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meghan stas, senior director and grocery manufacturers association here in washington, d.c. and diana aviv, kre feeding america in chicago, illinois and emily leib, the director of food law policy clinic, harvard law school, jamaica plains, massachusetts. i ll let everybody get to their seats. all right. miss gunders, if you will begin when you are ready, ma am. ranking member peterson and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify today and be willing to explore this issue. any name is dana gunders, i m a senior science at the national resources defense council and the author of a widely cited report on food waste and a book called the waste-free kitchen handbook which is a guide to not wasting food. imagine walking out of the grocery stores with five bags in the parking lot and dropping two and not bothering to pick them up. it seems crazy but that is what we re doing when we are wasting 40% of our food. we re leaving entire fields unharvestin ....
not to have to file, or pay federal income tax. but one of the things i ve not really heard anybody address, we talked about in here the need for the minimum wage to be raised. and when there was an article written recently that indicated for an individual who just accepts the available federal welfare payments, they may be looking at $1,700 a month take home whereas under the current minimum wage it s about $1,200 take-home. well, the incentive there is obviously not to work. but i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. obviously, that would even increase the disparity between what you take home if you don t work and what you take home if you do work. if you lowered the minimum wage. so that s obviously not going to fix the problem there. but if the minimum wage is raised in puerto rico, since as my friend from california s indicated they have a higher minimum wage, then people would be tempted to go from puerto rico to cal ....
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other forces in the syrian stronghold of f raqqa this week - have killededore than two dozen isis militants. jonathan vigliotti cbs 3 news paris. 3 france has stepped up its airstrikes against isis in syria since those terror attacks last wewe. yesterday the ench aircraft carrier charles de gaulle left to help french military operations in syria. 3 and right now. a man from iowa is walking from normandy to paris. he started his journey for climate awareness. because of the u - n climate summit that ll be held in france at the end of the month.ed fallon started walkininnovember 11th. he was in the town of (bin - oo - vill) benouville. france. when paris was attacked. but his walking partner s wife and child got into paris and were staying in a hotel not far from where the attacks happened. luckily. they were luckily safe and able to join the walking journey y o days later. that s when ed said they stumbled onto a vigil with two thousand people. 3 the thing i got was, yo ....
host: it was 50 years ago when congress passed and president johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964. 50 years later, what impact has it had on you and your family, on our nation and around the world? we re going to get your thoughts and comments on this important anniversary. at (202) 585-3880 for democrats and (202) 585-3881 for republicans. if you re an independent, the number to call is (202) 585-3882. you can also send us an e-mail at [email protected] or join us on twitter at @cspanwj as we look at some of the headlines, the headline to hold the senate democrats rely on single women, respected the supreme court decision on the hobby lobby case, jackie collins writes the following. host: we mentioned the july fourth holiday. this is the headline today from the boston globe along the east coast. a lot of folks keeping an eye on hurricane arthur as it makes its way up the carolina coast and this headline from the boston globe . host: we want to begin w ....