we have not had any forgiveness through the program yet. it started in 2007, signed into law in 2007, so nobody has gone through the full 10 years of it, so we have not seen what happens when you have the button on forgiveness, and so ideally it would he spelled out, and what is spelled out in the statute is that government workers, 501(c)(3) government workers qualify, but as we get closer to the forgiveness point and people are trying to get their paperwork in order, that is where we are seeing confusion, an that is being worked out as we speak. talk i guess is with us to about public service and loan forgiveness and questions whether that will happen or not. ,f you want to ask a question call the following numbers. for independents, (202) 748-8002 . is it in the obama administration? guest: this predates the trump administration. the aba, the american bar association, a membership organization for lawyers, filed a lawsuit alleging that some lawyers who have loans approved for forgiveness were later reneged upon. the government said your l

medicaid expansion and also, the traditional medicaid program. the bill, likely would have ended the medicaid expansion overtime and would have placed the federal funding cap on the traditional medicaid program. in the wake of the failure of the bill, the question before us now on the panel and for all of you is, what's next for medicaid? discussion, for the i will focus on the medicaid expansion, refreshing memory about where the states stand on their decisions to expand the program, and looking at the latest research on the effects of the expansion on coverage as well as other key indicators. as of today, 31 states and the district of columbia have expanded eligibility for medicaid. of those, six have used demonstration waiver is granted by hhs. these six states have struggled to reach political consensus on expansion, and found agreement in alternative approaches like enrolling medicaid beneficiaries in market place plans and responsibilities like higher premiums on beneficiaries. there are currently four states ,ctively discussing expansion th

isticularly if someone program equals zero so they don't -- their payments under the income-based programs zero, does that count for the 120 payments? guest: most people who use public service loan forgiveness -- basically everyone compares it with an income-based repayment program. these are programs offered by the federal government that allow people to pay off their loans as a percentage of their income. the reason why that is is because if you use a standard repayment program listed it loan term is 10 years. you would have paid off the entire lonmin 10 years and you would not need forgiveness. if you're using public service loan forgiveness you're often using one of these plans and some of these plans, depending on your income, can make it so that you have a payment of as low as zero dollars. if you qualify for zero dollars payment as long as you are doing what it takes to stay current on your loans, you are making the payment on time, it still counts. host: there is an op ed in u.s. news by betsy marriott. she writes this about the program you're talking about saying, it bears repeat

and also the traditional medicaid program. the bill likely would have ended the medicaid expansion overtime. in the wake of the failure of that bill, the question before us now on the panel and for all of you is what's next for medicaid? to set us up for this discussion i'm going to focus on the medicaid fangs, refreshing your memories about where the states stand on their expanding on the program and looking at the latest research on the expense of the expansion as well as other key indicators. as of today, 31 states and the district of columbia have expanded eligibility for medicaid. of those, six have used 1115 demonstration waivers granted by hhs. these six states have struggled to reach political consensus on expansion and found an agreement in alternative approaches such as enrolling medicaid plans and imposing greater financial responsibilities on bishies, including higher premiums and cost sharing. there are four states that are actually discussing expansion, the kansas legislature has passed a bill to examine medicaid,

how do we want the medicaid program to run? some of the points that gail raised and this all important issue that is of particular interest in the expansion states, which is new strategies for delivery reform. you know, how do we use medicaid and the broader medicaid coverage to shape delivery of care? how do we get greater efficiency in care? how do we integrate mental and physical health care? how do we integrate social services more? and particularly, this is the case for populations for whom medicaid is a huge buyer. with, really, the ability to influence an entire sector of the healthcare system. we've known that this is the case for a long time in maternity and pediatrics. it is clearly the case for mental illness and addiction. it is clearly the case for long-term services and support. so these are the big areas, you know, high profile policy reform. so there are sort of two basic reform pathways in medicaid. and we have three very different views going on right now about those two pathways to reform. one is the legislati

