Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, November 3rd, 2019 was:
JILL NAGEL
Appleton, WI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing Entries Oct 28th thru Nov 3rd , 2019:
10/28/19
Nikki Hunsaker
Becky VanGinkel
Emily Rice Bowersock
Amber Chandler
Kimberly Snyder
Melissa White
Trish Musgrave
Deidra Dees
Angela Janisse
Rhonda Grisham
Jennifer Marie
Christy Hawkes
Jeannine Scavo
Nicole Blaha
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Ryan
Georgiann D’Angelo
Sheri Boydston
Marilyn Wall
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Crystal Gipson
Mary Mcmenamy
Brittany Light
Jennifer Lang
Darbie Brown
Tracy Heyer
10/29/19
Melinda Poullion
Brittany Light
Shannon Rush
Misty Shallcross
April Ashcraft
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Karen Brunet Moore
Frank P Grahek
Donna Porter
Emily Rice Bowersock
Debbie Gremlin
Amanda Rosario
Angela Janisse
Tera Lee Culverwell
Marilyn Wall
Tina Auth
Christy Hawkes
Trish Hysell
Beth Epley Minton
Cheryl Andrews
Melissa White
10/30/19
Beth Epley Minton
Kristina Rosson
Annette French
Dean Bruss
Nacole Patrick
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Jenifer Garza
Holly Cajigas
Brooke Scott
Sheila Carvell
Eleazar Ruiz
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alison Giffune Paige
Jessica Steiner
Priscilla Shimp
Rosanne Clark
Bea Patrick
Kim Avery
April Ashcraft
Lori Sexton Leal
Traci Anderson
Amber Chandler
Darbie Brown
10/31/19
Rosanne Clark
Mike Adamski
Trish Hysell
Alicia Johnson
Jennifer Lang
Trish Musgrave
Jennifer Ramlet
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Becky VanGinkel
Karen Brunet Moore
Amanda Rosario
Amber Chandler
Nitasha Shank
Tina Auth
Jenifer Garza
Tearsa D Keith
Be Schwerin
Melissa White
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Misty Shallcross
Jessica Steiner
11/1/19
Shannon Schleif
Alyssa DiFazio
Amanda Rosario
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Jennifer Vega
Derek Michelle Polk
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Jennifer Ramlet
Kristina Rosson
Derek Michelle Polk
Shawna Poole
Lori Sexton Leal
Jennifer Fuller
Be Schwerin
Nicole Flynn
Deidra Dees
Suzie Mize Lockhart
MarcyLynn Coull
Sonali Jain Modi
Carla Williams
11/2/19
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Be Schwerin
Terri Llexxes
Adaria Johnson
LaKishia Wagers
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Darlene Whyte
George Pownall
Alyssa DiFazio
Nicole Blaha
Nitasha Shank
Kacie Rogers
Becky Holland
Mary Pettiford
Kim Avery
Amanda Rosario
Kristina Harris
Rhonda Grisham
Jenifer Garza
Althea Thomas
Alana Dimambro
Jill Nagel
11/3/19
Alyssa DiFazio
Tina Auth
Brittany Light
Patricia Oehlert-Vazquez
Bea Patrick
Kristina Rosson
Karen Brunet Moore
Megan Landor
Misty Shallcross
Trish Musgrave
Nacole Patrick
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Nicole Blaha
LaKishia Wagers
Debbie Bloxom
Dale Fish
Jill Nauyokas
Stephanie Beckwith
Lisa Marie Ferraiolo Whitener
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Emily Boxer
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Jennifer Ramlet
Anna Nichols
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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As the GM strike continues, picketers received some bad news from Tennessee. A striking United Auto Worker union member was hit by a car and killed outside the General Motors plant in Spring Hill where workers were maintaining an active picket line. The UAW said in a statement that 55-year-old union member Roy McCombs “tragically lost his life today on a picket line standing up for a better life for himself and his coworkers.”
