Host you are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction books about airs every weekend. We are on location at Johns Hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. Professor cherlin would you do at the university . Guest im a professor of sociology. I teach courses on the family, demography poverty childrens welfare. Host and you are chair of the Sociology Department . What does that mean . Guest that means i get to toss around a lot of people who have lifetime tenure and tell them what to do. Host we want to talk to you about your book labors love lost the rise and fall of the workingclass family in america. How do you define a workingclass family . Guest its pretty hard. Its a family with a guy who was working a factory or a construction job in the wife staying home many working parttime in a couple of kids. That is what the working class was like in the 1950s and 60s at its peak. You cant define it these days becau
There. [inaudible] were going to take a brief pause and have the people back. Theyre normally clawling on each other in here. Here we go. recess . I declare [gavel] i declare the february 12, 2015 meeting of the Health Systems Service Board officially open. Would you please stand and repeat after me the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I will ask our secretary to please call the roll. President scott. Present. Commissioner breslin. Here. Supervisor farrell. Present. Commissioner ferrigno. Here. Commissioner lim. Present. Commissioner shlain excused. We have a quorum. The printed agenda is before us, and i know that were going to be going through the minutes and so forth, but im going to reorder a couple of items and i will indicate what they are during my ordered president s report. And so we will go through the minutes first
79 current year budget on the revenue side well end the year is is surplus and looking at a small deficit in the filing niece but the surplus were seeing will offer come that deficit and then be some so 32 thousand by the end of the year roughly and on the expenditure side we look to the projected so well have savings there there was a clerical position that become vacant so we have fringe savings and some of the costs with the processing of the appeals since were having two appeals that went projected will be saved as well so when we order the address notification for the requirement the sf sfgov coverage and all of that will be down a little bit and expect about 85,000 in expenditure savings so we are going looking at 118,000 in the black by the end of the year that money b will go do the rhd Rainy Day Fund then turning to the budget for the next two fiscal years coming up 20162017 be looking at the revenue side first, we will need to continue to evaluate the surcharge rates to make
Need a better solution than the one now being considered. Two years ago we saw Congress Reach a twoyear agreement to be bipartisan budget act. Although we preferred a longerterm solution to sequestration, that deal was able to provide dod a measure of stability needed to plan for more than a just one year. Today, i hope we can come together for a longerterm, multiyour agreement that provides the budget stability that we need by locking in budget levels consistent with the president s request. I pledge my support this effort as well as the support of the entire staff of the department of defense. I would like to work with each of you as well as other leaders and members of congress to this end. End. If we are successful, i am if we are successful, i am confident we can build a force of the future that is powerful enough to underwrite our strategy and show resolve to friends and potential foes alike. A force that is equipped with bold new technology and ideas, able to lead in cutting age
Mr. Prime minister, trying to fix the economy is an urgent crisis. In a little more than two months, president ial elections are scheduled. There are reports, rumors of postponing those elections. How confident are that ukraine will be ready to hold elections in two months, and how do you think it will that they will have Credible Elections that everyone will recognize . Starting with the first question, it is not just about ukraine, as i mentioned. It is about the Global Security. Let me remind you that in 1994, a budapest memorandum emerged where signatures guaranteed an independence and tear torle integrity of the ukrainian states. And look what has happened. We abandoned our Nuclear Weapons. Right . We did. We executed this memorandum. And today we asked for the protection. If we dont get this protection, tell me the way how the world is to reinforce or ask another country to stop their Nuclear Progress . Its impossible to convince, in this case, someone to hold uclear proliferatio