As a significant as it was during katrina . Holy cross, it came and went. Here it stayed and stayed for weeks and weeks. Was this middleclass . High net worth. You can see theres a little mentioning even in a house leak that, actually a house like that was 250,000 which is a lot, and you know, considering. These nights maybe these newer ones and closer to the lake, the more expensive. But yeah, these are 350, 400,000 houses. And some of you know, the two story ones, the pool. Not like a neighborhood no this neighborhood is very challenged because again, severely, severely damaged, however, they have a very strong neighborhood association, and they have done a lot. Weve been working with them. Weve been working with them quite a bit. And south lake view, in fact, is a Historic District that is coming back. Lakeview will be back. It is going to take a while because of the amount of damage. But most of the people over here, they had insurance, they have more means. And this land always go
I think that a sound effect was appropriate for the tension that might existtwe if there is the outbreak in the the need to learn what works to address that outbreak for one that is the merging and the need for learning it is quite acute. With that humanitarian need is so great . So are the leaders of the team recently published to implement Clinical Trials so i will turn over the podium the cochair of the team and is currently a professor at university and also managing als a very exciting institution to do research on dangerous diseases. He is working hard to try to bring that to fruition. David peters will be talking for a few minutes and then there will be a Panel Discussion from the humanitarian group that has saved more ebola lives than in the other group in those that supported the United States efforts to control the ebola epidemic as director of emergency the office said u. S. Foreign disaster assistance. My thanks as well for those who are watching remotely we are very gratef
[laughter] so without further ado i will go ahead and let him take the stage. Everybody, dean baker. [applause] thank you. I do like my dogs. I three well, i had three dobermans. Im here to talk about my book rigged which kind of is, things have been talking about for at least a couple of decades in economics. And i had a chance to put this together. Just to put it simply as possible. The main theme of the book is, we have had this huge upward distribution of income over the last four decades it is really not arguable at this point. It has been documented in a number of ways. You probably heard about the great book capital which really talks about wealth but in any case there are a number of good reports, solid data, documenting this huge upward distribution of income. One of my favorites, this is actually it showed that if you look at the United States and you look at the bottom half of the income distribution, it basically has gotten nothing since 1980. I will not stand by little or
[inaudible conversations] good evening will come to to dates even to. We will talk about the book and for those of you who may not know whether then grabbing a catch phrase from donald trump that was my one joke. So now i will let dean take the stage. [applause] i do like my dog. A doberman and dependable a pit bull and maybe shawn. So talking about a couple of decades of the economics and just to put it simply as possible, the main theme of the book to have an upward redistribution of income but that is not arguable that this point. And it talks more about wealth but in any case we have had a number of good reports and solid data documenting one of my favorites but it shows if you look at the United States and the bottom half of the and come into it distribution for i will not stand by and nothing to say if you count this or that you have had for decades of substantial Economic Growth and innovation in the large share of the public has almost nothing to show for it. That is not in arg
Here. Paul woolford. Here. Fady zoubi. Here. Vice chair is present. Acting chair we have 3 members present and a fourth coming in. Quorum is 3. We have quorum. Thank you. Before calling the next item i have a quick announcement i intend to recess for 15 minutes the middle of the meet to stretch our legs and have a snack and take a quick break. And i plan to ooh journal by 2 p. M. I will do my best to be sure we do adjourn by 2 p. M. Are there requests to amend the order of our agenda today . Secretary fuller call the next item due to on going Covid Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and emergency orders of the governor and mayor concerning social distancing and lifting the restrictions on teleconference, this meeting is held Via Teleconference and streamed by sfgovtv, for those of you watching live stream there is a brief lag with the live meeting and ma can shown on sfgovtv. On behalf of the commission i