McCombs was hit on a bridge outside the GM plant as he was crossing the road to get to the picket line around 6 am. McCombs was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead in the emergency room, said Lt. Jeremy Haywood of the Columbia police department in Columbia, Tennessee. The driver who hit McCombs was cooperating with investigators.
Local 1853 Chairman Mike Herron said, “Sergeant Orlando Cox from the Columbia Police Dept. will be releasing a statement shortly that will describe this event as an innocent tragic accident. He has asked that everyone refrain from going to the South Gate for safety reasons. He requested that any vigils be held at our union hall and not in the vicinity of this accident — to ensure the safety of the participants.”
Herron said the UAW local sends thoughts and prayers to McCombs’ family as well as the driver, “who was on her way to drop off her kids at the day care center located at the south exit when this tragic accident occurred.” All strike activity has ended at the South Gate of the plant and no pickets will be set up there in the future, Herron said. Also, the UAW crisis team has been called in and will meet personally with UAW members that were on the South Gate at the time of the accident as well as McCombs’ coworkers on the third shift.
UAW members at Spring Hill have taken part in picketing as part of the union’s nationwide strike against GM since Sept. 16 though it’s been contentious from the start. Maury County sheriff’s deputies in Tennessee had arrested nine protesters on Sept. 18 when they refused to stop blocking the south entrance to the plant. A 10th arrest came when someone drove recklessly through plant’s entrance, sheriff’s officials said.
A court in Tennessee granted GM’s request to prevent UAW picketers from blocking the entrance to the factory. The order was in effect until Oct. 8. It followed several arrests at the plant since GM’s 46,000 UAW workers went on strike. “After dialogue failed to stop the incidents of harassment, violence and vandalism by a few people, we had to take necessary actions to protect everyone involved,” GM said at the time. The order barred the UAW and its members from blocking entrances, detaining vehicles, creating obstructions on roadways or “assaulting, intimidating, falsely imprisoning, harassing or destroying the property of GM employees” and others at the plant.
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Britain police launched one of the largest murder investigations in decades after the bodies of 39 people were discovered in the back of a tractor-trailer at an industrial park east of London. Emergency services were called to an industrial park in the town of Grays in Essex, 20 miles east of London, at around 1:40 a.m. local time when the vehicle was discovered to have people inside. Thirty-nine people were pronounced dead at the scene.
The victims were found in the refrigerator unit inside the truck. Police confirmed that there were 8 women and 31 men inside the truck. The Essex police department said it was not immediately clear if the victims froze to death or suffocated. A police spokesperson said the truck had a Bulgarian license plate and entered the U.K. in Holyhead, Wales on October 19th. Holyhead is one of the busiest ferry ports in the area with primary service to Ireland. Authorities called such a route into the U.K. “unusual.”
Investigators believe the refrigerated trailer started its deadly journey in Zeebrugge, Belgium to Purfleet, England, where it arrived early Wednesday. Police believe it the tractor traveled from Northern Ireland to Dublin, where it took a ferry to Holyhead in Wales before picking up the trailer at the dockside in England. They have also suggested that two different trucks pulled the semitrailer at different times though it is not clear when the 39 people entered the refrigerated trailer.
Soon after, UK police have charged a 25 year old truck driver with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people in connection with 39 deaths in the back of the truck he was driving in southeastern England. Police say Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland. He was the first of five people arrested in what is seen as one of the U.K.’s biggest cases of human trafficking.
U.K. police are struggling to identify the victims and said that very few documents were found inside the truck. Authorities said the task is likely to be difficult since human traffickers normally take the passports of their passengers to obscure their identities, stripping them of their names and giving them new documents when they arrive at their destinations. The victims are believed to have come from Asia and autopsies are being performed.
U.K. police say they’ve been in contact with Vietnamese authorities, even though they are not yet certain of the identities of those found dead in the refrigerated truck. The Vietnamese Embassy in London has set up a hotline for families to call about missing family members. The Vietnamese government has also announced its own investigation into the deaths. “The Embassy has sent a team led by the minister-counsellor in charge of consular affairs to Essex, England. They have met with the local police in an effort to verify the identity of the deceased, whose nationality still cannot be confirmed,” according to a statement from an embassy spokesperson.
