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Francisco that services is to be transferred we have a robust cal Works Program with earlier education that provides subsidies for the children and two to another county their kids could be in school we have to reorient cal works to get up e keep that intact it is a challenge one were committed to a family might move to Alameda County or oakland if theyre in a subsidized job well pay for the transportation theyll be consulting in but really is it is a change in the way were approaching our services and with our nonprofit partners the hampton families are up in oakland to better provide support...

65. By 2030 that number will have grown by 30 million. And by 2050, that number will have grown by 40 million. So as you can see, the percentage of the old old as you in the orange and yellow boxes in this chart grows very quickly. Again, if you think back to the chart in terms of the amount of per capita spending that increases as people age you see we are looking at a growing number of individuals who, in fact, will be the most expensive portion of the Medicare Program. At the same time we have fewer young people coming in and we have fewer people that are paying payroll taxes to essentially...

Of the seminars that need the home delivered meals and fraction that needs accident home delivered groceries were starting to address more of the population in need in the rest of this fiscal year and leading into negotiation. Yeah. Well looked at the effectiveness of the program we have a strong planning unit theyre looking at this issue were mindful we have limited dollars and the network serving the aging of folks is a credible balance and nutrition is an important part but without the services it is hard to keep folks adams home safely we have to look at that as a system. And i asked trent...

Expenditure of our federal resources in incarceration and the i think the average on mandatory minimums is about 11year incarceration and so without going too far, are you suggesting that those resources could be applied in other ways to make us safer . Absolutely. As ive looked at the spending of the department of justice and seeing that the bureau of prisons each and every year takes up a larger and larger percentage of the department of justice budget, that money has to come from somewhere and where its been coming from is money for agents and prosecutors and also critically importantly mon...

Resources that would go to prosecutors, and federal agents to be able to investigate and prosecute crimes, are being diverted to the bureau of prisons. The bureau of prisons now takes up almost twothirds of the departments budget. Thats really untenable and unsustainable. So i believe that mandatory minimum sentences are an important tool. But we but that we need to use that tool effectively. Senator blumenthal . Thanks, mr. Chairman. At the outset id like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. Yates nomi...