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
anniversary on sunday. 27-year-old john laramer was the youngest of five children. a navy notification team contacted his family last night. 24-year-old jessica ghawi who moved to denver to pursue a career as a sports reporter was shot in the leg and then in the head. she narrowly missed a shooting at a mall in canada just last month. and 6-year-old veronica moser the youngest victim. her mother still doesn t know he her daughter was killed. she is fighting for her life. how is the overall community reacting, andrew lev anna? 20 pastors led a vigil for 350 people. some hugging and crying. a sign there read 7/20, gone not foregotten. among those attending the sir moan any was a father of a
he planned to ring in his 27th birthday at the movie and celebrate his first wedding anniversary on sunday. 27-year-old john laramer was the youngest of five children. a navy notification team contacted his family last night. 24-year-old jessica ghawi who moved to denver to pursue a career as a sports reporter was shot in the leg and then in the head. she narrowly missed a shooting at a mall in canada just last month. and 6-year-old veronica moser the youngest victim. her mother still doesn t know he her daughter was killed. she is fighting for her life. how is the overall community reacting, andrew lev anna? 20 pastors led a vigil for 350 people. some hugging and crying. a sign there read 7/20, gone
raised to $20 an hour. i wish the protesters knew basic economics and so does economist josh barrows. let me take them one at a time. the minimum wage should be higher. now, $7.20. should be 20 bucks. you will not get employers to mire people for more money that are then he producing. theyville to. it is the law. the stuff won t get done. move it around on the mark, $7 to $8 doesn t look like it matters that much. get up around 20 and you will drive unemployment up through the roof. college should be free. i think this is really funny because you see the protesters. they are upset they spent all this money on education that is not useful for them and they are not finding the jobs they thought they could get. if you make education free people will be less discretionary about what they get degrees in and the education sector will be more wasteful. we need people to think harder
i wish the protesters knew basic economics and so does economist josh barrows. let me take them one at a time. the minimum wage should be higher. now, $7.20. should be 20 bucks. you will not get employers to mire people for more money that are then he producing. theyville to. it is the law. the stuff won t get done. move it around on the mark, $7 to $8 doesn t look like it matters that much. get up around 20 and you will drive unemployment up through the roof. college should be free. i think this is really funny because you see the protesters. they are upset they spent all this money on education that is not useful for them and they are not finding the jobs they thought they could get. if you make education free people will be less discretionary about what they get degrees in and the education sector will be more wasteful. we need people to think harder about what degrees they get.