Each year thousands of migrants die attempting to cross into Europe. Many sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea without a trace. Others die on land and mountain routes. The International Organization for Migration estimates that 4,503 people are known to have died worldwide in 2018, with the highest number perishing in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams has fired Police Officer Christopher Meyer, who threatened to shoot a family after their 4-year-old daughter took a doll from a Family Dollar store. The incident was captured in a viral cell phone video that shows Phoenix pointing a gun at the family’s car and threatening to shoot the girl’s father, Dravon Ames, in the face. The girl’s mother, Iesha Harper, is heard saying she is unable to hold her hands up because she is holding a child and that she is pregnant.
Meyer was one of a group of officers seen on video drawing his gun and cursing at Iesha Harper, who was pregnant and holding a baby, and her fiance, Dravon Ames. Officers were responding to a complaint about shoplifting last May. When questioned, the couple said they were unaware their 4-year-old daughter had taken a doll from a store. Police had said it went beyond shoplifting, and that the father refused to comply with commands several times.
The video prompted an immediate backlash when it surfaced in June. At a separate news conference, Ames and Harper said the officer’s dismissal should have happened a lot sooner but they were pleased nonetheless. The couple has filed a $10 million claim against the city. A second officer who was present will receive a reprimand for using foul language. But video shows he tried to calm the situation, Williams said. Williams rejected the Disciplinary Review Board’s recommendation that Meyer be suspended for six weeks. Instead, she fired him, saying “a 240-hour suspension is just not sufficient to reverse the adverse effects of his actions on our department, and our community.”
The decision to fire officer Meyer comes as Phoenix police announced the firing of another officer, Detective Dave Swick, who was involved in a Facebook database that tracked posts of current police officers across the United States that advocated for violence against Latinos, Muslims and women. Swick was fired do to facebook posts that were flagged as racist. Williams said her decision to let Swick go was “based on the number and the nature of the social posts.” Williams added that a total of 72 officers were flagged for their social media activity. Nine other officers were suspended following their investigation. A third officer who is under a criminal investigation for undisclosed reasons was also fired.
As a result, the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association is now pondering filing a vote of no confidence in Williams because they feel her firing of Meyer was too harsh. Count Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio is among those outraged by Williams decision saying she “gave into mob rule” from those who dislike the police. PLEA President London said the union has received 200 to 300 calls and emails from officers asking for a vote of no confidence over Williams’ decision to fire Meyer and Clinton Swick, who was terminated over his social media posts.
The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association released a statement: “The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (PLEA) has a complete understanding of the position Chief Jeri Williams is in as the leader of the Phoenix Police Department and as an appointed employee of the City of Phoenix. However, we do not agree with the decision to terminate the employment of Officer Christopher Meyer and Detective Clinton Swick. PLEA is dedicated to its members, and we ensure that we carry our members’ interests through until the end of all the processes that encompass employment with the City of Phoenix. An appeal hearing is in order, as the Discipline Review Boards for both Officer Christopher Meyer and Detective Clinton Swick recommended suspensions without pay that were on the lower spectrum of the discipline class. Neither Discipline Review Board, which are composed of community members and police employees, recommended terminating either Officer Meyer or Detective Swick.”
