Senate committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Im usually on time and excuse me for being late. We reauthorize a Higher Education act. Today were looking at ways to simplify the free application for student aid or fafsa to make it easier for students to apply for federal Financial Aid. Well introduce the witnesses and after your testimony senators will have five minutes of questions. Senators may be coming and going because of the tax bill. Nearly four years ago in a hearing before this committee an unusual thing happened. Four witnesses from diverse back grntds agreed that almost all of the 108 questions on the free application for federal student aid or fafsa are unnecessary. The fafsa is the government form 20 million families fill out every year to qualify for it federal aid that helps nearly 20 Million Students attend universities. Weve spent a lot of time holding this to remind people of all it questions even though most people fill it out online. Th
Do in their states to address the Opioid Epidemics. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Those of you whore Still Standing who plan to set, set it and those of you who stand can stand. My name is charlie baker, governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and im the chair of the nba health and Human Services committee and i want to welcome you all to this conversation about an issue the nga has been engaged in in a big way for the past several years and i think it is fair to say that every governor of every state has made dealing with this particular issue is significant and important priority in their work and thats certainly been true in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I did run for governor to work on this issue, but upon me because wherever i campaigned, i ran into people who talk to me about it in their stories frankly broke my heart. Over the course of the past several years, working on a bipartisan basis with our legislature and others, we have made some pro
We have is a home that is essentially a fivepart federal style with details and. See all of our programs from lexington saturday evening at 630 eastern and 630 eastern and sunday afternoon at 2 00 oclock on American History tv. Community activist and journalist participated in the form examining the challenges of poverty gang violence, and drug addiction and lowincome communities. Here from congressman paul ryan and nfl hall of famer deion sanders. As a different neighborhood enterprise him of his platform opportunity lives coast of this event. We want to thank everybody for coming. I am bob woodson founder and president of the center for neighbor enterprise and organization i found a 34 years ago on the premise that people who are experiencing poverty i did this on how to solve already. For the past 34 years we have been like a Geiger Counter will. We go in looking for strengths. With traditional approaches but i want to no how many people raising children and with this demographic pr
Whatever, whether thats right to say or not, has brought me to, it was such a blessing because now i really understand, i couldnt understand if i hadnt had that background and not only was i poor as a little girl, and i was then my husband, we went broke, my husband is an entrepreneur, as i said, and we went broke, so i was also broke with my children in my adult life but you know, with he came back. No, we dont have the race thing and my husband had a mentor, mr. Kaufman, who owned the Kansas City Royals at one time, who helped us take our 401 k and start my little 5 million business which sounds like a lot but it wasnt the the time but it made little alcohol sips and freps and we started from there, seven of our children worked for us and we were kind of a Family Business and the rest is history. But anyway, my point is, we want to give money. We want to give back but were giving it to the wrong when i met bob i was just, i was like its got to be organic, like one of you gentlemen sa
Rosa devoted her career to fighting for working families. Shes fought and i know because i fought alongside her for part of that time for raising the minimum wage, giving employees access to sick days and allowing workers to take family and medical leave. Shes been passionate on issues of equal pay for equal work. Shes been fighting recently tooth and nail to protect the aca for fair trade. I will tell you some of you may not know about rosa is if she has your cell phone number, shell call you. Nutrition and ge getting to the point to have days conversation, shes been working on this issue of child allowance or at least fully refundable tax credit which is pretty equivalent for many years. She is not a newcomer to this debate. And, in fact, people may not know this. Its a great little trivia point for those in the child allowance world is that thanks to rosa the Congress Actually voted on an amendment in 2003. Im old enough to remember on a fully refundable Child Tax Credit and the ame