《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.05.27☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める
■今日の動画：PBS News Weekend May 26, 2024
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[05:22] Tyson Foods is one of the world's biggest meat and poultry producers. And according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, it's also a major polluter in the United States. A report entitled “Waste Deep” says that in the five years between 2018 and 2022, Tyson plants dumped more than 371 million pounds of pollutants into U.S. waterways
[** The phrase "waste deep" is a pun on the term "waist deep," which typically refers to being immersed up to the waist in water. In this context, it suggests being deeply involved and implicated in dumping waste in waterways ]
[11:31] The legislative package known as the farm bill is moving slowly through the House, in part because of party-line disagreement over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as food stamps. It's a federal program that addresses hunger by helping people with low-incomes buy food.
[** Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP = 以前の番組にも出てきました ]
[14:55] So I think the biggest point of debate around SNAP has been on a requirement that was actually put in place in 2018 by Congress in the last part of bill, and that requires the SNAP benefit to be updated or reviewed at least every five years. But people were not expecting the size of the update in 2021, and that has caused some conflict. And so the current House bill that was passed out of committee this week calls for cost neutrality. That basically means a freeze on SNAP benefits going forward.
[** cost neutrality = a situation where a change in a program does not result in additional costs, meaning any expenses incurred by the change are offset by savings or revenues elsewhere ]
[21:23] And the only reason it's to the point it is now is, because of my special education team, my instructional assistants, the occupational therapist, who really taught me everything that they know, and we just applied it to music. It really takes a village. You can see that when you all are working together like we did this morning.
[** < It takes a village = it takes a village to raise a child = (proverb) An entire community of people must provide for, and interact positively with, children in order for those children to grow up healthily and safely (wiktionary)]
[22:21] I've gotten so many kind emails from these parents or spoken with them where they're like, my child seems so unhappy all the time, but here he is not. Or there might be a student who struggles in different aspects of the day, but here she's so incredibly successful and flourishing. But that looks different for every kid and every kid's learning, and their process looks different. And so we need to meet everyone where they are at.
[** < meet people where they are = to understand and accept others' perspectives, backgrounds, and circumstances, and respecting their ways without imposing judgment or our own preferences ]
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