to $85 billion underfunding.form the system so there are pension available for folks when they go to retire. this is not about promises made and kept. this is about special interests squeezing benefits out of the government and to the taxpayers that we can for longer afford and i will not stand for it. >>neil: governor, one thing getting little talk but it is interesting, you are demanding public workers in your state kick in more to the pension and health care benefits and they don't have to pay anything. and that of course is very unusual in the private sector, certainly unusual for folks at fox where we do. but addressing that reality is like a third rail of politics. are you worried about that? >> no, i'm not worried. what i'm worried about is my children and grandchild not being able to afford to live in new jersey. i worry about us becoming insolvent. this is a state i took over in march, rather, in january. by march of that year if we did not take the steps to cut back spending, we would not have been able

in the time that i have been working at the office, we have been working on the underfunded liability that is represented by the costs. and we have had several task forces over the years. we worked to make rate and plan structures that would help control the aggregate cost of the health service itself. proposition b was a significant effort to get the new group of employees coming in getting it to a funded cost over time. it is a long project and we will not start seeing the benefits of that for some years, but among the narrow band of options, it was an important step that the city took. prop d was the same thought process. there were several different configurations of how we might change the benefit contribution here, the contribution rates. they were debated here. projections were given. it'll be a few years before it starts to really impact of the operating cost, but both are significant steps that the leadership has taken to control these costs. another one that is not necessarily important to other agencies, one of the seeming accusations is that the cities have failed to discl

, a program that is vastly underfunded here in california. >> health care reform was a tremendous accomplishment for this president and the congress. i think people want to see it move forward if there are problems, my opponent wants to repeal it. imagine repealing all those things. and putting the insurance companies back in charge allowing them to walk away. allow them to say, nope, you had cancer before, you have a preexisting kin, forget it. >> polls have candidates in a virtual tie. the outcome won't just affect the people of california analysts say it could signal a significant change for the national political screen. >> my race is one of the clearest choices in the nation. you just name the issue and pretty much my opponent and me are on different sides. so i think it's important that everybody pays attention to it so as i said when we started talking about women and politics. i am all for the republicans choosing women to represent them, but then the choice becomes between the two candidates. and to me as a woman who cares about women, who cares about families, who cares about this econ

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the fact that we are perhaps being combined with other funds in the country that are seriously underfunded is the perception i think that is bring brought to bear that does not apply to our system. supervisor chu: does the controller's office have anything about the finding? >> not on that particular finding. we have seen a it summarized well. the overall financial management perspective is a very important one. this finding in particular, you have seen the response that we are among the best funded pension plans in the country. we can respond as we go along to specific findings about how the city has addressed with the financial management approaches have been. i am ready to do that on a number of them. supervisor maxwell: when it says that the retirement benefits are financially unsustainable without significant cutbacks, what you're saying is, that is not the case? >> filling in the overall financial management and budget picture, one of the issues with this report that i think mr. wagner touched on, at the underlying issue, the grand jury is not wrong about this. it is not a surprise t

the fact that we are perhaps being combined with other funds in the country that are seriously underfundeds the perception i think that is bring brought to bear that does not apply to our system. supervisor chu: does the controller's office have anything about the finding? >> not on that particular finding. we have seen a it summarized well. the overall financial management perspective is a very important one. this finding in particular, you have seen the response that we are among the best funded pension plans in the country. we can respond as we go along to specific findings about how the city has addressed with the financial management approaches have been. i am ready to do that on a number of them. supervisor maxwell:

we are -- united nations humanitarian response plan remains woefully underfunded.oon as aqap announced its formation, we began gathering a consensus by designating aqap under the un security council resolution 1267. after designating the group's foreign terrorist organization and its senior leaders as designated terrorist, the united nations announced the designation of aqap as well as its leaders and -- as well as its leaders on the consolidated list. this move requires all un members states to implement assets -- a travel ban and arms embargo against these entities. with these designations, the u.s. and international community can curb the financial networks and the freedom of movement of known terrorists. this designation has made clear the leaders' role as an operator in the terrorist group. we should make no mistake about him -- this is not just an ideologue, but somebody who has been personally involved in planning terrorist operations against americans, against u.s. interests, and against the homeland. he paired the man for the attempted detonation of the ba

the board of supervisors should come up with a plan in one year to come up with a way to fund the underfunded pension costs. i agree. we should not enter into an agreement with the unions without voter approval -- i would disagree with that. i think we should incorporate dhr's response. b3, chr should compare -- dhr should compare retiree benefits and other cities. the city should implement legal action. i disagree with that. i will incorporate the city attorney's response. chairperson mar: is there any objection? seeing none. supervisor chu: recommendation to -- obligations required by the city charter, etc. i think that is something we would agree with and we will probably and dhr's responses to that. >> it has already been implemented? supervisor chu: i would agree with it. recommendation d1 has a number of different recommendations. there are a number of things recommended for the city to look into. i agree with the city looking at all these options as potential items which can i evaluate and to further analyze. chairperson mar: any objection to that? ok. supervisor chu: d1 we should meet

