130 days later. He moved to the United States in 2009 and is a visiting fellow at Virginia Tech and a human rights and Digital Freedom advocate. Welcome, nice to have you with us. Next is jim slatery a former congressman from congress from 1983 to 1995. Currently a partner at wiley ryan, llp, the first former congressman to visit iran since the revolution and attended the world against violence and extremism conference in tehran in december of last year. Hes been involved in interfaith dialogue with iran for ten years. Jim, welcome. Thank you. And next is michael fing, former senior director for middle east affairs at the National Security counsel from 2005 to 2008 and currently a senior fellow at the washington institute. During his tenure at the white house, my coal was responsible for coordinating u. S. Policy towards the middle east including an emphasis on Irans Nuclear and regional activities and his National Security adviser, i did whatever he told me to do on the subject of whi
Week. Its been six years since the minimum wage was raised. Some in congress say now is the time to raise it again. Things are Getting Better. They are only Getting Better for some. We know corporate profits have continued to break records while americans are working harder and getting paid less. Some say raising the minimum wage will cost jobs, citing a nonpartisan study by the congressional budget office. If we mandate a higher minimum wage, we would lose 500,000 to one million jobs immediately. Thats the last thing we want. We dont want to create more unemployment. We want higher employment. More education and better worker training are the key to improving the lives of minimum wage workers. Now its time to meet one of the students on the grand prizewinning team. She is joining us. Where were you when you heard the news you won the grand prize . I was in the principals office. For the first time i didnt have anything to say. Were you surprised that you won . My team and i would joke
We want to know what you have to say. The numbers are on the screen. You can also send us a tweet. Or you can go to facebook and send us also an email. We begin with the front page of the New York Times in their true stories on what police said yes on what the Justice Department said yesterday. The second story calls for reforms from the Justice Department. And the New York Times reporting on wednesday we begin with eric holder yesterday, the attorney general, at the Justice Department outlining this report. [video clip] records show a really disturbing history of unnecessary force against people with mental illness. The overwhelming majority of force, almost 90 , is directed against africanamericans. This deeply alarming statistic points to one of the most pernicious aspects that our investigation uncovered, that these policing practices disproportionately harm africanamerican residents. In fact, our view of the evidence found no alternative explanation for the disproportionate impact
This is the exigent price increase. The exigent price increase becomes the baseline and cpi begins in 2015 and going for. Not cpi plus one, but Going Forward. If there is some kind of agreement between the Postal Service and the prc on a new rate structure, fine. If not, we stay at cpi. In the bottom righthand corner of this spreadsheet, the most important number to me, and i think to dr. Coburn, is net cash balance at the end of 2023 of 7 billion. That sounds like a lot of money, but that is out of 750 billion over a tenyear period. Less than 1 . This assumes no recession for 10 years, we are concerned about that. What the postmaster has done, at our urging, to recognize that 10 years is a long time with no recession, and to tamp down revenues on the out years. They have reduced their forecast expectations. By 1 billion in 2021 and 2022. We will still probably have a recession, but we have urge the Postal Service to be conservative, the adjustments they have made does that. The most i
We export options, theres another option which is that you give a limited benefit up front that everybody gets it. But at least the tail for the Insurance Industry to cover, and that may be less comfortable for them. But i think we need to look at these options and see what is it that the Public Sector can do in d d that creates some space for private sector innovation. Thats where id like to see us explode. The last thing ill ask, and its a question for the record, if any of the witnesses have information are on what you believe the governments present exposure to longterm care of the liability is right now, as we speak. If you have any way to quantify what the cost is of that, that will our discussion in terms of being able to try to work with people to figure out, and income is going to pay for this to a degree anyway and theres a smarter way to do it, i would like to have that conversation, bearing in mind what the experts say we are going to pay for this anyway. I seem to recall t