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Assistance for rent, utilityities, and deposits. Assistance with lan lord landlord tenant issues and application and appeals process. They provide education, employment, and job search. Transportation assistance. Financial literacy and budgeting, and physical and Mental Health care refers federals. Referrals. Our West Virginia benefit Assistance Program began as a pilot serving 25 veterans. They provide outreach to veterans in the Community Using a peer model. These volunteer vets are certified ...

Force behind the creation of southern california. He became the first chief judge of the District Court serving in that position until he was appointed to the ninth Circuit Court of appeals. Judge carter judge keep graduated from the San Diego School of law as its valedictorian, becaming the first female judge for the Southern Court of california and later the first female chief judge. And this honors judge john rhodes who served as a federal judge in san diego for 22 years and was widely respec...

Have a bone in my body, i will not fail my son. I promise him im going to fight stand for him and speak for him because he is no longer there to speak for himself. This is something we demand. We paid a horrible price to be here. [indiscernible] that eric garner was killed. I am so sorry for that. Michael brown, im sorry that it has to end like this. But this is not the end because of the sea of people who said we who stood up and said we need justice. We cannot close the book. We have to carry ...

More coming up maureen. Thank you, doug. To the developing story of an attempted holdup of an armored truck that left a suspect wounded. Police say a guard opened fire on the suspects when they tried to rob the dunbar armored truck in the parking lot at eastern marketplace plaza in chantilly. One suspect was hit. Both fled. Fairfax county police found the suspects a short time later on the Fairfax County parkway, one was arrested and the other has been hospitalized. No word on their identities a...

During my 23 years as a Police Officer from the oldschool you didnt see that but now you do. You see that probably because of social media and more exposures to a bad health can do to you. I think also young officers are more apt to go for psychological help if they need it. Again the oldschool probably not so much. One of the sad things i have seen in my research into ptsd is that when they look up a mortality studies of Police Officers, Police Officers compared to the general population die at...

Ladies and gentlemen, this marks a historic event for the veteran community. Clay hunt was an amazing and man. It is fitting we are here to sign a bill into law with his name on it. I first met clay in the marine corps. I saw an bodied in hand embodied in him the ideal. And afghanistan during our second to her, he was frustrated. I ask him then, why are you here . Is said, im here for you, jake. That was the type of guy clay was. Clay left the marine corps is a proud veteran. I went down to hait...

Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in ch...

Rn. She is 38 years old. Her Interest Rate is 8. 5 interest from the government. Why is the Interest Rate so high on these Student Loans . Guest it is not high relative to what they would be paying from a private lender. It is a subsidized rate. There is a new innovation in the student loan market when they with private lenders. Host linda, what is your situation . Caller my husband has Student Loans. There are so many things being said that are not true. We started out with 31,000 in Student Lo...

You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younge...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have ...