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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Lectures In History 20160313

Come to the United States. I think it was a wartime thing. Workers were needed. You are exactly right. It started in 1942. What does guestworker mean . Temporary workers. Yes. Guestworker means temporary labor contracts which means they come in and they are recruited to work maybe a couple of months and then they return. Some of them have the option to renew the contract and stay in the United States for multiple years. Guestworker means just that. Think that Guestworker Programs would be important now . Because of the influx of immigrants that come to work . The u. S. Has constantly thought about and enacted agreements for bringing in guest workers. We have seen guestworkers. It brought an the largest Guestworker Program. Guestworker models are popular glob ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Budget And Finance Subcommittee 20160504

Good morning, welcome to San Francisco board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee meeting for may 4, 2016. Im joined by supervisor katy tang and norm lal yee. Do we have announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cords included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted on today will be on [inaudible] item 1 amending the administrative code requiring prepackage food and beverages sold in vending machines on City Property or served at city meetings have [inaudible] we amended a Committee Last week. Our city has a very strong record of prioritizingiment provement in Public Health by encouraging healthy life styles for employee ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 5316 20160509

Director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on th ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 3816 20160309

Be present, kim not present, mar, not present, peskin, present. , tang, present. Wiener, present. , yee, present. You have a quorum ladies and gentlemen these join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] mdm. Clerk any communications . None to report any changes to the federal 2nd 2016 whether Board Meeting minutes . Seeing none, is their motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. 20 past can we take that without objection . Without objection the can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Can we take that without objection . Without objection the motion passes. Was Meeting Minutes will pass after Public Comment unanimously. [gavel] let them cook please call the next item todays special order at to copy him is the appearance by our hon. Mayor edwin lee. There be no ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV Transportation Authority Finance Committee 3816 20160309

I am excited to meet her. I know. And they would have to put in on a spreadsheet each of the 500 or 600 applicants and each one has to be tracked and it is not a pretty sight and what they will do is take the 500 that they pulled the 500 left after they went through housing and the applications to get People Housing and then we will keep that waiting list for at least 3 years and every year they will contact the people on the waiting list and ask them if they are still interested in being on the waiting list and if folks dont get back to them or if they say, no, i am not than the list get shorter and shorter. Then after the 3 years we go to replenish that list. The public will be able to apply again to get on the waiting list. But, for the 4000 and all of those other applicants you know, they have to put their name in the hat the next time. They have to keep applying. Name in the hat the next time. They have to keep applying. That ....

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