The midday meal eaten during the school day. Its a barometer of social trends. Once upon a time, lots more kids headed home at lunch time or brought a meal prepared at home. Millions more children now live too far from school to go home, attend schools that are closed campuses that dont allow students to leave the building during the day and even if they could head home, there is nobody there. Women with schoolage children now work at a much higher rate than decades ago. Throw in a higher Child Poverty rate and making policy around lunch gets complicated. Whats the best school meal . A cheap one . A new atrocious one . One a school kid will actually eat . All of that and who gets to say what should be in a school meal is not the responsibility of nutritionists or educators because it involves money, the argument centers around politicians and a woman who is influential, well known and hasnt been elected anything. Michelle obama. As the end of the school year approaches for kids across
Information in the near future on areas discussed as a va continues to march toward the secretarys 2015 goals. I would like to once again thank our witnesses for being here today. I asked unanimous consent the members have five legislative days to revise and extend any remarks and include any extraneous material. Hearing no objection, so ordered. I th washington journal continu. Host we are back with congressman Randy Neugebauer, a republican from texas. He sits on the house farm Agriculture Committee and a contrary for these negotiations over the fiveyear farm bill. Thes begin with yesterday, principles got together here in washington. The senate is not in session, but they came back to washington to meet with their house counterparts. What did you learn . Fort first of all, thanks having me. I think were getting closer. I talked to chairman lucas. We keep closing in on that. We are working out a framework of where we go from here. I am optimistic that things are moving in the right d
In support of higher wages to the fast food companies. President obama pushed for increase in the minimum wage yesterday. Want to hear from all of you this morning. Are you able to move up the economic ladder . Dial 202 under 30, 5853880. 50, 202 between 31 5853881 202 585388. 50, 202 585 3882. You can also post your comments on twitter or facebook. Let me show you a little bit of president obamas speech. It was from the center for american progress. [video clip] for one thing, these trends are bad for our economy. One study finds that growth is more fragile and recession is more frequent in countries with greater inequality. Hat makes sense when families have less to spend, businesses have fewer customers. Households rack up greater mortgage and credit card debt. Topentrated wealth at the will not result in broadly based Consumer Spending that drives our economy and with less regulation, it may contribute to risky speculative bubbles. Rising inequality and declining mobility are bad f
Blue ukraine says russia has bombed the port of odessa just a day after a deal was reached to let ships filled with grain to pot. Ah, im kid vanelle. This is al jazeera ly from dell ha. Also coming up. I protested to news. Yes, i had a controversial referendum on the constitution wrong. Parliament holds an emergency session to discuss an attack on a resort town that it blames on turkey. Fuel is back on sale intra lanka brand new rationing system. We will report from colombo ah aah ukraines military says russia has hit Port Infrastructure in the city of odessa with 2 cruise missiles. They say another 2 missiles was shot down by air defense. It comes a day after both countries signed a deal broken by turkey and the United Nations to resume grain exports. Ukrainian president , flawed of as landscape says, the attack shows that russia has no intention of upholding that deal. But official say ukraine is still preparing to start shipping grain out there. Correspondent to morale. Smarty is in
Ah, sounding the alarm at the World Health Organization issues. Its the strongest warning yet, declaring monkey pox, a Global Health emergency. Ah, im terry johnston. This is al jazeera alive from that also coming up ukraine. It says russia has bombed at the port of odessa just a day after a deal was reached to allow ships filled a grain, condense, anger on the streets, into nicea ahead of a controversial referendum on the constitution, relieving pressure. The pumps of fuel is back on sale, inch and anchor under a new rationing system. Ah. The World Health Organization has declared the fastest spreading monkey pox outbreak. A Global Health emergency is the only 8 chose highest level of alert. It was issued by the u. N. Health agency chief, despite a deadlock among experts over the decision to just ad hominum, compressors that thinks the risk of the virus in high in europe, and moderate globally more than 70 nations, are now experiencing an outbreak of the virus which is common in parts