Very important moment. Its right to pause and reflect and thank each and every one of are suffered. The need to do everything in our power to make sure that their immediate needs are attended to and that we move aggressively but thoughtfully and tray teenically with a health first mindset to reopening the economy in the peril of Economic Conditions. I want to begin not only to acknowledge those workers but to just remind you a bit about what weve been doing as both essential workers and those that have been displaced, we talked yesterday about a new portal for child care but again, you cant talk about the work force, those needs of essential workers, and those that are searching for Job Opportunities displaced talking about the need and caring for their children. Some 20,000 vouchers have been set aside in our efforts to address the child care needs, thousands and thousands of critical front line employees. Over 28,000 slots that are available today and if you go to that site covid19.
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
State and local licensing requirement for jobs such as cosmetology. Labor secretary Alexander Acosta said lawmakers should work to get rid of unnecessary state licenses. This event just getting underway. Live coverage on cspan2. This project launched in 2016. To foster a conversation around regulatory excess and the harm it causes. They consist of 12 working groups, each composed of experts in specific fields of regulatory law and policy ranging from environmental and energy to race and trade in june of this year from each of the working groups started to release their papers, podcast and videos which among other things can be found on our website, which is a great project. Org. I invite you all to visit the website. Todays panel is the first of these conversations for the antitrust Consumer Protection working group and is devoted to occupational licensing and other restraints on competition. I am now going to turn it over to my comoderator and our hosts were today, lisa kimmel. Thank
Oumsoumsal licensing for jobs such as cosmotology. And teachers. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Get started. Im happy to see some familiar faces in the audience. For those who dont know me, y name is koren. Im going to pause for a minute. We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as coalong with josh right of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. Working ts of 12 groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which s reg product. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust
We also have people joining us online. Thats what youre hearing. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. It is a privilege for me to be here today in my capacity as cohost along with josh wright of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working Group Transparency project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the regular excess and the harms it causes. It consists of 12 working groups. Policy ranging from Environmental Energy to race and sex. In june of this year, each of the working groups started to release various issue papers, podcasts and short video crows which among other things can be found on our website which is regproduct. Org. Todays spaniel the first of these conversations for the antitrust and Consumer Protection working group and it is devoted to occupational licensing and other restraints on competitions. Im going to turn it over to my comoderator and our hosts were today, lisa kimmel. Thank you very much, ko