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, October 27th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, October 27th, 2019 was:
MEG TUCKER
Hurst, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing entries 10/21/19 thru 10/27/19 are:
10/21/19
Jenifer Garza
LaKishia Wagers
Wendi Black
Melissa Mae
LaKishia Wagers
Barbara Austin
Dawn Raasch
Trish Hysell
Sarah Harrison
Kathleen Hickman
Carrie Vucinaj
Paula Rivers
Tina Auth
Be Schwerin
Stacy Nelson
Sonali Jain Modi
Eleazar Ruiz
Paula M Bondy
Kim Avery
Susan Clarke Jette
10/22/19
Brittany Doerfler
Tracy Heyer
Naomi Whitlatch
Jenifer Garza
Amber McGrath
Melinda Poullion
Melissa White
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Rosanne Clark
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jennifer Lang
Barbara Austin
Lauren Bradley
Misty Shallcross
Rhonda Grisham
Dean Bruss
Amy Flecknoe Moyer
Nicole Blaha
Jill Nagel
Destiny Landsaw Davis
10/23/19
LaKishia Wagers
Sheila Carvell
Angela Janisse
Suunney Michelle Johnson
Rhonda Grisham
Rosanne Clark
Beth Epley Minton
Steph Lesliebonton
Beth Epley Minton
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Tera Wardrip
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Thomas Ryan Gan
Paula Johnson
Shawna Poole
Alisa Jones
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Nai Merri
Terry Schmitt Sutton
Dawn Raasch
Emily Rice Bowersock
10/24/19
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Dale Fish
Sarah Bellestri Shih
April Ashcraft
Jeannine Scavo
Shannon Rush
Emily Rice Bowersock
Christy Hawkes
Thomas Ryan Gan
Paula M Bondy
Sheila Carvell
Shannon Schleif
Kim Avery
Rushell Tuggle
Wendi Black
Joanie Waterman
Beth Epley Minton
Georgiann D’Angelo
Sandy Nevels
Rhonda Grisham
Andrea Ayala
Kimberly Taylor Hall
10/25/19
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Rhonda Grisham
Christy Hawkes
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Amber Chandler
Emily Rice Bowersock
Jennifer Ramlet
Shannon Rush
Nikki Hunsaker
Shawna Poole
Debbie Gremlin
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Sheila Carvell
Kristina Harris
Lauren Bradley
Maggie Smith
Chrissy Kim
Eleazar Ruiz
MarcyLynn Coull
Melinda Poullion
Beth Epley Minton
Trish Marks
10/26/19
Valerie Kuehn
Nacole Patrick
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
P Annette Skeans
Jessica Steiner
Mya Murphy
Marilyn Wall
Kim Avery
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Thomas Ryan Gan
Vickie Gipson
Diane Hamric
Kalynnilene Carter
Bea Patrick
Rushell Tuggle
Mary Mcmenamy
Jane Peterson
Jennifer Vega
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Cheryl Reagin Burns
10/27/19
Trish Musgrave
Lisa Puckett
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Stephanie Beckwith
Melissa Barnes Walker
Dean Bruss
Dawn Raasch
Rhonda Grisham
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Mya Murphy
Trish Hysell
Meg Tucker
Nicole Blaha
Brandi K Chaney
Alexis Maureen
Donna Blankenship
Amber Chandler
Karyn Koehler
Steph Mitchell
Joanie Waterman
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
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You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you! 
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Fort Worth, Texas Police Officer Aaron Dean, 34, has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot and killed a 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home. Aaron Dean was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center and later released on a $200,000 bond, according to jail officials. The arrest came just hours after Dean’s resignation from the police force. Dean, who joined the department in April 2018, still faces possible civil rights violations, Kraus said.
Interim police Chief Ed Kraus said during a press conference earlier that he intended to end Officer Aaron Dean’s employment, but that Dean tendered his resignation first. Had the officer not resigned, I would have fired him for violations for several policies, including our use of force policy, our de-escalation policy and unprofessional conduct. Dean was initially placed on administrative leave after he shot Jefferson to death but he has not been cooperating with investigators in the case, Kraus said.
Officer Dean was responding to a non-emergency call from a neighbor for a wellness check after the neighbor saw Jefferson’s front door was open. Jefferson was playing video games with her 8 year old nephew early Saturday morning just minutes before she was killed. Body camera shows that when police arrived, Dean shined a flashlight through Jefferson’s window and yelled, “Put your hands up — show me your hands,” before firing a single shot at Jefferson seconds later. He never identified himself as a police officer.
