Learned and what to better improve the process. Its been a decade since the last significant piece of the telework legislation, the telework enhancement act of 2010 and it set the baseline standards for them to follow with telework and over the last ten years, weve seen great advances in technology and workforce expectations and the increase in cybersecurity threats. So many changes in the world it makes sense to take a close look at the telework policies and strategies than the federal workforce. The current pandemic has acted as a magnifying glass. This Committee Held a hearing in july and during the hearing we were able to gather valuable information to what theyve done to support the Remote Workforce and we were able to draw Lessons Learned with how they recalibrate the telework strategies and policies. During that hearing we gained insight into what the current private workforce is demanding. This, coupled with the environmental challenges we now face will help us create remote wo
Later, more about the state of Small Business, a guest, Amanda Ballantyne from the main Street Alliance. You are watching washington journal. We will be right back. Top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. President former barack obama on his life and political career in his newly released memoir. Sunday open markets Institute Director and her book, seven ways for corporations rule your life and how to take back control, interviewed by a Bloomberg News reporter. And a former appellate judge and book,ofessor and his examining the constitution through the eyes of judges and legal scholars and historians. Weekend ontv this cspan2. Washington journal continues. Host joining us now is john hudak, author of this book marijuana, a short history. Talking here about Marijuana Legalization here. Good morning. Election day featured some more news, several states there active in the area of legalizing Recreational Marijuana. Give us a sketch of what happened. Guest four states had adult use
They never have failed through the years through driving rain, sleet, or snow but now theyve got a problem and what are they to do . The answer, my friend, is very simple it is up to you to see them through [vocalizing] do, do, do, do, do, do well, back in the day of the 13 colonies fighting for freedom and hard to defend it mailing a letter , wasnt much trouble there werent too many places to send it but now its a different story theyve got more mail than ever before its stuck in bags, packed on shelves theres hardly room for anything more there has been a mail explosion theyve got a terrible load youve got to help them right away before the u. S. Post office explodes. [harmonizing] [monkey chittering] it wasnt so long ago that communication was a simple act, but the range of the human voice voice is limited. So mans ingenuity founded ways to bridge distance. He invented writing and typographical errors. To carry messages across vast distances, man developed roads, highways, turnpikes
Banking systems, the impact of covid19, and communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome the regulators, the comptroller of the currency, brian brooks. The federal deposit insurance corporation, jelena rodney hood. Since the passage of the coronavirus aid relief and Economic Security act or cares act of your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to mitigate the meaningful impact of the pandemic and provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30, the Federal Reserve announced changes to its main Street Lending facility including decreasing the minimum loan size for priority loan facilities from 250,000 to 100,000, and allowing borrowers loan for theirpp outstanding debt. Your agency should continue to carefully review the regulatory and supervisory frameworks, adjusting where necessary to bolster Financial Institutions to support economic recovery, which, by the way, has shown positive signs over the past several months. On octobe
Whats been the growth or use of it in the past couple of months . Guest its been around some people think the early 1920s. There was a lovely picture in one of the magazines, not popular science. They had different name for it then but it shows a family huddled around the radio having a visit with a doctor on the other side. The concept is been around for a while, the late 60s when it got going and it has puttered along for the next several decades until a couple of months ago when of course we told everyone in the u. S. They had to stay in their home, and we as clinicians had to take care of them. So blossomed overnight. Host how can it be used today . Guest they can be used in number of ways. The best uses worst of all Mental Health is the number one probably used and the diagnosis is growing need so thats wonderful. A lot of urgent care type things such as sore throats, earaches and actually screening for the coronavirus is quite handily done using this type of technology, so virtua