See more on demand at cspan. Org or listen on the cspan radio app. Your place for an unfiltered view of politics. Joining us this week on the communicators is alan pratt, he is the executive director of the National Rural Education Association and he joins us from chattanooga, tennessee. What is that association and what do you do . Our association is the voice of rural schools and Rural Communities across the country. Thank you for the invite to be on the show and really highlight what we do as an organization. One of the things we do is we advocate for all areas, all issues that involve a rural schools and communities and right now we are looking at a Digital Divide and we are looking at the reopening of schools in a very different way. That is what i a lot of our work has been focused on over the last five months. When you look at online availability for education, where do you see the deficits . I think home access is the biggest deficit and in rural, remote areas or areas outside
Its made it even more effective. These will require the carriers to deliver alerts that were precisely match the affected area so encourage local officials to use peas during emergencies and also encourage americans to take alerts more seriously since folks know that any alert they received in the vicinity. The rules also require them to be preserved for 24 which will make it easier for them to access it use the information contained. Very pleased we gain support for these improvements among other items that we adopted a today in our action today once again demonstrates the commissions strong commitment to protecting the safety of the American People and with that i will be happy to take any questions you may have. I was wondering if there is any possibility to seek to compel the officials to speak to them further. I cant speak to the further steps that we intend to take but we are hopeful that we can secure as much cooperation as possible from anyone involved in this incident. Its cri
I call the committee back to order. Thanks to the first panel and we appreciate your testimony. We welcome the second panel that is with us. Fir, we have mr. Ms. Botts, she is a executive director for the kentucky she was named in 2013, has over 15 years of experience working in agriculture and World Development policy issues and helping individuals in rural areas understand issues related to policy and financing. You could be of help to individual senators i would imagine. Before returning to kentucky to work for kcard, she spent ten areas working on agriculture ask a policy staffer in the house of on representatives, grew up on a farm in kentucky and received a ms and bs in rural economics in kentucky and lives on a small farm right now, with her husband and two children, welcome to you, maam. We look forward to your testimony. Second witness is mr. Elmer general manager, Water Association and kansas america. He is the general manager of the kansas rural Water Association. His career
But does that have an impact . A relationship between technology, what i think i am hearing and the labor markets. And is there any data projections that the effect of the baby boomer retirement to the exact amount, what will be the effect. All right. To let me start with the parttime question. Their recent data have shown an increase, the share of job provisions which have been in parttime employment. That is out there. The a exact cause of that is not clear in no way that the data are collected. A lot of discussion of it being a result of the rules for the health care implementation. This share of the employees who are fulltime. I believe in incentives. I think if you put in place a structural components to their cost structure which is triggered they will react to that. And i mean, i learned about marginal tax rates from Salomon Richter when i was in high school. He worked at the local gas station. He would get in his 40 hours and then they would ask him. He is a really hard worker.