in their first week lectures on how to reduce oil production and energy production here in america. almost like you think they were trying to give the advantage to the home team on energy production. look, it's an arab tv channel, period. >> they claim, judy, to have unbiased, fact-based in-depth stories. do they? >> we shall see. it's not clear yet. i mean, they didn't get off to a great start by having someone who was attacked by conservatives as being a kind of jewish and race-baiter. that sn't a great way to start. but i think we need something like that.

you know, taken in the aggregate, the socioeconomic measurements are just better. why so much pessimism? >> well, i think it reflects what we call a ceiling effect, and that is that whites have been doing better for a very long time. you can go back to the post-world war ii era when whites really started moving into the suburbs and the upper middle class so they've occupied that top rung of doing better for a very long time and now as they start to evaluate their position i think a lot of white americans are saying "we don't see ours growing anymore. we've been at this top rung and we're not growing. instead we see other groups are also growing." and that leads to a little bit more pessimism in their own reflection of their group. that perhaps they've already achieved the highest rung that they're going to achieve. >> suarez: ellis coast, conversely, black and brown americans are less likely to have a college credential, more lakely to be unemployed. by a lot of socioeconomic metrix, just doing worse. how do you explain the optimism? >> easy. i was speaking when i

and what is more, as we look further into this data, we found that when we looked at other socioeconomic factors, like in come or education, it did not fully explain it the gaps. even after accounting for a socio-economic and geographic factors, african-american and hispanic households still lack a white household in broadband adoption by 11 percentage points. at rural households still lacked urban households by five percentage points. these ongoing disparities and our critical need for our nation's future to overcome them are white today's summit is so important -- why today's summit is so important. the work san francisco is doing and has accomplished is important. together with our grantees, we're working on the frontline to close these gaps in injuring no one is left behind in the technical revolution. as of the end of 2011, the top grantees had installed your updated more than 45,000 miles of broadband telecommunications lines. they had upgraded and improved service to more than 6000 anchor institutions. schools, libraries, hospitals across 35 different states. they install more tha

and doing a socioeconomic study how the spaces are equity ec-- equitably spread throughout the state and our staff will talk more about this legislation so thank you for supporting this. >> thank you supervisors for hosting this meeting on parklets. i am nicole and an intern for sf beautiful. parklets do this by enhancing the walkability and for allowing pedestrians to shop, walk east and play and have activities that were previously not possible due to lack of space. by over taking parking spots the parklets [inaudible] open space and automobiles. another way parklets exist policy they encourage dynamic activation and create spaces of support and invite multiple uses by having corridors with landscaping lighting and furniture and offer a wide variety of spaces and increase public transit and bicycles that offer a variety of uses. now [inaudible] will continue. >> good afternoon. thank you supervisors for having this meeting and i am [inaudible] and an intern for sf beautiful and following on nicole's discussion on it i want to add another point that these parklets -- they help engag

and doing a socioeconomic study how the spaces are equity ec-- equitably spread throughout the state and

. >> looking at in this situation taiwan, socioeconomically, we also see that we have the problem of the aging population. this is not unique to taiwan. the same thing is happening in japan, for example, maybe to a lesser extent in china. given the fact that with the aging population, does that necessarily mean that the incidence of cancer will be increasing because of the aging population? are we now detecting the similarities or differences between the low-income, middle- income, and high-income groups in the population? >> the answer is yes. the higher the age of the population, the more the incidence of cancer. so the government has to pay more and more money for early detection among the aging people. that through the public education, we can ask the aging population how to change their diets, how to eat more vegetables and fruit to prevent or improve their health. in terms of the income, you know, taiwan, in the patents, it was low-income and high-income in the world. so we can see hpv much more reduced. we can now decrease. we now can increase the generation because of the hpv

the local detective says that demographics, general makeup, and socioeconomic status of the residents is essentially the same. that's going to make a profile difficult. unless we examine a different set of parameters. different parameters? rossi's working on that right now. what took you so long, cadet? what took you so long? here you go. the mannequin is your wounded partner. you and your wounded partner must make it over that wall. where's your head at, cadet? what you thinking? let's move! let's move! use the rope to get your partner over the wall. let's move! use the rope to get your partner over the wall, cadet. are you paying attention? are you thinking with your head? get your partner over the wall. here we go. move, cadet! move, cadet! there you go! there you go! watch her. that's how you do it! that's how you do it, cadet! there you go! yes! yes! that's about the fastest i've ever seen anyone figure that out. is this the first time she's ever done that? change the task every day. agent seaver. sir. you remember ssa rossi from the behavioral analysis unit? of course. it's been

the recent socioeconomic report noted the ethnic and geographic disparities within our cities. and if you look at the population that we serve, the demographics that we serve, it's almost identical to the disparities noted in that report. 51% for african-american, 24% white, 16% latino, 5% asian, and 4% others. in addition, 10% of our clients are non-english speaking. 5% are undocumented. 15% are severely mentally ill. and most, if not all, are below the federal poverty level, which is a standard we use to determine eligibility for our services. here we have a summary of our budget and full-time staff positions between 2013 and 2015. what you see here is there are staffing level is actually going down from 157 to 156. what's not reflected here is with the assistance of the mayor's office as well as the controller, we have reduced our staff by five. and as you recall, we had some problems earlier in the year

they are trying to integrate their schools on a socioeconomic basis with very strong racial implications. it is growing in number. i think as the country becomes more diverse, as gap income wealth rose, i think you do see education leaders at local levels and communities around the country that are willing to tackle that issue. so that is political will. is it very organized? or in some kind of national movement? no, not particularly, but i do think it is an issue that never quite died, thank god. >> i think the question of political will is a good question. there is a lot going on into advocacy, but there is not a whole lot of will to even talk about the real issues of race and socioeconomic in the context of schools. and school performance. we tend to look, again, at dollars and test scores. and if there is this perception of broadly -- and the communities now that's we are post-racial, we have got a black president. so there is not a lot of will or space to really talk about those racial issues that are still very present with us. integration of schools -- it is going to continue to b