teaching these skills to other women could help her entire community. take a look. we re going to talk about putting the sheeting on the roof today. our students learn a little bit of everything. the basics like safety, tools and materials, construction math. and then we go into hands-on stuff. carpentry, electrical, plumbing. 126 3/4. so our program is actually solving two problems at once. we are training women for living-wage paying jobs in the construction trades. this is where it gets fun. and we re also helping older adults age in place. that s really a win-win. you goat to watch something come together that you built. does that feel like it s going to work for you? yes. great. this is awesome. there s just such a feeling of accomplishment. if we don t see women out there doing this, other women, they ll never see this as an opportunity.
to getting an assault weapons ban becomes that much more difficult, but it comes at a time when polls have shown americans want to see stricter gun laws. the president has also said he plans to host congressional leaders of both sides, republicans and democrats at the white house, in the coming weeks as they re preparing to get closer to that next session of congress. it s unclear when exactly that meeting would take place, but it would be an opportunity for the president to probably address some of the issues that he believes he could work with republicans on in the coming months. alex? that new republican-controlled congress just over a month away. arlette saenz, thank you very much. next, we go to one more problem on the white house radar, court challenges to president biden s plan to deliver up to $20,000 in student loan debt relief. this week, president biden extended the pause on student loan payments, which were due to start up again in january. the president saying it would
and studentaid.gov and their student loan servicers. they may wish to start saving the amount of money they would be paying on their student loans just in case they get used to the restart of repayment, put that money in a high-yield savings account and you could use it to pay down the debt when repayment does restart, or use it to pay down other debt say from your holiday shopping, or to build or bulk up an emergency fund. there might be higher unemployment in this next year. if you re struggling to repay your student loans, contact your student loan servicer to ask about options such as the economic hardship deferment, unemployment deferment, general forbearances and repayment plans. you should also be aware of scams. anytime there is a change in the federal rules or an opportunity that s being delayed like this, scam artists pop up out of the