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Nonprofit worker for many years and a seiu shop steward as well. From my days 30 years ago with the Chinatown Youth Center and now the youth center and to a receptionist running the california cho ligz of human rights and ran a committee for [inaudible] and most of the work is about supporting the Human Service sector and San Franciscos unique and creative safety net that man of the nonprofit represent. I think with recent studies from the San Francisco foundations recent equity profile of the b...

Its front pain daily basically all european papers and the equivalent in social media. Its a huge debate and many people are very concerned about it. The debate has shown that people are concerned about theth what shay see as possible impacts. Public services, regulatory, investment arbitration environment, et cetera. Men of those fears north justified aft all by facts bit they show that people feel distanced from politics, from trade policymaking, they want to be involved and this is something ...

And this week on the communicators we talk to members of congress about the legislation they are proposing. First up senator al franken. Senator senator al franken, you hailed a failure of the comcasttime warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest because i firmly believe if comcast were allowed to buy time warner they would have been to go big anticompetitive, led to higher prices for consumers, less choice and if it is even possible they would surface. Host is it because of the size . G...

Warner merger as a win for consumers. Why . Guest well because i firmly believe that if comcast were allowed to buy Time Warner Cable, that they would have been too big a company, they would have been anticompetitive, not in the public interests. It would have led to higher prices for consumers less choice. And if its even possible with these two companies, worse service. Host is it because of the size of the company . Guest yeah. Well size and what parts of the market they have, they have about...

Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday april 22, 2015. I am mark farrell and i will chair this committee and joined by supervisor tang and eric mar and norman yee. I want to thank the clerk of the committee linda wong as well as members of sfgtv covering this meeting. Madam clerk do we have any announcements . Yes mr. Chair. Please silent all cell phones and Electronic Devices and speaker cards and items part...

Muttonjeff combination. He was very robust, terrific and natural athlete. Madison is a skinny little guy. This sunday on q a, the founding father James Madison and the success he made in our nation. The gift i like most about is his ability to perform to reform relationships with the great people of his era and it also opens to his gift to the country of his talents and what he was able to do to help create the first selfsustaining constitutional republic. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacifi...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome. Thank you for coming. Todays briefing is about the Internet Committee titled Circuit Court decision on fcc open internet roles is it random or is it a law. Such short notice the decision came on tuesday. Weve been awaiting it and wanted to do a briefing as close to the decision as possible. This is the congressional internet caucus advisory committee. We take no position on legislatio...

Debatest clades. Republican senators proposing a resolution calling on the federal government to stop cohearsing states to adopt the highly controversial education standards. News of how much it would actually cost to implement the program has many states rethinking the whole program. Here with more Michael Mcshane a fellow in education policy study at the American Enterprise institute. Hes coed or it of the new book common core meets education reform. What it all means. Welcome back to the show...

And the agencys, the Health Care Sector achieve those ends. Multi payer approaches, and the last area i touch on is any one of these buckets, affects everything, there is a recognition that the turn will exist. And a continuing of coverage and people the specially in lower income brackets do have frequent income changes that result in the eligibility king. And how we manage it. We had less focus in states and renewal, strategies, techniques than we have on enrollment for obvious reasons. Now the...

The 10 required benefits. How much variation in his there in benefits Going Forward . We know from the bronze to the silver that has to do with the degree of coverage of premium but in terms of benefits how much variety is that is for the given product so what is that is a representation and across all types of products was the average rate of increase . Spittoons your question after 2014 the variability of benefits, you are correct there is the much lower variability among the level of insuranc...