Including Proof Reading but id also be good to mentor some of some of some of the disabilitied young people to know what kind of things to look out for and what kind of things are important. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment . Is there anything from the bridge line . No . No . Oh, yes. Jacki bryson and i wanted to raise an issue that i raised originally back in 2004 that i believe that the city and county of San Francisco needs to have a a department on disability rather than a Mayors Office on disability so that theres permanence and that the department would have the authority to take complaints not just grievances and have complaint numbers and an investigator assigned and findings which would be produced and depending upon the findings, the matter to be forwarded to the district attorneys office. I appreciate the existence of the Mayors Office on disability ive been coming to the various inca rna tions of it since 1998 and it continued to be a problem to have the body ha
Year. Yes. [applause] in a moment youre going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. What i would like to do is acknowledge my coauthors who are with us today. Minority rights and whose here. Could you please stand. Shes here back in the waiting. She did our work of putting the metrics together and a lot of the analysis and also join us as armand petrosians, is an adjunct fellow with the institute. He projected two years ago that San Francisco would move to number one so he decided to change careers away from being an economist and move back to San Francisco to run the Family Business which is a sub center at in the west portal area. Armand, carrier somewhere. There he is in the back as i do note that soap unitas, a 20 in the west [inaudible] area and armand cannot only sell you a sub he can also be be some economic advice. So, in the 2014 index there are really two top stories and they are technology and shale oil. They are the overarchi
Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] we want to thank all of you for coming. We have a youth basketball camp for kids here who have been so patient. See us at the chinese new years game. 366. I think these guys have a lot more in store. Thanks a lot. We appreciate it. We came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That is better. When i start thinking, i see it actually sometimes, i do not see it but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. It is like watching something being spawned. You go in, and you begin to work excavate play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. You may have a plan that this is what i want to create. Here are the ideas i want to play with, but then you go into the room and there maybe some
Businesses investors, Industry Associations Economic Development agencies, academics, Public Policy groups, monitor and evaluate performance in where they work, and where they live, relative to the rest of the country. And as weve already noted, its no surprise were releasing this today in San Francisco, so San Francisco is number one this year. Yes. [applause] in a moment youre going to see what a remarkable accomplishment that is as i go through some of these metrics. What i would like to do is acknowledge my coauthors who are with us today. Minority rights and whose here. Could you please stand. Shes here back in the waiting. She did our work of putting the metrics together and a lot of the analysis and also join us as armand petrosians, is an adjunct fellow with the institute. He projected two years ago that San Francisco would move to number one so he decided to change careers away from being an economist and move back to San Francisco to run the Family Business which is a sub cen
There are other measures to measure the concentration of diversity and its really a way to look at the Community Involvement in the socalled knowledgebased economy. This is a chart that shows employment growth relative to the peak of this recession relative to others and what youll notice is that this recovery has been relatively mild compared to previous ones. And overall job growth in the country really determine some of the pattern of regional growth around the country. Now the good news is that the mac in the Second Quarter of last year all of the 8. 7 million jobs that were lost during the previous recession had finally been recovered. So, we are finally adding jobs in the United States overall. Now lets get to San Francisco to me run through some of these metrics that really are starting when you look at them. San francisco wasnt on the top list in a truly remarkable recovery. If the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem that exist here in social media, mobile apps, cloudbased computing and