and the second, reason is that we are here to support the concerns of the united educators union and threefold, and one, that they want to make sure that there is a commitment from the school board to work with the union to insure that there are dedicated funds to build educator housing because as we all know there is a huge affordable crisis in this city and that includes, educators who increasingly are not able to live in san francisco where they teach our kids. second we support a master plan for the surplus property so that we are not evaluating each piece of land separately as well as dedicated staff with the requisite knowledge and in order to handle all of these real estate transactions and but while we are so excited to support this project at 1950 mission is because of the affordable housing crisis that we are facing in the city. and in many ways, the mission is ground zero of this crisis. and david recently asked for a report from the budget and legislative analyst to study the level of displacement and neighborhood by neighborhood what the displacement looks like in the cit

education, increase access to housing and to reduce crime. the president first announced the program during last year's state of the union address. >> an american who has been hailed in the unitedes for opposing a video making fun of young culture in the bike is now a free man. last month, he was sentenced to one year in prison, a fine and deportation. the state department is saying that he has been moved to a facility and will be returning to the united states in a few days. >> former nba stars dennis rodman is apologizing for comments that he made about an american being held in north korea. he is saying that he was a drinking and he was under a lot of stress. here is video of him and his basketball team in north korea. in an interview earlier this week, he implied was that the american missionary tennikenneth bae was to blame for his own detention and north korea. >> an explosion at a chemical plant for the car brand mitsubishi injured at least 17 people. at least five of them were critically injured. >> we will have the tech injured. >> we will have the tech report next. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to p

union address. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states! [ cheers ] >> president obama asked congress to pass immigration reform legislation, raise the federal minimum wage and provide quality preschool education more families. he said if congress does not act, he will. >> america does not stand still and neither will i. so wherever and whenever i can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more american families, that's what i'm gonna do. >> president obama announced that he will issue an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors. he says it is a step toward fixing income and equality in the u.s. but republicans in their response to the speech say the president's policies are to blame for the income gap. >> the president talks a lot about income and equality. but the real gap we face today is one of opportunity and equality. with this administration's policies, that gap has become far too wide. >> as a sign of the fractured republican party, there were actually three gop responses last night. utah senator mike lee offered the tea party rebuttal and rand paul gave his own independent response. >>> a group of bay area people gathered in walnut creek to wa

education, research. by the way, two years ago, the president of the united states stood right there in his state of the union and said, here is an american jobs program. you know what he talked about? every one of these issues. and if this congress had acted, trains, loco motives, 100% american built in sacramento, california and a new contract coming up for even more of these tate-of-the-art. end of the lightning round. mr. horsford: creating economic mobility for all americans. when we talk about innovation, job creation, growing the economy, we are talking about growing an economy that works for all americans, for people who are in the middle class, most importantly because they are the engines of our economy, but also those who are striving to be part of the middle class. and assistance for unemployment insurance and extending unemployment insurance is so important. it's why providing knew trishon assistance programs for families in need are important because they are creators in moving people out of poverty and into the middle class. and it's what we are focused on when we talk about making it america.

united steelworkers, which is one of the more progressive steel unions, has recently made some tentative arrangements with the basque country, this huge worker-owned industrial banking, housing, school/educational cooperative that could get somewhere. and i mentioned work that discussed very well the spread of worker-owned enterprises in mostly northern ohio, the old rust belt. they have kind of an interesting history which relates very much to this. back in 1977 at the beginning of the concerted effort to destroy industrial production in the united states and sort of beginning of the neoliberal assault on the population we've been through in the last generation, u.s. steel decided to close its main steel plants in youngstown, ohio. it was a steel town, like other working class towns like detroit. it had actually been built by the working classes. it was their town. they didn't get the profit be, because they were tools. but they built it. they wanted to keep it. u.s. steel wanted to sell it. to close it down. and the union offered to buy it. they had community support, they even had some support of, i think it was a republican governor. just let the workers buy the plant and keep running it. w

united nations and continued rise of communism in the soviet union in china. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> ian baruma, the helpry luce professor of human rights and journalism at barred college was educated in holland and japan. he has won several awards for his work. among them international aramus prize is and shorenstein journalism award. he writes for new yorker, "new york times," nrc and the guardian which, "the guardian" recently published his highly learned and highly entertaining review the british museum current section bush shun, sex and pleasure in japanese art. among his previous books are taming the gods, religion and democracy on three continents, murder in amsterdam, liberal europe islam and the limits of tolerance, inventing japan, -- 1863 to 1864. in the "year zero" he wrote as fellow at coleman center in 2011-12 to the serious envy of his fellow fellows he was to productive he produce ad brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in europe and in asia. skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history he nonetheless wanted to know, he writes, what those lived through the war and its end including his

united states including the decline of unions. there are many things that are involved with this problem. what can the fed to? we can change all of those things including education, early childhood education, job training. what we can do is try to achieve a robust recovery so that we have a stronger job market and in a stronger job market, people who are having a lot of trouble getting jobs will be drawn into jobs. they will get better jobs. there will be more training. people will move up the job ladder. opportunities will increase. it's not going to put an end to the problems or the long-term structural problems driving this but it will be helpful and i think it is the contribution the federal reserve can try to make. >> on my colleagues have criticized you for keeping rates "artificially low," but is in the zero lower bound on the short term interest rate and summarize also artificially? but say rates were 5% today but we have high unemployment and low inflation, wouldn't you lower interest rates? if you did not do quantitative easing, would interest rates be artificially high so to speak? >> i think that's fair. if you judge what is high or low by the needs

education is. >> save now. speaking of the cost, the president of the united states tonight in the state of the union will talkes and it's expensive even though he has been president for five years now. going to sign an executive order raising the federal minimum wage for contract workers. people like janitors and construction workers and the whatnot, 10.10 an hour. then he's going to go ahead and highlight, look, we've got to do this for not only federal contract workers, but everybody, congress. are you on board? and half the hall will say no. it will cost jobs. >> what about setting the tone? the state of the union, the last consequential year i have in my administration arguably and now you want to get people on the same page to do something you haven't done in six years and they gather together and get momentum behind him. why set the tone by setting this out? we knew as of 6:00 a.m. this morning and say i'm doing this without your permission and without your nod of approval and then i'm going to speak to the nation tonight. louis gohmert of texas spoke out about the president's record. >> he has helped 1