The joint costs of raising a child. The hearing is over two hours. Good afternoon. Thank you for being here to join us for this hearing of the joint economic hearing committee. The American Economy is thriving. The current expansion is the longest in history. Unemployment has remained below 4 over the last 18 months. We have seen consistently solid gdp growth and job creation. , notwithstanding the successes, for many parents across this country, raising a family has become harder and more expensive. The New York Times recently reported that based on the survey adults between the ages who are parents or plan to be, they discovered interesting trends. Childrenur had fewer or expected they would have fewer children than they expected to be within the range of ideal. Economic concerns were foremost among the reasons, that they fell short or believed in the future they fell short of what they would consider ideal. These social Capital Project has documented trends in what we associationalr
It would be nice if we had a cure. There are certainly cultural differences rather than keeping people at home than institutions. We have supported research on care givers in the Spanish Language. The way you make a clinical diagnosis based on history is linked to the terms that are used for dementia and for the disease. I think its an area where we are learning but not breakthroughs and such, just in the quality of care giving. I understand that. My mother suffered for four years. A woman from trinidad and from ghana treated my mother like they were their mother. We had thanksgiving with these two women. My mother passed go years ago. The toll it takes on people. Almost my mother had this innocence about her. It was everybody around her who was suffering. Is reck cognition is just as important. When you are successful and you do develop a treatment or a cure another one of my fears is as we spoke about Global Health and child health or even Prenatal Health is that we are not getting t
Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
For what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i send to the desk a privileged resolution and skr for and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk House Resolution 469. Resolution, resolved, that the clerk of the house of representatives requests the senate to return to the house the joint resolution, house joint resolution 76, entitled granting the consent and approval of congress for the commonwealth of virginia, the state of maryland, and the District Of Columbia, to enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the washington metrorail safety commission. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on motions to suspend the rules previously postponed. H. R. 3180 by the yeas and nays. S. 114 by the yeas and nays. H. R. 3218 by th
Will have what well do a Subsidy Program so is it not going to be you know we did try a piloted for people to qualify for Inhome Care Services but had to pay something we didnt need to study is that will be a subsidy important people who either dont qualify or want to pay for one well bring back the stakeholder that kind of helped to put this together and work with the Community Living fund probably a mechanism we have in place and decide how to prioritize people that is hard well not have enough money for 14 thousand people and dont know this is quite the right number we can probably serve to 50 people in a year and so we have to think carefully how what populations we want to look at it and learn and it will be something that will start as soon as we know that is getting to the budget and how much money well start those discussions soon. Its right around the corner. Im aware we need to get going on that. Thank you. Any other questions commissioners you had a question from come forwar