Oklahoma department of transportation and the president of the dallas area Rapid Transit system. The hearing is about two hours. We will call the subcommittee to order. I like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen the reports in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our system which carries over 400,000 cars a day. With that volume of traffic, its amazing there wasnt any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the implementation of the fast act of state and local partners. Its the first long term surface transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill pr
It system. Well go ahead and call the subcommittee to order. And id like to say good morning and welcome all of our witnesses here today to the hearing. By now weve seen reports last weeks fire in the resulting collapse of section i85 northeast of atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our infrastructure system which carries 400,000 cars a day. But that volume of traffic, its amazing that there wasnt a any loss of life in this incident. I commend the state and local officials for responding so quickly to the crisis. I also want to commend the u. S. Department of transportation for acting quickly to release funds, emergency funds and provide assistance. Were here to examine the fast act. This is the first Long Term Service transportation reauthorization bill in a decade and its an Important Foundation for building a 21st century infrastructure. As a fiveyear bill provides very much needed certainty and funding so that our federal, nonfederal partners can make smart long term i
Sarah goldrickrab discusses her book, paying the price on the rising cost of Higher Education. Good afternoon, sara, how are you today . Im good. Thank you for having me here. I loved your book, so chockful of important data and very complex data about the implications of Financial Aid and income in being able graduate college. It was so readable. Can i have a quote. This book is intended to be a wakeup call. It brings the lives of students pursuing College Degrees front and center and unveils their financial struggles. Ensuring that the American Public has a clear sense of how and why Financial Aid is failing to get students to graduation and this will help us find effective some issues. What drove you to do this study . Well, this particular study really came out of a longstanding set of research of mine why some people finish college and other people dont. Ive been interested in that question for much of my career. And one of the things that experts have said matters for how student
Students across wisconsin and will help them finish college. I really wondered, will that work . Will it, because theres been studies that indicate that its a drop in the bucket. What make the difference they hope . Spee01 what you did differently from a lot many of the books that i read will take a snapshot. This is the entering cohort and this is a graduate and cohort. They dont look at what happens in between. You did did something different. Talk about the longitudinal nature of your study. Guest to understand how the Program Works i felt like the experience of getting Financial Aid is in a evolving experience. The price you pay for the first year of college is not the same price you pay for the second year of college. Frankly, riegler people know that. It doesnt take experts to tell them that. And meant that we followed the same group of students over the next six years to see how their lives changed and the extent to which their need for resources in the way they use those resour
Students across wisconsin and will help them finish college. I really wondered, will that work . Will it, because theres been studies that indicate that its a drop in the bucket. What make the difference they hope . Spee01 what you did differently from a lot many of the books that i read will take a snapshot. This is the entering cohort and this is a graduate and cohort. They dont look at what happens in between. You did did something different. Talk about the longitudinal nature of your study. Guest to understand how the Program Works i felt like the experience of getting Financial Aid is in a evolving experience. The price you pay for the first year of college is not the same price you pay for the second year of college. Frankly, riegler people know that. It doesnt take experts to tell them that. And meant that we followed the same group of students over the next six years to see how their lives changed and the extent to which their need for resources in the way they use those resour