your educational qualifications i think that's absolutely should be done it seems to me it's a no brainer and you know you think it should be simple and i'll be very honest with you this is not about i mean we don't lack as a human race as a city we don't lack creativity to figure out how this can be done to reconfigure out administrate it and other solutions to  of the basic tenets you use is repetition you know repetition is half the job because nobody just just by the way the human brain functions retains everything that hard the first time so part of your want to go to the fundamental issue of what is the what is the fundamental reason these things are not happening including what you what you said about you know can we wipe out by wipe the record clean for somebody for a young kid who maybe did something something silly and why should that young kid be a price for it when when he's thirty forty fifty and honestly there are other kids who do the same things because kids are kids and kids will do things that don't pay the price because we have a deeper a show that i think you know dispar and as a matter of fact and i can i'm speaking as an economist you know under capitalism it is in the interests of the ruling elite you know i don't mean business owners like you i mean like the really top echelon it's india interest the people who run the federal bank and federal reserve bank and people who run the white house and congress it is in their interest to never have enough jobs because if you had enough jobs you would let it completely changes the balance of forces it completely completely changes the dynamic between cabalist and workers i mean i know this sounds this might sound textbook to you but this is actually what happened in the on so what is the result of that the result of that is that people because there aren't enough jobs to go around enough for services to go on you could find adult e s l services for every immigrant who comes to the city why not seattle is a wealthy city one of you said it yourself the reason it doesn't happen is because if they did if you said it yourself the reason it doesn't happen is because if they did that then it would empower the grassroots to a point made which doc shifting the things even more because once you give judgment you give education and people say well what about my single payer healthcare what about my this and what about my dad and it really tightens the status quo that they are trying to maintain so delicately so that's why you have a situation where on the one hand immigrants who are well qualified don't get access to jobs good jobs that they should be getting by right and on the other hand as you mentioned to see that there are so many you know in city kids get that grew up your kids who maybe who never get any opportunities no other way nobody else to go after high school there was a mandate of the community colleges and now we have even community colleges in accessible to those kids because don't tuition is high financial aid has been squeezed and because now you know we have this four y have an income tax that can tax the very wealthy to be don't where we get the research that is a basic problem in seattle we have such great ideas for services we are such wonderful so in seattle we have such great ideas for services we have such wonderful service providers here in this room who have dedicated their life but there isn't enough money why because we don't act the wealthy because we don't big business very simple right tax the rich make funding available to make community college free for all kids and so yeah that's one simple thing but it's simple in the technicality of it it's very difficult politically speaking because when you start saying all these things you start making enemies in high places and that is why i might sound like a broken record but that is why i come back to building movements because unless we build that kind of political energy we are not going to achieve that that is the only reason why we achieved fifteen the only reason why we have come as far as we have learned rights and then one other thing i will throw out we should also be fighting and this is something i've been talking to for middle about is voting rights municipal voting rights for all is voting rights municipal voting rights for all people who live in seattle regardless of if it's the money you can create something similar to combine credential transfer all those schools if they want some money right now they're not given any money from all these  to make to allow arnold schwarzenegger to be ok i'm sure we can change the rules so some africans can enjoy their will to live swell the u s tax base in things you know just it's like the beer trying to get too many cookies and just being technical skills to run a business you know  strong foreign contrie where you might not be able to understand the system here you would be very helpful if there is an entity out there to support you know to to am certainly an expert in small businesses as you are but i would just say i think there's even an organization in this very building so someone else may know that does mentor people starting their own business the name escapes me but there is a going to zation that does that is located in this building but also i wanted to just say that there is we have the financial empowerment center and financial counselors that work with neighborhood house that  help people to do a variety of things but not necessarily a set of steps as businesses but help with talking through credit i know credits very confusing for i think for young people i don't know about everyone else's experience but for me even we didn't really learn about what all that means you know and through high school i learned about a little bit in college but it's a daunting topic and for immigrants or refugees who don't have that system you know and maybe they don't come from a place where you know you have the same type of system it's very unique here comparatively speaking so many with somebody that's a free service to talk to just learn about credit and try to help set things up and get some one on one counseling for financial counseling maybe just a just one throw that out there is as something that is a resource to tap  so any final thoughts from our panelists i always like to leave spaces not just displaying the problems but we've spoken to many solutions to al none that possibly