if they are underpaid the public feels edmonton is responsible. i think the brands should be concerned about the violation of workers rights, whatever the legal standard is. >> this is a nationwide businesses. does it have a spill over effect to the wendies, to k f.c.s and other businesses in the same sector that also are paying workers roughly national average, about 8,500 an hour. >> it could have a spill over effect. now, as the two lawyers on the panel point out, it comes down to facts in this case, as to whether mcdonald's was a joint employer, and each of those franchises you mentioned may have different practices, and may be evaluated differently, according to the facts. but what is significant about this case is that the general counsel has asked for a very careful look at this status of possible joint employer for mcdonald's. if it can be found and sustained in this case, i think then very likely it could spread to other. >> joseph, craig becker, elizabeth carlson, thank you all for being with us. that bricngs us to the end of "inside sto

. >> when somebody goes out there and you're asking them to take a pay cut, be underpaid, and we're not going to give you the equipment we need, i don't understand. and yet these people put their lives on the line for us every day. >> reporter: it started simply, schiller digging into her own pocket three years ago after watching reports about a houston deputy who lost his canine partner in the line of duty. the sheriff's office couldn't afford to replace the dog. >> you in the field, this is a k-9 patrol. >> reporter: they are highly trained. it's all very expensive. schiller started k9s for cops, knocking on doors for donations so she could give the dogs away. >> without christie, it would be very difficult for some police departments who have never had a k9 to have a k9. >> reporter: christie's k9s are in 17 states. she is also now giving them to schools. >> it's amazing what they've done with the little i've given them. >> reporter: where shifts are long and resources thin, the gift of a k9, helping their partners serve and protect. nbc news, houston. >>> and that's our broadcast on

most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our pay teachers are underqualified. [applause] so we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. poverty must not be a bar to learning must offer an escape from poverty. [applause] but more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. we must seek an educational system which grows in excellence , as it grows in size. host: joining us in the segment today is darleen opfer of the rand education and ulrich boser, a senior fellow at the center of american progress. ulrich boser before the elementary and secondary education act, can you describe what education was like in america? guest: it was much more localized. 1965on signed the bill in and it really revolutionized education as we know it. it dramatically changed our nation's education system. for the first time, the federal government began funding high poverty schools to try to equalize the gap. what we see more broadly is that part of the presidents goal of a war on poverty. this is a program that was coupled with medicare and medicaid and expand

reporting that fast food companies cost taxpayers another $7 billion a year in public assistance for underpaidworkers. with mcdonald's accounting for $1.2 billion of that and over 50% of fast food workers rely on one or more public programs. how about that? >> one thing we can do to deal with that is increase the minimum wage, which would throw people out of work who are the most marginalized numbers and would be entirely on the public dome of that point. >> he threw them out because the owners would not want to pay them the minimum wage. >> if we ask owners either through the government through fiat or moral situation to increase the amount that they are paying to workers, artifici artificially, not according to market forces, what will happen? they will lower the size of their workforces. as sure as we're sitting here. the problem in america, i understand that some people don't make enough. which is why i want policy that make work pay. the bigger problem is the employment crisis. we have an workforce participation rate that's the same as it was in the battle days of the carter administratio

now, we also want to know the audit found some instances of commissioners being underpaid, like tips for taxi rides. bottom line, they will be fixing their travel vouchers. the travel policy was improved and procedures after our investigation aired. they declined to talk on camera but says they have begun implementing the recommendations to help prevent errors in the future. >> thank you, jenna. we urge you to give us a call at 888-996-tips or send an e-mail. >>> protests because of the killing of a teenager has spread to the bay area today. another rally was held across the bay in san francisco at civic center plaza. both began with a moment of silence to remember 18-year-old michael brown. he was shot and killed by police in ferguson, missouri, this past weekend. ferguson has been in turmoil ever sense. the city is now entering a fifth night of unrest. >>> coming up at 6:30, a live report from ferguson, missouri. we'll show you how the different ways that the city is trying to prepare for another night in that town. >>> an officer-involved fatal shooting in the south bay. i'm scott

