This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Well baltimore is trying to get back to normal today. An overnight curfew was largely successful with a few arrests. Schools reopened and parents found themselves facetoface with police in riot gear. John the department of justice says it has met with the family of freddie gray what can you tell us about that . Thats correct. They met on tuesday yesterday, with the family of freddy grey. But but they go on to say that the use of force by the Baltimore Police is likely to be published in the next couple of weeks, and an investigation is also being undertaken and the doj says they have sent a team to work on issues of conflict between the community and police. The report comes out on friday thats the interim report by the Baltimore Police into the death of freddie gray were not expecting to hear much information. That report will go straight to state prosecutors who will decide what they want to do with it. I think
Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the summer ebt demonstration demonstration projects provide another model. This model families of children receiving free or reduced Price School Meals are giving an ebt card to purchase food at Retail Stores in the summer. We would like to see this expanded in communities that have high need and are difficult to reach. I would like to close by saying im convinced that child hunger is a solvable problem. Its going to require collaboration between government, business and nonprofit stakeholders and were
The incident happened in baltimore, more than half the people there are unemployed. This is an area of town that doesnt have a single grocery store. Theres not a single restaurant in the area. Not even a fast food joint. So you have high unemployment. You have very few opportunities for people and its not surprising that theres a certain hopelessness and despair and frustration that sets in so that when theres an incident like freddie gray, it lights a spark and everything goes off. The question then becomes how do you tamp this down . How do you solve the problems that beset an area like that . How do you give people less or more hope, more opportunity, the chance to get out from under the conditions theyre living insome well, after the riots people thought about it politicians in particular thought about it for about ten seconds, and then immediately came up with their answer, which is that we need to spend more money. That we heard over and over again. We need to invest in our inner
Screeria nigeria. Our local cable or sat lied provider. Watch us in hd likes us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Next a discussion about how to create opportunities for communities with unemployment, foreclosures and racial divides. Then the Senate Confirmation hearing for the nominee to be the next transportation security administrator. After that a house hearing on the response to the earthquakes in nepal. The brooksings institution held a forum on the challenges in creating opportunities in communities experiencing poverty, unemployment foreclosures and racial divides. What can be done to help families in distressed communities and the Lessons Learned since the redevelopment of areas like the baltimore sand town neighborhood. Speakers include Michael Smith the special assistant to the president and director of the White House Initiative my brothers keeper which aims to help minority boys and young men. This is just under two hours. Good morning to all of you here today and to t
Democrats and gop blame each other for the mayhem in that city. Ofhow do we increase Economic Opportunity in inner cities in america. If not by phone, you can weigh in on social media. You can leave a posting at facebook. You can send this an email. As we get started on this monday morning, there is an oped piece in the washington journal. He is the ceo of the baltimorebased business. He talks about his experience. He writes that the supply Chain Management company that he started is in downtown baltimore. The real cost we might be if the higher more of these baltimore ends. He continues to write that the most direct way to offer hope to discourage people is to hire them. The Business Community has a simple message. Help us help you. You can read the whole thing at the wall street journal today. The Washington Times has this story. Democrats and the gop in each other for this mayhem in baltimore. We speak broadly about innercity poverty. A new political fight corrupted sunday. This is