standards of child wellbeing are worse. >> reporter: and not just a little bit worse, says wilkinson-metimes way worse. >> perhaps two or three times the level of mental illness as the more equal countries, because in a more unequal society there is more status competition. we judge each other more by status and we feel more judged. >> i'm from this poor area. i'm from, like, where all the criminals are. >> reporter: at nakiesha fullington's highly selective exam school in boston, her classmates were a lot better off. >> i knew i was as smart as them but i felt like my family, where i come from wasn't as good as, like, where they came from, basically. >> reporter: did it make you feel bad to be considered lower on the ladder? >> really bad. like, i don't know how to explain. it's like a horrible feeling. you feel like you're less than other people. >> reporter: and the harder you try to keep up, the more stress there is-- physical, mental, and economic. >> since i went to, like, a mostly white school, it's like their clothing was simple but it cost more than, like, something that i ca

wilkinson, an apparently dbi had other feelings.there anything this board can do to look into the to see if we can determine what should have been done and see that it gets done? director goldstein: we can do that. anything else, commissioners? ok. is there any public comment on the commissioner's comments? ok, seeing none, then we will move on to item number three, which is the adoption of minutes. commissioners, for your consideration this evening, you have the september 14, 2011, minutes. president goh: comments, commissioners? i will move their adoption. director goldstein: any public comment on the minutes? ok, seeing none, then, mr. pacheco, if you could call the roll on that then, please? secretary pacheco: on the motion from president goh, to accept the september 14 minutes, commissioner fung, commissioner hwang, vice president garcia, and those minutes are adopted. director goldstein: will call item 4a, gebresilassie vs. mta, and at that time, the board voted 5-0 to grant the appeal, overall the denial, and issue the taxi m

nbc's eric wilkinson has the late jeeft the amateur video captures gunfire as it rips through today. dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend and we started running and we could hear bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> reporter: the suspect, a 51-year-old man, stopped his car and started confronting people with an assault rifle, opening fire. >> alongside the elementary school we got shot at nine times. >> reporter: police swarmed the city crowded with shoppers. he fired randomly for a half mile. a sniper took to the air to take the gunman out with reports of him shooting at police. he was moving towards the high school where a football game was going on. >> he said do not come to the game there's a shooting. >> reporter: outside the high school. >> police told us they have the suspect pinned down. >> reporter: parents text with their kids hiding. >> i am just worried. >> reporter: police empty the field and evacuated the stands. >> huddled under the bleaches, close together, scared ou

. >> reporter: doctors wilkinson, marmot, and others point to data that all this status seeking takeslacks have high blood pressure, as compared to 27% of whites. at least some of that might be due to inequality. and as inequality grows, it arguably exacts a price from those higher up the ladder as well, who become more and more stressed about clinging to the top rungs. m.i.t. economist frank levy. >> as the economy looks more and more unequal, then you know upper-middle-class parents are going berserk trying to get their kids into a position to get the brass ring, putting more and more time into kind of pumping up their kids-- extra courses, extra activities, and so on and so forth. and lower-income families just don't have the resources to do that. >> reporter: but is inequality really bad for all of us? or might it perhaps provide some benefits in the long run, even for the have nots? daiquan bradford grew up near the bottom. >> we couldn't pay the gas and light bill so it was in a situation where we had to use candles, and you know it was kind of dark, but it was wintertime so it

wilkinson's request for a fee waiver for three appeals he seeks to file on behalf of lakewood tenants association. >> good morning. may i proceed? >> identify yourself, please. >> your name? >> ross will consent. i represent myself and the lakewood tenants association. you may remember something that was copied to yourselves last january. listing a prolonged series of difficulties in getting a building inspection actually enforced. we have three appeals that we filed. there is a fourth that we did not file that was for excess. we thought that that would go to the access appeals board, but they do not have jurisdiction. we will have to bring it to you first. >> may i interrupt? this item is before you not on substance, but an underlying appeal. he has asked to file his appeal without pay of it -- paying filing fees. you have the ability to waive the fees. he has been informed that he could fill out the form for its bid -- and agency used by the court of appeals. he did not choose to do that. he wanted to come to you to keep the appeals that he wishes to file. the ultimate item before y

much after sixty seven minutes going on two points from the boot of a previously out of sorts jonny wilkinson for a nervy thirteen. earlier in the same pool b. scotland got the better of romania again only by the skin of their teeth thirty four twenty four hours finished up for care of maybe forty nine twenty five. so off a determined japanese i played forty seven twenty one and a half a dozen different tries scored for live in. motor sport and defending for one champion sebastian vettel has secured his tenth pull of the season ahead of sunday's italian grand prix the german standings leader waving on to lift on to the fastest time moving in front of mcclaren joe lewis hamilton and jenson button twice f one jump in fernando alonso will start from the second go for ferrari red bull had never before claimed poor nor poor him finish a historic moment to track the broken or teammate mark webber have secured pull for each of the thirteen races so far this season rose russian fatai petroff meanwhile didn't have a bad day either he was seventh quickest but it is vettel who's the man to kill chance.

