To lawmakers about Mental Health care and Suicide Prevention programs for veterans and their families. The witnesses testify on why some are not receiving the necessary treatment and how a new law passed last year is trying to address the issue. This hearing is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] committee come to order. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being with the committee for todays oversight hearing entitled combating the crisis evaluating efforts to prevent veteran suicide. As the hearing title suggests, we are here this morning to discuss the ongoing veteran suicide crisis that, according to the latest Data Available from the department of Veterans Affairs, finds 22 veterans a day dying at their own hands. Im disappointed that the v. A. Was not able to release updated veteran suicide statistics at this time for this hearing. I understand that the center for Disease Control finally provided National Data to v. A. In the middle of march. Considering the critica
You here on the hill and in the hill surrounds are interested to come out to hear about what scholarship has to tell us about the dynamics of change in American Families, change in americas socioeconomic class structure, what it all has to do with child well being and whether or not policy can leverage change to our good. Id like to thank the annie e. Casey foundation, particularly the director of policy reform for being such great partners to us and making this segment happen. Our sincere gratitude to senator casey and senator scott for their interest in these issues and for being gracious enough to sponsor us here today. As you probably discerned by now, we were in the middle of a little bit of an audiovisual challenge, so i had to show you a very gracious taped greeting from senator tim scott. I could play it from my laptop with the volume turned the whole way up facing you, but i think that would be foolish at this point, so i wont. But i will ask jared from senator caseys office t
Lifetime job so that we wouldnt feel pressure to do a decision based on Public Opinion from fear that somehow we will be driven from our work. And so were not thinking about Public Opinion in terms of reaching the answer that we believe the law compels. Every year, if you read our most sensitive decisions, you will see us recognizing the impact those decisions might have on people. In every sensitive opinion the court is very aware when one of its decisions is going to be particularly difficult for some people in the society. Its recognized in our writing. But we do take pride on the fact that we are voting according to what we think the constitution or the laws require. That means that we can be aware of what the effect will be. We can even acknowledge it. But thats a different thing from letting it determine the outcome of a decision. [ applause ] now, would the students please not leave . Im coming down now. I would like to take a picture with the students who are here because they
Photography as a mechanism for poverty in new york city during the late 19th and early 20th century. Like of congress for the book hosted this event. Thank you everybody. Im here to introduce bonnie yochelson. Whom i was lucky enough to work on the book. Bonnie is originally from the d. C. Area. But shes made her long time home in new york city. She graduated from college. Pursued a masters and doctorate from new york university. Early in her career; he was back in d. C. Working in the print room. From 1987 she was a curattor of prints and photographs at the museum at the city of new york. Thats since leaving the museum, shes been an independent curator and photographic historians working with the New York Historical society and the south Sea Port Museum. Since 1988 she taught in the msa program in the department of photography, video at the school of visual arts in new york. In addition to the thesis show bonnie carried numerous exhibition at the ubs art gallery in new york in 2001. T
All while writing this book and compiling the first catalog of riiss photograph. In the years it has taken to get these exhibitions mounted and this book published kb eed bonn worn ever single type of hat in the business and none of this could have been possible without her talent, energy and passion for her subject. With that, i will let bonnie take the stage. [ applause ] jacob rhys. Amy, thank you so much, im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay so im going to read pretty much lets see what we have to say here. The jacob im going repeat what amy did to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of this project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition now on view in the Jefferson Building at the library of congress is the result of a collaboration of the past several years between the library and the museum and the city of new york. The museums owns riiss photograph of new york city slums in the late 19th century. These photographs are the earliest evid