Employed workers can apply for benefits in many states. It looks like the actual peak in new unemployment claims may have occurred at the end of march and beginning of april. But that is cold comfort when you are still having millions of people applying every week. We will taking out to the governor with that News Conference this afternoon. My friend the governor of illinois, 21 out of the 24 largest student loan servicers in the state of california have agreed to a 90 day forbearance on Student Loan Debt impacting over 1. 1 million californians with loan debt. No burden now placed on them over the next 90 days. No impact to their credit rating, no late fees or fines and actual support in terms of getting new payment plans in place for future processing. I want to again congratulate jb on his leadership organizing this framework of profoundly important to student loan borrowers in the state of california. I want to applaud 21 of those 24 service loan providers or servicers for their wi
Pandemic. Here in the bay area, there were more than 6900 cases and 239 deaths. And yesterday, the governor said more testing needs to be done until we considered lifting the shelter in place. The governor is about to speak. Lead by the extraordinary leadership, the by approximate the governor of illinois. 21 out of the 24 largest student loan servicers in the state of california have agreed to a 90day foreperson on student loan debt. Impacting over 1. 1 californians with loan debt. No burden now placed on them over the next 90 days. No impact to their credit rating. No late fees or fines and actual support on terms of getting new payment plans in place for future process. I want to the 24 or 24 23 or 24 service for their willingness to step out and help support those that are struggling to pay their student loan debts. The second debt announcement we wanted to make is in relationship to the cares act. Many of you have received checks from the cares act. Some individuals received 1200
Executive perry moore. I am also the cochair of the City County Task force on opioids that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, ten city officials, ten county officials, the mayor of little rock arkansas was the cochair of the city side and i was the cochair on the county side. You will be hearing from one of those Panel Members today. When greg speaks. But our work that was done, was done it seems like ages ago. So much has happened since then we will be talking abed about that. The panel will be today. I want to thank those of you who are here in person as well as those of you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream in a special thank you to arc for your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnership. We partner with each other, we partner with various agencies, especially great partners like aoc. We are thankful for them. This event is the combination of a yearlong partnership to stre
Crimes in d. C. Fall under feller under federal jurisdiction and prosecution that is unlike most cities in america. This hearing of the House Oversight and accountability is about three hours and 40 minutes. The committee on oversight accountability will come to order i want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection the chair may declare a recess at any time, the Committee Welcomes the public to the very important meeting. While youre here i want to point out to the members in the audience today that house rule 11 provides the chairman of the committee may punish breaches of order in the quorum including exclusion from the hearing. All participants will be required to avoid unruly behavior and inappropriate anguish, expression of support or opposition are not in order and that includes holding up signs, i expect all parties to the proceedings to connect themselves in a manner that reflects property on the u. S. House of representatives. I recognize myself or the purpose of maki
Literal rejoicing that we had achieved a consensus in a complex area that affected so many millions of americans families. And brought some stability to elementary and secondary education policies. So i am hopeful that after the regulations are finally done, that well still feel the same way. In that spirit, let me continue the conversation you and i were having. I only have five minutes. So i want to get in two or three questions. When we wrote the law, we envisioned that states would have time to plan for the transition to the law. Youve heard and weve heard some states say that your proposed regulation, a account doesnt permit a state to do this. Let me ask you if what im about to describe would be an appropriate timeline for a state in your view. That states would develop and implement their new accountability systems during the school year that begins in 2017 and 2018. Thats next year. That means theyd be collecting data in that year. Then in the following year, 201819, they would