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$90 trillion in unfunded liability. you care about kids? stop placing the burden of debt on their shoulders. >> when mothers talk about how to feed their kids today thats a different conversation. >> youre willing to bankrupt the country because you think it is a good cause. >> why respect we talking about not taking food stamps from the less privileged? >> the house republicans passed the wic program. why hasnt the senate snm this is why we shouldnt have tours. we just had a crazy woman try to ...

Governor who is say im going to keep these particular programs open. tom korbut, deeply unpopular from pennsylvania, came out late last week, said he was going to rearrange state funding to continue funding the wic program. head start just got a big $10 million donation. there are tunnels for politicians outside the beltway to use it as a positive. >> there is a way out of this where everybody can claim they stuck to their positions. why wont boehner go this way? >> he will. just might take a co...

Annoyed to have their plans -- they are lucky today, tomorrow maybe not so much. >> all right, alex witt, thanks so much for that report. i want to throw the shutdown into the spin cycle. i was looking over the list of things that would be shut down. you have fda inspections lessening and you have the wic program for mothers and children, nutritional supplements, no irs audits or osh sha inspections and what occurred to me a lot of these things would have a very damaging long-term impact. but ho...

Rates dropped or stayed the same in 40 states you see shaded on that screen and at least 18 states the rate of obesity among low income preschoolers dropped. researchers tracked the height and weight of nearly 12 million low income 2 and 4-year-olds. when it comes to whats contributing to the drop, experts are pointing to a number of factors including changes to the governments wic program to emphasize healthier foods and an increase in breast feeding. the campaign has more than 10,000 child car...

Mandates putting a label. john: it would scare consumers. >> it is misleading consumers to believing something that is false. john: whole foods said they will do it voluntarily. jeff is this enough for you? >> no, i think we need to actually ban gmos, evidence is clear from independent scientists, however, when speaking about labeling, it is not responsible to force gmos on the population, right now for example, wic program gives 2 million children, infant formula, every one of those is genetica...

Mandates putting a label. john: it would scare consumers. >> it is misleading consumers to believing something that is false. john: whole foods said they will do it voluntarily. jeff is this enough for you? >> no, i think we need to actually ban gmos, evidence is clear from independent scientists, however, when speaking about labeling, it is not responsible to force gmos on the population, right now for example, wic program gives 2 million children, infant formula, every one of those is genetica...

Water act. and bob dole bragging about fully funding the violence against women act. we didnt have that in effect for the last year because republicans in the last congress were not sure they were for it anymore. most of them voted against it. bob dole ran for president in 1996 as the republican who rally expanded the food stamp program. republicans all over the country in every state where theyre in control right now are cutting food stamps, trying to cut them federally. the evils of food stamp...

Essentially get rid of the clean water act. and bob dole bragging about fully funding the violence against women act. we didnt have that in effect for the last year because republicans in the last congress were not sure they were for it anymore. most of them voted against it. bob dole ran for president in 1996 as the republican who rally expanded the food stamp program. republicans all over the country in every state where theyre in control right now are cutting food stamps, trying to cut them f...

>> well, of course i want to make sure that families are making enough money so they dont have to rely on wic and snap. we know through our research and this has been known for a long time that the wic program prevents developmental delay. it helps a childs growth potential, extremely important for their school readiness and being ability to arrive to kidder garten ready, and alongside their peers. the fact that we have 50% of american children, 50 percent of the newborns in this country partici...

And head start programs due to federal funding cuts spurred by sequestration. for those folks, today bringing no effect in policy. places like food finders food bank are expecting a 5% drop thanks to cuts in the community development block grant program. nothing happened today to change that. there are local news stories like these across the can country and all because of sequestration. automatic austerity. it doesnt e there. because other sequestration cuts place a greater demand on the nonpro...