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The Food Security task force. Thank you. Thank you, maria. Any questions . Okay. I just have a question. Ms. Leclair, thank you so much for your service. I wanted to ask you a question that might be separate from this particular issue, but you work with wic and i was wondering, was any information communicated to you about the ten cent bag fee and that if someone receives wic, that they dont have the bag fee is waived . No, they havent. Okay. I dont know anything about that. But i can find out. Well, i just was told that the bag fee is supposed to be waived for those who receive who receive wi...

Im mapper raoe ya leclair, ive been in this position for 19 and a half years and i also supervise on the wic program director, wic is the women, infant and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program for lowincome women, infants and children up to the age of 5. I have been a wic director for different agencies, i was in san mateo and i also worked in the Central Valley at a federally qualified Health Center for 35 years now, and my passion has always been nutrition and how to get food to those in need. Here in San Francisco, we have an outstanding program, we serve breastfeeding women, we have a p...

Thousand cases representing over 40 thousand San Francisco residents served by this program. Upwards of 7 Million Dollars in cal fresh benefits are issued each month in San Francisco, mostly trance transacted by large retailers, now a third of our monthly applications come in online, during my tenure with cal fresh, we established a Restaurant Meal Program where lowincome, homeless or disabled individuals can eat hot meals, now 7 other california counties operate such a program. Yet theres still significant work to do with cal fresh, notably the horizontal integration with medical for the Affo...

Either at a community center, at a church or some place like that. We also have over 19 thousand Housing Units without cooking facilities, without kitchens in San Francisco, this is a big problem for Food Security, and they looked at the food needs of residents in San Francisco living at 185 of poverty or less, so the qualifications for a reduced price lunch and belore or wic envelope, and they looked at all the resources that are out there from cal fresh, from wic, from school meals, all of these and from Community Needs programs and they found there is still with all of those resources, ther...

First lets talk. Once again, the defining feature of the Trump Presidency on full display this week. Our economy is coming up, but our society is coming apart. President trump bragging on the economy with good reason. Obama set him up from the alleyoop, but trump is getting credit for this slam dunk. These numbers are unbelievable. The economy growing at a faster pace than even the experts have been predicting. Gdp up 3. 2 . Unemployment rate at its lowest in 49 years, down to 3. 6 . Hourly wages also going up, 3. 2 rise from last year. And americans like it, okay . You got a brandnew cnn poll...