these are americorps volunteers. there are also used volunteers and muralists. thank you for your work. max. a native art teacher for several years, and he has designed and worked on several murals and the district, with oversight of 100 volunteers. and i see him out there. it is amazing have been gets people involved and shows them how to work. he designed something for the upcoming festival, which i see he is wearing. we have another him as merrill's in san francisco and in tokyo, japan. she is the director of a department. thank you for your work in our district. another person is here. i am sorry if i did not get your name right. your project is on the corner of mission street. del then, a painter and muralist. thank you for your work. he creates socially conscious works. i love the mural on the corner of francis and michigan's street. i just noticed it for the first time -- at the corner of one street. thank you for that. it is really a wonderful testament to what our neighborhood is about. eric, who i do not seen here with us, who has done an amazing work

he had an active duty marines for several years and a program americorps has called year out program which was an internship program. it taught people in the private sector as nog's and nonprofits about hiring a veteran. he was always part of that and not every veteran is that lucky witches really the reason we started this program. there are 12 million veterans and the work force, 1 million of them are unemployed. people say that is roughly the same average as the national average. i have to bite my tongue as a veteran myself. i want to give them an answer, "are you kidding? people leave their families for one year and we don't transitions?" we make the business case for hiring a veteran. even though veterans are suffering on average about 9% unemployment, there are specific populations of veterans that are really suffering. if you look at iraq and afghanistan veterans, it is roughly 13%. in 18-24 ages, it is close to 30% unemployment. that may be affected by people in school right now but trust me, it is double digit and it is nearing 20-30%. if you look it guardian reservists. 18%

as you begin to maybe grapple with the issue of national service, a choice of americorps versus the military, one longer in years than the other, but i do think that there are less people, particularly in congress, that have a feeling and an understanding for military. my own party often won't even stand up and argue whether this platform or weapon is really needed, because they're a bit concerned about being regarded as weak on defense, where stopping that program and for less cost than pursuing something else in cyberspace warfare might be better. and yet, often people are worried, because they don't understand. and that is part of this issue we're talking about today. >> if you were to look at the political benefit to incumbent politicians of having a military where very few people participate, how beneficial is it to the power base to not have too much of the population too exposed to too much war for too long? >> not helpful. look, i'm going to spend this november 11th, veterans day, in a maximum security prison in pennsylvania. i do it every year. i'm meeting with veterans. they just f

a few other out of the box young thinking ideas, one is the americorps. there is an opportunity to potentially create and used the powerful grass-roots of that structure to create a curriculum program by which community organizations can be trained to be messengers to shift consumer behavior and move communities and help communities to invest in win-win sustainability projects. one last parting thought is to think more -- i think it is important for people to think in terms of more of an everyday citizen and more in terms of an everyday consumer in thinking about how we focus on the benefits of sustainability or environmental initiatives that are beyond just environmental. had we present the benefits of these programs when we are around things that every day people really care about like economic opportunity, energy- saving, sabean more proactive about what kind of framing -- so the government can be more proactive about that kind of framing to engage more people across different interests. >> we are out of time, but i want to thank the panel and all of y

in a way, americorps programs that not only provide jobs but also critical low-cost services to our families and our seniors. the list goes on. but the theme is the same we've seen all year. the majority is more interested in putting ideology over common sense and partisanship over people's needs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: jeaths. the gentleman from maryland. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from maryland. ms. edwards: i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. edwards: thank you, mr. speaker. the other side has been in the majority over 39 weeks and has not passed a single legislation to create jobs or help small businesses and now they reject out of hand commonsense legislation in the american jobs act to help small business owners who are responsible for creating 70% of the jobs in this country. last week i visited with small business owners like susan bishop, the owner of jaha hair studios. she has been in business 16 years, eight employees and found it impossible to get a

certainly expand americorps and other programs that allow community rebuilding but also ensures that we have class integration so that people from welfare backgrounds who want to serve or immersed into different communities. i think that will be good for our social inequality problem. by and large, there are a lot of great ideas coming from the protest. it is a matter of congress in paralysis actually doing anything. the president has a good point, but ultimately this goes to congress. i think we have a do nothing congress right now, and that is infuriating the american people and certainly my generation even more. also, during the august recess, my organization called on congress to come back from vacation and start dealing with the jobs crisis. host: calls for our guest, matthew segal. the republican line is up first. caller: matthew, you do not speak for me. and you never will. do not say everyone is a 99%. you do not speak for me. here is the situation. i went to school, i got an education, work hard, and and make $250,000 a year. and you do not like it. you'd think i am the bad

mcintyre: also, the men and women serving in the americorps program are helping young people with a passion of sports to go to the low-income communities and reach out to children who may not have someone to be their coach or their mentor. the entire staff of up to us, their volunteers, may god continue to bless them and their successful work for years ahead and in demonstrating we can help our young people in construbtive ways with sports and recreation. indeed advancing the lives of all of our youth is a team sport. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, i have the great privilege and really the honor of representing the largest concentration of active duty and retired military members in the congress. mr. rigell: it's a true honor to defend those who wear our nation's uniform and to speak boldly on behalf of our nation's veter