of the match after sixty seven minutes going on two points from the boot of an art of sorts jonny wilkinson for a nervy thirty nine. earlier in the sea in pool b. scotland got the better of romania but again only by the skin of their teeth thirty four twenty four how it finished up. care all. forty nine twenty five and the conference they also saw i think term and japanese are dead forty seven twenty one and a half a dozen different price scores for the one. that brings us to motor sport where yari must be loved put himself well in contention for his first win of the season on the world rally circuit the finn securing a narrow lead ahead of his ford abu dhabi team. herve and then going into the final day of rally australia it was her veneer who led the way at the beginning of saturday's second date but last fall it was quick to make inroads into that seven second deficit the twenty six year old putting the pedal to the metal to win the first four special stages of the run ten their french jewel of champion. sebastian all here to albany and from then on but still could not make it into the t

wilkinson's proposal that these things be done more regularly. perhaps on an annual basis or a semiannual basis connected with pcnn where there is -- there is a review of the consumer price index and how drivers are doing. and to take a look at the city's livable wage ordinance, the spirit of it. there is some question whether employees are independent contractors, i do not think there is any doubt that the idea behind the city's livable wage is that working class people should be able to survive. thank you. >> our next speaker is. >> i urge you to sever in their minds the idea of 11 and 12. please pass item 11, no matter what you do with 12. we have had six weeks of income forgone that cannot be gone back. as far as item 12, on the matter of you selling new medallions out right, not only must you appear to come to your decisions -- not only must you come to your decisions with clean hands, you must appear to. this does muddy the waters a bit since you would be raising money off of these medallions. i do like with a peak time medallions, i do lik

eleven attacks was marked by wars fought under the flag of ridding the world of terrorists lawrence wilkinson he's a former u.s. official in george w. bush's administration told r.t. that america thinks it holds an unchallengeable place in the world and abuses the power it no longer special interview next. after nine eleven america did not just go after those who perpetrated that tragic vicious attack it only she campaigned on nations that had nothing to do with nine eleven we're talking about iraq where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died since two thousand and three america's been in constant war since nine eleven in different countries are we talking about one of the most profound overreactions in military history to talk about that i'm joined by colonel lawrence wilkerson whose service call in powell as chief of staff colin powell secretary of state under george w. bush colonel wilkerson thank you so much for joining me for having me more than six thousand american servicemen a guy in the last decade of war spawned by the nine eleven attack. tragedy worth remembering and

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care of themselves and how to get healthy exercise and safe spaces to work out and exercise richard wilkinson and kate pick a wrote a book called the spirit level they run a program in the u.k. called the equality trust and they have documented how the more unequal society is that is the greater the gap between the richest fifth and the poorest fifth the greater that gap is the the worst a whole host of social ills are from teenage pregnancies to mental mental health issues to drug abuse to homicides and right in the middle of that is infant mortality we have now become the most an equal in terms of wealth among the thirty four o.e.c.d. countries among the fully developed countries in the world is wealth inequality one of the dimensions of in for mortality that our federal government is focusing on and if not do you think it should. well i do think that being poor does certainly affect your health adversely for sure but what we're finding when it comes to infant mortality rates and in particular in the african-american community it doesn't matter your socio economic status and so the african

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really are naive or just plain ignorant or maybe they could according to the research done by richard wilkinson and kate pickett at the equality trust the united states ranks dead last in social mobility among the rest of the o.e.c.d. nations as in it's more difficult in america for somebody to get out of poverty and join the middle class than it is anywhere else in the developed world. when you add in institutional racism the fact that today when mit did a study having identically qualified applicants for real jobs submit resumes to big companies those with african-american sounding names were after as likely to get a call back as people with white sunny names sixty to ninety percent of housing units showed that whites were not shown to blacks forty six percent of whites get help from their family to make a downpayment on their first house as opposed to twelve percent of african-americans who on average pay a half point higher interest on that mortgage when it comes to education regardless of the school the studies are in as well minority students students are less likely to be placed in honor

world to live through reason you disagree with that quite strongly but the well if you look at the wilkinson and pickett of where they charge you know the thirty four o.e.c.d. nations and then they chart you look at fifty nations they would all fifty states those those states in those countries where you have high levels of wealth inequality and they pay just compared the top quintile the bottom the top is the bottom. when the spread is the greatest you have the highest rates of mental illness the highest grades homicide the highest rates of teenage pregnancies the highest rates of drug use those who are living the legal right across the board all these social ills come with inequality and that's what we've been seeing explode the united states we have heard it here is what is going to get out that we haven't and if we do have inequality and we all that's median income we are not how little the world war two thousand us dollars when the top ten percent wealthiest per capita households we're globally are now so we have a situation now although we did a nine world we did not see this type of o

eric wilkinson of king or king affiliate describes the terrifying minutes before the police finally stop the man in a hail of bullets. >> that is a shoot-out. >> this amateur video captures the gunfire as it rips through issaquah today. dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. >> they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. >> it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. >> when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. >> police swarmed the city crowded with shoppers and people enjoying the warm day. he fired randomly for about half a mile. at one point, a sheriff's department sniper took to the air to take him out with reports of him shooting an at police. he was moving toward the high school where a little league football game was going on. >> he said do not come to the game now. >> outside the high school. >> polic

under water if you can believe that, 12 hours ago, clearly, the waters are starting to recede and, wilkinson canal, by the way, behind me, goes straight into the gulf of mexico. but, they still have a long way to go, when you look at these pictures. this is a huge parish and we understand that extra pumps are being brought into the location to try and get all of the standing water out of here. the levels have dropped about 4 feet in the last 24 hours. primarily because the winds have finally shifted to the north, blowing all of the floodwaters back out into the gulf, and that is the good news here, bill. bill: what are the concerns right now, today? >> reporter: the concerns happen to be with highway 23, which is directly behind our camera. it is the main road in and out of the southern end of this parish. it still has about 10 inches of water on it. and, it has been closed to most vehicular traffic and here is why that is a problem. listen: >> 5% of all the natural gas in the entire country comes out of here bow through a facility and refiernryes and -- refineries, and we have the gulf of m