Police Chief Kraus said he doesn’t know what, exactly, led Dean to open fire. “I cannot make sense of why she had to lose her life.” The chief said Dean resigned without talking to internal affairs investigators. The video included images of a gun inside a bedroom. Kraus said he did not know whether Jefferson was holding the weapon. But he said the mere fact she had a gun shouldn’t be considered unusual in Texas. “We’re homeowners in Texas,” the police chief said. “Most of us, if we thought we had somebody outside our house that shouldn’t be and we had access to a firearm, we would be acting very similarly to how she was acting.” Kraus said that, in hindsight, releasing the images of the weapon was “a bad thing to do.”
Jefferson was staying at her mother’s house in Fort Worth to help her recover from an injury when the shooting happened at about 2:25 a.m. A lawyer for Jefferson’s family, Lee Merritt, said her relatives were “relieved” over the arrest. Merritt said that on the night of the shooting she had been playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew and lost track of time. Earlier that night, he said, the family had opened the front door to allow crisp fall air inside to cool down the house. “We need to see this through to a vigorous prosecution & appropriate sentencing,” he tweeted. “The City of Fort Worth has much work to do to reform a brutal culture of policing.”
In a separate news conference earlier Monday, Jefferson’s family demanded an outside investigation into her death. “This man murdered someone,” Darius Carr, Jefferson’s brother, told reporters. Jefferson was “simply going on along with her life, living a law-abiding citizen’s peaceful life, and she was killed by a reckless act of a Fort Worth police officer,” an older sister, Ashley Carr, said. “There is simply no justification for his actions.” Police Chief Kraus brought the case to the Texas Rangers, who he said were not inclined to take it up at that point, and to the FBI, which did not immediately say whether it would review it.
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As the GM strike entered its fifth week, the United Auto Workers union announced that picketing workers can expect an extra $25 a week from the union’s strike fund. GM, on the other hand, can expect its dealers to face increased difficulty in sourcing certain replacement parts, while others worry about the prospect of subpar inventory. The UAW’s bargaining team presented a new comprehensive offer to GM as talks continued. In addition to the slightly boosted strike pay, the UAW also lifted the cap on cash earned at outside jobs. Starting Sunday, workers moonlighting at other jobs can keep the full strike payment, regardless of what they made in their alternate gig. Strike payments are typically clawed back on a dollar-for-dollar basis after the worker passes the $250 threshold.
In addition to a host of other issues, health care sits near the top of UAW concerns in this latest round of talks. With GM looking to downsize in an era of shrinking auto sales and economic uncertainty, offering generous health benefits represents a major cost to each company. An agreement was reached between GM and the UAW that keeps the previous health care arrangement intact. The agreement keeps the arrangement where workers cover just 3 percent of their health care costs — an agreement GM briefly abandoned earlier in the bargaining process. The automakers would undoubtedly seek concessions in other areas but unions are not prone to accept concessions lightly.
In the tentative deal with General Motors, the union won on many of its goals, including a path to permanent employment for temporary autoworkers, a faster route to top pay for workers hired after 2007 and a flattened pay structure for permanent employees, who would reach $32.32 per hour by the end of the four-year deal. The biggest obvious loss for the union is the continued closure of the Lordstown Assembly plant in Ohio.
The Lordstown Assembly Plant in Ohio is to remain closed, as will transmission plants in Warren and Baltimore; and a parts distribution center in Fontana, California, will close during the term of the contract. The union said it negotiated assistance packages for workers at Lordstown, Warren and Baltimore transmission plants, including $75,000 payments for eligible production workers and $85,000 for skilled workers who retire. There are also buyout options for those not eligible to retire.
Some other features of the deal include UAW-represented GM workers will get a bonus of $11,000 upon ratification of the deal and temporary workers will get $4,500. GM will invest $7.7 billion in U.S. facilities to create or retain 9,000 jobs. There will be wage increases of 3% in the second and fourth year of the contract, with 4% lump sum payments in the first and third years. Temporary workers, who have been paid $15-$19 an hour with inferior benefits to permanent autoworkers, get a path to a permanent role starting next year. Part-time workers get a path to regular status starting in 2021. These workers also get improved paid and unpaid time off. By September 2023, all permanent manufacturing employees will be at $32.32 per hour.
