we are very pleased to welcome our next big stage, undersecretary kevin concannon. to introduce and i'm pleased to present sally squires, vice president and director of food nutrition and to mutations that powell tate. in a formally she covered food and nutrition issues at the "washington post" and cratered a column. sally, i will turn it over to you. >> thank you. >> for those of us who are vertically challenged and i'm going to pull this down a little bit. so good morning, and i really enjoyed hearing from sam kass, and i think you're really going to enjoy this next speaker as well. so consider this. one in four americans benefits from the food, nutrition and consumer services, service of the u.s. department of agriculture, which by the way also has the lead responsibility to promote a healthful diet through the center for nutrition policy and promotion. so just a little task here. and as many of you know, fns it partners with state and local organizations to oversee a wide range of programs from food stamps and school lunches to my plate which you've been hearing

. >> human rights lawyer brian concannon says he'd been expecting the un would try to avoid paying compensation, but that the lack of any explanation caught him completely off guard. >> it was also a slap in the face to the 660,000 haitians who have contracted cholera, and the 8,000 who have died so far, or at least their families. >> the un announced its decision to the world in a brief, 5-minute statement. there was no press conference and since then - as in haiti - there had been no further comment to the media. >> now i've asked several officials who can actually talk to us inside this building, and the one person we've been told we can interview is a spokesperson for the secretary general. >> claims found to be outside the scope of section 29 of the convention are "not-receivable". the consequence of a finding that a claim is not-receivable is that the claim will not receive further consideration by the organization. >> that statement was very brief. >> it's a brief statement, it's a legal statement and that's about all we're going to say on that. >> but why is the claim "non-receivable" ?

this year we're very pleased to have sam cause joining us in a few -- sam cass joining us, kevin concannonwho will be joining us this morning, jake campbell, vice president of hart research will be speaking at lunch about the midterm elections and food policy, and we'll wrap up tomorrow with a address from congressman jim mcgovern who's been a strong leader on food issues, particularly child hunger. this conference is also an opportunity to network and mingle with a diverse group of attendees. as you can see from the attendee list, we're joined by consumer advocates, representatives from the food industry and government, academics, nutritionists and dieticians and food -- excuse me, and graduate and law students. thank you all for joining us here today, and we hope you'll enjoy the program. you can follow us @cfafoodpolicy,. since we're in a new venue this year, i want to orient you. there's a happen in your packet. we're now in the palladium ballroom. the breakout sessions are going to be either in the empire ballroom which is located directly below us or in congressional a and b rooms wh

and we'll get secretary, undersecretary concannon here here at the podium again. questions? >> thank you. thank you for being here, mr. undersecretary. i want to thank for the sense in s.n.a.p. and all the good work in schools to have the healthier and competitive foods and reduce junk food marketing in schools. it is nice to write positive comments to the usda about those issues. >> great. >> i'm sara borne from food and water watch. there has been a series in s.n.a.p. and other media outlets to s.n.a.p. retailers paying their employees such low wages that they're essentially double-dipping. that their own employees have to rely on s.n.a.p. to feed their families healthy miles and as we're starting to see more discussion about raising the minimum wage i wonder how you can comment on that improve the health of nation's low end consumers getting them better income and stronger safety net? >> thank you very much for that question. i often to say to people we can not solve the problem of hunger in this country through nutrition programs alone. what puts people at risk of going