Can you please discuss the impact of raising the minimum wage?

It would enable working women to be able to feed their children and not have to make the choices between a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas.

Thank you to the chair and ranking member for today's hearing.

It is shameful that we have not extended unemployment compensation to the millions who are unemployed.

Would all of you agree that it makes sense to spend more money to feed seniors and fund the OAA than to pay much more for the emergency health care costs that arise when people are hungry?

I believe that the most critical time in our lives--happens when we begin to get older.

I think it is important for us to understand that it is not so much that people are poor that they don't eat; it has a lot to do with them, sometimes, remembering to eat and knowing how to prepare the food and having the strength.

Solving our unemployment crisis is not only about restoring our economy, it is about restoring dignity to tens of millions of Americans. Unemployment means anxiety and insecurity that translates into worse mental and physical health…

I founded a program in Miami-Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the nation, 20 years ago, and the purpose of the project was to make sure that African-American boys got the opportunity to go to college because too many of…

I was pleased to learn about this program that pairs disadvantaged high school students with mentors to encourage them to graduate and pursue further education.

How do we get more African-American boys, men into teaching? How do we get them into the classrooms?

On the fourth anniversary of the worst natural disaster in recent history, the earthquake in Haiti of 2010, I rise to honor those affected and salute the strength and resilience of the Haitian people. The earthquake in January 2010 claimed…