Valley in the morning creating unhealthy levels of air quality for the young, elderly, and folks with respiratory issues. If the smoke does settle in the valley early friday, it should be clear by the afternoon. Right now. 30 wildfires are burning up and down. The west coast. About a dozen are scorching and down. The west coast. About a dozen are scorching california. Abcs danya bacchus. Is in San Bernardino county. Where extreme heat and wind. Is making it hard. To get the fires under script the blue cut fire still out of control. Sot major adrien leon, San Bernardino county firefighter the conditions have been brutal. Theyve been extremely hot. The weather has been over 100 degrees although today has been the first day weve had temps below 100. Containment is lowthe gusty winds and heatmaking it hard for firefighters to keep the fast moving flames from destroying more land. Sot mark hartwig its not santa anna wind season for us. That doesnt come until october. So really thats fire se
Commission talks about the role of money and etices in Political Campaign campaigns. The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion today on Disability Insurance and proposed changes to the program. Among the speakers was tom cotton of arkansas. This is an hour and ten minutes. [ applause ] thank you, john. And let me add my welcome this afternoon to the Heritage Foundation. Social securitys Disability Insurance program was established in the 1950s. Like much of our federal governments social safety net, the Disability Insurance program was founded with noble intentions, to ensure that americans who could not work because of mental or physical impairment would not suffer from poverty or destitution. However, over its nearly 60 years of existence, the Disability Insurance program has morphed from a small scale antipoverty program, provided benefits to less than one half of 1 of our population, to a program that now provides not only Disability Insurance but also unemployment and early reti
1952 decision. In this case the justice is affirmed the separation of powers by determining that president truman act the beyond his authority in seizing control of the nations steel mills during the korean war wh and imminent strike was threatening to shut down the actions. The court ruled that the president s actions, unconstitutional because they had not been authorized by congress. Find out more next monday live at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan3 and cspan radio. You can learn more about cspans landmark cases series online by going to cspan. Org landmark cases. And you can order the book featuring background, highlights and the legal impact of each case written by tony morrow and published by cspan. Landmark cases is available for 8. 95 plus shipping. Cspan has has a full lineup of veterans day programs for you. Join us tuesday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, a conference about veteransed organized by the chamber of commerce and the george w. Bush understand tult. On wednesday, cs
And after the courts decision. That is coming up next on t weimar cases on cspan, cspan3, and cspan radio. For more background, order your copy of the landmark cases companion book. It is available for a dollars . 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org landmark cases. Here on cspan live at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. Or a discussion with our consent arkansas republican senator tom cotton on disability benefits. Joining us on the cspan network, we remind our internet and Television Viewers that questions and comments can be sent to us at any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. We will post the program on the heritage homepage for future reference. Inhouse, we do appreciate the courtesy of cell phones being silenced as we prepare to begin. Hosting our program and introducing our special guest is ambassador terry miller. Our fellow and Economic Freedom and director of the center for Data Analysis and trade and economics. He directs all of our Ongoing Research in the role o
High likelihood of medical improvement coupled with supports and services aimed at improving health and increasing employment reentry will facilitate better economic outcomes and overall improved quality of life. Thank you. Thank you, kim. Rachel . Im going to discuss two bigpicture reforms here. The first is an Optional Private disability component within the current ssdi system. And the second is a flat benefit. Im going to start with three statistics. There are over 20 million workingage people with disabilities in the United States today. About 11 Million People are on the Disability Insurance rolls, and yet, 75 of people with disabilities, that 20 million figure, would like to be working in some capacity. But very few of them are. Only 30 are employed. So what this says is that there are actually more people with disabilities than are currently on the system. But yet, there are more people overall that want to be working and that arent able to, and so a lot of those who are receiv