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Empowering Workers to Rebuild America's Economy and Longer-Term Competitiveness: Green Skills Training for Workers. Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session on Examining Empowering Workers to Rebuild America's Economy and Longer-Term Competitiveness, Focusing on Green Skills Training for Workers (April 21, 2009). Senate Hearing 111-813
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US Senate, 2011
Among the topics discussed in this hearing were: what constitutes green energy, how workers can best be provided the skills to thrive in green industries, and the future of America's energy and environmental policies. Statements were presented by: Honorable Patty Murray, a U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, opening statement; Honorable…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Legislators, Labor, Presidents
The State of Higher Education: How Students Access and Finance a College Education. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session (March 8, 2007). Serial Number 110-8
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US House of Representatives, 2007
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's report,"Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education" found that among 27 industrialized nations, the United States has fallen to fifth in the percentage of young adults enrolled in college and has dropped to sixteenth in the proportion of those students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Access to Education, Paying for College
Tracking International Students in Higher Education: A Progress Report. Hearing before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session (March 17, 2005). Serial Number 109-5
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US House of Representatives, 2005
This hearing represented an important opportunity for subcommittee representatives to learn about the progress in implementation of systems that exist to help monitor international students attending post-secondary institutions in the United States, as well as to understand the challenges that remain. The purpose of the hearing, in particular, was…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Immigration, Student Exchange Programs, Foreign Students