concannon, i'm old enough to remember some ground breaking books like nick cass's promises, michael harrington's, the other america, and the ground breaking work done by united states congress especially by then senator george mcgovern on a bipartisan basis with then senator bob dole to establish the food stamp program to address a pervasive problem of hunger and malnutrition in the united states. has the food stamp program, in fact, successfully addressed the issue of hunger and malnutrition in the united states. >> i believe the food stamps program has been one of the most effective first line efforts to reduce hunger in the country. it also has reduced poverty. we know in the census bureau last year pointed out last year alone 4 million additional americans would have sunk below the poverty line absent the food stamp program. as has been mentioned here today, almost half, 47% of the beneficiaries of food stamps are children, another 8% are senior citizens over 60. about 20% of the households have people with disabilities. increasingly these days the food stamp program are serving households i

ally in this nation and admired michael harrington but she worries in that book he did begin and layre of poverty. for charles murray and senator daniel patrick moynahan's on the family. it's complicated but sounds like you've done from within. >> there's a lot of dysfunction that i will say quite frankly, are tropes of that culture of poverty. teenage pregnancy, infidelity and missing fathers and all of the things -- >> the sta tastistics in this country 1 in 6 living in near poverty. i think there is a moment to see anew. >> unfortunately, it's a fact that 1 in 3 black children are growing up in poverty. okay 33% of my people? these kids are growing up in poverty? let's talk about that. let's put that on stage. let's put people in a room and be affected by seeing, you know, these people go through the journey. >> you did so much research in "hurt village" and when you sat down to write that play, it's like some privileged white new york feeder goer the only thing they will know about that is what they see in your play. what do you owe them that is the frustrating part, i think, i'm

was saying in the autobiography x was one poverty in america by one of your fellow alumnus, michael harrington. so i think i will let any address it because he knows better than me. >> what's your first name? >> dean in my opinion not only jumped in. you slam the nile. his brand canal here? i prefer brian. come on. ryan was one of the ways students that what. so i like trying to tell his own story. >> and also the black quarter point out was only three quarters black because they're not a black students who felt the black quarters. >> thank you. i think dean's point is that we all gained a great deal by coming across during this time of change, meeting people from different backgrounds. i played football for one week invested my helmet and jeff dickenson was my roommate. we got along. so sophomore year, we decided to rent together and i recall one interesting story. i share this with other nick fallin. jeff dickerson added think was an architect and i didn't know that architects. marbles. and next service they just of a priest reprise to live next door, father o'connor. i think he was the resi

poverty in america by one of your fellow alumnus, michael harrington so i think that was very much a theme but i'm going to let eddie address it because he knows better than me. >> what is your first name? >> dean in my opinion not only jumped in but he swam the nile. is brian canal here? brian -- come on. ryan was one of the white students that walked out with us and i would like trying to tell his own story. >> also the black corridor points out it was three-quarters black because there were not enough lack students to fill the black corridor. yes, yes. >> thank you. i think dean's point is that we all gained a great deal from being at holy cross during this time of change, meeting people from different backgrounds, and i played football for one weekend busted my helmet. jeff dickerson was my roommate, so we got along. sophomore year, we decided to run together and we were up on healy for, healy for. and i recall one interesting story. i shared this with father mcdonnell. jeff dickerson's data think was an architect and i didn't know that architects carried marbles. next door was a

saying the autobiography of malcolm x was one, poverty in america by one of your fellow alumnus, michael harrington. so i think that was very much a theme, but i'm going to let eddie address it because he knows better than me. >> what's your first name? dean, in my opinion, not only jumped into the river, you swam the nile. [laughter] is brian cannell here? >> here. >> brian was one of the white students that walked out with us. so i'd like brian to tell his own story. >> yep. and also the black corridor was, in fact, i think only three-quarters black because there were not enough black students to fill the black corridor, so that was -- >> three minutes or less. >> yes, yes. [laughter] >> thank you. yeah, i think dean's point is that we all gained great deal from being at holy cross during this time of change, meeting people from different backgrounds. i played football for one week and busted my helmet, and jeff dickerson was my roommate. so we got along. so sophomore year we decided to room together, and we were up on huey four? huey four. and i recall one interesting story. i shared this with f

. >> thank you, michael, and a thank-you for your stewardship. you and barbara, ed harringtonhave done a great job. when i was city administrator, asked mayor newsom if i could do the ev's. i liked working with our department of environment, with melanie, with bob and others. they sat down and spend some good time talking about innovation for the city as to how we can get off of oil. i am glad the day that -- today that the chairman is here. a year ago, we announced that we wanted 100 of these charging stations placed throughout all of the public garages. that was the strongest signal that we could give that we were going to pave the way and be supportive of the national movement and be the bay area leaders of the ev revolution. we have 49 of these stations placed. does a wonderful goal. before the end of this year, we'll have them -- an additional 33. we see that the private sector has also joined in. we have hotels, parking garages that are privately owned and other public areas where private interests are saying that they would like to install these ev chargers for their cu