It is my great honor to welcome the National Hispanic Caucus and state legislators for a very important discussion that is as much as anything about our care team to go to all people in our nation to recognizing the challenges that people in general are facing, but that specific communities are facing and particularly with unlikely discussion about the challenges and opportunities that are presented by our administration's priorities. As an extension of attention I want to thank you for your work. I am going to come back from the local and state government and we fully appreciate mentally appreciate
that we can do a lot here in Washington DC outside of this building. But then, if required to leave and I thought it would make it real. And you have presided over and had responsibility in your role to make plans for our country, particularly during the last two years of the pandemic and all the challenges they have.
And yet you have stood strong with courage and with a commitment to recognize people who in their times of greatest need, have relied on. So right if I needed space for that, I will say at the point of personal experience as a child daughter in California, there are many issues that you all are working on as an organization that are issues I've worked on my entire career. And I look forward to talking about them and also our shared goals, not only because of the work we've done over the course of the last year more and so that includes our shared goals of strengthening our economy, and the creation of talent. You all know the work that we did early last year in passing the American lesson plan to bring relief to working people and far more. Part of our agenda has been in the personal areas of focus coming up within our small businesses. And we know when we're looking at expanding on small businesses around the country, they're part of the economic LifeLabs and threats of our nation. When we look at the work that we have done to get $12 billion, we actually did it around the time your Senate report to the community to the CDFI as a way to strengthen our ability to uplift, community based business are part rejected or are not given our lack of access to classified information. And so we've been doing that work together. Together we are doing the work of focusing on what we must do to support homeowners understanding and reason. Yesterday highlight the fact that appraisers only 5% of people who do professional work of appraising the value of a home for sale. Only 5% of that entire population of skilled professionals or people call us and so what we have found is that, in particular, black and Latino homeowners are having their phones appraised undervalued because it's what we all recognize Kanzi racial biases system. So our administration announced what we will do as it relates particularly to the federal election system on loans and contracts to make sure that we are acknowledging this issue and doing what we must do to train and to make sure that there is an appropriate understanding of how their bias conscious can impact intergenerational wealth among community, but this is the work that we are doing to get the work we are doing together. It's about understanding that we need to address the reality of the fact that it's really expensive to live. For so many working families, we refer to that as constant. And so what can we do collectively together to bring down the cost of living things like affordable childcare our administration believes working families into more than 7% of their childcare, elder care. We know in so many communities, including communities represented by this organization, there's a great sense of responsibility to take care of. And when households we see intergenerational housing, so we're not talking about the affordability or lack of childcare coexistent with one of the technicians of elders and so this has been an area of my focus for administration to bring down that prescription medication. We know in this community that is represented in many ways by this organization, all of this organization in our community. But what do we need? To do to address things like the fact that so many of our clients who are who are experiencing issue like diabetes find it almost unimaginable and unachievable to be able to afford insulin? And what we should do and as part of our administration's intention to bring down the cost of prescription drugs, including insulin when we say no family to
$35 a month. We will save the life of the person. So this is some of the work that we're doing together, including what we wanted to fix our broken immigration system. As everyone here knows, it was I think the first step is assessment and I've been trying to put a bill on the floor of the centers to better build confidence, requiring and demanding that we have a pathway to citizenship with a particular emphasis on what we must do for the dreamers. We must find essential work and sadly, we've not seen any movement in Congress on that together, we will continue to fight for that. Knowing is the right thing to do. Knowing that it will be in the best interest of so many issues that impact families, individuals in our society, including our economy. So we will continue to talk about that and how we can work together. And, and I'll just close my comments. So the camera conversation by again, thanking each of you for the work you do. I think that there are there are moments like this that really reveal the commitment that especially elected representatives, when in a time of crisis, they continue to do the job with a sense of optimism about what is possible and they reflect the challenges that we must. So thank you all very much. Thank you,
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