Advocates and educators testifying on childcare access and affordability in the u. S. Before the Senate Health education labor and pensions committee. They discuss expanding childcare access and the impact of available childcare on the economy and training and education requirements for caregivers and educators. This is about two hours. Lets get the show in the. Road Senate Committee on House Institution and labor coming to order. And let me begin by thanking all of our panelists for being here for what will be i think a very important discussion of what tens of millions of families in this country. As the nation, we often talk about family values and how much we love our children. But unfortunately we have a funny way of showing that love. In America Today, we have the highest rates of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. And we have if we will be discussing today, a broken its dysfunctional childcare system. It is no great secret thats the psychologists tell us tha
It has just gone 6 00 a. M. Let us talk about the big centralbank agenda. Bothoj and the fed starting their deliberations today. We will get the results of those biblical of those deliberations tomorrow. Itremind us if we needed that the yen has shrugged off the bojs stimulus efforts. The yen dollar rates in the white showing the yen strengthening since the january perio. The bank of japan now moving the negative rate in january. And we had the brexit vote. Showing how the japanese currency is over the whole period, gained in value. As toists are still split whether the boj will do more or not. Let us look at how we are trading. The central bank the liberations in focus. Msc i asia is up. Back in play. Topix is up. There is a discrepancy at about speculation that the boj versusurchase more topix nikkei stocks. The dollar index is fairly flat as we head towards the fed decision. The work of function showing 20 probability for september and 56 for december. The december number has edged
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