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ucla released a report earlier this year about challenges facing undocumented undergraduates get into the u.s. it is a survey of 900 undocumented undergraduates in 32 states who migrated from 55 countries. the co-authors joined a panel for a discussion about undocumented college students in the u.s. this is an hour and 45 minutes. good morning. it is a pleasure to welcome you and for those of you who live in new york, you know this is a rare example of sunshine in the morning. and it s not even freezing. it s a great pleasure to welcome you to the steinhardt institute for higher education policy. i was thinking about our session this morning and how when i started the institute about 12 years ago. i kept looking up a word policy in the dictionary and if you ever do that, you discover it is a difficult word. it s hard to get a good definition. that is appropriate because when we think of policy we have an image in our mind with the definition is in the dictionary. i ....
rate came down so far and has been holding there. it has not gone back up. it is a huge debate and i don t think you look at one jobs report, debut put together a sequence to my and the major theme has to be, are we in escape velocity? at is the big question we will see at 8:30. one number i will be looking at is the increase in average hourly earnings, expected up 1.9%. it sounds good but it is less than what we have been seeing. a lot of people would rather see people being paid more because it suggests growth and labor demand in the economy. anything else in the brief? there are no earnings. but we should point out the ecb will be holding a press seven: 45.at and the market closes early? > 1:00 p.m. the bond market closes at 2:00. a data check. within ecb meeting this morning, quiet. we drive to 17,000 on the dow. yields are back up. we have gone from 2.5 what ever to 2.63.p come on, courtney, let s go. the vix, 10.82. 16,998. i am back on watching dollar ....
war. booktv in prime time continues this week. tonight after the communicators, we ll bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. at 8:30 p.m. eastern, we begin with oscar goodman at freedom fest. he talks about being oscar: from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. after that, we ll go to this year s printer s row literary festival to hear about the cooked seed. then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. and we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the los angeles times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. booktv in prime time all this week on c-span2. c-span, created by america s cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. host: well, with the announcement this week that the washington post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought we d take thi ....
i mean yes we are going to be living i mean i have an economic forecaster but everything i read suggests we are going to be living with an unusually high levels of unemployment, a lot of pain from over indebtedness and a quarter of the country is on food stamps. i mean it s not a great depression. we are not repricing exactly what happened in the 30s but it s a version of that. see the consumer financial protection bureau estimates that student loan debt is more than a trillion dollars. up next the senate budget committee looks at how that that affects borrowers and the economy as a whole. this is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] see this hearing will come to order. i want to thank senator johnson who is filling in today for my ranking member senator sessions. welcome to you and all of our colleagues who are joining us today as well as a roomful. welcome to all of you on a really important topic today. we are going to be talking about a challenge that 40 ....
and other consumer products can do that disclosure so can an agency that regulates nuclear reactors and we have bipartisan support for this. going forward will each of you commit to providing advance notice of your meetings and your travel and providing information about the topics intended to be discussed at each meeting? starting with the chairman. i commits to providing to the degree that i can because my schedule changes on a daily and sometimes hourly basis and as i sure does yours. certainly for my travel advance notice of my travel and other meetings to the degree that i can. commission or svinicki. spare would request the opportunity to respond for the record. i won t have any trouble doing that. at my confirmation hearing i promise to make my calendar available. i have done that from the moment i have been on the commission that i have published my calendar continuously and i have not made a practice of putting a lot of detail on my calendar. thank yo ....