Parting is such sweet sorrow. And now a policy form on it challenges of creating opportunities in communities experiencing poverty, racial divide, and foreclosures. Representatives from academic and nonprofit groups focus on what can be done to help families and the Lessons Learned since the redevelopment areas such as neighborhoods in baltimore. We have on our panel, a community developer, and anchor partner, an investment banker, a resident and next generation later, and a philanthropist and policy maker. Each one of them has an Important Role to play in this complex issue about neighborhood opportunities. Let me introduce each one. To my left is part harvey bar t harvey. He joined enterprise in 1984. Shortly after the Enterprise Foundation started. He is an expert on Affordable Housing, an expert on Community Development. He was with who helped form the foundations in the Financial Financial institutions that tried to scale housing capacity around the country. Bart lives in baltimor
130 million, that was promised to rebuild it and in afghanistan how men and women turned to dance to defy the regime he is 32 years old, lives in queens new york and may hold the answer to why the amtrak train he was operating derailed on tuesday in philadelphia. The engineer says he cant remember what happened that night. Others, of course, will never forget. Lisa stark is in washington with the latest. We heard from the n. T. S. B. And they said they have new information on the train and what happened in the minute before the derailment. It turns out that minute the train was actually speeding up, accelerating as it was approaching the curve, instead of lowering its speed to the 50 Miles Per Hour for that curve. The question is why. Investigators hope to find answers to that when they interview the engineer. Meantime amtrak insists that new safety measure for this part of the rail are on track. Shortly after the last body was pulled from the mangled first car of the train amtrak c c.
Weekends and in the summer, but limited resources mean we cannot provide a backpack to every kid who needs one. We also looked into mobile summer feeding programs but our Rural Communities are so small and far apart the time requirement of having a kid eat a full meal before going to the next location thats required is cost prohibitive. Waiving it to allow Program Models in hard to reach models will address these barriers and significantly expand the number of children we reach. Finally, the summer ebt demonstration demonstration projects provide another model. This model families of children receiving free or reduced Price School Meals are giving an ebt card to purchase food at Retail Stores in the summer. We would like to see this expanded in communities that have high need and are difficult to reach. I would like to close by saying im convinced that child hunger is a solvable problem. Its going to require collaboration between government, business and nonprofit stakeholders and were
Screeria nigeria. Our local cable or sat lied provider. Watch us in hd likes us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Next a discussion about how to create opportunities for communities with unemployment, foreclosures and racial divides. Then the Senate Confirmation hearing for the nominee to be the next transportation security administrator. After that a house hearing on the response to the earthquakes in nepal. The brooksings institution held a forum on the challenges in creating opportunities in communities experiencing poverty, unemployment foreclosures and racial divides. What can be done to help families in distressed communities and the Lessons Learned since the redevelopment of areas like the baltimore sand town neighborhood. Speakers include Michael Smith the special assistant to the president and director of the White House Initiative my brothers keeper which aims to help minority boys and young men. This is just under two hours. Good morning to all of you here today and to t
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight in baltimore where a throng of people, some chanting take back the city and calling for an end to the curfew, gathered peacefully today outside city hall. This, following the release on bail last night of the Six Baltimore Police officers, who were arrested in connection with the death of freddie gray. The 25yearold died in Police Custody touching off days of riots. For the latest from baltimore, we are joined once again tonight by Luke Broadwater of the Baltimore Sun. Whats the timetable for the prosecution . The charges came down very qu