The committee will come to order. I note that a quorum shall be present without objection the committee is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Without objection members of the full committee, not on the subcommittee are authorized to participate in todays hearing. The committee is meeting today pursuant to the testimony on examining racial and gender wealth gaps in america. I now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing is around a Critical Mission avoid the subcommittee exist. The racial and gender wealth gap is real. Unacceptable and actually much larger than people think. True wealth can be defined by adding of total assets including cash retirement account or your home and then subtracting liability which is credit card debt, student loans, mortgage to reach you reach your net worth. The median net worth of white household with 130,800, the white median net worth of latina and households was 17530. And for black househo
Book festival even if you cannot be there. [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the center. [applause] i am Jeffrey Rosen the president of this institution. This is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [cheering] cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is only institution in america, chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. That was very well done. [applause] i was thrilled to my friends and colleagues susan who is head of cspan came just a few months ago and said we have a great new book on the president , lets launch at the Constitution Center. Were here to do it and its an honor to welcome
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the center. [applause] i am Jeffrey Rosen the president of this institution. This is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. [cheering] cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i want all of you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and viewers. The National Constitution center is only institution in america, chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. That was very well done. [applause] i was thrilled to my friends and colleagues susan who is head of cspan came just a few months ago and said we have a great new book on the president , lets launch at the Constitution Center. Were here to do it and its an honor to welcome back the great founder of cspan brian lamb. Americas
14156550001 and using meeting id 26645312704 and the webinar password is 1234. Please insure you are in a quite location, speak clearly and turn off background sounds. Wait for the item you would like to address to be called. When prompted press star 3 to be added oo the queue. The system will notify you. Callers will hear silence when waiting to speak. Operator will unmute you. Callers have the standard three minutes to provide Public Comment. You may watch live at www. Sfgovtv. Org. Item 1, roll call. President nakajo. Present. Vice president morgan. Present. Commissioner Catherine Feinstein has been excused. Commissioner fraser. Present. Commissioner collins. Present. Chief of Department Jeanine Nicholson. Present. President nakajo will now read the land acknowledgment. Thank you very much. Good morning. Thank you madam secretary. The San Francisco Fire Commission we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of
Simmering tensions that led up to this new situation in these air. All right, lets get into the m o the a top 10 for do sir of uranium 7th to be exact. Yet the democratically elected government over seeing a population who, according to the world bank, has a roughly 42 percent extreme poverty rate. That some 10000000 people in new share out of about 28000000, who go hungry regularly, who have no access to sanitation schools and so forth. This after approximately 40 years, a french colonization through much of the 20th century and currently serving as a drone base for us out for com. Now, with almost no results for an rosemont, and the standard of living, it would appear the military coup and new share is backed by popular civilian support. So joining us now to break down the history of new share and this region, and just how we got to this situation is coffee cool. Cool coffee is an African Affairs analyst. Formerly of the world bank. He is now a senior fellow at the center for africa,