The Research Evidence does show us that there is a Clear Association between access to healthy food, particularly fruits and vegetables, and Better Health outcomes such as lower rates of all of the things that dr. Angel laid out earlier today. So i could not come to Georgetown Law Center and not cite professor lawrence gostin. He is cited here, when we were looking at the universe of policies that can address fruit and vegetable consumption its vast. Many things we have talked about today can be influenced by Public Policy. To organize our thinking we used this framework to think about the different strategies and put them into some context. We also looked at the different settings where its possible to implement policy related to increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, those settings very broadly are government settings, school settings, which we just mentioned as an important kind of access point. Early childhood settings, retail settings, work sites and generally community
Paris attacks last month that killed 130 people and for which i. S. I. L. Claimed responsibility. The pentagon says this man, 27yearold charaffealmandela ouadan has been in contact with this man, Abdel Hamid Abaaoud who was killed and said to be a leader of the cell that carried out the attacks. At least three of ten killed by u. S. Drones and Coalition Jets were said to be attacked in some way to the paris attacks and were said to be planning additional attacks these are individuals who were specifically working to strike the west. They want to strike in europe and in our very own homeland. It is important that people understand that as long as those external attack planners are operating, the United States military will hunt them and we will kill them. Reporter the pentagon says in the threeweek period this month Coalition Air strikes based on u. S. Intelligence targeted ten separate i. S. I. L. Operatives, killing two on december 7, one on 8th two more on 9 sids and five more on 10,
Live to time square, where security is high, and so are the spirits of new years rev hers. People around the world have been welcoming 2016 with fireworks and celebrations. But in dubai, a different show. The new year began with a towering inferno in the heart of the city. At least 16 people have been reported hurt. The blaze of a luxury sky scraper is nearly contained. But the fire, did not stop the middle eastern city from celebrating. Flames broke out at the address Downtown Dubai about two hours before 2016 began. Authorities say it started outside the 20th floor. Everything is quartered off, and then we saw the flames on the other side of the building, but they were coming around this side, and there was two particular areas one about the 8th floor, and then theres another fire further up, about 25, 30 floors up. Nearly 1,000foot tall sky scraper, parent apartments and part hotel was evacuated. On the ground, thousands of people that gathered to ring in the new year, started runni
Cincinnati, toledo, buffalo, and all across the midwest. There are literally almost a dozen. Its exciting work and its important work and its really focussed on kind of national and regional and local economic policy. Great. Im going to follow up with you again, steve, for a minute. Director rodriguez said that absent federal action, congressional action, we cannot do it all. So, with employmentbased visas, you cant create them or other types of visas. What strategies do you use to overcome those types of challenges . Sure. Make no mistake that the biggest economic boost would be a more sense kal and higher performing federal immigration policy that works for local economies. And maybe even as localized, clearly the challenges that we face in detroit are very different than long beach or new york city. And our skill sets and needs are very different. And probably one size fit all policy might not work as well, but absent that, were trying to do everything we can to take advantage of th