she directed the medicare and medicaid programs under george h.w. bush, and all the way to the left there is sarah rosenbaum, the harold and james hirsh director of health and policy and the founding chair of health policy at george washington university school of public health. so without further adieu, i'm going to turn it over to sarah collins and we'll go ahead and get started. thanks. >> thank you, sarah. good afternoon to everybody, and thank you to the alliance and also the panelists for joining us today. as sarah mentioned, a major focus of the american health care act was the medicaid program. both the medicaid expansion and also the traditional medicaid program. the bill likely would have ended the medicaid expansion over time, and it would have placed a federal funding cap on the traditional medicaid program. in the wake of the failure of that bill, the question before us now on the panel and for all of you is what's next for medicaid? to set us up for this discussion, i'm going to focus on the medicaid expansion, refreshing our memories a

the next slide shows the size of the program. the three phases are shown here represent $6.9 billion. there's a division of the treatment plan phase one totals $2.1 billion $2 billion worth of that investment is at south wiese plant. we also have work shown before the orange bar which includes tunnels, large sewers. currently, we have 70 projects which have been started as part of phase one. $2.9 billion this represents one of our graphical depictions i report to our commission on equality bases this is directly from the last quarterly report i made to them. current expenditures are $366 million and we are at 16% complete. all of this information is extracted from our project control system. design is the largest piece of the pie right now because of our two biggest projects. we do have 11 projects in construction and ten that have been closed out. you look at the city as a whole work and have projects throughout the city this gives you an idea of the location of the projects as well as the locations of the treatment plans. it we

the v.a. choice program. these are commonsense bipartisan improvements and i want to thank chairman roe for his leadership. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from tennessee reserves. the gentleman from minnesota. mr. walz: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to my good friend, our ranking member of the economic opportunity subcommittee, the gentleman from texas, mr. o'rourke. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. o'rourke: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to begin by thanking the chair of the full committee and join the ranking member of the full committee in honoring the work of chairman roe, his staff and his ensuring we do the right thing for every single one of the veterans in this country that we are here to serve. it would be easy to criticize the choice program which has not worked fully as intended. too

the first is that we actually shrinking these programs. so the impression in the article it's going up isn't true. the set of programs addressed, ongress has been shrinking for five or six years. so that's why we have a lot of damage. we spend less on workforce training than we used to. only about 30 r percent of the cost of college. i mentioned they're serving the in child care assistance that we have in the since the the program 1990s. a point where there's a lot of unmet need. in terms of what we should do budget, i would note that one of the important things for the people viewing to keep is the tax proposal, go -- that the president has said he'll be working on with congress. the worry is that would be tacks for the wealthy which would, of course, go in he wrong direction in terms of contributing to those numbers that you described, but not helping ordinary americans. areas where i think the budget adds money is in the area of criminal justice. many mayors and governs would argue that -- and i think evidencers too, as the suggests, tha

and the growth of community choice ago gages programs across the state, and programs at a future meeting we can take a little bit of time, more on my cal cca role to describe what the other ones are doing, and i think that our very positive aspect of the attention, and the industry sector is getting, is the ability to identify all of the interested parties who want to see this type of programming really succeed. and so we are finding a lot of strong partner to work with, and make sure that in getting best practices and learning new things that we can bring to the san francisco customers which i find very positive. we are very active on the proceedings that influence our cca program, pcia being the biggest, and the general rate case that the pg& e has before the cpuc, and the pg& e, resource plan and the plans to retire deablo canyon, the nuclear generating station. and their interest in replacing that resource was additional resources that they would then charge not only their customer foz, but also their cca customers for. so, those are all areas that my staff, together with city attorn

the next slide shows the size of the program. the three phases are shown here represent $6.9 billion. there's a division of the treatment plan phase one totals $2.1 billion $2 billion worth of that investment is at south wiese plant. we also have work shown before the orange bar which includes tunnels, large sewers. currently, we have 70 projects which have been started as part of phase one. $2.9 billion this represents one of our graphical depictions i report to our commission on equality bases this is directly from the last quarterly report i made to them. current expenditures are $366 million and we are at 16% complete. all of this information is extracted from our project control system. design is the largest piece of the pie right now because of our two biggest projects. we do have 11 projects in construction and ten that have been closed out. you look at the city as a whole work and have projects throughout the city this gives you an idea of the location of the projects as well as the locations of the treatment plans. it we

