Now. Silicon valley, they are starting to come to our community. We are going to be opening up some new businesses that will employ people. Theyre working with her juniorcollege. The juniorcollege program has the most fantastic on the job training for welding and diesel mechanics. It is overwhelming how much they are getting through and how these jobs are becoming available to people before that had lost hope. Some was that given through our collaboration, our Education Collaboration and all of us working together. The true goal is to reduce Youth Violence, get the guns out of their hands. When we get those he kids that need our help, we need to lift them up and put them in a position to transfer to the future. Complements of our friends at family programs today we will have a chance to talk about the community. We have a sense that if we can have our communities safer, we could attract more businesses. That would bring more opportunity. Read is one of your priorities in terms of your
Considered within the f. C. C. . Chairman wheeler yes, sir. Thats what we were saying when the three commissioners offices got together with them and said, hey where you stand, depends where you sit, sir. We have to make sure everybody understands they are sitting in the same place. Senator moran how long do you see a transition making . Chairman wheeler to . Senator moran to that broadband support. Chairman wheeler i hope we could have the plans in place this year. Senator moran let me ask about call completion. What progress is or isnt being made . Chairman wheeler there are three components to call completion. One is enforcement. We fined wind stream 2. 5 million. Level three almost 1 million. The second is that they had this fraudulent activity going on where you would hear a ring even though the call wasnt being completed. We have passed a rule and commissioner pai and i again worked together on this to make that illegal and to be able to take Enforcement Actions against that. And
Authorities. They want to add protections for workers. The white house called it a snafu and said that it would happen against soon. Democrats 202 7488000 republicans 202 7488001 independents 202 7488002. Can also send us a tweet at http twitter. Com cspanwj. Phone lines are open. We want to tell you about the developing story out of philadelphia. At many of you are waking up to the news that an amtrak commuter train derailed last night in philadelphia on its way and washington, d. C. To new york around 9 30 p. M. Eastern take a look at the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Five died and more than 50 are hurt. The New York Times putting this tweet out at least five killed and Dozens Injured after amtrak train killing 243 people derailed. Investigators on the scene where an amtrak train when 80 three of, killing five people and injuring 140 . Ntsb was on the team this morning to investigate with the fbi along with the federal railroad commission. Senator tom carper was on the tra
Not only is she a best selling author but shes releasing her new book today called move, putting americas infrastructure back in the lead. Thank you so much for joining us. The book really explains with compelling details many of the health costs and even social justice impacts of our outdated infrastructure system, and i want to get to some of those today. First of all, can you please give us a brief synopsis of where we are today and how were fairing versus other countries . So theres only one indicator in the transportation and infrastructure area in which the u. S. Is number one and that is number of available airline seats. Thats because weve made it cheap and we like to fly. Impact, americans like to fly. Europeans will take the train. Thats one reason we dont have a good enough rail system in america, Passenger Rail system. Otherwise, we are way down on the international indicators. My friend Rodney Slater whos here today former secretary of transportation, went to japan recentl
These are completely counterfactual. Speed mac. The fed used to have reserves and one of the changes is that now they can pay it and they look at the new tool of the interest rate. And number of people to put this in context a number of people have been arguing one of the problems in terms of Funding Investment in the private sector is that the fed is taking the money out of the system by paying interest on reserves. I think there is very little evidence that that is the case created the design of the policy was primarily to make sure that there was control over the rate to keep the fund rate is much narrower than they had been. Remember that as a time when it was all over the place. It seemed to have worked quite effectively, and i think the evidence to that policy is pretty positive. The evidence against it in terms of its longterm effect is minimal. That doesnt mean that it couldnt be used to harm the private sector by taking the money out of the economy because they have discretion