Hi, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to the 24th annual texas book festival, i will start off with just a few housekeeping items, if you could all silence your phones at this time, that would be great, please feel free to share your experience on social media using the festival attexasbookfest. Texasbookfest, keep in mind questions that you may want to ask towards the end, you may have a good time to ask them, at the end to have conversation the authors will find books at the book tent which i believe is right there, the books are on sale by book people, your independent bookstore, the largest bookstore, largest indy bookstore in texas, the portion of the book helps funds programs that brings authors to students to lowincome schools in texas and find grants for libraries in texas, thank you, in this panel we will be going beyond headlines to discuss the real experience of immigrants living in america, we have two imminent authors that will share with us their journeys. Most recently
Good afternoon, everybody. Oh, my gosh. You to full familiar faces, lots of beautiful new faces. Welcome, everybody. 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 a
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
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