Our shelters to house these children and families to address this crisis, our government has taken action on several fronts. We set up emergency shelters great we searched agents and immigration areas spread we work to find a safe homes for the children until the cases could be adjudicated. We also worked with the governments of guatemala and salvador to launch what i call the truth campaign, letting the people know about the dangers of the trip to the north, to the u. S. We collaborated with the government of mexico so that nation might better strengthen the integrity of its southern border, and it has. One year later, we no longer have a crisis, at least not of the proportion we had a year ago. It is true that many families and children are still fleeing those countries, but those numbers are clearly down by a little more than half. Is that enough improvement . No. But even though the crisis appears to be over, we still have humanitarian responsibilities to protect the children in ou
Unsuccessful. Were spending a lot of money. 13,000 per person. A lot of that is on health care. 45 of it. That is where congress decided to spend the money. The nation has made a great commitment to helping the poor. It increases every year. Third issue, the causes. The first is work rates. The longterm decline of work among males. The work rate among young black males, before the rescission, we before the recession, we have a real problem with male employment. For reasons that are not clear. Females, the opposite. They work more. Married women had joined the labor force. Never married mothers. The poorest group of mothers have had a spectacular increase in employment and even today, the likelihood that they have a job is greater, about 20 and it was before welfare reform. That group is working a lot. Wages. These are astounding. The wages at the 10th percentile and blow our where they were 30 and below are where they were 30 years ago. It is hard to make progress against poverty as we
Srael and all the time they do not respect, demoralize and do not comply with international, should be treated as other and i told once , they werent listening to us, you should be really concerned from the agreement with iran and the west but not because of the substance of the agreement but because of the mechanism that informs the agreement. This mccannas him, i told them mechanism, i know its not easy o boycott israel and put sanctions on oil but this is the way. I tell you, this is the way. Thats why the work of the media is very important, i know it has some substance and hallenges in the issues that tried to criminalize such work, but this is the way to peace. You have had to overcome and protect yourself and be prepared about other issues, i was asked, im being told i only have one minute of course but the division between hamas, this is a devasting disaster, this this is the worst thing that happened to us. Again, we have to face it by reviving the National Project in the pala
Needed months a partnerships with hud to end homelessness and number of us stood up and as i said of would well end hematomas we know of the cause of homelessness but have frjsz of what does so gathering that together having the best models and hud backing up us as a models model of ending homelessness is a great game so i want to give an opportunity to marry libby schaaf shes been thinking again and demonstrating the new coverage of what is happening in oakland kind of similar challenges and also hoping refresher ways to do that. Mayor libby schaaf. Thank you, thank you thank you for waiting, we had technical difficulties and want to make sure everyone can see what happening who is also not in the room. Let me check the time. Like call the meeting to ord at 443 p. M. Welcome to the tuesday april 5 addition of the Entertainment Commission. Im bryant tan the president and there are a few things we want to come over. If you can please have your cell phones on vibrate or silent just to no
Phones on vibrate or silent just to not disturb the meeting. If you are hear to speak on a item which i assume most are we have speaker cards. If you havent filled one out that is fine, ill call people to come and make Public Comment and if you can just introduce yourself in the microphone. Thank you to sf gov tv for producing and airing the meeting to the public. Well start with roll call. Commissioner frost, here. Commissioner lee, here. Commissioner perez, here. Commissioner cam nog recollect here. Commissioner lee, here. Commission. Commissioner joseph is absent. Can i see a raise of hands how many are here to speak on the armory . Rather than have you sit through the general items i would like to ask a commissioner to move up the armory so item 5 b up to right after general Public Comment on the agenda. I make the motion i second. On the motion, commissioner frost, aye. Commissioner lee, i aye. Perez, aye. Commissioner caminong, aye. We will hear the [inaudible] after general Publ