Thanksgiving week. Founder and executive chair of share our strength to end childhood hunger. We have all seen the images of the food lines. Help us understand the scope of the problem. How many more children are food insecure this thanksgiving week then compared to last year at this time . Guest thanks. We are in a position we really have never seen before. It is shaping up to be possibly the hungriest Holiday Season in memory. There are lots of different ways we measure hunger. It looks like we have gone from one in seven kids being at risk to one in four. As many as 17 million American Kids at risk of hunger. Not just during the Holiday Season but especially poignant during the season but since the pandemic began. Bureausure is the census does a pulse survey. They take a regular survey of americans. They found that 15 of adults say their families are struggling to feed their kids. That is up from 1 just a year ago. Really remarkable change. Host struggling to feed their kids. Define
And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Arthur and chair of africanamerican studies at princeton university. Representative rick larsen from washington joint booktv to discuss the book he is reading. Host congressman rick larsen, what is on your reading list . Guest it has been long, but it is coming into the middle of summer now so i am working on the third iq novel by joe e day los angeles mystery writer. It is the third book in the series. A detective, detective donald, private investigator and a lot of action and great relationships in the book, so i am working on that and working on frederick douglass, biography, published recently, former long book, i am popping in and out of that. Taking that in chunks. The policy wonk in me, in washington dc, the editor of china 2049 and brought together some reform minded chinese scholars to look what the chinese economy might look like or what its challenges are between now and 2049, it has implications for us china policy. Interesting workrelated book. I dont read a lot of books f
Airline travel amid the pandemic and the pandemics impact on the aviation industry. Sharp talksn about issues affecting native americans and the role they played in the election. Good morning. It is wednesday, november 25, the day before thanksgiving, traditionally one of the busiest travel days in the year. This is a Union Station in washington, d. C. , popular hub. Health and state Public Officials have urged people not to travel or spend the holiday outside their household, yet millions of americans packed airports this week in more are expected to hit the road today and tomorrow. We want to hear about your travel plans or lack thereof. If you are traveling this thanksgiving, what precautions are you taking . Give us a call if youre traveling. The number, [video clip] 202 7488000. If you are not traveling, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning. That number 202 7488003. If you do, include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspan
Johnson taking questions from the house of commons live wednesday mornings on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter using hashtag pmqs was prior to question time members finishing up a business. Live to the floor of the bridge house of commons. It is important that we conduct quality impact assessments but it is important those are kept confidential within government to make sure there is not a Chilling Effect and we have an honest debate about aceving equality across all government departments. Thank you, my right norable friends should be aware more thahalf 1 million babies were bornuring the first walk down. What assessment has she made so the women who had to ruggle with going back to work during this difficult year. I congratulate my right honorable friends on her important work. I cometely agree that we need to make sure people ar protected during the lockdown t also helped as we recover from covid19 to find Childcare Options that bett reflect working options with the