the 1980's is probably the apogee of programs in the reagan era. these programs grow enormously. after the 1980's, then things change again and it is a different story. bill: the title of your book is the rise of the military welfare state. do you ever find that term sometimes has negative connotations in the public policy arena? jennifer: i think it does. i think that people outside of scholarly endeavors think of welfare as a pejorative term, and i think they think about it as having a close association with what we might think of as aid to the needy. people who are at the bottom of the income scale and do not have other ways to find support. but, technically speaking, social welfare has everything to do with everything from home loans to tax credits, to social security. it encompasses a wide variety of government activities that promote health and welfare. so, i do think it sometimes has that pejorative sense. and then you do some explaining as a historian and a scholar, which i have done a lot of. both in my teaching, and when i travel around and talk about the book. you expla

it's been one of the front line programs today on the opioid addiction program. it's been structured over time to provide states with the ability to draw down federal matching funds to cover the population that they are covering. as long as they abide by some basic federal rules about who they can cover, what they can cover. but a lot of built in optional services and optional coverage. so the proposals to change that open ended federal financing to some sort of a percapita cap have been introduced over time. the federal government seems periodically to give the states more flexibility in return for being able to limit the federal government's commitment to the program. that was part of the debate going around the gop house proposals. we have two issues here, really what happens to the expansion in the expansion population and what happens to the broader medicaid program and its role as our state health safety net. >> let's take that one at a time, those two pieces. one is the broader conversation of do we move to a per capita grant, what do we do in the long term

graduate students are able to borrow up to the cost of the program. borrowing forited graduate students and on the back and we allow unlimited forgiveness if they do work in a public service sector. that is something a lot of people say does not match. host: i asked about the two devos-- does -- but the -- betsy devise -- guest: on the campaign trail president trump i believe it was in ohio talked about allowing our worst to pay back their for at loans by paying -- about 12 years and having the remainder forgiven. it has been no movement on that. that was something he brought up on the campaign trail. host: let's hear from caroline in louisville, kentucky. democrats line. caller: i wanted to know what was available for social workers . i am a graduate student. -- from bush up until trump -- yes at times i have worked for the government, i have worked for agencies, domestic violence advocate for the police department. will i qualify for student forgiveness? guest: if your work has been for the government and for 501(c)(3)'s you probably will. you don't

the next slide shows the size of the program. re shown here represent $6.9 billion. there's a division of the treatment plan phase one totals $2.1 billion $2 billion worth of that investment is at south wiese plant. we also have work shown before the orange bar which includes tunnels, large sewers. currently, we have 70 projects which have been started as part of phase one. $2.9 billion this represents one of our graphical depictions i report to our commission on equality bases this is directly from the last quarterly report i made to them. current expenditures are $366 million and we are at 16% complete. all of this information is extracted from our project control system. design is the largest piece of the pie right now because of our two biggest projects. we do have 11 projects in construction and ten that have been closed out. you look at the city as a whole work and have projects throughout the city this gives you an idea of the location of the projects as well as the locations of the treatment plans. it we can do quickly a s

stop and startof programs. most of the intense programs that they are working on committees are classified programs. >> host: thanks for holding. you are on with author annie jacobsen. >> caller: thanks for taking my call. i was just wondering you are talking about money. is there any mechanism by which the united states gets money from the administrations because i know if you read -- are we making deals we get paid for that? thank you. >> guest: the way that it flows is that it goes out into the hands of the laboratories that are developing the weapons program so if they have a product the they wanted they wod be paid. does that answer the question? i interviewed for the pentagon's bring some scientistpentagonspre working down atare uc irvine. they would be capable but this kind of research is 20 or 30 years out. but the scientists said is going to find that, no one. so they are willing to invest in early laboratory research that leads to extraordinary new things. the scientists i spoke to were very grateful for this fun

