So for me accountability isnt just numbers, its not just a transparency. Is not information. We cant label the problem. Problem. We have to do something about it. This is stepping in when children need something better. We need to be held accountable. That to me is what a true accountability is. The issue of adequate and equitable funding is a big issue for this overrides community, for the urban league. I the opportunity to serve on the commission that looked at the issue. Paint a picture of where we are when it comes to the lack of equitable funding. What does it really mean . Once the picture . What do you see from where you sit . Its devastating. We us of article as a nation, marc. Folks a note on the k12 side federal money is like eight to 12 , half the money comes from states and 40 at the local level. Look across the nation, i go back to my home in chicago, we got less than half the money each year than wealthier suburbs four or five miles north of us along lake michigan. Think
Uc davis 2012 just came out with a new study that said the 2015 clock of autism related expenses are 268 billion, and by the year 2025, it could beer near 25 trillion in related costs. We know that aviation emissions have traced heavy metals, they have a byproduct, sulfur, the aviation jet fuel contains 100 times more sulfur than diesel trucks, and we can talk about autism but also high air pollution areas also decrease i. Q. Of children and interesting thing about that is that even when children hit six, seven year they still did not catch up to their peers. So this damage is caused by low i. Q. And pollution has an a effect on one of the most important things that i will tell you, if you want to know how dangerous air pollution is you have to look at the transgenerational changes so there was a study done in that i have in the reference by lets see here. Wheres it, by tracy in 2013, and so what they did is expose life to jet fuel and what they found is that it department change the j
With the president to announce plans for the march on washington. In support of the Civil Rights Act. June 12th, 1963 as everest was returning home for the naacp meeting member byron shot him in his driveway as he was getting out of his car. Evers was killed instantly. Randolph and fellow americans , the National Urban league is honored to be a participant in this historic occasion. Our presence here reflects not only the civil rights communities increasing the awareness of the urban league, but most important it says and i hope what and clear that while intelligence, maturity and strategy dictates a Civil Rights Agency we use different methods and we are all united as never before on the goal of first class citizenship. To present to you the moral leader of the nation. I have the pleasure to present to you dr. Martin luther king. [applause] i am happy to join with you today what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause]
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