if includes the city has a substantial underfunded liability.e responses are pretty straightforward. ms. callahan? >> dhr in the last several years has proposed in all of our negotiations with open contracts to have active employes contribute towards retirement health obligations. it would be advised of the city attorney that proposition be was cast that we would not be able to legislate active employee contributions. so we learned we needed to do it through negotiations, and we have had small successes. in the era of wage concessions, it is difficult to get even more. it continues to be a priority for us. supervisor mar: thank you. ms. stevenson? >> also just a piece of information. as required as part of the obligations in reporting, we are working on estimating the unfunded health benefit liabilities, so we will have refreshed information and new actuarial projections, and the french report tickets issued this year. supervisor mar: thank you. and the last two

continuing to underfund indigent defense and continuing to tolerate excessive investigator caseloads and excessive attorney caseloads, if we continue to do that we substantially impair the ability to provide good reputation. >> thank you very much. wow. 53 cents to a dollar. [applause] that's why i'm always broke. all right. let's go to public defender kenneth. ken, tell us. you are in fresno. first of all, what is it like in fresno? [laughter] and tell us about this battle that you have been going through where, you know, it almost sounds like a horror movie where they are going after you with a buzz saw and at the same time, they have used contract attorneys to try to undercut the work that your office does. >> well, the problem in fresno, it is hot. trezz know is hot of course in the -- fresno is hot of course in summertime. it is hot all the time for me. i think the problem just mentioned right now is disparity in the funding theme as opposed to the ore parties involved in the criminal -- other parties involved in the criminal justice system. most of the funding agencies for us i

like this, we would be teaching off of copy machines and notes, because so many of the schools ar underfundedi can get a book rescued, that our favorite. if it's a book that can help another teacher help another child, then the value of that tree has gone way up >> reporter: or a disposable society, a warehouse filled with castaways, where the only dirty word is waste. kevin tibbles, nbc news, glenn len, illinois. >>> that's our broadca for this friday night and for this week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. my colleague, lester holt, will be here this weekend. and we want to show you what's going on outside this building because we want to remind you starting sunday, our scial series "education nation" an indepth conversation about improving education in america, begins across the networks of nbc and continues on monday when we hope to see you right back here. that means they have just a few hours left to finish all that construction out on the plaza. in the meantime, have a good weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com four years ago, bob ehrlich got

i mean, honestly, you know, recovery supports for young people is gravely understudied, underfunded, under supported across the board. so while there's a lot of hope out there and there's a lot of young people in recovery, they're not so easy to find. you know, the best supports out there are local, you know, mutual support groups that are focused to young people that are the easiest thing to access. so, you know, whether or not somebody wants to find a meeting in their local area, a lot of the 12-step groups will have, you know, a youth category, you know, that'll say that this meeting might be more focused to young people. monique, how do i get into if i'm in need of a recovery school? how do i approach the various schools? are they available to everyone all over the united states or is it only in certain pockets? unfortunately, there are recovery high schools in only eight states and collegiate recovery communities in nine states. so i think that speaks right there to how underserved adolescents and young adults are in the area of addiction. however, we are in eight states and we

the pension plan was underfunded by about $100 million. how do you deal with that? the city workers work out a deal with union leaders to sweeten the pension pot and increase the pension underfunding by another $100 million. instead of working out a deal because the taxpayers are going to be on the hook for it, it went the other way and when some of our union leaders here in washington say that we don't have an entitlement problem, we have a revenue problem meaning the solution to some of our problems is that the federal government is not cuts, it is just revenue. i can we can see that it is going to be -- go to more taxes and employers let me say that marty indicated that the challenges that we all face, that employers face in growing the economy. it is particularly ironic, because in my 15 years of doing this which includes 10 years on capitol hill and watching labor issues for sometime, i've never seen a more aggressive, -- more aggressive movement to put more and more employers in the employment and labor area than i've ever seen before. and that's what this boo

candidates, maybe underdogs, underfunded here, they're going to be made known, because these are patriots willing to buck the system to take it back, doing all this for the right reasons, not for personal power struggles, titles and money or anything else. they're in this for the right reasons. with them, we're going to get back to the time-tested truth that made this country great, the belief that the government that governs least governs best, and that the constitution provides the most perfect path towards a more perfect union, and that only limited government can provide the prosperity and the opportunities for all. freedom is a god-given right and worth fighting for, and that -- and that every innocent life has purpose, has destiny, every innocent life deserves to be in that circle of protection and respect. and then our men and women in uniform, they are mark's finest, they are a force for good in this world, and that is nothing to apologize for. those are the principles that our nation was founded upon. those are the principles or republican party has stood for and fought for for m

some of these groups are underfunded but overwhelmed. where the money is is definitely all in favor of cutting social security. i am an economist. i will focus primarily on what i call debunking actuarial determinism. i made up this term. in the history of economics, but there is an economist at said we are having too many babies and we will all start. it turns out that the economy grew and that was not the case. we have a certain amount of logic that a similar. we are living longer and social security is not sustainable. it turns out that living longer is one of many factors that affects social security finances. it is not a major factor at all. that is partly because we live longer in retirement but we are living longer before retirement and putting more years of work before retirement. there is emigration, an increase in the work force that is a factor. you can pick any number of changing trends, a change in the birthrate, all of these affect social security finances because this is organized by the women's groups. women have entered

