Night, in lookay at the fcc Lifeline Subsidy Program in a plan to include Broadband Access in order to bridge the Digital Divide between higher and lower income americans. The fcc expects to take up the proposal at the end of the month. We will talk with the policy director at the Benton Foundation and daniel lion. We are joined by brandon sasso. Low income consumers need access to broadband. That unclear to me congress would be able to pass a support for directly aimed at low income users. This congress has not been particularly supportive of folks who are in poverty. The conversations that have been on the hill have been hard to decipher. They are putting the cart before the horse or they have not been a study to suggest that these are the drivers keeping low income people from adopting broadband service. We do not know if we need nine dollars a month for 10 Million People or 45 month for 2 Million People. You have to make sure you are employing the money effectively. Fcc has not don
Border crossing and see what happens. People were bringing pinatas wrapped up through the border are nobody even looked in the paper. Canada forg to drugs. I hair dress her i hear it is really bad in our town of pleasant hill, california. They put in the paper for seniors to get tickets downtown. The Rec Department is privatized. It is really bad. They have as doing gutters, fixing our own sidewalks, the dreams that backed up to ring the flooding. I was responsible for that the drains that backed up during the flooding. I was responsible for that, and so is my husband. No one would help. Pulleys, nobody, they cannot do a thing. Where my daughter is in oakland, the police do not even go to your house. 16 hours to go to her house for fingerprinting during a burglary. Her house was broken into. My window was broken on my car. People to come out, only if you threaten them to go to the press, to give a number to you so you can go to the insurance company. What they told me was to go online
Brightest of cuba are found and apprehended and thrown into prison. Theres no open internet there. There arent any dictators in the world. China has written a book on how a dictatorship can control the internet with the great firewall of china and we have the situation that will replicate itself bigtime. Finally he would say this testimony from these unbelievably brave women and men who have suffered at the hands of castro helped steer off the veil of secrecy and an open secret if you will. Its been out there but thankfully its through cspan and maybe thats here and congressmen and women who will see this record you are bearing truth and bearing witness to a very ugly reality that is pervasive. Again i do believe the legitimacy that castro craves and i believe just got a helping hand thats not just might be. The Washington Post and others have aligned on that in their editorials. This was not the time to take that view. They shouldve been an effort to say human rights first. As you sai
Democrats. 2027488002 for independents. You can make a facebook comment or send an email. From Washington Times this morning. Lynch nomination clears committee with gop vote. Guaranteeing she will be confirmed in the full senate next month. Ms. Lynch was approved by the committee on 128 vote. Three republicans joining and backing her. Orrin hatch, Lindsey Graham and jeff flake of arizona. On politico this morning, gop leaders said to swerve dhs off the cliff. First, the good news. Congress appears to have found a way to avoid the shutdown of the department of Homeland Security for the next three weeks. Now, the bad the month is beginning to look grim for the new Republican Congress that has lost the expectations for legislating in 2015. Gop l leaders that will eat the house and senate three weeks to bridge the fundamental differences on funding the department and the longterm and blocking president Barack Obamas changes to the enforcement of immigration policy. Congress must update a a
security at 74 years old. i ve make and i have to pay a tax on $12,000. to me that is ludicrous for seniors to have to pay when they make so little money and turn around and stay positive on it. now you have to decide can i buy my medicine or do i go without food? it s very heartbreaking for seniors of my age to have to make those decisions. is there any help out there for us? guest: thank you for that question and you can e-mail us at our old progressives.org web site. you are perfect example of the type of people they get hit by the present plan. you here in the news that we will have protections for the poorer end of the spectrum but what that means is the poverty line in the poverty line for individuals is $11,490 that means somebody making $12,000 will get hurt even more under the president s plan. it s a fig leaf helping those that are barely scraping by. what help is on the way? the help that has to be on the ways electing people like elizabeth warren who aren t go