Many folks at the time, a pass for monday to be able to reconnect with their families. So tuesday was really the first time that we were kind of getting back to work. All of our traditionals who had been deployed were back off doing their normal civilian jobs, so we were really just kind of planning the week. So that morning was just an average morning, getting up, eating my cheerios, driving in to work. It was really just very normal. At about a quarter to 9 00 when the first reports came of a plane hitting the first of the two World Trade Centers, what was your reaction . I was in the middle of a longrange scheduling meeting with the other five fulltimers there at the Fighter Squadron. So we were planning out the week and really planning out the month as well, looking at what our training priorities would be, our check ride priorities, looking at our range times, transitioning the jets into a new phase of training and a new phase of flights. We were working out the Administration Det
Of the work poor. A person must make less than 931 a month in order to receive more than 200. A family of four, they get around 660 for month. Federal benefits are sometimes too lean to keep a family fed. Do you have a lot of pickups this morning . Jessica kogan runs food for others, a Northern Virginia food bank. In the last couple of months weve seen the demand for our services get even higher than the past year which was already quite high. Our numbers went way up during the height of the recession and they came down a little bit and leveled off but we saw an increase again lately. Kogan wonders how the difference can be made up if congress lessens food stamps. Their needs as i mentioned are very high. So were going to have to try to get more food in. And since 90 of our food is donated i dont know where were going oget it. But were going to rely on the community to come forward and bring us food. At the end of todays show well take you back to food for others to hear firsthand from
The snap program . They say this is an out of control program that people are becoming dependent upon and not lifting themselves up because they have these resources and other side sees this as a growing and expanding program to meet a growing and expanding problem that they have been seeing hard times and this helps them from hitting bottom. Allison cohen . I think the primary reason for increase it is higher than it ever has been since we started you know looking at these numbers, some years ago. Weve got more americans up to 49 million americans that are hungry today. And increase of course is due to the downturn in the economy, the economic recession, but also the growing inequality in this country. So a growing economy alone is not going to have a tremendous impact on hunger and on the number of people that are relying on food stamps. We also have to address the issue of the growing inequality between the rich and the poor and at the root of that is living wage jobs. Well talk mor
Up next, a forum on the occupy movement. This is one hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much, everyone, for coming. Thank you to the department of Political Science. Today, we have for pronounced we have for pamela spirit we will have a bit of discussion between them and then moved to audience discussion. First, deborah is the this is a professor of ethics and society. She is also the senior associate dean for the humanities. She is a member of the Philosophy Department and director for ethics and a society. Her research focuses on the ethical limits of the markets. A place of equality in a just society and a rational choice. She also works on ethics and at the in education. She is coeditor of the forthcoming collection, occupy the future. He is a graduate of mit and an early participant in occupy washington occupy boston. He specializes in web applications and design. A cofounder in danger of some in cambridge. Actually, just in Central Square. If he continues to be engaged in
Coverage live of the house and senate and also the Certain Committee hearings. I think they are very informative to the public to get to see what really happens in congress. I like the way cspan covers the fact that it just presents itself what is really happening with a little bit of commentary maybe, but not really edited out. It is just what they want to present to the american people. Bill watches cspan on comcast. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Supporters of the occupy movement, it began as a protest against social and inequality, this 90minute event was strongly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of technology and the Boston Review. Thank you very much, everyone, for coming. Thank you to the department of Political Science. Today, we have for pronounced we have for pamela spirit we will have a bit of discussion between them and then moved to audience discussion. First, deborah is the this is a