Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have extraordinarily positive longterm effects and be a very good investment for government. The challenge has been in providing those high quality opportunities to as many families as possible and in the most equitable ways possible. With that context, this has been an especially challenging time for the early Childhood Sector as we will discuss today. We have a terrific group of panelists to talk us through these issues. Miriam calderon is the Deputy A
Brought back into session in order to be briefed by administration officials. Up next, a discussion on the impact of covid on Childhood Education. Experts explore the benefits of universal prek and the need to increase pay to attract a qualified workforce. They also talk about how the Education System will be impacted by the american Rescue Plan and the american jobs act. John good afternoon and good morning to those joining you joining us out west. Im john valant, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at brookings, its my privilege to welcome you for Todays Discussion on the future of early Childhood Education as education. As many of you are aware, kids experiences in early childhood are critically important in shaping their educational and life trajectories. Its a pivotal time for Brain Development and for building social emotional skills weve known for a long time that providing children with high Quality Care can have
Of this thing is you get kids back to school and back to work and you will see the economy pick up in our some suggesting that people are sitting on the sidelines and they like this unemployment benefits and the summer making more unemployment than they could make him a job, but those will run out. Would you expect to see happen then . Up until very recently i thought in september you wouldnt see much but in early september we saw some movement for those reasons and the unemployment runs out on september 4 and schools reopen hopefully fully and childcare becomes more available, but i think we now we have the issue of the Delta Variant and whether that will delay it and simply the fact that people are not coming back and it may be what i am beginning to see and hear from employers is they are beginning to look at ways, different business models and ways of doing things for fewer workers. Maybe pay them a little bit more to get people, incentivize them, get back to work. Always good but
We start with tax and how to make the global Tech Giants the likes of facebook, google and amazon pay their fair share. Finance ministers from the 620 group of top economies are in Venice Today and tomorrow. Theyll be trying to clinch a final deal to stop Tax Dodging by multinationals. 131 countries have already signed up to the plan to introduce a global minimum Tax Rate of at least 15 and stop companies challenging their profits to tax havens. But some countries are holding out, including ireland, where facebook, Google And Apple have their european bases. The eu needs unanimous agreement if its to implement the deal. Alex cobham is Chief Executive of the tax justice network. Thank you forjoining us. Explain thank you forjoining us. Explain firstly how this deal will work in practice . Will work in practice . Well, there are will work in practice . Well, there are two will work in practice . Well, there are two parts. Will work in practice . Well, there are two parts. One, i will wor
Good morning come to order today we are having a hearing on paid good morning. The Senate Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Today, we are having a hearing on paid family sick and medical leave and what having paid leave options would mean for workers and families across the country. I would like to thank ranking Member Burr for Hold Thing Hearing with me. And i will introduce the witnesses and senator also have five minutes for questions. I do want to walk through the Covid19 Safety protocols and i want to thank all of our staff who have worked really hard to get this set up and help us stay research and healthy. We will be conduct Thing Hearing following the same covid protocols we have used in the past, committee members are seated at least six feet apart. Some senators are participating by videoconference and while we are unable to have the hearing fully opened to the public, live video is available on our committee website. Given the new guida