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crop insurance. so if our producers experience weak yields or low prices, the federal government will make sure they get through until the next growing season. insurance companies can also depend on a steady flow of cash. a government sponsored insurance policy for our biggest insurance companies. that is a kind of welfare to work that we don t often talk about. with me, peter edleman, kathleen jamison, alicia mendez and giuliani cobb. peter, at 2:00 in the morning, i could not sleep, really couldn t sleep as i was reading your book. i think what i found so fascinating about this was the history of how we got to having a program for food stance. it s tv, but give me the briefest version of what that
like to spend their money, but when that influences the outcome of elections, it stops being among friends and when it s among our shared and public democracy, aren t we entitled to know what s going on inside? joining me, lee fang, an investigative reporter, also, kathleen hall jamison and professor. alicia mendez, host of and peter edlemen, law professor at georgetown law. you were thrown out of one of these koch brothers secret meetings. i found out about the similar event that happened in january in indian well and given the the importance of these meetings and how they affect public policy, i decided to try to check myself spoot hotel and find what i could report.
trying to drive people out of the state. no income. going through a period that includes president nixon sent a message to congress, we get food stamps at a national program to the point we don t have that near starvation. we have 20 million people with incomes half the poverty line. 6 million people who have no income other than food stamps, which only provides an income a third of the poverty line, but we have that. so at least they re eating. kathleen, i know some of your work has been on framing. i m reading peter s book and thinking this is the story of a government program that worked. that the kind of poverty that kennedy saw there in the 1960s, that kind of poverty rarely existed. that kind of hunger associated with poverty is very rare in our country now, and yet every additional person or family relying on food stamps is an indication that we re failing as
last night, the gathered crowds cheered and the once revered penn state coordinator was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse. sandusky s story is one of both heinous crimes and utter institutional failure to protect our children. but this is also the power of the story of survivors, those who chose to come forward. and by putting sandusky away, made sure that no one else will ever be his victim. i m joined now by first, let me bring in nbc news correspondent, ron allen, who s in belafonte, pennsylvania. hi, ron. reporter: good morning. how are you? i m doing okay. obviously, everyone s eyes have been on belafonte waiting for this verdict. tell me about what you saw on the ground there? reporter: well, it was really an amazinging night. there were two days of deliberation be building up to this. we had no idea whether the jury was going to continue into the weekend or announce a verdict at any hour. suddenly, we were getting rumblings that the attorney general for