The tentative deal is far from perfect and the UAW is trying to persuade union workers to accept the deal. Experts said General Motors has lost more than $1 billion in profits, while line workers have lost nearly $750 million in income. With the state of Michigan are losing tax dollars, there’s a growing sentiment that something has to change soon and many hope this deal will finally end the strike.
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Roughly half a million children in the U.S. could lose their eligibility for free school lunches under an administration proposal. Children whose families qualify for food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, can automatically get free breakfasts and lunches at school, but the administration’s new proposal would tighten eligibility for SNAP. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an analysis this week showing that nearly 3 million people could lose access to food stamps under the proposed rule, including almost 1 million children.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an analysis that says as many as 982,000 children could be affected by the change. Children whose families lost SNAP benefits would have to submit an application to determine if they qualify for free or reduced-priced school meals. About 45% of them — some 445,000 kids — would still qualify for free meals but about 497,000 kids who currently get free meals — would have to start paying a reduced price of 40 cents for school lunch and 30 cents for breakfast, since they come from families with an annual income of between 130% and 185% of the federal poverty level. Another 40,000 kids who currently get free meals would need to pay the full price because their family won’t qualify for the program anymore.
The National School Lunch Program serves roughly 30 million students, including about 20 million free meals daily. For those who don’t qualify for free or reduced price meals, the average price of lunch was $2.48 for elementary school students in the 2016-17 school year, according to the School Nutrition Association, which represents cafeteria employees and vendors.
According to the USDA, the proposal could cut $90 million annually from the cost of its school lunch and breakfast programs. They noted that the number of children being affected by the proposal could be less because some schools offer free lunches to all students regardless of eligibility. But the schools that offer this program requires 40% of students to be eligible for free meals, and the rule change could mean some schools no longer meet that threshold.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has said tightening access to SNAP would close a “loophole” that allows families receiving temporary assistance benefits to automatically get food stamps too. The USDA is not proposing changes to the income rules for the program. It says it is addressing a loophole that gives eligibility to people who would not have otherwise qualified.
The USDA released the details of its analysis after it was criticized for failing to report the impact its SNAP rule change could have on children’s access to free school meals. The agency has said the change is intended to make eligibility rules more consistent across the country, since states can grant people eligibility if they were enrolled in other assistance programs. Critics argue that the change will increase food insecurity among low-income families and add to states’ administrative costs.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, October 20th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, October 20th, 2019 was:
STEPH MITCHELL
Henderson, KY
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing entries 10/14/19 thru 10/20/19 are:
10/14/19
Alicia Dansby
Tabitha Sinks
Andrea Somers
Barbara Austin
Karen Brunet Moore
Paula Johnson
Melissa Shaulis Mazzur
Maria Bouchard
Emily Rice Bowersock
Nicole Blaha
Penny Fisher
Mary Pettiford
Josephine Casey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Jenifer Garza
Crystal Young
MarcyLynn Coull
Karron Redfield
Derelys Peterson
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Dawn Raasch
Alisa Jones
Trish Hysell
10/15/19
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Kristina Harris
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Kiki Roberson
Alicia Johnson
Trish Musgrave
Adaria Johnson
Amber McGrath
Tabitha Sinks
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Georgiann D’Angelo
Vickie Gipson
Darlene Whyte
Alisa Jones
Andrea Somers
April Ashcraft
Ralph Gonzales
Stephanie Griffith
Kimberly Snyder
Kristina Rosson
Andrea Somers
10/16/19
April Ashcraft
Rose Elizabeth Cantu
Jodi Stevens
Karen Brunet Moore
Kimberly Snyder
Elizabeth Wilson
Don Redfield Jr.
