At this. Lets look and see if the threat you have faced caused by the fear you identified. Very often, it is not, particularly when it faces the issues of undocumented immigrants. You can watch this on our companion network, cspan. The Consumer Federation of america held their annual food policy conference recently here in washington, d. C. Up next, a keynote address from congressman, jim mcgovern here in the u. S. And his suggestions on how to address it. A panel of experts discuss what they thought would be the food policy priorities of the Trump Administration and how they would contrast with past objectives of the obama and bush administration. My name is thomas kremion, the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you p ffor attending our h annual, National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday. I would like to say, happy passover. As many of you know, Consumer Feder
Meghan stas, senior director and Grocery Manufacturers Association here in washington, d. C. And diana aviv, kre feeding america in chicago, illinois and emily leib, the director of food law policy clinic, harvard law school, jamaica plains, massachusetts. Ill let everybody get to their seats. All right. Miss gunders, if you will begin when you are ready, maam. Ranking member peterson and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify today and be willing to explore this issue. Any name is dana gunders, im a Senior Science at the National Resources Defense Council and the author of a widely cited report on food waste and a book called the wastefree kitchen handbook which is a guide to not wasting food. Imagine walking out of the Grocery Stores with five bags in the parking lot and dropping two and not bothering to pick them up. It seems crazy but that is what were doing when we are wasting 40 of our food. Were leaving entire fields unharvesting and eliminating produce fo
Not to have to file, or pay federal income tax. But one of the things ive not really heard anybody address, we talked about in here the need for the minimum wage to be raised. And when there was an article written recently that indicated for an individual who just accepts the available federal welfare payments, they may be looking at 1,700 a month take home whereas under the current minimum wage its about 1,200 takehome. Well, the incentive there is obviously not to work. But i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. Obviously, that would even increase the disparity between what you take home if you dont work and what you take home if you do work. If you lowered the minimum wage. So thats obviously not going to fix the problem there. But if the minimum wage is raised in puerto rico, since as my friend from californias indicated they have a higher minimum wage, then people would be tempted to go from puerto rico to california to get those hig
They will never get to experience their senior years, three Montgomery County High Schoolers died in a crash in damascus this morning. News 4s Kristin Wright is live at Clarksburg High School where graduation is happening today. Kristin. Reporter well, a moment of silence was held at the very start of the ceremony to remember these three boys who were with us this time yesterday and now theyre gone. Clarksburg High School Class of 2016 starts a new chapter as the lives of Three Friends comes to a sudden end. Evidence of the violent crash still visible on burnt hill road in damascus. So young. Theyre not even seniors yet. Reporter the pickup truck was left mangled and twisted. Police say 17yearold jacob dennis was driving and somehow slammed into a tree near kingsstead road at 11 30 last night. Jacob and his friends cari green, 17, and patrick 18, were killed. They had so much life ahead of them. And so many opportunities, but just things happen so fast. Can never take life for granted
Across the area. What a change coming up. Lets go to the radar view. I woke up at 7 30 this morning, it was completely dry, i had sleet come down covering the driveway and i thought, im not going to be able to come to work. It ended up melting, coming into work at lunchtime, most of the roads were wet and squashy. The areas that you see in paint, as we zoom in closer to the Northern Counties over the past hour, we are seeing a mix of freezing rain and rain. Some of that is intruding along the i95 corridor, so the computer is seen this as rain in the area. We see the green showing up and further south to the west, freezing rain from montgomery county, moore county, into from fayetteville, sampson county, this is falling in the form of rain. Lets take a look at 31 at rdu. When you are watching elizabeth, it was 26, 27, 28. Numbers continue to go up. That means its not able to support anything frozen underground because its warming. 34 in philly fayetteville, 36 goldsboro. Evening and muc