>> welcome to the fifth in our series of working family forum (clapping) we're very honored you can join us today and thank you to senator leno's to his staff and to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement i'm pleased the

mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of congress london bremember cor englander and thank you. we have other lady that's the could owner of the nicholas company recognized by president obama on their workplace flexibility thank you nicole for being here. (clapping.) many of you know that the women bureau was created in congress shortly after the women got their rights to vote our vision is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past

few months we've been engaging groups if a don't even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in san francisco to identify initiative that benefit the america's working families and the economy we're bringing together high ranking officials and researches and business leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been business practices that benefit working families. the conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that american families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the national discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the

ash tag followup. please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. we also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. i'm honored to introduce mayor ed lee he's the 403 reading mayor and the first asian-american mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county of san francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and

the city administrator he's worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian safety. we're very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee >> kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for the people as well. >> hello, everyone welcome to san francisco. i was tickled when leader councilmember englander said you're looking thinner i said that's what a lot of contracts and other things pelosi thank

you and welcome back and establishing san francisco we're honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a national agenda we can do everything locally and hello, again to melanie she's been a wonderful contact welcome back to the recreational office. ellis you know your economy that red hot we're a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement we're at a record low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. and while our economy maybe the

envy of other places around the world i'm hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the full-time work they need and that's sustainable. we know there's no greater income gap between that person who has a job and that personal who doesn't we will be relentless to grow jobs in our city crossing across all sectors not only technology it's fast growing by not the big driver biotech and international trade and film and video production and construction and health care are on a having having good foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for

everyone. we're making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. that's why i've joined up with supervisor david chiu on his family friendly workplace we're going to be funding a bit of that this year. he's been asking for that extra funding to make sure it's not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for working families. we need to make sure our priority is that you're working families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which we'll be addressing affordability is through housing. we've got an aggressive agenda got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and

we're making good progress we're opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. we know your city is an expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still (clapping) yeah. but we've got to keep pace and this is what paying attention to working families is all about not about what we did yesterday although we celebrate that we have to keep the pace with rising consumer costs i know that a few more dollars an hour can make a difference and san francisco has done we need to lead by example we're the first

city in the nation to establish our own minimum wage a model for the rest of the country. we're going to work with the board of supervisors that impacts small businesses and experts to seek coincidence in a significant wage increase for working families. we also continue to join in the fight for equal pay giving our women equal pay for equal work. yes (clapping) equality for all was not only a slogan but also been a san francisco value and our city values equal pay for everyone and make sure our women are succeeding and treated equally and nancy pelosi said when women

skeekdz san francisco skeekdz yes (clapping) and you can see it's true in the leadership of our city i'm proud to nominate carmen chu the assessor recorder she's going to deserve that i've appointed katie tang to our board of supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm