25,000 for my sons to go to one school. A school, snow school, that theyve never set foot in for any reason at all. If they were vouchered theyd only be paid once. If it was a scholarship, wed only be paid once. The reason why were in the situation that were in is were trying to keep the other school open so that the grown people can keep their jobs. But what even they neglect to understand is that the number of students doesnt change, its static, meaning if there are thousands of students that need teachers there are thousands of students that need teachers no matter where they are. So if you can halfway teach or at least convince someone for 45 minutes that you can halfway teach, then youre going to have a job as a teacher. We need to make it plain to our community that theyre being played by the system so that the people who dont utilize these urban schools, who send their kids to suburban charter or Catholic Schools, which is always funny, they send their own children to Catholic S
Screeria nigeria. Sylvia burwell. And Later White House budget diarrhea shaun donovan. The Senate Health Committee Hears from a panel of doctors about disease prevention through the vaccines. The hearing comes amid National Debate whether vaccinations should be mandatory as several states deal with a current outbreak of measles. Watch the hearing live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. And the Senate Finance committee holds a hearing on the u. S. Tax code. The witnesses are former senators bob packwood and bill bradley. Both had a role in the 1986 tax deal reached under president reagan. That will be live on cspan3 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Next a look at the proposal and the corn state transportation projects. From washington journal, this is 50 minutes. Today we continue our weekly look at how your money is being spent, taxpayer dollars. And this week focusing on infrastructure in this country. Let me introduce you to Chris Edwards whose tax policy studies director at cato institute. Rob
And a few cucumbers into a global business. Im ali velshi in washington d. C. Tonight, and this is real money. This is real money, and you are the most important part of the show. Tweet me on ali velshi. Com. I am here in washington d. C. , where the white house today released an 800 page gorilla of a report on Climate Change. Now, this report describes the damaging present and future affects of global warming, warming temperatures on the United States. And its called the National Climate assessment. Its the result of three years of work by more than 300 scientists and other experts, and this report says that extreme weather linked to Climate Change like prolonged heat, heavy downpours, floods, and drought is disrupting peoples lives and damaging some sectors of our economy. Like everything in this town, both parties will try to score points by praising or bashing this report in the leadup to the midterm leaks. More on that in a moment. But right now, i want to focus on some of what is
Brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Government engaging. But there really are metaissues that are incoming this week informing this week. Does the United States have what it takes to build and retrofit a new generatio
Good morning, everyone. My name is bruce katz, im Vice President at the brookings institution, founding director of the metropolitan policy program here. I want to welcome you to brookings both for people in the room, who are watching on cspan and i via webcast to the closing event of infrastructure week. So a lot of folks public, private, civic have been involved in designing infrastructure week and pulling it off, and to all of you from brookings, thank you. And also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. The ford foundation, the [inaudible] foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, kkr and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. They really have made our research possible. Now, the timing of this week could not be better. And i know congressman delaneys going to talk about this. There are clearly shortterm federal actions involving the gas tax and the Highway Trust Fund that are critical and really a new way of the National Go