Their video functions on at all times even when they are not recognized by e chair. Members are also reminded tha they are responsible for muting and on muting themselves and to commute to themselves after ty finishedpeaking. Constent with the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965 will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate. When not recognized for inadvertent background noise. Members are rinded that our house rules relatin to the order andhe decorum of the hearing. This hearing is entitled insuringgainst a pandemic challenges and solutions for policiesnd i now recognize myself for three minutes to begin with an opening statement. According to the Congressional Research service, 110 million ople could enter a state of extreme poverty do that tohe global econoc contraction and here in the United States, 67 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance since march of this year. The harmfu effects of this pandemic are the stability of small bunesses like restaurants can
Here at georgetown, the institute for migration. Spent a great partner for several years now. We welcome them in and thank you for all of their collaboration here. Let me remind you the webinars being recorded. Will post this event on our event page and a day or two. If you preregister for the event you will get an email with a link to the video as well. This time i think we are all zoom veterans. Just in case your memories are not what they should be, you notice on the tabs at the bottom of the screen theres q a. As a good deal of time at the end begin submitting your questions as soon as they pop into your head. Do not wait until the end that gives us a chance to sort through them but the best ones to jessica. Im so pleased that jessica can join us. Shes written for the york times, the atlantic, the washington post, los angeles times, teen vogue, among other places preach as a phd in literature from the university of texas and she served as a melon writing fellow and interim Writing
Stuff, visit us before i introduce our guest at our moderators i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes about using crowd deaths which you might not have used before. The event is recorded so you can watch it if you stay for part of tonights final talk because your water was boiling or you want to share with a friend it will be right here as well is on our facebook page. Second of all there is this lovely chat window open on the bottom of your screen, Say Something nice, please do. Type in, say hi, telling us where you are coming from all over the place it appears, and it almost goes without saying, please keep respectful and we will reserve the right to reserve anyone who doesnt it here to that standard which im sure will be unnecessary. And right next to that little chat box at the bottom of your screen you see the word ask a question, type it in there, chat any questions for david and we will have time at the end of the event to look at those. The event is Live Streaming on
When we reach the item youre interested in, press star 3 to be added to the queue. Each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating your time is almost up. I will announce that cure time is up to take next person to speak. Speak clearly and slowly and please mute the volume on your television or computer. I like to take roll at this time. [roll call] first touch is consideration of items proposed for continuance. 1760 ocean avenue, conditional use authorization proposed for continuance december 3, 2020. Item 2, continuance december 17th 2020, item 3, 1600 ocean avenue, conditional use authorization has been withdrawn. Im pleased to announce to you that under your discretionary review calendar, item 12, 811 valencia street, the discretionary review has been withdrawn. I have no other items proposed for continuance. We should take Public Comment on the matters proposed for continuance or that have been withdrawn. Membe
Say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investigative Reporter for wbbm. In my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you allfor being here. And over to you. For having me and thank youagain to our panelists, thank you to everybody whos joinedus today. I hope you get a lot out of this conversation. This is important and we have a great group of panelists that will dig right in. So i want to take with kind of an overarchingquestion. Newsrooms have been announcing a lot of great changes over the last few months. New diversity leadership positions, taskforces, theyre creating new projects after years of inequities in our american newsrooms, some of have even characterize it as systemicracism in american newsrooms, has anything really changed . Amanda, id like to startwith you. Th