ms. brown, i was wondering if you could talk about who you typically serve at your food bank and whether that population has changed over time. mrs. brown: thank you very much for the question, senator. what we saw over the last few years is that more and more of our neighbors found themselves at the food network. early in middle 2020 we saw 60% more people lining up to access food across our region and across the country as well and 40% of them were newly food insecure. so chances are somebody you know. if there was a restaurant you used to go to, if there was a service provider, small business owner, chances are for the first time in their lives they were accessing the charitable food network. so we've seen the face of hunger change in our country. we know that, as we saw from the usga study, that far too many families with children are food insecure. we know too many of our seniors and veterans are food insecure. we're also seeing more and more that working folks are. one of the last pantrie

author of the book, the voting rights will be in double a c p and the ongoing struggle for justice ms. brown, martial, welcome back to d. w. good to see you give us a sense of how important the supreme court ruling is. i think it's important not just because the us supreme court has stood up to support the voting rights act and continue the protections for people of color, not just african americans with native americans, latinos, asian americans. but also because this was a chest, i think that the conservatives were taking, hoping that the, the super majority of the 6 conservatives of at would then decide to undermine or find unconstitutional the voting rights act altogether. so people were holding their breath, thinking that the conservatives were going to come together and, and try to read this country, all these voting rights protections with which case the case was weak. but there been other weak cases that have come before the court. and the conservative is on the courts and bound together and when they bond bind together in this way, it doesn't matter that what they're doing is not wh

author of the book, the voting rights war, the in double a c p, and the ongoing struggle for justice, ms. brown, martial, welcome back to d. w. good to see you. give us a sense of how important the supreme court ruling is. i think it's important not just because the us supreme court has stood up to support the voting rights act and continue the protections for people of color, not just african americans with native americans. latino is asian americans, but also because this was a chest i think that the conservatives were taking, hoping that the, the super majority of the 6 conservatives um, at what then decide to undermine or find unconstitutional the voting rights act altogether. so people were holding their breath, thinking that the conservatives were going to come together and, and try to read this country, all these voting rights protections with this case, the case was weak, but there been other we cases that have come before the court. and the conservatives on the courts and bound together and when they find bind together in this way, it doesn't matter that what they're doing is not what

there needs to be use of your time your time at the beginning of the meetings of folks such as ms. brown who's son was murdered, that the information she presents, should be given equal time. seeing if anyone knows information to contact the police department. i know you're going to continue with this creation of propaganda at the start of every meeting. i'm saying give us equal time, give us police accountability activist equal time. it's really the only decent thing to do. and i also have to say that you need to start taking remote public comment. there are many people who cannot come to these meetings who should be allowed to dial in on the telephone to comment. thank you. >> president carter that's the end of public comment. >> next item please. >> at this time, under police commission rules of record, nor are required to respond to questions by the public but may provoid a brief response. you may submit public comment in either of the ways. written comments may be sent to postal building located at third street. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >

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please recognize the gentlelady from ohio ms. brown for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman thompson and ranking member scott for holding this hearing today. thank you to our expert panel for being here your perspectives are helpful as we look at to the next farmville. over the past few years our nation has been a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic historic weather disasters, exasperated by the climate crisis and challenging trade wars all of which have contributed to our food chain supply. on the front end of the supply chain, farmers are facing record high input cost and productive enter production to face the market is increasing volatile and uncertain, this question is for mr. leroux. in your opinion what are the biggest contribute factors to the instability farmers are facing in the market today? >> that's a great question how to sum it up there are enormous challenges that face farmers and as farmers were used to uncertainty in a lot of ways but as you well point out right now that's been exasperated by climate change and been exaspera

ms. thomas for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is gwen brown and i'm the director of the job center that's a sponsor ship of ycd and a founder of black wall street. i want to thank supervisor safai and chair chan for call this meeting and making this time and i want to thank all the department heads for their presentations. i like to speak to the department heads about their investments, their ten-year investments are extremely low in comparison to the need that's documented in the data that i know they have at their departments. and also, in comparison to the investments in other neighborhoods. i'm happy to hear director arsa saying -- workforce investment looks good for the omi but i hope other departments follow that lead as we have been able to demonstrate compliance and efficacy at the omi. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, gwendolyn. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is naomi charles with children's council. thank you for calling this hearing. as you heard, the omi needs community resources and you saw large rates of poverty and need within the community

ms. marvel" comics for the first time. and i was like obsessed with her. i was like, "how did she get a job at marvel comics and be browning like 15 years old but yeah, i was obsessed with her. and now six years later i'm here talking about "ms. marvel. and she's here too somewhere >> seth: she is. she's backstage. it was nice to see her again but again, i think this is the part that's so sweet obviously you cared about this comic book and now you're playing marvel's first muslim superhero and she's a teenager and you're a teenager and i can't even imagine -- also you're a comic book fan -- of what this whole process was like, ending up with this part >> my life is overwhelmingly good right now [ laughter ] >> seth: that's good live it up there's no reason to be shy about it [ cheers and applause is it true, were you the kind of person who you did spend your allowance on comic books >> all $20 >> seth: 20 bucks? >> yeah. >> seth: is that a good allowance these days because i have to start figuring out -- >> no, i had to make an excel spreadsheet and talk to my parents. i'm like look, these are my expenses as a 15-year-o

brown, do you have a rough idea of the cost associated with resolving an average cost of resolving a particular case. >> ms wexler, the social security administration as you noted in your testimony will be updating its fee structure on the ecb sv service. i think you mentioned you've got concerns about how this would impact usage, can you dive into that a little further until you us what you anticipate. >> weaned think the new tiered structure will discourage use for both current users and possible users that are good not quite using the system. i want to give one example to help quantify this. one he is earning that initially was expected to pay $276,500 is about to be expected to pay $6.25 million for the same service, box 22 fold increase over just two years. that discourages use. there's no way about it it does not discourage use. that's like netflix saying your $15 a month subscription is going up to $330. our concerns as this tight timeframe for them to recover their costs is creating a vicious cycle it would be less users and then the cost would have to increase again so we want to work with ssa and

ms. thomas for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is gwen brown and i'm the director of the job center that's a sponsor ship of ycd and a founder of black wall street. i want to thank supervisor safai and chair chan for call this meeting and making this time and i want to thank all the department heads for their presentations. i like to speak to the department heads about their investments, their ten-year investments are extremely low in comparison to the need that's documented in the data that i know they have at their departments. and also, in comparison to the investments in other neighborhoods. i'm happy to hear director arsa saying -- workforce investment looks good for the omi but i hope other departments follow that lead as we have been able to demonstrate compliance and efficacy at the omi. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, gwendolyn. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is naomi charles with children's council. thank you for calling this hearing. as you heard, the omi needs community resources and you saw large rates of poverty and need within the community