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questions and i am sorry we couldn t go on but we have as much time as possible and thank you both very much. thank you. madam secretary, we proudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the united states our road to the white house coverage continues on thursday from california. at 4:00 p.m. eastern we ll take you live to ventura nor a campaign rally with bernie sanders. and then at 4:30 hillary clinton holds a rally in san jose. that is live on c-span. by some estimates, 40% of all food produced in the u.s. is thrown away. next, the house agricultural committee looks at the issue of food waste and how to redirect it to those who need it. this is about two hours. good morning. this hearing on the committee of agriculture and food waste from the field to the table will come to order. i ve asked david scott to open us with a prayer. davi ....
meghan stas, senior director and grocery manufacturers association here in washington, d.c. and diana aviv, kre feeding america in chicago, illinois and emily leib, the director of food law policy clinic, harvard law school, jamaica plains, massachusetts. i ll let everybody get to their seats. all right. miss gunders, if you will begin when you are ready, ma am. ranking member peterson and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to testify today and be willing to explore this issue. any name is dana gunders, i m a senior science at the national resources defense council and the author of a widely cited report on food waste and a book called the waste-free kitchen handbook which is a guide to not wasting food. imagine walking out of the grocery stores with five bags in the parking lot and dropping two and not bothering to pick them up. it seems crazy but that is what we re doing when we are wasting 40% of our food. we re leaving entire fields unharvestin ....
not to have to file, or pay federal income tax. but one of the things i ve not really heard anybody address, we talked about in here the need for the minimum wage to be raised. and when there was an article written recently that indicated for an individual who just accepts the available federal welfare payments, they may be looking at $1,700 a month take home whereas under the current minimum wage it s about $1,200 take-home. well, the incentive there is obviously not to work. but i know my friends at heritage have encouraged as a solution lowering the minimum wage. obviously, that would even increase the disparity between what you take home if you don t work and what you take home if you do work. if you lowered the minimum wage. so that s obviously not going to fix the problem there. but if the minimum wage is raised in puerto rico, since as my friend from california s indicated they have a higher minimum wage, then people would be tempted to go from puerto rico to cal ....
for five days. reporter: one employee tells news channel 5 there are some staff who work up to 20 hours extra every week and are never compensated for it. according to the department of labor under president obama s new overtime rule bang december 1st, it is illegal for someone who earns less than $40,000 to make them hours a week. this does not apply to building leadership. that being said 24 positions are at risk of being eliminated. the school said quote, this reduction has not been finalized. they said those who may lose notice. it s most unfortunate. reporter: the source tells me they were supposed to open this school year. parents were told the schools were not opening until 2017, that school year. i asked if that was a factor and they said there was no correlation, but a different employee said that is not that enrollment is too low and that is why the system is making cuts. it is no secret that ohio has had problems with charter schools. the governor ....
rezoning progress and the decision makers choices with zoning action abc real quick what was it create. the eastern neighborhoods plan was they are second reading in 2008. it took 12 years. more than 10 years. more than 10 years. between 8 to 10 years to create this plan a large community effort. how did we plan prior to the eastern neighborhoods plan. so we had zoning in place at that time, in the areas of eastern neighborhood that identified what the land use controls in terms of height and bulk and we reviewed permits in accordance with the wlumd. you took project by project and now the eastern neighborhood plan covet like a map that if you want to build in a certain area either set the criteria you must meet. that s correct. so my question and don t interpret it as disrespect i ll asking on behalf of my constituents that has has many ceqa appeals how do we get rid of eastern neighborhoods plan. that s a question that is quite frankly 0 outside ....