teachers say they're underpaid and they're taking unusual steps to protest. >> we'll talk about suicide prevention resources in the >>> prices at the pump are driving us a little less crazy these days. gas prices are at their lowest level in four years. drivers are paying average of $3.48 a gallon around the nation. in our area we are paying $3.45 a gallon. on the high end, it will cost you $3.69 to fill up think 711 -- 711 at livingston road. >>> st. mary county teachers will not be giving out homework and they will not be staying after school for extracurricular activities. it's part after protest over what they call lacking pay scales for teachers. classes in st. mary's county start next week. >>> four days left in our give joy operation backpack campaign and with school starting back in a few weeks there are thousands of kids throughout our area who don't have the basic supplies. we made it very easy if you want to help. all tough do is log on to wusa9.com and click on operation backpack on the left hand side of the page. there you will see the profiles of the organizations and the

. >> overworked and underpaid, mr. anderson also had a reputation as a drinker. >> that's fair.ir accusation. i have had certain, i guess you could say problems with it but i can say this categorically. i was totally clear headed and not drinking during those trials. everyone of them. but on the other hand, you know, i would go out on occasion. i'm not as bad as i used to be. >> in contrast, william t. jones iii, known as willie t., was considered a master of the courtroom. >> willie t.'s track record spoke for itself. he lost very few. he was very dramatic. i've seen that man cry in front of the jury. mr. jones in the courtroom could probably outperform sir lawrence olivier. let's put it that way. >> he could overpower you, overcontrol you, and he was not beyond saying things that he couldn't prove if they weren't challenged. >> early in the first trial, anderson challenged jones by objecting that a single thumbprint was not enough to arrest elmore. >> in order to obtain an arrest warrant, the police obtain an upside down thumbprint on the back outside door frame. that's exactl

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most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our pay teachers are underqualified.applause] so we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. poverty must not be a bar to learning must offer an escape from poverty. [applause] but more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. we must seek an educational system which grows in excellence , as it grows in size. host: >> host: joining us in this segment today is darlene opfer of the rapid education and ulrich boser, senior fellow at the center for american progress. before the elementary and secondary education act which we're going to be talking about today, can you describe what education was like in america? >> guest: sure. i mean, education was much different. it was much more localized. johnson signed the bill in 1965, and it really revolutionized education as we know it. it dramatically changed our nation's education system. for the first time, the federal government decided -- excuse me, for the first time the federal government began funding high poverty schools to try and equalize the g

i tried to keep underpaid. i hated going. was distracted, counting the minutes down and talk to go and play baseball. in our eyes the father of and now a teenager who aren't trying to reassure learns some core of chinese to the you know, the generational cycle of revenge has come. obama's cracking a by efforts to make my daughter in the chinese. one of the things i came to realize is that of course father heard, km creates a greater sense of urgency and responsibility about sustaining this. when i was the age i was even when i wrote the accidental asian and was a 20 something can't imagine myself the inventor of myself imagining myself with a blank slate, blank canvas. that was a different thing than being in my mid-40s raising a teenager and realizing the ways in which my sense of the and person's ability were already pieces of parchment where a can already been billed, strokes have already been a western invention already been formed. and teaching my daughter chinese, i gave of on a weekly chinese school, which she hated, b

i think i'm underpaid. he was appointed as a tutor in the army and he served. neither a judge, nor an advocate, nor a general. all three of those roles reflect what we do in our practice. this was the trial of a major, a british spy in the revolutionary war. this is one of our judge advocates employed. we have about 5000 lawyers, your tax dollars at work. probably the second largest law firm right now. the enterprise is about 10,000 people. you think about that. i am glad you are paying your quarterly tax payments promptly. we have a lot of support out there. that is why there are challenges. our practice involves legal assistance and contracts, fiscal law, operational and international law, we provide contract law, administrative and civil law, and administration. it is a practice i have enjoyed for 27 years now. i think it is richly will boarding and very challenging. -- rewarding and very challenging. here is the first thing i'd want to talk about. secretary panetta's opening of the combat of women. what is significant? i think what is significant is, do you

