You to be lulled into supporting, gutting this while we pay 614 billion in corporate welfare. I do have a question for you, ms. Reynolds, about the mind set of the individuals. Dont you think we have to change the mind set of the community too . An example i come up with. If you run into a client, for example, who found themselves in the county jail because they had a bar fight and when they come out, dont we have to get the Business Community to hire people who might have a public record, for example . We in fort worth have been very fortunate to work with the Business Community. We have developed a living wage tool kit at our organization. Everybody we Catholic Charities fort worth makes a living wage. Several of our local businesses have made a choice. Ok. I dont have 10 minutes like the chairman did. Its not changing the individual minds. The community has to embrace it too. Otherwise you have permanent unemployment. Im so happy that people get Educational Opportunity through your
Have a younger girl cousin, you better be able to pull it back in. Otherwise you are in a heap of trouble. [laughter] what we have to do as social workers is we have to rally around the families who want to support these kids, both want to want to take them back and the one to are going to receive them and encourage them. We should be leading the charge. We should be encouraging people and providing support to the sounds to are from different ethnic groups sued the site to take an africanamerican child and support them. For the support around them and dont make them feel bad about the decision they have made. You have made the right decision. Particular, many of them need intense Mental Health support. Intense. They have some of the most acute issues of anyone you will find. Right . You have seen like i had seen, these kids find themselves in those situations have the most acute issues and they are the most challenging. They will need support. I thank you sincerely. I really do. Before
And you need these programs. No. I didnt say i had to have these programs. What i said was these programs work to help people who are in struggling situations. If a person loses their job and they become unemployed thats not your situation. How about yours . Okay, my situation is that i have been what is your job . Right now i work with Young Children at a recreation center. My job is to make sure that they are doing their home work after school programs, making sure that the building is taken care of, that is my job. My husband works at a and whats your pay . My pay is 10. 88 an hour. Your husband i saw from your written testimony works at a Grocery Store and thats full time as well . Yes. My job is full time, but my job is also limited. Im a Seasonal Employee so i work for six months with my job. And is that by choice so you can spend more time with your kids in the other six months . Have you tried to get other employment . Ive tried to find a lot of employment but due to Health Iss
And a discussion about mexico opening its oil and gas industry to foreign investment. At a House Budget Committee hearing advocates for the poor discussed what governments and charities are doing to raise people out of poverty and how they can be more economically selfsufficient. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin chairs this two hour hearing. Committee will come to order. A number of our members on our side aisle will be a little late our conference is still ongoing but in the interest of time i want to get started. Welcome everybody. Good to see you. A great full capacity crowd. This is our fifth hearing on the war on poverty. Over the past year weve heard from a number of voice, policy voices, Community Groups and today well hear from people in the middle. People in the privatesector who work with the Public Sector. People who coordinate state programs with private charity. Were also going to hear from an especially important voice, miss tianna gainesturner. I was happy to meet tian
Well, we started in 2002. Initially, the girls, we were engaged in Child Rights Movement and we were meeting different women leaders. We were six or seven young girls and all of the age range was from 1416. So when we saw no women or girl leadership in a civil society, as well, some of the organizations that claim to work for womens rights, but there is no representation. Mostly, the women and girls were either the receptionist or the material level but not at the decisionmaking. So we started work with the young girls. First, we volunteered because all of us had no experience working in an organization working for womens rights. So we volunteered with other women who were already working on womens rights. We volunteered with them for a few years and then we started our own work and started to work empowering young women in the communities. Your organization is expanding from pakistan to afghanistan. A different set of issues, a different set of culture, a different set of challenges.