Remained below 4 for the past 18 months. In recent years, weve seen consistently solid gdp growth and job creation. And yet not withstand the successes for many parents across this country, raising a family has become harder and more expensive than ever before. The New York Times recently surveyed adults 20 to 45 who were parents or planned to be. One in four had fewer children or expected to have fewer children than they considered ideal. Economic concerns were foremost among the reasons that they fell short or believed they would. Over the past few years, the joint economic committees social Capital Project has been documenting trends in our associational life, that is, the web of social relationships through which we pursue joint endeavors, our families, communities, workplaces, and religious congregations. A critical source of meaning and social capital is, of course, the family. In fact, it is the central set of headwaters for social connectedness generally. Thats why two of the p
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
20 Miles Per Hour. Now a check on the only commute. Leyla . We will start in the north bay, taking out 101 to san rafael pushing to 580 with traffic light and accident free so far this morning. Coming up to the Golden Gate Bridge, check it out the truck is making its way to the north end of the bridge to expand southbound lanes. Head to the far righthand side in the northbound or southbound traffic and 45 minutes from tracy to dublin but Everything Else is running at close to posted speed. Thank you leyla. 500 firefighters are battling the fire that is just spreading near Lake Berryessa in 14 hours since breaking out. It has moved quickly burning at least 6,000 acres since yesterday afternoon around 3 00. More than 500 firefighters on the scene and it is only a percent contained. Others are on way from as far away as san diego threat being 200 structures and an outbuilding has been destroyed and a home has been damaged. We bring in the north bay incident management team. Good morning,
Matt miller examines General Motors latest troubles. Shelby holliday looks at Workplace Diversity in Silicon Valley. Lets begin in washington, where megan hughes has the latest on the Ebola Outbreak in west africa. That afternoon. Good afternoon. We have got updates on the two aid workers infected with ebola now being treated in the United States. The first ever treated on United States soil. One of the patients was well enough to walk into the hospital over the weekend. Goodamily reports he is in spirits. Writebol will be joining him tomorrow. Her condition is reportedly improving as well. The organization they work for a stout of north carolina, they are the ones that made the call to have them transferred back home to the United States. Emoryay the reason is university will be able to provide better care than the liberian hospital they were being treated at. It will be up to the department of defense and the cdc to handle the logistics and make sure the virus does not spread in the
For everyone. I am tori campbell. We are following where a student was shot near a school. We will have that in just a moment. We begin with a massive warehouse fire that is burning all morning long in the south bay. They are getting the upper hand against the massive fire in san jose. It jumped to five alarms after being reported this morning. We will hear from our reporter. We will hear the latest on the fire with janine de la vega. The smoke is still rising from the warehouse. Fire is caked and they are dumping water on the here. It is still burning inside. Reporter that was a sound earlier this horning. It gone at 5 40 in a 120,000foot commercial warehouse that contained multiple businesses. They believe the fire started in a tile and roof company and it started spreading and quickly grew to five alarms. Plumbing, sheet rom and hay company. They had to attack the flames from outside. They used aerial ladders to douse all the flames. It was surreal and frightening site for those nea