supervisor avalos: janine carter, willie radcliffe, evonne elobos, andrea crimstork and mike theerio. we'll stop right there. thanks. if we can just stop for a second. gentlemen and folks in the audience, we cannot hear if there's a lot of talking and discussion in the lines and we will keep it quiet to help concentrate on what everyone is saying. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm a member of the chinese progressive association. i have two children. i used to work in a restaurant right now an imunemployed. my husband is a construction worker. he is a pillar of the family but his work is very unstable and in a month he has only a few days of work. being an employee so long he is experiencing a lot of stress and that causes irritability in his temper and his health is also deteriorating. my family depends on the few hundred dollars i received from my unemployment benefits. i'm not the only one who experienced this. i know a few families experiencing the same situation. our family was a very warm family, however, because of the stress from our life, there is tendency of violence in the f