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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and we are honored to have you at aei. Im delighted to welcome you to this event in partnership with the yg network and National Affairs. We want to talk to you today about policy solutions in bringing back the middle class and solving problems of poverty we have seen now for 50 years. Today is the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon Johnsons Great Society speech that was the beginning of an experiment that basically remade the way our government interacts wit...

Conversation on the state of the economy with chris van hollen, a Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee. A hand for david graham and chris van hollen. [applause] where you want me . I think right here. Congressman, thanks for being here. Lets jump right in. There seems to be this idea that maybe the budget wars are over. As ryan murray suggested, the detente. Is that what it looked like from where you are . What can we look forward to in the next few months . First of all, its great to be...

Host wolman david wolman, joining david wolman, joining us from portland, oregon, thank you, sir. Guest my pleasure. Live coverage of the house begins now. For morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Schiff, for fi...

In the implant mentation implementation of that to this day. First, at of the gift as evolutionary as you think. We still try to believe we are protecting the National Security. We still know the events that occurred on september 11, 2001, could happen again. And of course, that was written in the close aftermath of that. But it was also carefully crafted and vetted. It has been reauthorized with some changes over that time will stop over that time. But nonetheless, the majority of the provision...

The laypeople. It is a fascinating notion because every day across the americas citizens continue to engage in the political process. Imaginings they are fighting the old fight coming to win it in ways they have historically done it. Occasionally they will a prevail. But beyond the zone in which they operate there is another reality altogether a and that separate reality altogether is now such a definition that politics is discarded a handmade tile the relevant to at least to the eyes of the med...

Im peter executive director of library using association ill be using the overhead. I want to thank two heroes whos many months of hard effort resulted in an approval by the Fair Political Practices Commission of a fine for city librarian for this employee for unlawful failure of not reporting gifts. This was an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission and a stipulation which is a formal acknowledge they failed to report financial tricked he received from the fingertips friends. ...

But unfortunately there are other services that they can take advantage of, so we have her wait listed on the home deliver groceries program. And you can see that she is missing over one meal every single day and meaning that she is making hard choices or skim ping or rationing. And for the family, it is slightly maybe a little more complicate and this is a typical family. We put the family at the top of the income range for cal fresh and that 130 percent gross income of 130 percent of federal p...

Have been housed, report to us that they have had children that very few have retained custody of the children and many both and they have lost any contact. And again, this is another indicator of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse around women that they dont have a connection and in fact, a lot of times dont know where their families are. Terms in gender and these are the department of Public Health numbers from the coordinated Case Management system. The women that we serve is about 23 percent...

Transgender. So they are a part of that program. So lets move on to highlight women that are in our permanent Supportive Housing program. And we have 118 women in our permanent Supportive Housing, 33 are in what we call the care not cash program. And 89 in the care not cash programs. And two, women are the veron and the Mary Elizabeth inn, which is also the entity that manages both of those properties. They are called the mayor elizabeth inn. And our Services Provided in the permanent Supportive...

Shelter to house the two populations together because they move from church to church. This Pilot Program has been awarded to the providence foundation, and it is going to be held in the Western Addition at the bethel ame church. And at one point, it was the family winter shelter and we changed locations about two years ago. So, we are going to pilot this program with 30 mats for women only, it will begin the sunday before thanksgiving and it will end the last calendar day in the month of februa...