On the Capacity Building to help strengthen the infrastructure for our city we do have some grants for transition youth and we focus on literacy and improving the listcy for Translation Services on that note improving the access to housing weve been working over the last few years take into account and working with the cd to make sure we have appropriate services we have been and continuing to improve our website to make it more friendly and increasing the Technology Tools and the application process to make it easier and to be sure that people who are bilingual and languages other than english can access that and worked with the department to make sure that the Language Access own is phone and in personal who people happen to walk into the Office Finally id like to end with summary of the existing housing portfolio we see a core part of our mission as being good Asset Managers of the portfolio over 21 thousand units the city has funded over time we see a key part of our mission to hel
In income. So instead of standing in the corner and figuring out how to bring a trade bill to the floor they ought to be fixing equal pay for equal work, they ought to be fixing Student Loans for our students, they ought to be passing a highway bill, they ought to be increasing the minimum wage, and they ought to deal with currency fairness because our trading partners, they play with their currency in order to push forward their products. But oh, no. That is not on the agenda. We could have an agenda for a vibrant middle class but instead of that, we are moving toward a trade bill. Now, i know there are some who disagree with me, who come down this floor and say were going to create jobs with this trade bill its going to be great. Well let them explain how were not going to see some of the 12 million jobs that are manufacturing jobs in america not move to countries who pay 56 cents an hour. Another country 1. 19 an hour. I know theyll disagree with me. Theyre making all of these promi
Coming up on cspan2 the House Armed Services Committee Works on the Defense Budget for next year. And we will take you live to the senate where work continued on a bill that would require the Obama Administration to submit any Nuclear Agreement with iran to congress for review. A government report alleges Homeland Security official while serving as head of the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services gave special access to the visa program. Today he testifies before the house Homeland Security committee to answer questions about political favoritism. See it live starting at 10 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Ray mabus discusses the navys future amid budget challenges and evolving threats overseas today. You can see his remarks in the National Press club live at 1 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. 150 years ago this weekend a greedy nation gathered along the route of abraham lincolns funeral train as it made its way from washington, d. C. To his final resting place in springfield, illinois. This sund
The automatic cola increase and as employer employee one of the nonprofits the income is very tight and i also train individuals in coming out to a job theyre looking to get promoted and im training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in San Francisco it is you know im just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that im representing at the conner house and training thank you. Good afternoon. Im Elizabeth Alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldnt help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit into the low wage workers if your making 13 or 1250 an hour is not a different experience in an a nonprofit or anything else in the economy it is difficult to get but we have to make that commitment you c
Tight and i also train individuals in coming out to a job theyre looking to get promoted and im training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in San Francisco it is you know im just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that im representing at the conner house and training thank you. Good afternoon. Im Elizabeth Alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldnt help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit into the low wage workers if your making 13 or 1250 an hour is not a different experience in an a nonprofit or anything else in the economy it is difficult to get but we have to make that commitment you could take 10 thousand people from the lowest rages and move them into the middle just by Prope