first, the lead to succeed program. that is an interactive course that was developed by dhr to complement the a partnership sf program. so we are looking to bring that hereto the puc. it is designed for staff to act in a lead role to help them with their communication and coaching skills early on so they can effectively direct and support team members even when they're just beginning as a leader. this program has got such great feedback and i think there's a really big needed to bring this to our workforce, so we are pretty excited to start doing that. we have also created the puc leadership competency model . again part of our competency-based initiative. it provides a frame working and guidance for employees from interns to executives, to develop in the competencies most important to successful leadership at the puc. this model also has lots of resources and tools to help all staff develop these leadership competencies. moving onto project stemming from our fifth objective, the updated employer recognition program whic

the see-saw program. stay with us for that. >>> the see-saw program is one way the cupertino union school district looks to use technology to educate. joining us to talk about see-saw are jennifer, a teacher at the montclair elementary school in los altos and the other program participant is teacher kelly galante. thank you both for being here. for people who don't know what it is, give us a quick overview in terms of what's being used here. >> so, see-saw is a portfolio, which means it allows students to capture work they're doing in the classroom on their ipad. and that work is sent through see-saw to their parents and their parents have an account that they can access on their phones, their ipads, their computers at home. so it's a way for parents to see what's happening in the classroom without waiting until the end of the week, until papers come home, and to see what activities are going on in the classroom, such as presentations or conversations that can't be captured on a sheet of paper. >> then the

to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a $946,000 grant that is provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern

or the other programs, can you speak to the threats that these programs are facing a he what will be the impact on children here in the united states? >> sure. thanks, shannon. it's good to see a lot of familiar faces in the audience. many of you know frac. it's food research & action center. shannon indicated there are 32 million people in this country who live in food insecure households. 29 million of them are adults and 13 million of them are kids. which means that the rate among kids is much higher than that among adults. about 12% of adults and 18% of kids. the severity among kids often is not as bad as the severity among adults because adults feed the kids first. they may not be adequate or balanced meals but the parents feed the kids first. parents are much more likely to be skipping meals. and then the parents' stress and depression translates down into the kids in negative ways that makes being -- living in a food insecure household, even if you're getting enough to eat, harm your development and your childhood as you're growing up. so either way, the kids are suffering from

the bigger story will be down once they replace the program with the extension, the money for the program will run out by the end of the year. the next question for the administration and folks on the hill, what will they replace it with? >> what our options when it comes to the future of this program? >> we have heard from the v.a. secretariat that we should see a plan in the next few months, maybe as late as the end of the summer. point is the choice program and changing elibility rules. for example, veterans now are eligible for this program if they face significant wait times for care at v.a. facilities or live at least 40 minutes -- miles away from a v.a. facility. the secretary said he wants to get rid of those rules and make it easier in general for people to see a private doctor, if it is more convenient for them and better for their schedule. if it fits their care. that is a pretty substantial expansion, in terms of cost. that will be the real fight for lawmakers. how do you pay for all of this? everybody likes making it easier for veterans to find care and access their doctor, b

the choice program was deficit spending. we certainly have an obligation to take care of our veterans. i want to look inside the v.a. system and say we better spend those precious resources to provide the benefits for veterans. bigger, the bureaucracy but to provide health care benefits for our veterans. >> is it the right amount the president is proposing? is it too much for the v.a. and defense department? we do the choice program we don't have a score yet. as soon as we get a score will will know better about how to reframe the choice. kellie: to follow more on resources, the inspector general has told appropriators that they lack the resources to properly investigate whistleblower complaints. is an appeals back lock that continues to be a problem. how do you reallocate resources or is there a need for resources in those programs? >> i think it will get easily to help streamline the appeals process. you can take a fast track if you want to. you want to get evaluation fairly quickly. we mean about 120 or 125 days. you can't

