Want to thank our panelist. [applause]. I can promise you this, that its good as they are a person its better on the page. Enjoy the book. [inaudible conversation] this concludes todays live coverage from the campus of the university of southern california. Will be back with more from the 21st annual Los Angeles Times festival of books tomorrow and our coverage begins at 1 30 p. M. Eastern time. That is 10 30 a. M. On the west coast. You can watch all of our coverage from today starting at midnight eastern time on book tv on cspan two, or or a 9 00 p. M. On the west coast. When i turn in to the weekend its usually authors share their new releases. Watching out fiction authors on book tv is the best television procedures reader. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. To be weekend, they bring you author after author and thats the work of fascinating people. I love book to be and im cspan fan. Youre watching book tv on cspan2, television for serious r
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. And welcome to the auditorium and the Cato Institute. Appreciate your coming out today. This is a really important topic. The book forum for the human cost of welfare by phil harvey and lisa conyers. For those folks who are following this online, you can follow along on twitter atcato event or hash tag human cost of welfare. The u. S. Federal government last year spent roughly 688 billion to fund more than 100 antipoverty programs. Federal state, local governments, rather, spent an additional 300 billion on those and other programs. That means the government is spending close to a trillion dollars every year fighting poverty. If you want to go all the way back to 1965, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, we spent some 22 or 23 trillion fighting poverty. What have we really accomplished over that period of time . If you used the census bureaus numbers, poverty rates have barely budged and even if you use the al concern i. T. Poverty mea
Who ignore part of the reform law. That brings us to our question for viewers. What do you think about the quality of education in your local schools . Special line today for this question. Parents of School Age Children can call 2027488000. Eachers can call 2027488001. School administrators can call 2027488002. Nd all others can call 027488003. We want to talk about the equality of education in your committee. Lets talk about how king talks about the new law puts more power in the states hands. Learning standards that will prepare all students for college and careers. The law supports investments and quality preschool and it requires the information on student progress to share through statewide assessments while reducing and improve state and local taxes. It builds on work already underway to raise expectations for students and establish tailored systems for School Improvements and states. The law shifts responsibility for develops strategies to support the highest needs students and
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. A woman stranded on a bay area cliff 80 feet up, we were there for the tricky rescue operation tonight. Dramatic moments along the cliffs near ocean beach in San Francisco. Only on 5 our mark kelly saw the whole scene play out. Reporter firefighters, of course, familiar with these cliff rescues, but they say this one tonight was challenging. With the heavy foliage, the trees, it was really hard to locate the victim. Reporter plus it was getting dark, 7 clock tonight the victim stuck somewhere between sutro park at the top of the cliff and point lobos avenue below. I heard people at the top yelling, everyone trying to find where she was. Reporter eventually with their spotlight firefighters found a woman wedged near the top of the cliff. Our aerial ladder goes 100 feet, pretty close to fully extended. Reporter about 30 minutes later with a firefighter as her guide the woman seemingly unhurt climbed down the ladder, a relief for thos
Live from the cbs bay area studios this is kpix5 news. A woman stranded on a bay area cliff 80 feet up, we were there for the tricky rescue operation tonight. Dramatic moments along the cliffs near ocean beach in San Francisco. Only on 5 our mark kelly saw the whole scene play out. Reporter firefighters, of course, familiar with these cliff rescues, but they say this one tonight was challenging. With the heavy foliage, the trees, it was really hard to locate the victim. Reporter plus it was getting dark, 7 clock tonight the victim stuck somewhere between sutro park at the top of the cliff and point lobos avenue below. I heard people at the top yelling, everyone trying to find where she was. Reporter eventually with their spotlight firefighters found a woman wedged near the top of the cliff. Our aerial ladder goes 100 feet, pretty close to fully extended. Reporter about 30 minutes later with a firefighter as her guide the woman seemingly unhurt climbed down the ladder, a relief for thos