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>> former president donald trumps name is taken off the ballot in a second state this. time in maine where the unprecedented decision is now threatening the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. hello, everyone, im anita vogel in los angeles and bryan, as john roberts likes to say, happy friday to you. >> bryan: im in new york, sandra and john are off today. 34-page ruling, maines secretary of state says her unilateral decision to remove trump from the primary ballot...

Find out who is the first to restore bus service to the newly reopened sales force transit center. >> a living wage versus a livelihood. the debate of raising the minimum wage. pg&e wants to raise rates. what the proposal has to go through before it affects your power bill. news to build a ar area. >> a decision made tonight can put some businesses out of businesses. thanks for joining us, im dan ashley. >> im kristen sze. >> minimum wage has been going up every year for the past four years ...

More than 3.5 million children are using medications to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, adhd, according to the cdc, the centers for disease control. now the authors of one of the most influential studies that first trumpeted the effectiveness of these pharmaceuticals back in the 1990s, those authors are now saying theyre worried that the results oversold the benefits of using the drugs alone without other forms of therapy. so what does this all mean for your child? professor stev...

Not. third, for most conditions, most of the time, adding intensive therapy with the family, with the teachers, teaching kids better social skills, makes the medication which gets the brain in better shape, now theres a skill boost so that theres a far better chance of getting that child back in the normal range. >> why is this coming out now, so many years later? is this just the natural evolution of a new drug? >> i think we go in swings and cycles in social and medical history. the initial pu...

We met him at henley, a new york city vapor lounge. >> i havent had a drag of a cigarette since two and a half years ago. >> reporter: heres how they work. liquid nicotine is heated up by a battery charged coil. there is no tobacco burn. users inhale and instead of smoke, theres a steam-like vapor. they have been in the u.s. less than a decade and increasingly big tobacco companies are manufacturing them. but limited research has been done on their health impact. >> i would like the science to c...

Promoting them. we do know that the initial publication from our study that emphasized the outcome of reducing symptoms showed often dramatic benefits of the medication but subsequent publications where we looked more broadly at academics and social skills and family discipline styles showed the clear and superior benefits of combining the medications with active family and school behavior therapy. >> this is what one of the studys co-authors told "new york times." i hope it didnt do irrepperabl...

European countries do much better at moving poor people up the ladder than the united states. they point out that the united states cannot be compared with denmark, an ethnically homogeneous country of five million people. but in an essay published last week, canada is a very useful point of comparison for the united states because it is much like america. the percentage of foreign-born canadians, for example, is actually higher than americans. and recent research finds that people in canada and...

Mobility. thats why salt lake city dominated by mormons has extremely high mobility rankings. this would also explain why america in general fares badly. the u.s. has many more broken families, single parents and dysfunctional domestic arrangements than canada and europe. the other notable feature in the harvard/berkeley study is the design of cities. places that are segregated, where the poor live far from the middle class do much worse than those that are more mixed. this probably has to do wi...

States. they pointing out that the united states cannot be compared with denmark, an ethnically homogeneous country of five million people. but in an essay published last week, canada is a very useful point of comparison for the united states because it is much like america. the percentage of foreign-born canadians, for example, is actually higher than americans. and recent research finds that people in canada and australia have twice the economic mobility of americans. what is intriguing is tha...

On things like unemployment benefit extensions or do we get to reduce the decifit now, do we stop growing the decifit now. its a very intense debate, and its on right now. gregg: well, and its not just anecdotal evidence as i cited with my first question, but there was a u.c. berkeley study that found in at least one instant, in previous unemployment benefits, it was adding on to the unemployment, it was just making matters worse. but look, when youre talking about 30 or $40 billion in added deb...