The final summit for 2023. And it certainly does provide an opportunity to reflect on what the group has or has noticed achieved during 2023. Of course, the t issue is the crisis in me and ma, the escalation in violence. The increase in attacks on civilians, more than 4000. 00 killed in violence that the government says that it has no comment on us reports that north koreas leader will travel to russia later this month. Us diplomats suspect that kim jong done is planning to send wessons to russia for the war, and ukraine versus defense minister says funds for joint military exercises have already been discussed. How did you construct a small from washington dc . The meeting between conjunction and Vladimir Putin may occur this month with the north Korean Leader traveling by armor, train it to the russian coastal city of flat eva stalk and potentially from there onto moscow. The white house said last week that high level talks between russia and north korea. Were actively advancing with
But defining the middle class is much easier said than done. According to an American Community survey from 2013, to be considered middle class in pennsylvania, you need a Median Household Income of about 52,000 a year. In new jersey, its 70,000. And in delaware, about 58,000. But theres more to those numbers. Where the middle class lives, what they do, how they think may have as much of an impact when it comes to defining the middle class as their salary. Joining me now are two experts who know more about the middle class in our area than just about anybody. Larry eichel is the director of the Philadelphia Research initiative for the Pew Charitable trusts. The initiative released an extensive report on the citys middle class several years ago. Also joining the conversation, ira goldstein, the president of policy solutions for reinvestment fund. Reinvestment fund has done Expansive Research on philadelphias middle class neighborhoods. Thank you both for coming in. Larry eichel great to
We need to cut off trade routes that terrorist organizations use to finalize goods. The same strategies we need to combat antiquities trafficking can be used in a broader strategy to combat isis. This task force discussed the roots that isis used to smuggle cash, we learn many of these routes run through turkey and jordan and has prepared marks for for todays hearing it was indicated that isis is using similar routes to smuggle antiquities of its territories. In addition he notes lebanon as was the volken route through greece and bulgaria are being used to smuggle illicit commodities. Currently theres ample opportunities for terrorist groups with a low risk of being caught. We need to do a better job police in these routes isis can no longer smuggle antiquities out of the territory that it controls. For the more we must curtail the laundering of antiquities that make it out of isis control of territory so these goods cannot be integrated into legitimate markets. As lawrence and mention
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