40% of african-american children live in poverty. rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we've been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that's what we're working on and i think that the president has heard us and i'm very proud of congresswoman waters and chairman cleburne in the congressional black caucus. when you look at what took place in august with the black caucus, five cities, a jobs tour. what we did was get the jobs debate on the agenda where now the president has the space and the wherewithal to be able to use his platform, the bully pulpit to say, look, we have to work together to create jobs. >> congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of california. i want to thank you very much for your work on this continuing