The Opioid Crisis in your community . If you live in eastern and central time zones, call 2027488000. Mountain and pacific region, call 2027488001. If you have been personally affected by the Opioid Crisis, call 2027488002. Andocial media cspanwj facebook. Com cspan. We want to hear your stories about how the Opioid Crisis has affected you in your community. The chart from the cdc is an overview of the epidemic. You see the numbers spiking among men and women of all races and of all age groups. 2011rom overdoses of and continuing to presentday. Statistic, that conveys the sheer scale of the u. S. Opioid crisis. They say in West Virginia officials has spent nearly 1 million on the transportation of corpses in the fiscal year ending june 30. They told a newspaper that the number of body transports nearly doubled from 2015 to 27th 2017 at 880 people died in the state of overdoses last year, the highest rate in the u. S. And in ballmer had to come out of retirement. , spokeessman, republic
I want to thank the council for asking me to do this, because it forced me to do some things easy to put off which is reading a book you need to read, and i enjoyed reading sebastians book. In journalism, editors sometimes refer to this story is as dbi, dole that important. In the papers the world bank is right up there in the top five dbi topics. Whats sebastian has done is discovered there there is a wol character at the center of the world bank and made it quite easy to read the books. I recommend it to all of you and its not just because i happened to be sitting here. Sebastian has been a columnist since 1999 and spent 13 years on the staff of the economist in zimbabwe and london, japan and in washington. He was trained in oxford where he obviously learned a lot, but he writes in the back of the book that he also prepared for this assignment after college by working for two months as a Truck Drivers assistant in chile after which he wrote through peru, ecuador, bolivia and brazil a
Would like again to thank you all for sharing your stories and insights. The commission absolutes all of you and the work that you do to care for the very broad and diverse immigrant community we have in San Francisco. We also thank the staff at the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs for tonights hearing and sfgov tv and office of city administrator for its support. The immigrant Rights Commission is now adjourned. [meeting adjourned] were here to raise awareness and money and fork for a good accuse. We have this incredible gift probably the widest range of restaurant and count ii destines in any district in the city right here in the mission intricate why dont we capture that to support the mission youths going to college thats for the food for thought. We didnt have a signature font for our orientation thats a 40yearold organization. Mission graduates have helped me to develop special as an individual theyve helped me figure out and provide the tools for me that i need
House building on capitol hill where shortly agriculture secretary sonny perdue is set to testify. Hell update members on the state of the Rural Economy. Actually, governor perdue, seen on your screen right there, live coverage here expected to get underway momentarily on cspan 3. Many which we dont even know. On this occasion, we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry, and that your blessings come upon our new secretary of agriculture, sonny perdue. Dear heavenly father, finally we thank you for your holy spirit. For oftentimes we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but your holy spirit intercedes for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. We thank you for that. And we ask your holy spirit to enter this room today. These and other blessings we ask in your son, christ jesus name, amen. David, thank you. Mr. Secretary, welcome. You and i have had several conversations before this morning. Let me officially congratulate you on becoming our nations 31st secretary
Birthday in march, the reality of spending more than 1500 nights away from my family over eight years hit me harder than it had before. Representative chaffetz was first elected in 2009. Agriculture secretary sonny purdue testified before congress for the first time yesterday since taking office. He briefed members of the housing a which you are committee on the role of farming, on rural economies throughout the United States. This hearing runs about three and a half hours. Good morning, the hearing on the committee of agriculture entitled state and Rural Economy, secretary of agriculture sonny purdue will come to order. Ive asked david scott to open for us. David . Sure, bow our heads, please. Dear heavenly father we come before your throne of grace to first of all say thank you, we thank you for so Many Blessings that you bestow upon us, many which we dont even know. On this occasion, we ask a special blessing on our agriculture industry and that your blessings come upon our new secr