Seems most painful when you look at the fact that standards of living are not growing as rapidly as we would like. In the near term, we had had an looking forward for a little while Job Opportunities hasnt been as available as we would like. Incomes havent been growing rapidly. Our society continues having growing standards of living to which we all aspire, youre going to have to make sure that as many of our population as possible are going to have skills that are necessary to advance in the workforce. That raises issues all the way from preschool education where we are relative to some of our competitors around the world. Just in terms of access all the way through the quality of education going through secondary school and into college where interestingly the u. S. Population overall continues to be doing relatively well with respect to post secondary attainment in comparison with other countries. That cause people like me, older people who have degrees the rate of which we are diff
States, tribes and, others to assess and clean up contaminated properties. Its an environment and Public Works Committee hearing is about two hours. [background noises] i call this hearing to order. Senator i call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization. For nearly three decades now, brownfields has proven to be an important source of Helpful Community forced to contend with. The Program Provides federal assistance for communities to clean up contain him unaided we most recently reauthorized appropriations for this program with a strong bipartisan support about five years ago. I think it was 2018. Its time now to review the state of the Brownfields Program and to examine what works well, to identify potential ways to update the program so it c
I call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization. For nearly three decades now, brownfields has proven to be an important source of Helpful Community forced to contend with. The Program Provides federal assistance for communities to clean up contain him unaided we most recently reauthorized appropriations for this program with a strong bipartisan support about five years ago. I think it was 2018. Its time now to review the state of the Brownfields Program and to examine what works well, to identify potential ways to update the program so it can best meet the evolving challenges that communities face. I like to say that everything i do, i know i can do better. That includes our oversight of this program and the way this program operates throughou
It seems hard to believe, but we are already one-quarter of the way through the school year. First quarter report cards will be released through FOCUS on Oct