building approach that basically deals with a labor force that is unskilled, informal, uneducated and underpaid and that's reflected in the report. so there are different ways to do that and we have learned a lot of lessons in development to tackle that. the problem is that central america has not been interested in development case and for many years. and finally it's important to integrate migrants into the solution, into the strategies for development. and there are ways to integrate them and we have talked about that previously. so let me tell you a little bit about the research in five minutes so that peter can attest that latins can do it, too. [laughter] as i mentioned before, we triangulate -- we have been following this trend for several years because as you work on family remittances, you work with migration and as you work with migration you also learn where people are coming from, where money's sent, the differences in volumes and the motivations for which money's being sent and five years ago we started to notice that there was a flow of children leaving central america. and, you k

standards they put their lives on the line every day yet all across the country they are drastically underpaid poorly trained poorly supervised second we need to work on stopping police departments from stocking up on military style weaponry and from the us heavily reliant on hyper militarize swat teams local police forces are not supposed to be many armies we have the national guard for that and finally we need to bring back and increase funding to community policing programs like those that were introduced by the clinton administration back in one thousand nine hundred four and put one hundred thousand cops on the streets on foot . the federal community oriented policing services program cops provided resources for local police forces across america and was intended to help those forces get out of their cars and become more involved in their communities unfortunately funding for community policing in america has seen a steady decline since the cops program was first introduced in two thousand and ten seven hundred ninety two million was a lot in the form of federal grants or cops program for

the government artificially fixed for years an underpaid, so all the insurance companies shift to the private sector. is that efficient way to do it? i would argue not. there are a lot of things i like structurally, get in trouble with republicans for saying this, is balance everybody. the program i have real issue about the programs are u.s. government. they aream massive. medicare 600 billion a year. medicaid, 500 billion a year. aca soon to be another 200 billion a year. issue who should get subsidies? i'm a huge fan taking care of poor people i think federal government should do with poor seniors or poor people generally. aca subsidizes 62% of the americans. if i went out tomorrow and said give 62% of the people food stamps or housing vouchers you would say i'm crazy. the issue is money and who should be subsidizing because we're one big community. it is our money. i think the is a real problem to create massive social programs that subsidize people who are significantly notat in low incoe category. once they get going they're never coming back. that is really debate. whether medi

want a good architect up a very well for so why across america do we still have under-qualified and underpaid cops by simply raising the pay of police officers in america and setting high nationwide hiring standards like the countries of northern europe do we can ensure that only those who are truly committed to protecting the american people work as police officers remember while derren wilson six bullets out of an apparent ten shots into michael brown the total number of bullets fired by every police officer in the entire country of the united kingdom for the entirety of last year was three. that's right three bullets all year and white cops killed black men in the united states the rate of two a week according to the f.b.i. our cops killed more black men in three weeks and german cops killed all people of all races in all of germany during all of last year was a total of six police violence in america has gotten so bad the claire mccaskill of missouri the senator from missouri has proposed that no police department should get federal funding without having body cams on all of their officer

on twitter watch that johnson speech and said, our classrooms are still overcrowded, teachers are underpaid and underqualified. what exactly changed? what is your response? guest: we have a focus on serving all children that we did not have prior to the act. there were a lot of children not being served well. it certainly focuses on the issues of civil rights. i think there are some that would argue that were not for esea we would not have the segregationist schools. having federal dollars allowed the government to put pressure on states and localities to do that. while the act may not have changed the way that people perceive education, the way they think it's going in terms of quality today, it had a lot of influence on the way we think about how we should serve all children. host: mr. boser would you agree? guest: we have seen clear result. it is difficult to say the law caused these results, but over the last 30 years, graduation rates have been ticking upwards, the achievement gap has narrowed. when you look at the achievement of fourth grade african-american students, they have been t