the v.a. choice program, the 2014 law put in place to pair down wait times at v.a. facilities for veterans waiting too long at a facility. a flawed program that both republicans, democrats and the secretary agree is not working as desired. but just passed out of the house president, for the elimination of the sunset of the program. you said on the floor he gives you time to work on a larger overhaul bill the hope to get to the president by the end of the year. what will that overhaul look like and how will it be paid for? rep. roe: for our viewers out there, this is a very bipartisan committee. it is a fun committee to work on. i am a veteran. i served in the second united states infantry division in korea from 1973 to 1974 a few miles south of the dmz. i did some training in the va hospital during my medical training. i've seen both veterans and both active-duty military. i understand what it takes to see patients and take care of them for over 30 years. what we want, what i want as a chairman, as a veteran, and as a doctor and as a citizen is the absolute best care

the next slide shows the size of the program. the three phases are shown here represent $6.9 billion. there's a division of the treatment plan phase one totals $2.1 billion $2 billion worth of that investment is at south wiese plant. we also have work shown before the orange bar which includes tunnels, large sewers. currently, we have 70 projects which have been started as part of phase one. $2.9 billion this represents one of our graphical depictions i report to our commission on equality bases this is directly from the last quarterly report i made to them. current expenditures are $366 million and we are at 16% complete. all of this information is extracted from our project control system. design is the largest piece of the pie right now because of our two biggest projects. we do have 11 projects in construction and ten that have been closed out. you look at the city as a whole work and have projects throughout the city this gives you an idea of the location of the projects as well as the locations of the treatment plans. it we

and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. at 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. >> good afternoon. i now call the regular meeting of the san francisco health service system board to order. i ask you to stand and join with me in saying the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to

i understand that but it's not just the federal program. the other flipside is if the state wants to do something for 10 years or if five states have already been approved for a waiver why does it take over year to get approval? should there be an expedia did process worth already been approved and there has been one of valuation and showing some sort of positive outcome and instantly be approved without having to go through that process. is that directly get to the niche of what you are talking about? i think it is applied that apply to that population as well. there are examples where we know of individuals who are on the wait lists for home and committee-based services. the only way they can keep up the wait lists is that they were institutionalized first. that doesn't make any sense. we don't want that to happen. we need to change the rules. we need to look at that. community-based services aren't always cheaper. in minnesota they switched and there were families taking care of their own family members for free and now they are paying th

that's what we are today with the psp program. instead of the parent psychologist you know biologist, neural physiologists looking inside the brain and inside the body and working to map the human brain is a remarkable concept, particularly when you put the military in the mix because the military is working to enhance human functioning, enhance cognition and ultimately to weaponized the systems. either civilian applications? like all things. >> host: annie jacobsen has been our guest on booktv. .. >> hi, how are you all? i'm lilly. part of the event staff at politics and

that is the remote viewing program. one of the things i demonstrate over time happened with phenomena program was that the cia was under the impressions this talent, which is still in the hypotheses stage, let's call it enhanced perception. the cia doctors believed it is biological. it is individualistic. use the mozart analogy. i cannot sing in the shower and you listen to mozart's amazing music and that is different. that is biology. that is the metaphor they used. they believed some people had extraordinary gift the rest of us didn't. the defense department took a different approach. they believed soldiers could be trained to become psychipsychic. the cia advised against this, the defense department pursued it, and it led to a lot of problems within the programs because in many cases you had soldiers trying to be psychic and having very little success and at the same time you had individual people who were actually psychic, if you will, working on these programs and having success and it created a catch-22. the defens

i think the program is a great program. for $600 billion, by the way, if you are not on medicaid, each one of you is paying $4,000 in taxes each year to pay for medicaid. i'm more than happy to pay for that program, but there are no financial rules, and it's outrageous, and it ought to be fixed. whether you are going to shrink it grow it, expand it, the mechanism is fundamentally broken. mr. tuckson: you think about things like the 1115 waiver program which allows all of the flexibility of sharing costs with the enrollees. is that a good way to approach it? is that a reasonable kind of a model that we can use going forward? mr. daschle: first of all, tom is exactly right with regard to the formulas. there's no -- the map system -- is so convoluted right now, and it's really ended up sort of a challenge of deals that governors have made with the federal government over the years, and there's an unfairness as you look at the distribution today. it's always -- one of the most contentious aspects generally is the allocation of r

