Former congresswoman Jackie Speier has launched a new foundation that aims to pull San Mateo women and children out of poverty. Here's how it's already helped one woman and her three children.

Outgoing Rep. Jackie Speier on surviving Jonestown, Congressional legacy 05:23. After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring.

Rep. Jackie Speier and more than a dozen other Democratic lawmakers inspected the migrant processing center known ... Speier, 69, says that among the children in Ursula center on Sunday was a ...

After 15 years in Congress, former congresswoman Jackie Speier has announced her new mission. "We are going to build a new generation of kids who won't ever know poverty," Speier said.

Just months after leaving office, former U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier announced a new initiative Thursday that will help children and women in one of the nation’s wealthiest counties exit from poverty.

Before Jackie Speier headed into the jungles of Guyana to investigate living conditions in a town created by Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones in 1978, she wrote her parents a letter that she ...

Speier vowed that if she made it out of the Jonestown massacre alive, she’d become a public servant. Now, after 15 years in Congress, she’s moving on.