I also want to recognize one mike one voice. We all want to listen to the person that is speaking. We want to create a respectable environment so we can have this discussion. Is you last item received a q and a clip. If you have a slip, any questions, my colleagues noreen and marcus will be going around collecting them. You can raise them and we will go around collecting them so that at the end i will be emceeing so i will pass the mic over to you and you will be able to ask your question. Without further ado, it is my honor to introduce the representative of new york 14, alexandria ocasiocortez. [applause] thank you so much. Hello again. Theichele noted, one of Major Updates that we have this month is that we introduce our oft major sweeping sweep legislation known as the just society. One of the things we wanted to talk about, its a package of about five bills and one resolution that attacks some of the central core issues of poverty. We are talking about not just how we measure pove
Efforts. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the center for stra tee teethic and international studies. Im a senior fellow here and also the Deputy Director of the project on prosperity and development. We really appreciate everyone coming out on a thursday afternoon thats gorgeous before labor day i think this is a really important topic. And a really important report that were putting out right now. So i appreciate all of you taking the time out to do this. Before give a brief summary of the report which i hope all or most of you were able to get, it will be posted online right after this event. I you want to say a couple of thank yous. The first is to the Ford Foundation that has were just completing our second year of funding with the Ford Foundation. Theyve been really great partner with us. So thanks to the Ford Foundation for believing in in us. A slightly nontraditional partner for them on this. I want to thank my coauthor who is currently in laos working for unicef. If shes watching,
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This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are on track, we have not skipped a single month. Hall towntile hall per month and this is our nine out of nine town halls in addition to many local community events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss an important topic, which is antipoverty. The congresswoman recently packageut a legislative called they just society.
Inquiry. This is our monthly town hall so we are really excited and we are rep. Ocasiocortez hi, everyone. Hows it going . Hey. Lots of beautiful, familiar faces. Lots of beautiful, new faces. This is our monthly town hall. We have kept with our promise of the beginning of our term commuy events. Before we start, i want to acknowledge everyone here. Our staff that has worked so hard putting this together. Michelle, mabel, ariel, daniel, noreen. And marcus. He is live streaming. I am forgetting everything. We have Translation Services here today so we have our American Sign Language interpreter here. If you need it feel free to raise your hand. Our staff can make sure you get the Translation Services available. Hello, everyone. Evening. Are we at evening . Michelle will kick us off. We will dive right into it. Good evening. Today forfor coming our Community Town hall. Am Michelle Hernandez we want to thank you for coming today to discuss an important topic, which is antipoverty. The con