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It had a countercyclical role and, very importantly, the rigorous evidence shows food stamps raises the nutritional quality of poor children. That this a clear fact when you look at the evaluation evidence on that. And those children [inaudible] so, therefore, a rise in food stamps somehow proving that obama has been a failure is simply another falsehood, in my view. The earned income tax credit. The report does have a positive paragraph or two on the earned income tax credit, then it talks a lo...

And we are pleased to have three members of the house today to talk about their report and here reactions from notable experts on the programs. But first, and perhaps most importantly, we are going to start outside of washington. And hear from experts in the field of helping lowincome americans moving up. They work in places far removed from the halls of congress about their work has informed some of the ideas contained in the steering committees report. I have a special affinity for these outsi...

Death penalty and my name is dale. I teach law at georgetown and to run a Supreme Court practice. We are here to talk about the Death Penalty, where its going and i cant imagine a better group of panelists. Over here is the president of the Southern Center for human rights. You know in my mind the leading Death Penalty litigants in the country. And has been for a number of years traveling throughout the country to bring these cases. He had a big one in the Supreme Court or couple weeks ago ago w...

Veterans outside of the system, so important. We are going to ensure every veteran in america gets timely access to topquality care including the best care in the world for our female veterans. [cheers and applause] the Veterans Health system will remain a public system because it is a public trust but never again will we allow any veteran to suffer or die waiting for care. That means veterans will have the right to go to a va facility or the right to see a private doctor or clinic of their choi...

Isis is so much more adept at social media than anything we have able unable to do then able to do. Rep. Mccaul we have a new generation of terrorists that are very effective on the internet that have radicalized enough people to recruit 40,000 jihadists into iraq and syria, the largest convergence in history. Now they do the external operations, same with northern africa. We have to counter that message. Some private companies, google, facebook, they are stepping up to the plate to counter the ...

Candidates. But most of the candidates has has a character test. Like senator mccain. Im not sure donald trump does that. He does a lot of time bragging about chasing women, and that he is than everyone else. That is not necessarily lincolnesque. Finally, do you have a sense of who hillary should take as mate . Nning is a lot of names i would be happy with. Elizabeth warren is one of them. Sherrod brown. Tim kaine. Have really solid progressive credentials that would be a real asset. Obviously, ...

Cannot be a more timely conversation and could be not more timely because the labor market is the worst part is a benefits have expired, both of which we have done in recent years. I wanted to provide some broad economic context that motivates the reforms. Talk about some of the economic benefits of ui, and talk about some of the ways the Current System could be strengthened and present proposals the president put forward, but notably, these proposals have a lot in common with a lot of the propo...

The street. Our city is facing challenges. We cant deny that. Neighborhood crime is up and homeless is a pressing concern. The need for reform in the Police Department is evident. 20 million would go towards reform and maybe purchasing body cams. There is the passage of a voter approved sales income tax in november that would pay for the homeless and transit services. Coming up at five. We will have more on the improvements meaning streets and parks. Back to you. Tell us with the new acting poli...

Pay for educators and more count opportunities for the students to have a successful opportunities to throw our curriculum jrotc is going fine i think this is shameful to pick jrotc and put jrotc in the light that is under tissue attack additional if we choose the funding for jrotc then i dont know why were not all upset and going up to the representatives and in the u. S. House to the u. S. Senate and demanding the resources we need that we preserve to need for our Jrotc Program it is unfair to...

Lets step forward open prohibition i was born at night but not last time last night you lift this Port Commission prohibition that leads on attack for the opportunities for students that need it the most we need more teachers in every classroom and less students in the math and science and higher pay for educators and more count opportunities for the students to have a successful opportunities to throw our curriculum jrotc is going fine i think this is shameful to pick jrotc and put jrotc in the...