When you are recognized you will be asked to mutual microphone and will have five minutes to ask your questions or make a comment. If youre not speaking i ask that you remain muted in order to minimize background noise. In order to get to as many questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on the screen. And with that i will start with my opening remarks. Good Morning And Welcome to the second hearing of the House Committee of Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition Oversight and department operations. Thank you to all the members in Attendance Today and a special thank you to our witnesses for sharing your time and expertise. This hearing entitled examining the snap Benefit Cliff is the result of discussion between myself and the Ranking Member mr. Bacon. The beginning of this congress and subsequently after, he shared his concerns that low income workers made roughly loose support as they stabilize themselves with employment and reach what we call the Benefits Cliff.
Questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on the screen. And with that i will start with my opening remarks. Good Morning And Welcome to the second hearing of the House Committee of Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition Oversight and department operations. Thank you to all the members in Attendance Today and a special thank you to our witnesses for sharing your time and expertise. This hearing entitled examining the snap Benefit Cliff is the result of discussion between myself and the Ranking Member mr. Bacon. The beginning of this congress and subsequently after, he shared his concerns that low income workers made roughly loose support as they stabilize themselves with employment and reach what we call the Benefits Cliff. I was pleased to have a similar concern and we work together to have this Hearing Today. This conversation comes at a critical time in the wake of the covid19 pandemic, families across the country are still struggling to put food on the table. Th
Ask your questions or make a comment. If youre not speaking i ask that you remain muted in order to minimize background noise. In order to get to as many questions as possible the timer will stay consistently visible on the screen. And with that i will start with my opening remarks. Good Morning And Welcome to the second hearing of the House Committee of Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition Oversight and department operations. Thank you to all the members in Attendance Today and a special thank you to our witnesses for sharing your time and expertise. This hearing entitled examining the snap Benefit Cliff is the result of discussion between myself and the Ranking Member mr. Bacon. The beginning of this congress and subsequently after, he shared his concerns that low income workers made roughly loose support as they stabilize themselves with employment and reach what we call the Benefits Cliff. I was pleased to have a similar concern and we work together to have this Hearing Today. Thi
Motions must be submitted to the electronic repository to sbc see. Repository mail. House. Golf. Witnesses experiencing technical difficulties should inform the Committee Staff immediately. Lets get started. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you for joining this remote hearing. Today we are going to talk about cities and states working to protect their communities and how to increase resilience to climate impact. I recognize myself or five minutes for anopening statement. Members, as congress continues to work on muchneeded orinfrastructure jobs legislation, the climate crisis keeps proving that we need generational investment that will create a stronger and more resilient america. Mo as we speak the west is facing a recordsetting management, increasing risk of dangerous heat waves and wildfires and drinking Water Supply formillions of americans. Of your storms, persistent drought, massive flooding and other climate related disasters cost our nation nearly 100 billion in 2020 alone. And e
Peoples wages during quarantine. Denmark paid 75 and up. Rowandas government gave food directly to the poorest people. Meanwhile, over here one day, its like a miracle, it will disappear. Now there are Ten Million fewer jobs than there were before the pandemic. The president didnt have the political capitol to increase the Minimum Wage and we are on the verge of the biggest Eviction Wage this country has ever seen. But dont worry. Not everyone is suffering. There is one group of americans who probably wouldnt mind if this pandemic kept on pandemicing, billionaires. Americas billionaires added 1. 3 Trillion to their collective network in 2020. They all do well. Right wing billionaires, left Wing Ball anywheres, all 614 of Americas Bill nars did great. Lets be clear. That money didnt just drop out of the sky. It came from us. What does it say about a country that allows this to get worse and worse while At The same time this keeps happening . The basic thing about capitalism is that you