Jobless. Remembering Nelson Mandela. It is 9am in johannesburg, south africa. That is a live look at the stadium where crowds are forming for the official state Memorial Service which is set to begin in 2 hours. Its taking place at the f b stadium, which seats 94,000. Authorities are expecting many more will attend. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Nic in addition to the citizens of south africa dignitaries will attend. President obama will speak. He met Nelson Mandela at a washington d. C. Hotel in 2005 when he was a senator. Bill clinton, george w. Bush and jimmy carter also part of delegation. David cameron, hamid karzai, steven harper. Ban kimoon, will people, and former general secretary kofi annan. Prince charles is representing the throne. Well have more from south africa with ali velshi who is on the ground. Men American Forces are being called on. Chuck hagel is ordering the u. S. Military to transport troops. 400 have been killed in fighting between christians
Paycheck protection. For Union Members to discipline their unions by forcing the unions to hold a vote on whether spending is used politically or to withhold dues from political purposes. The overwhelming majority of Union Members would like to see that done. Polls consistently show that Union Members want their union to get consent before spending dues on Political Activities. 66 approved and 14 disapproved the statement that it was unreasonable that unions are allows to spend dues on politics without getting member approval. 79 of Union Members believe that employees should have the right not to participate in their unions Political Support of specific candidates or parties. Were here today with people who are actually working on these in very specific cases. Im going to introduce them and let them take it away. Victor joecks to my left serves as executive director of National Employee freedom week which is a coalition of 68 groups in 40 states dedicated to helping union mechls to le
Is but heres a point that people miss. Seven other times the president has decided himself that parts of the law were unimportant and the law he side in fact was not going to endure. What about the preexisting Condition Program . This law was sold on the backs of people with preexisting conditions across this country and yet when someone showed up on february 1st of this year to enroll in the pcip program, they were told, sorry, sister, the program is closed. For 11 months people with preexisting conditions who were promised relief are simply wandering the country what they were supposed to do. Shop exchanges put off to 2015. Delaying final contracts with contractors. Delaying the employer mandate. Removing outofpocket caps. No premium information. This was promised to me by the administrator of cms in july in this committee that i would have this information by september 15. Mr. Cohen we are going the long way now to september 15th. Go to the website on healthcare. Gov. Come back and
Goals are. I suspect those goals may vary depending on whether you are teaching graduate and so, in engineering, it will be a very fact heavy inquiry. We will have to define Critical Mass, i think, based on into solution institution specific data. Be differently defined than another at another institution. There are arguments in fisher were the court was asking, does Critical Mass differ depending on the location of the school . Example, Critical Mass, you would expect is some significant or should of latino students because of the population. In pennsylvania, maybe not because you do not have as large of a latino population. Unclear exactly what Critical Mass is and how schools are defining that term and interpreting it and applying it. Well have to give some thought as to how we do that going forward. I think we will have to give some thought to race neutral alternatives and why those alternatives do not yield sufficient levels of racial diversity that we need and why we need racial
Thank you for coming today. I am a resident scholar here at aei. Our discussion is on the role of and the role of the government and Mental Health policy. We typically think of Mental Health as a state responsibility. Extent it is. The federal government can have a very influential role in shaping services and policies for mentally ill patients. There are huge gaps there which fallen toll patients the street and into gel. It is heartbreaking situation. Have representative tim murphy. The Panel Discusses helping family and Mental Health crisis act. It addresses persistent problems in Mental Health care systems, among them the shortage of psychiatric beds. There are is just a hearing two days ago on that. Education ofe evidencebased treatment. Small problem of violence and mentally ill, outdated, involuntary commitment laws and the questionable priorities of the lead Agency Within hhs that is responsible for funding the services for the nations mentally ill. Everyone on the panel will re