The candidates are really important. I think the mechanics are even more important. The only hesitation ive ever had is i think its important to give back to normal life. A nineyearold, fouryearold, have a backyard and a simpler operation. Dear kids like it here . New york its like it here . Its obvious when we go back to kenosha, it is life in wisconsin. Theou talked about rejection of the president s policies. I am curious about how you explain some of the ballot initiatives. What do you take from that in terms of whether republicans should start thinking about lines like that . These are the issues that the legislators have to look at and they have to decide how they want a government agent these different dates. They had differences and the national agenda. As far as minimum wage and marijuana is concerned, i personally dont believe that artificially raising the minimum wage is going to put more money in peopless pockets because eventually inflation goes up and products cost more.
Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vendors. I can be expensive. We leverage our partnerships with various companies. They service the distribution platforms. Where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even statebystate, but on a nationwide approach because we have the ageappropriate messaging. It is not a onesizefitsall. And we can track these kids fr
Employment, they tend to have less or no recidivism. They dont go back into the criminal lifestyle. They become taxpayers. If they have had some type of alcohol or drug addiction, they stop that. They become clean, they become sober, they become homeowners, they become taxpayers, they become all the great things that we envision for all of our citizens in San Francisco. And i just want i believe that we definitely need a unanimous vote. I think we need to accepted that message to sacramento. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. And before our next speaker im going to call up 10 more name cards. Madam clerk, are there any more cards for this item . Thank you. So, i have charlie goss. Jesse stoute. Michelle rodriguez. Roxanne doningues shell. C. P. Van derhorst. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. And anisha [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, my name is manuel la fontaine. Im a proud member of all of us or none, a fa their, [speaker not understood] l
Sure you can ban that box. Good afternoon, im pete riley with the California Partnership and were a statewide coalition of antipoverty organization. Thank you to you, supervisor kim, and your cosponsors, for bringing this forward. We see poverty is created by a bunch of big things but can be aloe limb nayedth by little things. We strongly encourage you to make a big move on. We do work at the state level and have been heavily involved in the conversations around recidivism and correction spending and we think a unanimous vote from the San Francisco board of supervisors would go a long way. There is an open conversation in sacramento about what are resolutions, how can we get to incarcerating less people and bringing people home safely. This would take a huge step and really send up a flag to put the energy into that conversation in sacramento. So, wed love to have that wind at our backs when were having this conversation. Also ive got a second to make a Public Service announcement. Fol