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good morning everybody and welcome to the economic policy institute. thanks for joining us today. delighted to kick off the new hour and important and provocative panel on manufacturing employment. and we ve invited susan house mann vice president to present her manufacturing and employment data. and this debate is not new. in fact, larry michelle from the economic policy former president and now distinguished fellow raised similar concerns back in 1989. but this debate has raged and it has been an important under ping of policy debates that have to do with trade and automation and how we address issues or concerns around the manufacturing sector, the health of the manufacturing sector, and what policies might be needed. so i m going to introduce the entire panel right now let s susan present her research, and we have carolyn friend to comment. and from university had hoped to join us here today but was presented from weather for traveling. so larry michelle will read ....
the size of the largest company, comcast, so i think it s going to get a very serious review by law enforcement officials. we re going to have almost 30% of broadband customers in one combined company. i don t believe this has the same problems that the comcast proposed merger with time warner had in terms of competitive problems, but i think it has some that are going to be carefully looked at. the big question for consumers is what happens to my cable bill? what happens to my broadband prices? do i get better speeds? new services? will the netflix, the amazon products, the google products, the new online-delivered video products be more available, or will this combined entity try to cut off my options? that ll be the big question for law enforcement. host: now you spoke about problems and we could dive into the previous planned merger, but what s on top of your list for this deal? guest: i think it s the over the top internet-delivered video service because we d ....
offending the constitution, there is a way i think to be able to increase capacity of institutions with the lowest income students and still call for accountability. thank you. madam vice chair you ll be fold by commissioner narra sacky and heriot. thank you very much. and this question is to all of the panelists. as educate yorz and others have looked out and reviewed pathways to higher education for our poor, our first generation college, our underrepresented minority stumds, one of the fairly novel concepts that have been developed is that of the early college. and as i understand that program, it combines also and college. that by the time a student completes their high school requirements, they have also completed two years of college. i was wondering if there is any data out there, and whether this is a trend that you see merit in or what do our statistics and our information tell us? well, what i would say is that in these are fairly new programs, not in ....
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we have quite a full house it. i welcome the audience. this is a formal senate hearing and in order to allow the committee to conduct its business we will maintain decorum. that means if there are disorders, demonstrations by a member of the audience, person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. this is the first hearing of the session i would like to welcome our new members senatorsjerry moran and jonie earnst . tammy duckworth and camela harris , thank you very much and congratulations in joining the committee. i would also like to welcome senator tom carper and his new role as a ranking member of the committee. you are here even if you have a scratchy throat. 40 years from when you re treasurer of delaware, member of congress, governor, member of the u.s. senate, has not missed a day, you are cal ripken jr. and the ironman. thank you for being here. thank you. i look forward to working with you. he deserves applause. with regard ....