Peoples heads and keeping them housed. Its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. If we were to look at Homeless People in america as a single population, you would find many are living alone. But 40 live in family units. Fewer than one in six are chronically homeless, living without shelter is a longterm fact of life. During the last sensis of the homeless, counters found almost 200,000 children and young people. The causes are many, joblessness, rising cost of housing, untreated Substance Abuse and mental illness. The solutions proving tough to achieve. Al jazeeras Courtney Kealy has more. Reporter a homeless man in los angeles refuses orders to come out of his tent. Police struggle officers open fire killing him. It happened in march, in l. A. s skid row. Theres a highest population. More than 2,000 are in camps. Los angeles and county officials announced a plan to send more teams, Substance Abuse experts to l. A. s downtown to reduce the number. New york city announc
Its inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. If we were to look at Homeless People in america as a single population, you would find many are living alone. But 40 live in family units. Fewer than one in six are chronically homeless, living without shelter is a longterm fact of life. During the last sensis of the homeless, counters found almost 200,000 children and young people. The causes are many, joblessness, rising cost of housing, untreated Substance Abuse and mental illness. The solutions proving tough to achieve. Al jazeeras Courtney Kealy has more. Reporter a homeless man in los angeles refuses orders to come out of his tent. Police struggle officers open fire killing him. It happened in march, in l. A. s skid row. Theres a highest population. More than 2,000 are in camps. Los angeles and county officials announced a plan to send more teams, Substance Abuse experts to l. A. s downtown to reduce the number. New york city announced a similar plan. Its beginning to fee
Ladies and gentlemen, landseer of the Potomac Institute and it is my privilege to welcome you here today with the seminar on combating biological terrorism. I am proud to report for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue of bio terrorism has only grown worse over time and is more threatening and more imminent and certainly those tools for dealing with this is inadequate today is 20 years ago the most political people are distracted from the threats which ships running over each other the pacific that the threats are more as long wolf driving cars to open spaces in your opinion United States and they forget the potential of a lone wolf with the biological realm is still quite possible in some would say likely in the future. The newsletter for eating less and terrorizing as the we are here to take a moment to see if we cannot refocus on the issue of biological terrorism. The works that summarized a lot of activities over the last 20
Ladies anladies and gentlemen mikes what pimco ceo the Potomac Institute for policy studies, and is my privilege to welcome you all here today to a seminar on combating biological terrorism. Im proud to report that for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue. Unfortunately, the issue of bioterrorism has only grown worse over time. Its more threatening. It is probably more eminent, and certainly the tools we have for dealing with it are, as inadequate today as they were 20 years ago. Almost, also like 20 years ago, more and more the political people in the world are distracted by so many other threats from nuclear north korea, tehran, the ships run into each other in the pacific to Political Division in this country another, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by tear are seen more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forg
For the naacp Legal Defense fund. The organization that i am proud to say i work for and that is responsible for brown and fisher. And so i want to give a little bit of hello . I want to give sorry. I want to give a little bit of background about myself. I am ive been with the Legal Defense fund since march of this year. But worked in the Obama Administration and on the hill for quite some time. But this issue and the reason i am happy to be here with all of you today is personal to me. I am originally from new orleans but also went to school in selma, alabama. Which im sure all of you are familiar with. My father, dr. Norwood russo was the first black school sup superintendent in selma, alabama [ applause ] thank you. In 1987. When he arrived, selma was a very integrated School System. The selma city schools were incredibly integrated. They had, though, what is called inSchool Segregation. They had a tracking system where the majority of africanamerican students were in level three or