Know we will hear from the white house chief of staff Denis Mcdonough who will apologize for the problems with healthcare. Gov. He says the website is functioning better since the october one launch. He spoke at Georgetown University. Former also hear from democratic senator, tom daschle. [applause] , it is nice to see all of you this morning on a wonderful morning to talk about a very important subject about this country. Is achair keith cherokee chief indian once said, timing is everything. Right now. Implementation of the Affordable Care act, opportunities and challenges. We have an Excellent Program today. We have two terrific speakers. We have Denis Mcdonough and tom daschle. We also have a panel that will be moderated with a number of distinguished people on the panel. That will be the day. We will have an opportunity for some questions and answers along the road. That introduced the chief of staff of the white house, Denis Mcdonough. It is one said and they assume the northern g
Our phone lines to your response to the president s statement. We want to hear what you think the american response should be in the ukraine or if you think the u. S. Should be involved in this dispute. 2025 85388 04e democrats. You can also catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. On twitter, facebook or email. S a very good saturday morning to you. Allstory that is leading the major papers in the United States and many of the papers around the world. The ongoing situation in the ukraine. Heres the front page of the boston globe. Russian baiting, ukraine says. It obama warns of consequences. Guardian. Page of the a russian invasion of crimea fuels fear of ukrainian conflict. The front page of the chicago tribune. Obama warns russia to stay out of ukraine. A bit from the front page of the Washington Post this morning. Anding about the situation what is happening in the crimea. This happening to William Booth and karen young reporting from the ukraine. Governmentainian
Issues and make decisions on the 10 individual issues and compensate the veteran if theyre entitled to it as the rating decisions become as theyre made aware before to do the other. The problem with madison assistant right now today, that is very difficult to do. There are some barriers in terms of its much less efficient in the amount of time it takes our overall process to rate 10 individual issues at one each. The fixes we put in place will allow that to go significantly faster and been our intent is to do exactly that, which is rate by issue. So we understand within your bill. They testified on that previously that weve agreed without the concept. At this point in time, there were complications due to her system limitations. When you anticipate those changes will be made . I cant put an exact day. What i can tell you is every 90 days be doing a release. Im not sure which one of those releases that some of these changes are in. One of the changes that is going in and being piloted r
With the university home, could you give us some examples of wage theft in the Nursing Home Industry . Yeah, i deal a lot with the care home industry which is a smaller facility. Theyre usually a sixbed facility. It is either elderly individuals or folks with Developmental Disabilities that receive funding through private or through the state. The common practice in those care homes, small Residential Care homes is to hire one or two individuals to take care of the residents in the facility and pay them a certain flat rate. So, youll hear testimony actually in the Public Comment section from a woman who worked in one of these facilities who came forward and complained about the conditionses and a collaboration that largely came out of the task force, with we were able to collect wages through attorney and [speaker not understood] being involved in the community center. These individuals work up to 17, 18, 24 hours a day sometimes, for a flat rate of 60 a day. And 60 does not compensate
Departments, perhaps including agency that were not sitting on the task force but do have a part to play, the ongoing collaboration among the city departments is of utmost importance. We also recommended that if its not already inherent and in permits and Business Licenses and in other city regulations, that the board of supervisors should act to authorize city departments to suspend or revoke permit business he that violate wage theft laws. And finally, information showing this is one of the big challenges we discovered, but that some ways for agencies in the city to coordinate data around business data through the interactions of businesses uniformly to violators can be tracked. We have had specific recommendations directed at the agencies that sat on the task force, and most of these recommendations were amazingly generated by the agencies themselves about ways that they could more efficiently participate in the fight against wage theft. Their recommendation was that the City Attorn