So personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. At the same time though Social Security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. Thats one reason i and others have proposed reforming Social Security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. On top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the government. This approach is qualitatively similar to that of the u. K. Australia canada and new zealand. In the u. S. Context you can affordably reduce the elderly poverty rate from todays level of roughly 9 to approximately 0 while increasing the Retirement Savings among the middle and high highincome workers who truly should be saving more. The lesson in all this is that there is no simple problem and no simple solution but a small if more complex problem is better in the retirement crisi cri
The two remaining witnesses on the panels are noshow. They were invited, accepted the invitations and confirmed them of their attendance and we informed them the hearing will proceed so it is unfutunate they have chosen not to chose this official hearing. We will go ahead with the witnesses who did proceed. Thank you very much for coming down from rhode island for this hearing. Thank you. It as a pleasure to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. I am an associate professor at the Brown University center for health. I earned by doctorate from ha r hararharava harvard. Shortterm ozone exposure and health effects. This is based on studies over decades and showing that ozone leads to increased deaths, hospital visits, increased symptoms and more medical use and reduced air function and reduced air levels. A 2010 study by the scientist at emory found in the atlanta area, ozone was linked to higher rates of hospital visits for asthma even at levels below the current standa
Successful fighting in iraq since isis came. The Iraqi Military with ghosts and all of that, they have not done anything to speak of. They achieved an army. The external volunteer fighters as they are called, they are the ones who achieved on the outskirts of baghdad, they held other places. All of that. Are they the favorable way to go . No, for sure. You would rather see the state and military do its job. The military has not functioned, and iraq was left to those groups to defend it. It is hard to speak of them. Yes, they have american blood on their hands from the old days. But so did the others being trained by the United States right now. Who are the recruits from the sunni militia being formed by the United States, equipped, and funded . They are the ones that shot at the americans into lodz and elsewhere into lodz a in fallujah and elsewhere. The american approach, rather than doing something for the Iraqi Military, they are approaching it in a madisonian way. If you have a pro
Were following breaking news as protesters demonstrate across the country. From new york to San Francisco and dozens of cities in between people are taking to the streets calling for racial equality in the wake of the death of george floyd. These are live pictures from philadelphia and denver. Those are just a couple of the dozens of cities seeing similar peaceful protests today. It was a different story last night. Some of the protests have turned violent with police clashing with demonstrators and demonstrators destroying storefronts and police cars. In minnesota where the protests began the governor has activated the National Guard and is calling for demonstrators to stay home tonight. But today we learned that many of the acts of violence are being carried out by extremists hoping to damage the imobject of peaceful demonstrators. Heres what the minnesota governor had to say. The situation in minneapolis is no longer in any way about the murder of george floyd. It is about attacking