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Well, I think we keep trying to put Band-aids on programs. And until we look at what is causing these young people to be in the situations they are in, then I think we are doing nothing to improve our culture.
While the program is meant to be an outlet to help disadvantaged youth gain the skills necessary to achieve a good education, the past failures of the program do a disservice to students, staff, and hardworking taxpayers who fund these…
Before we jump to reauthorizing these programs, we should carefully examine how they can better serve youth.
For the economy to flourish, it is imperative that our Nation's youth are well-prepared to enter the workforce.
The aim of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the WIOA Youth Programs, is to prepare young adults to embark on successful, fulfilling careers.
We do have the capacity to help to abolish poverty so that kids can get an equal opportunity for the future.
It also says that poverty is unacceptable. And poverty is, in some of our districts and some of our communities, is the biggest roadblock to youngsters being able to get a good education.
Education for families today is the way that they believe that their children will be able to succeed for the future.
But those days of when we do not recognize the strengths of those who come from different places, different lands, different experiences, and our need to embrace them is critical in terms of our children and moving forward in education.
I agree with my colleague, Mr. Fulcher, who said reauthorizing to the old way of doing things is not responsible legislating.
I introduced H.R. 1730, the Speeding Therapy Access Today, or the STAT Act, with my Rare Disease Caucus cochair and good friend, G.K. Butterfield.
For decades, publicly funded research has laid the foundation for the treatments and cures patients use today.
These are tough questions with even tougher answers.
I think it is safe to say that the 21st Century is something that the CDC has not totally entered.
I am glad we are holding another hearing to update us on the status of COVID-19 response.
At NC State, which gets a fair amount of NSF funding, international students make up 35 percent of their graduate student population.
Both Presidents of these HBCUs, Shaw and St. Aug's, said that they simply do not have some of the infrastructure and the equipment to do that kind of research.
My priority would be for us to work to find ways to really improve the confidence in our elections by working to appropriately clean up the lists.