When we look through the lens of health 1 of 3 kids is obese or overweight. When we take the collective impact of each of those disparity points, what we see is indeed a generation of young people who are in crisis and there is a cost associated with that crisis, a cost that totals into the more than 150 billion that we estimate it will cost this nation when young people dont graduate. Additional burdens that will come in the health care system. So what we see is that our work is not just about prevention but our work is really about stabilizing the very foundation of this nation in terms of leaders, in terms that we have the work force that we need, and in terms of reducing the burden on our health care system. And we want to let you know that you can call in and join the conversation about what the challenges are facing todays youth or share your own experience with the boys and girls club of america or other sort of mentorship organizations. If you were under 18, you can call us at
Created and developed the avenue of the saints. Thats whats going to create the opportunities in southeast iowa and all over the state, by our ability to focus on developing Job Opportunities for Small Businesses in this state. Lets move now on to the topic of minimum wage. Danielle has a question for senator hatch. Senator hatch, in your campaign, you talk about growing Small Businesses and also increasing the minimum wage. Now, many of the Small Business owners weve heard from say theyre worried about how an increase in the minimum wage would affect their business. How can you be in favor of both . Well, you know, good question. [laughter] but youre assuming that all Small Businesses pay below the minimum wage, which is wrong. Right now, there are 216,000 iowans that get less than the 10. 10 that we are proposing. Thats not a high wage. That allows an individual working 40 hours a week, works by the rules, works hard, works every day, to get just above the level of poverty. No iowan
Important and timely hearing. Im pleased that you are able to join us i have a long history in massachusetts and so happy to see his legacy move on to his niece. Todays hearing is relevant given the proximity to the conflict zone, social networking and the internet and the premier recruitment cools for terrorist gangs expanding far into europe and the United States. These are cheap and ineffective even for isil who has plentiful resources. They focus on various assets of the recruitment and communication strategy. This is what we must attack. Of course we need the cooperation of the transatlantic and regional partners. The National Counter Terrorism Center estimates that as of this month, as many as 12,000 individuals have travelled to syria since 2011 to support the armed militants there. This includes well over 1,000 citizens and more than 100 americans. Other estimates from the allies overseas expect these numbers to be higher. They are a prom ter for what may come. We must work clo
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