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Congressman Nick Mulvaney cut his own slice. The wild theory is that even if the u. S. Breaches the debt ceiling the treasury could continue to prioritize certain payments including social security. Its a line of logic refuted by cannot mists and most people with a general understanding of the way things work. Last week the Treasury Department learned default would lead to the events of the magnitude of late 2008 or worse. Credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, u. S....

The education Nation Student town hall. Education nation is now in its fourth year, and i am thrilled that for the second year in a row, we will be focused on what matters most to the students, the problems they face, and their ideas for how to solve them. Now, joining me on stage and in the audience today are students from across the country, ranging in age from about 13 to 25. And for the next two hours, we will hear from many of them. To help with that task, two of my colleagues are in the ho...

Orange line. That shows the actual. Not inflation adjusted. Just the actual amount of revenue funding we have received for each student. Instead of going up and matching the blue line or even staying flat. Matching the purple line. We have seen significant reductions shown by the orange line. We went from 5776 to 5326, a steep drop in the following year, 0910. And a little loss recovered but then treading water since then. That last line, 1213 where it splits between the 5204 and the 4764 level,...

Efforts, San Francisco voters were able to make a very thoughtful choices at the ballot box this past couple of weeks, that have helped fund infrastructure, move to job creating tax policy, and invest in critical Housing Needs in our city. Collectively helping San Francisco families and businesses. With that id like to take your two questions, supervisors. Thank you. President chiu thank you. Our first question will be provided by our district 6 colleague, supervisor kim. Supervisor kim thank yo...

Winners and losers. Loser the obama care website which had technical issues because of web traffic. You cant campaign that millions dont have health care and then be surprised millions dont have health cares. Thats like 800flowers be caught off guard by valentines day. Winner, canada. Senator ted cruz was born in canada. While we worried about iran, a canadian shut down the u. S. Government. Well played, canada. Well done. Good morning, everyone. Its monday, october 7th. Welcome to kwomorning jo...

And our safety nets already strained by years of state cuts and it cannot sustain these additional reductions in federal funding. In addition to the cuts i have just detailed, there are also competitive grants and state passthroughs that will also see cuts, and totals for which we really cannot estimate at this time. Although this is serious business, and we need to get engaged although this is serious, we need to get engaged as a city to advocate against request ration sequestration taking plac...

And i think that as we do this, its important that we carefully study this. So i prosecute esh that we are going appreciate that we are going to move forward with this in this direction. President chiu supervisor avalos. Supervisor avalos thank you. This one is kind of troubling to me. I dont think i read the same memo in everyone else. I thought i lived in a efficiency unit. A family of four, 950 square feet and every inch of space is used. And were just totally crammed in. I live in a district...

Resolution to fund the government. Republican congressman charlie dent today. I believe there are the votes to pass a clean cr. The plan was to pass a clean cr all along. That was the plan i want to stick to that long. I believe inevitably thats where well end up. Nbc news puts the tally at 22 House Republicans who would vote for a clean cr to fund the government. Add that to 200 democrats. And john boehner is busted. Today, the president himself called boehners bluff. If republicans and Speaker...

Debate put him on the national debate, paul ryan has a pitch for a big debt deal to end the shut down standoff. He doesnt mention the h word though. We will talk about that. On pennsylvania avenue, president obama said he makes it clear he is ready for a bill that avoids default. Ready for even the shortest of shortterm deals. A funny thing happened on the way to the senate. They thought corey booker would waltz his way to a win. He has gotten a tad closer than some expected. Good morning from w...

I want to be clear when we talk about a through g i hear the debate not all kids have to go to college and i agree but all of our kids have to graduate ready for college because you graduate ready for college youre able to access living wage jobs and if you dont have math and science classes that are required a through g youre not going to be able to go into apprenticeship for building and trade programs. So this is an important policy for the city. Unfortunately with our first two classes the l...