Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
The wrong flight. Im brian balogh and ive been a cohost for backstory for over ten years now. Im going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role, he is trying to steal the 20th century from me, doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles in backstory. I wanted to talk about that a little bit and then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost, nathan connelly, of course, is known to most of you as an outstanding scholar. He is the Herbert Herbert b
Overwhelmingly, and it made it with Social Security actuarially sound for the next half century. That was 1983. So, those folks knew how to get along. Chairman nelson, Ranking Member collins and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing. And especially for the opportunity to testify about the future of the longterm policy. The perspective that im about to share comes from my work over the past 20 years of the office of management and budget as a person responsible for the Medicaid Budget. And also the last ten or 15 years consulting to a nursing home providers and assisted living providers and working with a number of my colleagues here on the panel and ideas including the class act. I just want to start by saying as many of you have noted we spent over 200 billion but we pay for very little care. We depend on over 60 million americans to provide most of the care and they provide it on paid and they do this because most americans are not insured against the financial
Stories. Im going each panellest briefly. Well start with questions. Nicole goodwin all the way down at the end, enlisted in the u. S. Army in 2001. She served as a supply specialist and was deployed in iraq in july of 2003 for five 1 2 months. When nicole returned to the bronx was one of the first Homeless Veterans of iraq war and featured in the document, when i came home as well as many news programs. She lives in new york city and raising her daughter and wrying poetry, fiction and nonfiction. She graduated college in 2000 one with a ba in english in creative writing an anthropology teresa fazio, next to nicole, grew up in white plains, new york. She served as a Marine Corps Communications officer from 2002 to 2006. Deploying once to iraq. She is writing a memoir about deployment relationship and its aftermath. Teresa published her work in New York Times at war blog and read her writing at the Kennedy Center in washington, d. C. She lives and works in new york city ing rebecca hari
Environmental concern, the financial concern, which is a lot of individuals in oakland. It is this in the feeling of sadness when you see wasted food. There is something within us that we cannot name, and it is difficult to talk about. That is something we are trying to tap him as well. We have different angles. Thealk about how 25 of freshwater used in Food Production goes to food we never eat. We talk about how one in six people in Alameda County do not know where the next meal is going to come from. The majority are children or Senior Citizens. We talk about the financial implications that up to 2200 a year for the average consumer and what they are spending on food they never eat. We do a lot of different levels. I think the Biggest Issue is it is coalition building, working together. We need macro and micro change. In the trenches, we need more food recovery programs. We need people working on gleaming programs. We need to figure out different ways that in everyday practice we get