programs, that are ineffective. overlapping, don t get the job done. 180 of them economic development programs under five different cabinet positions. we have 173 programs promoting the same thing, we have literacy programs, economic literacy run by 20 different agencies and we have 55 different jobs programs and they don t know if anybody that goes through the programs actually, greta, gets hired for anything. we ve done an awful lot here on the record on waste and fraud. the federal government is replete with waste and a couple of things caught my attention. one, i don t know if you mentioned that, but i had no idea the selective service, the draft ended about 1973, but of course, still have to register and spent 24 billion dollars a year and a staff of i m not sure we have to spend 124 million when we don t have a draft. the va has 500 public affairs officers. why do they need 500 public
programs, that are ineffective. overlapping, don t get the job done. 180 of them economic development programs under five different cabinet positions. we have 173 programs promoting the same thing, we have literacy programs, economic literacy run by 20 different agencies and we have 55 different jobs programs and they don t know if anybody that goes through the programs actually, greta, gets hired for anything. we ve done an awful lot here on the record on waste and fraud. the federal government is replete with waste and a couple of things caught my attention. one, i don t know if you mentioned that, but i had no idea the selective service, the draft ended about 1973, but of course, still have to register and spent 24 billion dollars a year and a staff of i m not sure we have to spend 124 million when we don t have a draft. the va has 500 public affairs officers. why do they need 500 public
chew waiting it. there are so many much better ways to fight poverty. tell us about the some of the things we are working. what works is jobs. it s education, it s early childhood intervention. i spent time with save the children, we tend to associate with africa but also does a great job in poor areas of the u.s. they have parental visitation programs. so they work with at risk parents, encourage them to read to their children. they bring them books. they encourage them to hug them, support them, to talk to them. they then have after school literacy programs and things like this. and you know, there are no silver bullets. nothing works perfectly. but we are getting a much better sense of what does work as these kind of early childhood programs. it s job training programs. it s i mean, marriage is a powerful antidote to fight
kentucky and found run disturbing reasons why some of america s poorest children are illiterate. nick joins me now live from the times to explain. so you go to jackson, kentucky, and people are running literacy programs there but tlrl parents who don t want their kids to learn to read. it just defies all logic and all tradition here in the united states of wanting our kids to have a better life. what s going on? well, it s heartbreaking because there is, in effect, an incentive for parents to try to gain the system and have their kids be diagnosed with an intellectual disability because then they can get payments each month until that child turns 18 under the ssi system. and so, you know, there s no doubt that ssi support is a lifeline to many parents with kids who truly are disabled. but also, according to people there, there s no doubt that there are a lot of fuzzier cases
some sun lounger in a bikini spending daddy s money being a brat? that s a really good question. i often ask myself that. from television stardom to sharing the screen with the muppets. this is piers morgan tonight. patricia cornwell is the queen of crime. she sold 100 million books and scared the living daylights out of people. red mist and patricia joins me now. this is going to terrify me. i know it is. before i even read it. well, i think it will. i won t tell you why. but you ll start looking around your kitchen in various places and thinking, hmm, i doenn t feel so good about certain things. you wait, you ll see. where do you get this desire to scare people? you know, i don t know. but when i was a little kid, i was always writing stories and illustrating little books that i would create. and the kids loved me to tell stories to them. i mean i was the favorite baby-sitter starting at age 12. i remember one day it was out on a vacant lot with two little boy