. >>> overworked and underpaid. how one group hopes to get some improvement on their jobs.ing today. ñoñí >>> starting today your taxi driver in montgomery county will be part of a union. drivers say they work as many as 16 hours a day and are paid less than minimum wage. they're losing business to ride sharing companies. companies like uber and lift. today about 1,000 drivers will announce their affiliation with the national taxi workers allowance. >>> careful, how you drive on the beltway today. extra police are on the highway in both maryland and virginia. troopers will be looking out for aggressive and reckless drivers and for all of you who text from behind the wheel. this is part of the multistate safety campaign called drive to stay alive. >> this morning crews in d.c. are trying to figure out what caused a building's roof to collapse. fortunately no one was hurt in the building collapse on tenth street and it had been vacant for years. the roof and part of the wall came crashing down. there's some of the crews looking into it. firefighters evacuated the buildings on

asset building approach that basically deals labor force that is unskilled, informal, uneducated and underpaid and that's reflected in the report. so there are different ways to learned ad we have lot of lessons in development to tackle that. the problem is that central america has not been interested manyvelopment case and for years. and finally it's important to into the migrants solution, into the strategies development. and there are ways to integrate them and we have talked about that previously. so let me tell you a little bit about the research in five so that peter can attest that latins can do it, too. triangulate -- we have been following this trend for several years because as you work on family remittances, you work with migration and as you work you also learn where people are coming from, where money's sent, the differences in volumes and the motivations for which money's weng sent and five years ago started to notice that there was a flow of children leaving central america. and, you know, for example those elyou who are familiar with pathways -- paro, for example, produced a ve

that is one -- underpaid. there are different ways to do that. and we have learned a lot of lessons in development to tackle that. the problem is that central america has not -- that has not been the case for many years. and finally, it's important to integrate my grants into the desslution, into the strategies for development. there are ways to integrate them. we have talked to -- about that previously. so let me tell you a little bit about the research in five i mentioned before, wetory ang late that -- we've -- we triang late -- we've been following this trend for five years. you work with migration, and as you work with migration you learn where people are coming from, where money is being sent, the differences in volumes and the situations from which money has been sent. five years ago we noticed there was a flow of children leaving central america. for example, those of you who are familiar with one, they produced a study, a very important study in 2009 that tell of the experiences of this plight. and even hollywood, you don't have to go ve

it feels to me like i grew up in the '70s and '80s when the common belief is that teachers are underpaidnd good folks doing the best they can and we may have problems in schools, the teachers aren't the problems, generally the solution versus what feels like now a general consensus, not absolute, that teachers are a serious part of our educational underperformance. is that older than i think? is it new? maybe it feels older. >> that's one of the things that surprised me so much when i was researching and writing this book about the history of teaching. we had this idea around since the early 19th century that if we get rid of the people that are teaching now and replace them with a new group of teachers that we can really improve our schools. and we've done that a couple different times. teaching was originally a male profession in the early 1800s and changed it to a female profession and we tried all these different ways to get people in a new profession. >> we fired teachers for getting pregnant unmarried. i mean, i don't mean to be, that is part of why these laws grew up. >> tenure ac

we projected claims processing errors resulting in batch is being underpaid about two and a half million dollars. projected over payments for valued at approximately four under 63,000 for the same time. additionally claims processing errors that do not affect current monthly benefit have the potential to affect future benefits if left uncorrected. while making incremental progress in areas specifically targeted through this initiative much more work needs to be done. we will continue to look for ways to promote improvement and benefit delivery operations during our future national audits and our vero inspections. that concludes my statement, and we are happy to answer any questions you or the committee have. >> thank you, ms. holliday. we will begin a round of questions. first question, as you know, while reporting timeliness as equal if not greater concern, the accuracy of the outcome for each veteran. looking at hundreds of thousands of claims. the veteran is looking at one and only one the accuracy highlighted in your testimony, as serious area of concern. i would like to also ask you