know of possibility that because there's a lot to celebrate still and so any final thoughts from the community and from our panelists before we close  this is the flyer that are taken out around there is everyone is welcome to the small business owners as a trump i guess so if you don't mind take this was you and then my diverse group of people who is growing like the east african we brought so much so we want somebody to come out and when you hire police make us in the decision making we know who works for our community who is a good fit for thank you thank you that's a great resource martin luther king day garfield high school before march there are all kinds classrooms number of things that i wish we had kind of a one on one opportunity to talk about just the connection from k twelve to post secondary creating that pipeline of opportunity creating more employment opportunities just  across the community is a good point about making sure that credentials that are being provided are in line with what employers are seeking so there is you know a number of conversations that i wish we had more time for but realize that time is limited and really wanted you all to reach out to me to continue the conversation with that invitation to reach out further have put together a policy prescription for now but it obviously needs to expand and it needs to be need to go much more in depth but for that i need input from small business owners themselves and especially from our community so that we know what the specific barriers are so can i request you all to reach out to my office you know you can just pick up the phone and call us and talk to one of my staff members and we can e mail you what we have now get some feedback from you and we're also hoping to put together a meeting like this where we can folks we can go in depth on that question one of the things we're talking about is you know in terms of affordable housing we've been talking about rent control but we're not talking only about i mean obviously affordable housing shortage is the most urgent one but also small businesses face that problem and we think that we can we can actually move forward on that and that's something that i would like to discuss with you all word i did have kind of a fun little question for the panelists before you do your final work if that's ok so because again we've got people not only in the room but listening to enter now and they will be hearing this again if you can give us a brewery journey that gets you to your current position and i'm recently recently came back to this country after five years abroad in east africa actually and some in north africa as well so i kind of came back to seattle as a homecoming i actually grew up here i think what got me to where i'm currently working is a passion for that's how i met you the first time fashion show for young women especially east africa is one of the things that you set out for me in the beginning was that you be modeled which was like because you know being on stage number one but like you know remember how we say hold your head high show your beauty you know and don't be ashamed of it don't be afraid of it so i knowledge you for that and all the different ways from politically to culturally to by the impact that we want to make i think that's my story as well i was born born in seattle to immigrant parents i grew up on beacon hill i still live in southeast seattle and very rooted in this community and my path has been very varied in terms of how it got me here but my goal was always to make an impact on my community and to find the best way to do that my advice to young goal you know the path that you get your goal might be very different from what you expected but as long as you have your sights on your goal there is a way to get there and i do want to make a plug for the  youth employment program so the seattle youth employment program is a year round program that provides opportunities for young people to get connected to internships and they really do a good job of trying to connect young people with career interests so gets your foot in the door with perhaps a potential employer down the road so encourage all the young people that are watching to check that out and maybe put in an application for the summer it was perhaps the most important thing i ever thought about and i think it's even i could to say i was sort of obsessed with the question of poverty and inequality and sexual violence and just overall  explanation for a doubt there why should that exist at a time when the human race is capable of incredible technological and medical achievements there's more than enough food to feed everybody there's food rotting in the granary he's in every country and there's five hundred million people dying of starvation and every so often and then not to mention the suffering of very young children children under the age of five who did nothing wrong and just as they were born into a wall that one satisfy their basic needs so for me it was never i mean i was i was always clear that it was never if i wanted to do something useful it was never going to come out of some job i knew that there was no job per s getting my call for you to be politically involved is not an excuse to get bad grades in school i was a very good student but i was never ambitious for myself you know i never had an ambition for a job or to make make it big for myself and i was always all my life looking for something to get involved in but it had to be something that i agreed to it and so i just sort of you know i was good at math i got a degree in engineering then i came to the u s for a job and then i nationwide organization of social and economic justice activists in one speech by one of the members and i knew that was it that was what i was looking for it was in two thousand and nine and since then i worked as a teacher in seattle central and seattle  primarily my passion is not was was not mean it does mean as an activist and so when he ran for office so it's a long story but i'm going to run for office i say we because it wasn't like my personal decision i didn't get up one morning and say i want to be a celebrity i want to do something that makes me famous it wasn't like that we decided democratically that it was important to run a different kind of campaign in a campaign independent of the corporate parties independent of corporate influence and show what the grass