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Safeguarding people’s health has been the global priority amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. In Bhutan, emerging lessons show how nutrition and other aspects of health are intricately related to the management of food security during the current crisis, and beyond. The country’s leaders have used moral suasion alongside policy measures to demonstrate that good nutrition need not be a luxury. Attribution: Om Bhandari, “Safeguarding Food Self-Sufficiency in the Time of COVID-19: Lessons from Bhutan,” ORF Issue Brief No. 429, December 2020, Observer Research Foundation. INTRODUCTION Global t...

Prison system that focuses on being poor. our current criminal justice system is not working. >> you know, because you have such a strong online presence, i meanac mean yang gang is all over the internet. so i decided i wanted to go online and get some questions. let's hear from somebody who actually is not here in the audience but wants to get their question answered by you. >> hi, andrew. i'm over 50, i know i don't look like it and i'm not worried about a robot taking over my job. my question for you is why should i and my fellow baby boomers support you? >> well, the problems i'm trying to...

So let's not make this out to be everybody's getting this merry christmas present. >> it's a pr exercise. what about the argument if the little guy wins, he doesn't mind if the big guy wins too, do you buy that? >> there's a wonderful benjamin franklin quote that the american people would rather protect the possibility of being rich than face the reality of being poor. and apparently that's held for 250 years. tends to be billionaires one day and therefore this system works for them. the problem is that's not the reality of american life. the reality of american life, we just spent $1 trillion...

State of georgia, and if you help people to access the ladders of opportunity that lift people into the middle class, you are guilt they of aiding and abetting poor people in their crime of being poor. >> reverend warnock, on the issue of expanding medicaid, what you have focused on in your protests thus far, things just got worse, you could say, in the state of georgia. they passed additional laws making it even more difficult to potentially expand medicaid in the future, and this comes on top of the fact that it is disproportionately poor folks who are impacted by southern states' failure to...