they say leave your guns at home when you go out to dine. but it s not just leaving your guns at home that s in the news. an increasing strain in this conversation is about putting your money where your mouth is. so look at yourself. where do you invest? more than 51 million people have a 401(k). and $1.97 billion mutual fund dollars are invested in three american public gun companies. money some gun safety advocates say could trigger change. they re making money off the backs of dead people. i just can t tolerate it. and i won t let my money support it. get that thing out of my home, out of my assets, out of my future. i wish i could get it out of my past. but at least i can get it out of my 401(k). could divestment be more in the gun war. the father of two children, who survived the shooting at sandy hook elementary. he also appeared in that video you just saw. also, jennifer fiore, the
skipping meals, sending their children to family and friends homes to eat. borrowing food, borrowing money and then coming to one of our 3,000 food pantries soup kitchens or homeless shelters during the last two weeks of the month trying to be able to get enough food to feed themselves. it s a working parent earning less than $7.20 an hour or $15,000 a year. i want to follow up on two things there. one, your point these are often working folks, that this is poverty that is associated with people actually having jobs. and the other thing the way that this hits kids, one of the things we see in schools, for example, is during the last week of the month often the more discipline problems because kids are actually coming to school hungry. is that the sort of thing that you re pointing out to us here? absolutely. and we pay a horrible high cost for hunger. hunger is merely a symptom of poverty and in our state, we ll spend $6.97 billion in
to do in syria by china and russia, which says it will block any move to action. western and arab league countries maintain russia is in the best position to put pressure on the syrian government by discontinuing trade with syria. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends that trade between syria and russia jumped 58% last year. with the two-way trade number climbing to $1.97 billion. 97% of that money comes from russian exports into syria. enough of the real news, let s huddle up around the water cooler to watch 6-year-old, 6-year-old lori ann madison of woodbridge, virginia, the youngest contestant in the history of the scripps national spelling bee. this is her star turn. let s watch little lori anne attempting her first word in the competition. dirigible.