Carrie Vucinaj
Sheila Carvell
Eva Biggs
Kathleen Hickman
Brittany Seiler
Diane Hamric
Paula Johnson
Christina Radcliff
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Gina Taylor
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Alyssa DiFazio
Jan Peoples
10/17/19
Lisa A Mazola
Diane Maxwell
Jessica Steiner
David Miller
Shannon Rush
Traci Anderson
Trish Marks
Susan Clarke Jette
Jennifer Ramlet
Brandi K Chaney
Tearsa D Keith
Althea Thomas
Alana Dimambro
Jo Bhagavatula
Nia Rammal
Karen Brunet Moore
Kim Avery
Jamie Beauchamp
Amber Critchley
Paula Gillespie
10/18/19
Emily Rice Bowersock
Jeannine Scavo
Ashley Richmond
Rhonda Grisham
Autumn Dansby
Alicia Dansby
Abby Noelle
Nelle Bailey
Sheila Carvell
Steph Lesliebonton
Phylicia Phillips
Lisa Bourlier
Andrew W Sauer
Jennifer Ramlet
Annette French
Tina Auth
Debbie Gremlin
Karen Brunet Moore
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Mya Murphy
Darlene Whyte
10/19/19
Kimberly Snyder
Holly Cajigas
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Trish Hysell
Nai Merrie
Deidra Dees
Traci Anderson
Barbara Austin
Marilyn Wall
Eleazar Ruiz
Priscilla Shimp
MarcyLynn Coull
Teena Sierson
Kathleen Hickman
Jodi Stevens
Carla Williams
Steph Mitchell
Kathi Taylor
Dale Fish
Jan Peoples
Tearsa D Keith
Becky Hartman
Wendi Black
10/20/19
Dale Fish
Mya Murphy
Alicia Dansby
Nicole Blaha
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Tabitha Sinks
Lauren Bradley
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Debbie Smith
Amanda Brewer
April Ashcraft
Meg Marshall
Jennifer Ramlet
Be Schwerin
Andrea Ayala
Nikki Lee
Eva Biggs
Sheila Carvell
Nai Merri
MarcyLynn Coull
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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A suspect has been arrested after four homeless men were killed and one was critically injured when they were attacked in New York City early Saturday morning. Police said Randy Rodriguez-Santos, 24, who is homeless, wielded a 15-pound metal pipe and apparently attacked the men randomly as they slept on the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown. Santos is reportedly also homeless and has struggled with addiction. He is charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and unlawful possession of marijuana.
Police responded to reports of an assault in progress at Doyers Street and Bowery around 2:10 a.m. and found two men with head wounds. One victim was pronounced dead at the scene and another was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Over the next hour, police discovered additional victims in the area, two men were found outside of 2 East Broadway and another was found outside of 17 East Broadway.
Two witnesses told responding officers that the suspect was wearing a black jacket and black pants, which helped police find him quickly just a few streets away. Rodriguez-Santos was apprehended a few blocks from the scene of the attacks and the weapon was recovered nearby. The attacks left blood splattered on the doorways and sidewalks where the men had been sleeping.
The victims, whose ages range from 48 to 83, were bludgeoned as they slept on the street. Three of the four men killed were identified Monday, as lawmakers and mourners gathered at an emotional memorial for the men at Chatham Square. Several sidewalk tributes of flowers, candles and food were placed for the men who were allegedly killed by another homeless man as they slept. One of the mourners cried as she recalled the oldest victim, 83-year-old Chuen Kwok, always being grateful for the food she gave him. New York State assembly woman Yuh-Line Niou choked back tears as she spoke on the mens’ deaths. “If the change isn’t now, after this, I don’t know when it is.”
The medical examiner’s office later confirmed his identity and those of two other victims: 55-year-old Nazario Vazquez Villegas and 49-year-old Anthony Manson. Santos was arraigned on charges of murder and attempted murder for the bloody rampage. He did not enter a plea and was ordered held without bail. Police officials said Santos has been arrested 14 times, some of those for assault, including one in May for an alleged assault at a Brooklyn homeless shelter.
The suspect’s mother, Fioraliza Rodriguez, 55, told news outlets she had kicked him out about three years ago. He struggled with drugs, assaulted her and his grandfather, and stole from the family, she said. “I never thought he would kill someone,” she said. “I was afraid of him, though, because he punched me. That’s when I told him to get out of my house.”
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