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    Senate President Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) and House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-Wayne) announced today that the West Virginia Legislature will hold a screening of a new documentary on poverty, A Place at the Table, on Monday, April 8th. This event is being organized and hosted by the Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty.

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    Senate President Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) and House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-Wayne) announced today that the West Virginia Legislature will hold a screening of a new documentary on poverty, A Place at the Table, on Monday, April 8th. This event is being organized and hosted by the Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty.

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    Senate President Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) and House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-Wayne) announced today that the West Virginia Legislature will hold a screening of a new documentary on poverty, A Place at the Table, on Monday, April 8th. This event is being organized and hosted by the Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty.

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    April 4, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lynette Maselli 304.357.7809 Lynette.Maselli@wvsenate.

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    WV LEGISLATURE TO HOST SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY ON POVERTY

    CHARLESTON, W.V. Senate President Jeff Kessler (D-Marshall) and House Speaker Rick Thompson (D-Wayne) announced today that the West Virginia Legislature will hold a screening of a new documentary on poverty, A Place at the Table, on Monday, April 8th. This event is being organized and hosted by the Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty. The Senate Select Committee on Children and Poverty, chaired by Majority Leader John Unger, has been holding public hearings, community town hall meetings and gathering information over the last six weeks related to the problem of child poverty in West Virginia. Senate President Kessler says issues facing the State, like the growth of Medicaid, prison overcrowding, the high occurrences of teen pregnancy and the high school dropout rate all have a common basis: childhood poverty. When children dont grow up healthy, with an opportunity or a good education because they were born poor, they dont have the opportunity to succeed and participate in our society or in our economy, says Kessler. Trying to lift children out of the situation they find themselves in, obviously through no fault of their own, is not only the right thing to do from a moral and social standpoint; its the right thing to do from a tax standpoint.

    Both Kessler and House Speaker Rick Thompson agree that poverty is not an issue that has a quick fix. Speaker Thompson says it has taken years to get to this point and government and community leaders must make a long term commitment to reverse the problem. We have to change the culture and lifestyle, says Thompson. We have to provide an alternative so people have a healthy lifestyle and children are living in healthy conditions and that is going to take time. Following the showing of the film, there will be a panel discussion on hunger, moderated by Senate Majority Leader and Chairman of the Senate Select Committee John Unger. It has become apparent to us, in the hearings held by the Select Committee thus far, that child poverty is a very significant problem in West Virginia, says Unger. We will be watching this documentary, and talking with those who made it, as part of our information gathering. The panel discussion will feature Lori Silverbush, the films director, and Dr. Janet Poppendieck, an expert on school meal and food assistance programs, as well as the author of several books on the subject. Screening of A Place at the Table begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Culture Center Auditorium at the State Capitol. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend. There is no charge for admission.

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