While we see progress, it's not sufficient to meet California's economic needs.

The question of intergenerational progress is, 'Are you doing better than your parents? Often when immigrants come, one of the reasons is so that their children will have better lives, and having a better life in California and the U.S. is often associated with more education.

We've made a lot of really good progress lately; things are moving along well. We're optimistic we'll be able to meet that November date.

[The lawmakers said that progress has been made since then, but that more needs to be done.] What a new commission would have to do is more complex than the Kerner Commission, ... It's more complex than passing laws that this House and the Senate passed.

Some progress has been made but much more needs to be done.

While much more progress still needs to be made at both the public and private sector levels to foster greater female labor participation, we believe Japan is finally moving in the right direction.