CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 14, 2014
Program and when we push to raise the minimum wage, one of the important lenses to look through is how is it affecting the women who are, 1 3 of whom are on the brink or actually living in poverty . Mr. Garamendi those statistics are a wakeup call for america. More than half the population are female. And yet our policies are not womenfriendly policies. Our laws are not womenfriendly laws. And we need to change that. Id like now to ask my colleague from california, longtime city councilwoman in the city of los angeles, a woman who knows these issues from her experience representing the communi...