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Maryland this morning. To pitch hiS Health Care plan. The Affordable Care act passed both houses of congress. The bill is passed i signed it into law. [ cheers and applause ] their candidate for president t ran on a plat foreign minister to platform to repeal. Obama care is the law of the land. Two steps forward. Listen, the am scan people dont want the president S Health Care bill. 39 steps back. Speaker boehner hunkered down. Threat of the government shutdown. Shutting down the government. Wha...

Which led to medicaid, medicare, subsidized housing, and head start. Five decades later, many say another war on poverty is needed. We will speak with Peter Edelman , author of, so rich, so poor why its so hard to end poverty in america. Dennis Al Qaeda Linked militants take the key iraqi city of falluja, the Obama Administration moves to help arm the iraqi forces. We are accelerating our Foreign Military sales and deliveries and looking to provide additional shipment of hellfire missiles as ear...

To note that. Finally let me say on our i didnt touch on our other nutrition programs among the 15, we know unfortunately theyre needed more than ever now than. They didnt exist during the last depression. These programs are really important. They are important that they are responsive as well. Responsive not only in terms of individual need but whats going on in the American Economy. And i mention that very importantly as it pertains to the s. N. A. P. Program. S. N. A. P. Had a Significant Gro...

President ick with the this morning and begin with his comments yesterday as the wall street ceo council or he talked about how washington gridlock does not necessarily reflect divisions in our country. Republicans as well. Send us a tweet. Or post on facebook. You can also email us. Let me show you the president in his own words yesterday. He was interviewed by a columnist for the paper. Here is what he had to say about washington gridlock. When you go to other countries, the political division...

Have. You can bring the wellvetted idea up the chain here. And that is valuable to know our power to be confidant in who we are and not shy way from that. So that is four barriers i think are important to go over to set the tone of some of the obsticals. As we look at leading at all levels that sets the context. How can we get young women and everybody to lead at all levels from student up to president to ceo or superintendent in my case. And i can the first tenant of this was talked about but i...

331 of these counties are represented by republicans. And 18 are split between the two parties. From that impersistent poverty should matter to all of us, regardless of party, geography, or race and ethnicity. In early 2009 when we were putting to the the recovery act, i proposed language to require at least 10 of funds in Rural Development account to be directed to projects in these persistent poverty counties. This requirement was enacted in law. In light of the definition of persistent povert...

Was always on hiring. Increasing hiring. And i think that there are some aspects of the Affordable Care act particularly higher up the income ladder that the and on businesses, that they are reluctant to hire to the extent that they might have given the uncertainty or the requirements in the program. And thats just very difficult for people who are on welfare programs trying to help low income people get into jobs. Because, sometimes those jobs are discretionary hires. You know they may not real...

Though it is very difficult thing to measure we used the income as a proxy, we know that this is a high cost of living in San Francisco and that the federal pofcy are not adjusted so we use a below 200 percent of poverty as a proxy for being at risk for Food Insecurity. And i am going to show you a map right now that just kind of illustrates the number of residents that are at that income level, in each census district and the darker colors are showing the concentration between 2,000 and 3800 re...

Program and when we push to raise the minimum wage, one of the important lenses to look through is how is it affecting the women who are, 1 3 of whom are on the brink or actually living in poverty . Mr. Garamendi those statistics are a wakeup call for america. More than half the population are female. And yet our policies are not womenfriendly policies. Our laws are not womenfriendly laws. And we need to change that. Id like now to ask my colleague from california, longtime city councilwoman in ...

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