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Shes a former staff writer for the atlantic picture was formally a nationally syndicated columnist with opinion columns covering a broad range of issues from womens rights at home and abroad, if i middle justice, use immigration policy, poverty and maternal health. Early Childhood Development and demographic changes. Icons appear in the houston chronicle, the miami herald, the Chicago Tribune and the l. A. Times, among dozens of national and local papers. She would be in conversation with ms. Christina swarns. She is the litigation director of the naacp Legal Defense and educational funding. Christina oversees all aspects of lbs litigation in four key practice areas including economic justice, education, political participation and criminal justice. As a nationally recognized expert on issues of race and colonel justice, should participate in committees, advisory panels, strategically convening, conferences and National Media interviews including those with pbs newshour, msnbc, and dem
The pipeline could affect their Drinking Water supply. And put downstream communities at risk for oil leaks and spills. Over the weekend, the army corps ordered protesters to leave that area by december 5th. Or face arrest. A later statement from the corps said it wants a peaceful transition to a safer location. With no plans for forcible removal. A member of the tribe, though, says its resolve is strong. chase iron eyes, member, Standing Rock sioux tribe not only that but the constitutional Civil Liberties and human rights and International Rights of a nationtonato between our tribal nation and the united states, and treaty groups who are on the ground and who are committed to these concepts of unarmed nonviolence. We expect a win. We are in for the long haul. paul joncich the army corps says its order for demonstrators to leave is for the safety of the general public. Meantime, nevada senator harry reid released a statement on the matter today. Demanding the violence in Standing Rock
So personal savings can only go so far for these individuals. At the same time though Social Security treat single women far less well than it does married women so they are not getting much help from that end of things either. Thats one reason i and others have proposed reforming Social Security to provide a flat universal benefit for all retirees regardless of income participation. On top of that individual would save in accounts provided through their employer or of not available through the government. This approach is qualitatively similar to that of the u. K. Australia canada and new zealand. In the u. S. Context you can affordably reduce the elderly poverty rate from todays level of roughly 9 to approximately 0 while increasing the Retirement Savings among the middle and high highincome workers who truly should be saving more. The lesson in all this is that there is no simple problem and no simple solution but a small if more complex problem is better in the retirement crisi cri
Successful fighting in iraq since isis came. The Iraqi Military with ghosts and all of that, they have not done anything to speak of. They achieved an army. The external volunteer fighters as they are called, they are the ones who achieved on the outskirts of baghdad, they held other places. All of that. Are they the favorable way to go . No, for sure. You would rather see the state and military do its job. The military has not functioned, and iraq was left to those groups to defend it. It is hard to speak of them. Yes, they have american blood on their hands from the old days. But so did the others being trained by the United States right now. Who are the recruits from the sunni militia being formed by the United States, equipped, and funded . They are the ones that shot at the americans into lodz and elsewhere into lodz a in fallujah and elsewhere. The american approach, rather than doing something for the Iraqi Military, they are approaching it in a madisonian way. If you have a pro