Organized meeting at uc berkeley. But it took a turn and tempers flared. Police had to step in and this doesnt bode well for this weekend. Reporter lots of emotion for two groups of opposing views flts both members of the groups say they plan to attend ral this weekend. There was enough shouting and concern for safety that someone called police. Tempers flared when liberal the activists with by any means necessary wont allow members of College Republicans and berkeley patriots into their rally planning meeting. They have posted flyers. We have to organize and confront them and stop them. But when people with conservative views showed up, they refused to let them in. The University Police responded to sort it out. Members of both sides say they plan to attend the rally on saturday and the no to marxism event. The rallies are white supremacist events while conservatives say they are about free speech. Both are predicting the Opposing Side will incite violence. These rallies wont be viole
Ones. The high cost of living, fromle lowed by housing and traffic. People shared why they are so disenquantitied. Jana. Reporter people that we talked to today shared some of those concerns that its just getting too expensive and too much of a hassle to stay in the bay area. Ask people what problems they face in the bay area, and many will tell you straight up. You have to work two jobs to maintain here in the city. Reporter adora gibson was born and raise understands San Francisco, but moved to antioch two years ago to escape city problems. It was overcrowded. Expensive, cost of living, and too much traffic. Reporter so you went to antioch. And it was even more traffic. So i thought might as well deal with it here. Reporter now those problems might drive her out of the bay area all together, into oregon. In the next six to nine months, maybe. That soon. Reporter the 2017 survey by the council found that 20 of those responded think they are might leave the bay area in the next two yea
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Im carin bowen and a senior here the american enterprise. Well conclude this series. We are also us a grateful to the Bradley Foundation of milwaukee wisconsin, supporting this lecture series for more than a quarter century. When peter schuck giving a electric noor washington about hit new book, one nationen decide, Clear Thinking about five hard issues that divide us, we jumped the chance for peteer is one of the cleese expose thoughtful legal and policy scholars of this and or in the generation, a Professor Emeritus of law at jail and an aei visiting scholar in 1979, the year i arrived at aei. The author of among many other books, why government fails so often and how it can do better, understanding america, the institutions and policies that shape america in the world, and then coed it with our colleague, wilson, and finally, meditations of a militant bloggerrist, cool news on hot topics. Tonight copies of
A troubling statistic i discussed in the book is 40 of the sons born to fathers in the lowest quintile of income remain in lowest quintile of income and so demography is often destiny. If you are born to a father who was very polar, theres a very good chance, not overwhelming chance, but a very good chance youre going to be poor as well. To the discussion that poverty relates to blacks and i discuss why that is the case then why much of this discussion can be very misleading. The poverty rate is slightly lower than that of native americans and alaska natives. But more important point is more than 75 of blacks are not poor so the kinds of generalizations and images with warm are unfortunately quite inaccurate, though it is the case that many, too many blacks are born into poverty and will remain in poverty. The most important conclusion that i think analysts of poverty have come through in trying to determine what the trend is is that today, the class gap is even greater than the racial
While we wait for this event with Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell to get under way, well show you some of todays white house briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I to not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Could you say what role the white house played, if any, in terry carter ordering the pentagon to stop recruitment recoupment of the enlistment bonuses sought from some guard members . Mr. Earnest as you know, the president makes the fair treatment of our Service Members a top priority. Officials at the department of defense and as i alluded to yesterday, the president has been pleased to see in the last 24 hours the department of defense make some specific commitments to ensuring that our Service Members are treated fairly. When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it. Certainly thats the view of the president. And we certainly want to avoid a situation where Service Members are punished because of nefarious or fraudule