Segregated in america by social class. It is, think about it who the middle class people hang out with. Most middle class people dont know someone in poverty by 1st name and fit in down to dinner together. Today, millions of American Families are tossed in circumstances beyond their control. Their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. President johnsons war on poverty has this one goal to provide everyone a chance to grow and make his own way. I think everything in life thats important really lives in the grey like theres no black and white, theres this gray. How do we make it more clear of what the problem is . There are so many different Life Experiences of poverty and we dont have a real clear definition of the federal government doesnt want to diminish. They say if your family is more right about to take care of your family for a year in 2000. Does that mean that if youre making more and youre not in red and that thats not the case. I think
At can send us a text 202 7488003. If you do please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social cspanwj and on facebook. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic down how americans are spending their thanksgiving. Only 27 plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal with people outside of their household. The New York Times with a map trying to break down that data from a survey of some 150,000 americans. That map showing the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes the darker the color shading. As the map illustrates there is a substantial regional variation with some people much more likely together with others. 14 ofs of vermont, only households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses a
Different colors. All woven and held together by a single precious thread of democracy. Paul has taught us so much and as students who followed him, worked with him, believed with him, loved him and now miss him, we could never, ever be more thankful. With that, mr. Trone and mr. Speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. Mr. Trone i recognize mr. Levin. Mr. Levin thank you very much for recognizing me, mr. Trone and i thank the majority leader for organizing this. Mr. Speaker, i rise to speak for mr. Sarbanes, senator sarbanes employees. And especially for my sisterinlaw milley freeman, who worked for Paul Sarbanes from december of 1989 to january of 2007. And im not going to talk about all the Amazing Things about senator sarbanes that his maryland colleagues have eloquently mentioned and john, im not going to talk about fathers and sons, but my dad who served in this house and my uncle carl levin who served in the senate, both loved him very much. Andlet me talk about nellie his
You have less income, go through, have 0. Income, get the biggest money. And then as you earn money, lose part of the benefit. Sometimes if you were even 1. 00, extra dollar a hole benefit medical help for people and people who are disabled. But that number seems low. It should because its based on 1000 fixed. These costs of living in the sixtys economists came up with the formula for calculating the family needs. And they said things like, well, well have a parent in the home, so we dont have to include childcare. People can walk to work so we dont have to include transportation and employers will pay for health care. So we dont need to include that. 3 major family expenses are not included in the 2017, federal poverty guideline where you have more women in the workplace than average in the history. If you look at parents and divide their income into 5 equal parts, and lets just the bottom 20 percent of this would be parents with income below roughly 25000. 00. And now we come, watch
You have run one of these. You know what a gargantuan task it is. How difficult is it because we have been delayed getting it started . Valerie needlessly hard. The president elects team has been assembled, they have been working diligently on policy and staffing recommendations for the president elect, both in the white house and in the cabinet. Withe midst of a pandemic, millions of americans losing their jobs, it is more important than ever the agencies be available to the Transition Team. I always say one of the things that surprised me with president obamas transition was the unbelievable degree of cooperation we received from president bush. We may not agree with him on but whathat what president bush believed is a smooth and orderly transition from power. When president obama was leaving, he did the same thing in his direction for President Trump. This is not about politics, is about keeping our country safe and healthy. There is about but a focused on the Daily Briefing the pre