> we know that the best crime preventative tool to crime is a good public education but we are underfundingducation and as a result, having to overfund our department of corrections. >> the naacp says in the past 20 years, california's spending on prisons has risen 20 times faster than on higher education. the group held a similar rally today in los angeles. >>> three san francisco sheriff's deputies were honored this morning for risking their own lives to pull three people out of a burning car. the city's police chief and fire chief spoke at the community heroes breakfast along with the ceo of the bay area red cross and our own sydnie kohara. they recalled the courage. those deputies back in june. >>> the deputies were on highway 280 when they came across a burning taxi on and of ramp. the cab crashed into a pillar. the deputies pulled out the driver and two ohio tourists. the tourists died but the deputies' quick actions helped save the driver's life. >> it's something we're not craned for, but when you see an incident occur, it is within our scope to protect and to serve although it's no

medicare was underfunded almost $20 trillion.we made another $8 trillion on funded promissory we promised something we could not afford, we provided subsidies across the board their respective of means, and the one positive light out of it was the competition elegant. ment. it was unaffordable and unsustainable. >> i will not debate that we have to be careful when we are talking about outcomes being so bad. when people say the japanese spend a little bit more of the than half of what we spend and they live longer. japanese americans in the u.s. live longer than japanese- japanese. maybe they live longer because we have fancier health care. i don't claim that is evident that we have to be careful. we don't understand very well how to look at these different countries and find out what their health care is really like. >> i would add one more thing. there is an academic paper on the website with 100 references that compares the united states system to the other developed countries, cost, quality, and other issues. i would recommend

movement that would support the hardworking scientists all across the country who are terribly underfundedhen it comes to research dollars. so as you know, larry, because of my husband, jay, who passed away of colon cancer in 1998, i was really focused on colon cancer awareness and raising money for that particular cancer. and i realized cancer kills 1.4 million americans every single year. a person's diagnosed every minute. we know the statistics. we've heard them. but we had to do more. we had to really start a grassroots effort and be united in one cause, and have one goal together. and so that's why a group of women decided to embark on this endeavor back in 2008. we're doing it again in 2010. and you know, it's a real tribute to my colleagues, to brian and diane, and to really, everyone, because we've all been touched by cancer. we all have lost people we love to this terrible disease. and i think that's why we're so eager to work together and forget our differences, which we really don't have any, but really our competitive experience, and really just fight together for this common g

but they say the schools underperform because they are underfunded.e problem is? >> i think the problem is the teachers union, i love what the teachers union president said, she's concerned about of the teachers. not once did she mention the students. she talks in the documentary that they don't mention teachers in the good schools. her job is to take care of teachers. a principal's job, my job is to take care of the students. and that's the problem. we're so concerned about the teachers, we're so concerned about the school board members, the union, we're concerned about everybody but the students. >> ben, can't you do both? can't you take care of both the students and the teachers? >> i think -- in our school, we do both. but we make sure that our teachers understand our priority is to educating the students. and when the students get a great education, we reward the teachers. our teachers are the highest paid teachers in oakland, california. but in oakland public schools, you have over 10,000 blacks and not one palsed a.p. calculus. those that passe

underfunded, poorly maintained inadequately staffed. who can blame these kids if they fail?e say it for them, onsly believing that calling the attention to the racism and unfairness will help them by absolving them of the shame of failure while simultaneously affixing the blame on the enemies over there. and what we fail to see is that we are reenforcing their self-doubt. their fear of that once-raging stream. the danger, i believe, is that our good intentions may actually have the affect of discouraging young people, i mean in the literal sense of taking away their courage to try. conservators sometimes the miss -- that there is a general dilemma. it seems fundamentally unfair to take kids who have had none of the psychic advantages of growing up middle class and unsure and tell them they must now compete unaided with the children of privilege. but how helpful is it to take these same disadvantaged children and reward them not for achievement but for effort? as though they are participant ins some academic special olympics. some of us point to the underequip schools and und

there was a situation in san diego where a pension plan was underfunded by $100 million. what do you do? city leaders worked out a deal with the union leaders is wheaton the pension pot-- tp sweeten the pension pot. instead of working out a deal that the taxpayers would be on a hook for, it went the other way. when some leaders of the unions say we have a revenue problem, i think we can see this is where the trend will go in the union movement in terms of more taxes, more burdens. let me say that, the challenges weaker states in growing the economy, marty spoke about that. i was working on this for 10 years on capitol hill, six years with the the problem of labor. i have never seen a more aggressive movement to put more and more burdens on employers in the employment and labor area than i've ever seen before. that is what this booklet is all about, which is in your materials. it is put up in three parts. what is going on at capitol hill, what is going on on the regulatory side, and what is going on at a sub-regulatory level? there's a basic trend, there is legislation tha