Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. And im not talking about doing better during that period of time. Im talking about in terms of moving up the economic ladder that actually if you square away someones housing situation, that thats the best way to situate them so that they can deal with their health, their education and whatever family problems they may need to contend. Like your thoughts in that area. My thought is that as i mentioned before, the things that we have been doing and the programs, theyre lifesaving. Theyre a safety net. Do i think we can do better . Absolutely. And do i think we should be spending a little more time and effort concentrating on developing the potential of our people . And the answer to that is yes, particularly in light of the fact that we have so many fewer people than our competitors and its going to be absolutely essential that we do that. One final question. I used to run a social Service Agency in honolulu and one of the things that we came to understand
Thursday, where you stand on the republican bill thats out. I think its a big step in the right direction. Is not perfect and i think as republicans , my message is you cant let perfect be the enemy of good here. Its defining, its declawing obamacare strikes to the heart of obamacare with respect to doing away withthe mandate. Repealing the taxes, gutting the regulations that again is at the heart of government controlled healthcare as i described and then begins the process of reforming with republican reforms that are based in market. Creating a situation where you have insurance competing for us as patients or consumers which i think if you have that dynamic in a robust way, you will have prices go down and you will have better services. And you will empower patients who got tax credits in there, you got expansion of Health Savings accounts, and then you got ways to reform medicaid and give states more flexibility so i think the big step in the right direction, i think there are a c
And the picture is not fully painted unless you look at, what it is called, the Labor Force Participation, rate and i think that a lot of folks probably know what this is, this is, this is the number of, it is calculated as the number of people that are either employed, or unemployed but actively looking for a job. And in 2015, the rate of people without disabilities that were actively par participating in the workforce, was 68. 9 percent and that is compared to the rate of people with disabilities in 2013. Was 20. 3 percent. And i think that it is really important to point out here, and as the table, on this slide, and tries to show, is that while we have seen a slight decrease in the Unemployment Rate of the Disability Community, there is also a very similar decrease in the Labor Force Participation rate of our community. And so really what that, and to me, what that illustrates is that it is not necessarily the Unemployment Rate is falling, because, people are getting jobs, it is be
And full knowledge and moving in a timely fashion to seek to create the programming that will address the need. Okay. And we actually have some other comments from the Council Members . Thank you so much for coming. I just want to make a comment in regards to another population, that often gets overlooked when we are talking about the Disability Community. And that is the veteran population. And so the veterans with disabilities and seeing if you are have it on your radar to connect with other veteran organizations in the city, that are doing some of the same things to insure that veterans with disabilities are receiving the same access to those, highly sought after jobs. I agree, and i was just talking to michael about that, and, the services that we provide, with those Employment Service and benefits are very much in line with what the services they are providing to the plow share and it was very encouraging because i just hired an out reach worker who did an inservice on way that we
And we actually have some other comments from the Council Members . Thank you so much for coming. I just want to make a comment in regards to another population, that often gets overlooked when we are talking about the Disability Community. And that is the veteran population. And so the veterans with disabilities and seeing if you are have it on your radar to connect with other veteran organizations in the city, that are doing some of the same things to insure that veterans with disabilities are receiving the same access to those, highly sought after jobs. I agree, and i was just talking to michael about that, and, the services that we provide, with those Employment Service and benefits are very much in line with what the services they are providing to the plow share and it was very encouraging because i just hired an out reach worker who did an inservice on way that we can collaborate a little better on these efforts and i really appreciate councilman what you were saying, because i t