Life expectancy continues to fall. What is this distinctly american phenomenon that you found . Well, mortality rates are not supposed to be going up for the past century and most wealthy countries, the u. S. Included, weve seen our Life Expectancy in the u. S. , the mortality is supposed to be going down, but it is backwards. What we have seen is the death rates in the working age population increasing, and reversing years of progress that we have made in improving the health. What is behind the study . Why did you do it . Well, our center of society and health at vcu studies the Population Health trends as have other experts in the field. And we have been aware of something awry for many years, and recently many years of Life Expectancy decline for three years in a row, but the analysis is showing decades of the making and the u. S. Started to fall since the 1980s. How does it stack up against other countries in the same time span, and other economicallydeveloped countries. That is t
questions further fueling gop accusations of stone walling. is the fbi hiding key documents and tape recordings on the multi-million dollar scheme. we will ask john kennedy coming up, senate judiciary member. john: first awaiting a decision in the daniel penny case, as a grand jury could vote as early as today on whether to indict him in the death of jordan neely. hello, john roberts in washington. we made it to the middle of the week. sandra: sandra smith in new york. this is america reports. grand jury set to consider a couple of things, including whether neely posed a threat to the safety of other passengers on the train and if penny used excessive force to subdue neely during the may 1st incident on the subway train. john: we have complete conversation, joe borelli will join us in a moment. sandra: bryan, what exactly is happening today, what are we waiting on? sandra, good to be with you. from what we have learned, the vote by this grand jury could still very
removed 89 policies from two previous administrations. bill: congressional correspondent watching that starts us off and sets the table on capitol hill for this. good morning. good morning to you both. we won t actually see or hear from secretary alejandro mayorkas, we are expecting this hearing to be pretty fiery especially between democrats and republicans as pretty much every lawmaker knows where these hearings are going. we will hear and see from chad wolf, of course, the former acting d.h.s. secretary under former president trump. he s expected to compare and contrast president biden s border policies with that of former president trump saying that this is really just a crisis by design. now, there has been a lot of impeachment talk in these hallways as of late and last week, represent clay higgins actually became the latest republican to introduce articles of impeachment against mayorkas. but it s pretty unclear. you have some republicans out there who are not convi
On cspan. In partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that ive had a profound impact on the country. In this program the journals of lewis and clark, from their tour of discovery published in 1814. In 1803 the size of the United States nearly doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, the vast tract of land was largely unknown. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory. There crew of explores juried up the Missouri River, cross the Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Coast. Lewis and clarks twoyear tour of discovery ended in september 1806 and they returned with maps, sketches and it journals. Detailing the regions path, animal life, geography and indigenous people. In 1814 Many Americans were able to learn for the first time about the western land, upon the publishing of the book titled history of the expedition under the comman
On cspan. In partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that ive had a profound impact on the country. In this program the journals of lewis and clark, from their tour of discovery published in 1814. In 1803 the size of the United States nearly doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, the vast tract of land was largely unknown. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and map the newly acquired territory. There crew of explores juried up the Missouri River, cross the Rocky Mountain and the Pacific Coast. Lewis and clarks twoyear tour of discovery ended in september 1806 and they returned with maps, sketches and it journals. Detailing the regions path, animal life, geography and indigenous people. In 1814 Many Americans were able to learn for the first time about the western land, upon the publishing of the book titled history of the expedition under the comman