Assistance, like snape, a food program. It is a Great Program in america, but it is not helping people get into employment so they can really raise their incomes and move out of poverty. We need more of that in our Public Policy focus, from washington and from the states. Specifically, what would you do to change the Food Assistance program. Guest iran the program in new york city and we saw a huge ran the in number i program in new york city and we saw a huge increase in number of people getting Food Assistance. But we also wanted to get people and employment as quickly as possible. The two often did not meet. Then we had a program that would provide assistance but it was not set up to encourage people into Employment Services programs, either by encouraging or by requiring. For certain populations, single individuals without children, who are perfectly ablebodied and working age, i think there should be a much greater focus on helping them get into employment and encouraging them to
Reactions would be would be even more difficult. We have come up with three approaches. History. There are times in the past that we thought we discovered life. You can see what the reaction was. Also, the nature of the , acovery, and thirdly culture contact in various analogies that can help illuminate what the discovery would be like. History, discovery, and analogy are my three approaches. Can we go to those one by one . Tell us about history and what there is to learn from our own history about what our possible responses might be to discovery of life. A great deal, although you have to be careful to say you cannot predict the future. It is an analogy itself. If you use history, you can record in detail what happened, but there is projection as to how it might affect the future. Let me take three cases in past history. One of the earliest one is in move something called the hoax which was a series of articles in the new york sun claiming that the famous astronomers sir John Hersche
Important and timely hearing. Im pleased that you are able to join us i have a long history in massachusetts and so happy to see his legacy move on to his niece. Todays hearing is relevant given the proximity to the conflict zone, social networking and the internet and the premier recruitment cools for terrorist gangs expanding far into europe and the United States. These are cheap and ineffective even for isil who has plentiful resources. They focus on various assets of the recruitment and communication strategy. This is what we must attack. Of course we need the cooperation of the transatlantic and regional partners. The National Counter Terrorism Center estimates that as of this month, as many as 12,000 individuals have travelled to syria since 2011 to support the armed militants there. This includes well over 1,000 citizens and more than 100 americans. Other estimates from the allies overseas expect these numbers to be higher. They are a prom ter for what may come. We must work clo
Update, as i mentioned previously, of the 20 or so the brigades, we are beginning to do two things good working with the Iraqi Military leaders to ensure that what occurs on the ground is their campaign, not our campaign. We wanted to be there campaign. Our campaign where we dragged them along for legitimacy. I can assure you that some of the activities all of the activities in and around baghdad have been iraq military leaders establishing priorities and objectives enabled by us. We are making progress. We have to have a larger, longer campaign that actually recaptures lost territory. What risks . By the women, the men and women in uniform understand how to manage risks. They have been trained and equipped for the last 12 years. Zero, never have risks at but i can assure you that these young men and women will mitigate and reduce it to the greatest extent possible. Believelieve do you you have avoided civilian or casualties . Do you have any reason to believe the reports that Senior L
Is stepping down as u. S. Attorney general. President obama says he will leave the department as soon as is confirmed. After that, speeches at the United Nations, and then an update on the usled airstrikes in syria. In an hour, or 2014 debate coverage. , the second Congressional District will be live at 9 00. Next, the president with attorney general holder at the white house from earlier. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and attorney general eric holder. Hello, everybody. Please have a seat. Bobby kennedy once said, on this generation of americans falls the full burden of proving to the world that we really mean it when we say all men are created free and equal before the law. As one of the longestserving attorney generals in American History, eric holder has borne that burden. And over the summer, he came to me and he said he thought six years was a pretty good run i imagine his family agrees. Like me, eric married up. He and his wife, dr. Sharon malone, a nat