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
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Including video and differing points of view. Information is on the website, student can start work. Cap next, a look at the Opioid Epidemic in Substance Abuse Recovery Efforts we hear from general doctor jerome along with medical doctors and drug addiction researchers. Posted by oxford house which relies on housing for people recovering from addiction. We are about to get into the next session. Get to your seats. This is our panel on addiction, what to do. In just a second, i will read exactly as he wrote it. Its newsworthy. Get the latest information about the Addiction Recovery research. Years ago, i kept trying to convince doctor clark that the best way to have any kind of research is to put in a year end track people as they come in. Doctor clark was using, his suggestion my attitude was our republican conservatism and not very american. [laughter] however, today, as years have passed, i have a thing on my wrist called a fitbit that takes track of every step i take, i look at peop
Ago, which specifically mentions oxford house as a good thing and as a way for the future. With that, i call on john kelly to come share with us his knowledge so we can learn more about the disease we have in the road to recovery. [applause] this modern technology stuff jackson is good at adapting. [cheers and applause] we now have coasttocoast operation. Ricky is in the state of washington. [cheers and applause] speaker from massachusetts. We love you, ricky. [laughing] dont make ricky nervous. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] just to show you how we rebound, here we are. [applause] thank you. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Delighted to be here. Im one of those phd some new england. I apologize upfront. But im so dependent on powerpoint. I cant speak, i cant even talk without powerpoint. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [applause] all right. Lets start over. Im delighted to be here with you all. I was getting worr