cuts the capital investment grants program where the grant programs have large and small starts comes from and cuts the tiger grant program that was started maybe four or five years ago it was popular in congress and throughout the country tiger stand for transportation go economic recovery tiger what is different about tiger rather than one of the mobile transit highways and aviation in the secretaries office to fund mobile projects throughout the country that is to make more streets projects currently tiger grant for example, is work in the mission bay it goes to the funding to complete the railroad with the t third and subway and some of the straight work within mission bay one the examples of the tiger grant that is something that interesting the transportation secretary as well as for a financing program during her confirmation hearing she expressed the support but her boss is killing those programs and with regards to the capital investment program the funding that is with the subway the expansion of the airport, the future expansion of caltrain and high speed rail to the

, the read away your fines program, and the volunteer away your fines program, and this month-long program which is the 2-step fine forgiveness program, it's something that we really wanna encourage people to use. damian: all right, and i have a feeling you'll be back and talk about the summer programs, because summer's right around the corner. if you'd like more information, there is the forgiveness day. it's happening may 1 through 31, verdad? any final thoughts, nancy, before we let you go? nancy: no, i just wanna remind everyone that it is your right. exercise your right to access library services. we encourage you to visit san jose public library. there are a total of 24 library locations. damian: all right, thank you so much. good work. all right, and up next here on "comunidad del valle," the hola run, along with the consul por un dia. stay with us. along with the consul por un dia. with me on "comunidad del valle" is loren cruz with the mexican consulate of san jose, suzette hernandez is the consul por un dia, and arturo medina's organizing the hola run here in san jose. welcome to

the cash assistance program for dulls with no kids under 18 where it provides cash services and housing assistance and emergency shelter for the low income adults with no independence the boards approved a package of reforms to the cap program and the reforms were probably encompass 70 packages at the highest level for the reforms making it easier for clinics to assess benefits and stay on them the system before the reforms required a lot of paperwork and parts in the process is on reduce application process with two invites as to the office and then as a result a lot of program - by eliminating those unnecessary appointments and paperwork we're hoping that clients will stay on track that allows us to provide the employment and supportive services to hopefully permanently end their need to rely on public assistance for support along with that we simplified internally to make that easier four our workforce to manage their caseloads. >> the next is the cal works, cal works is the welfare to work program for parents that are low income with kids in 1885 percent are single parent

welcome to the program. caller: how are you doing? happy easter. out ant to comment trump giving his first year salary to the national park service. he's also proposing millions of dollars to cuts there so to me seems kind of ridiculous. that's all i wanted to say. but you have a good day. host: thanks very much. jennifer is following the trump travels to mar-a-lago and reporting the motorcade went a different route. she tweeted out, we're wondering why the president's motorcade took a longer than usual route from yesterday to -- when he was playing golf to avoid the #taxmarch protesters. there were demonstrations in florida and california in washington, d.c. on tax day demanding donald trump release his own taxes. that tweet from jennifer epstein. stan is joining us from falls church, virginia. on the independent line. caller: i have a comment not only regarding his vacation which is profited. tomahawk nds 59 from northrup grumman. his stock reached the highest point, he and his family profiting from it. you have a chief executive that he ordered t

the second part of the lease, is the custom's program. where the smart cart provides, at least, 1500 luggage carts, free of charge for arriving international passengers in the customs area of the international terminal. this part of the lease requires the airport to reimburse the smart cart to provide the free carts in customs. and the airport will pay an annual service fee equal to the lesser of either a 2.7 million service fee. or 1 dollar and 20 cents per cart used whichever is less. >> based on the estimates of the cart usage for both programs during the initial term, the airport staff estimates a maximum net payment of 4.2 million dollars over the two year extension. the a port does agree to better reflect the net payments that were made during the initial term as well as not-to-exceed amount for the total contract including twot year extension. i would be happy to answer any questions that you have. >> thank you very much. supervisor tang as a question for you. thank you, i could not tell from the packet whether there is any plans fo

the program was somewhat curtailed and the 911 happened. there is an extraordinary amount of funding and now these programs today that i write about at length involveri pushing the biology of humans in another direction. and ultimately merging man and machine.be relegat to create what used to be relegated to science fiction and as a human cyborg. he was recruited it was a pretty interesting story about how he developed a system that have a sterilization technology. on awake of the bacteria scandals that really put the fast food restaurants in a lot of trouble. so the sterilization technology he thought there had to be a military application for this. >>d darpa agreed with him. >> kathleen is calling from los angeles.i just i just wanted to speak about ions. the organization.mitchell started to marry science and physiologists. i just had a comment because as a acupuncturist i have a youtube video of me fixing a paralyzed dog. in his last two years with the ions convention in chicago. he spoke about his career and been on being on the other si

the programs, the nutrition programs for all people but particularly for kids are among the very best public investments this country makes. i'm just going to give you a handful of examples of things they do. we know from the research that school meals not just reduce food insecurity but improve dietary quality, boost test scores, increase student achievement many school, reduce school nurse visits, have a powerful effect on the quality of education, and health of students. we know that wic improves birth outcomes, infant feeding practices, reduces health cost particularly many medicaid, has an affarare of other positive effect. peas the wic wic program for pregnant women, infants and children. it reduces food and security in the summer contrary to the common belief hunger in this country doesn't spike before the winter holidays and the winter when all the -- so much fundraising and so many food drives happen. hunger in this country at least childhood hunger spikes in the summer when kids aren't getting one or two meals a day at school and are left often without those meals at all. pr

with our unions with the apprenticeship programs from our unions i want to especially thank everyone from the laboring union and 4r07d and 37, the cement workers at the three hundred and i'm 230g9 one anymore will kill me, yes the iron workers 377 can't do nothing without them their 4 and the mini committees and programs dedicated to citibuild to work and provide the training without this stewart training you'll not have the skill sets to contribute thank you to them and then j.p. morgan chase and the warriors saying we want to do this with the contractor and they're in substances in a way that builds this community this is how we should role in san francisco with our community and trainees with the labor unions and contractor and the innovation work that the warriors is creating in this city this is i think how we should do all the major contracts our buildings that's why we want to demonstrate at the chase training center today how we're getting people tote without the port you'll not see your name i know a few yorgz years from now, when your first concert our first conference at t

and also the wider array of programs that help hunger and poor people around the world. if you don't have another way to connect to this debate you can come to bread .org and we can help you, help your organization fight this fight. it's crucial that we win it. thank you, david. ellie, meals on wheels has been in the headlines recently due to budget. can you help us understand the unique challenges the seniors are accepting? >> this is a brush look at hunger globally. i want to spotlight seniors and give you a sense of the state of hunger in america in regard to our senior population, why it matters, what were doing about it, and how you can help as well if you're interested i'd be happy to spend a couple minutes on why we were on the spotlight of late, the last several weeks as the skinny budget was released on march 16. let's talk about the state of hunger. it's pretty severe and it's growing. one in 1600 60+ or over is wondering where their next meal is coming from. one in four lives alone in isolation. that sound like a daunting numb

great to have you on the program. nds.e it seems the geopolitical risk around this part of the world and all of the uncertainty on the trunk and russia. none of that is stopping the appetite. >> globally there is growing demand for islamic finance from its. this particular instrument from saudi arabia, worth more than four times what was subscribed. that is not at all a surprise to me. appetite was huge for this instrument. no surprise at all, really. follow-up, to the your reaction to the pricing and do you expect even more? would this be enough for now? has a program for that that is likely to continue. it is not clear exactly when the next issue will be. kingdom will continue to issue that for the time being. the fact that oil prices is where they are more its they certainly can handle it. low ando remains very in the low double digits. i expect more issuance. it is not clear exactly when but i expect more. >> david here in hong kong. i wanted to talk about this upcoming referendum. there are many ways of interpreti