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NCSL Legislative Video Resource Center

The NCSL Video Resource Center is a collection of recorded webinars accessible for on-demand learning.

Getting Women Back to Work: The Role of Child and School-Aged Care

During this webinar, participants will hear an overview from NCSL’s Jennifer Palmer around challenges facing child care and families and how states are addressing these concerns. Following that, Bridget Dazey, of Clackamas Workforce Partnership, will share how collaboration between business, child care, afterschool, policymakers and others are supporting their child and school-aged care system. NCSL will also facilitate state sharing amongst attendees throughout the virtual meeting. This webinar is part of NCSL’s Education Friday series.

Improving Access to Maternal Health Care in Rural Communities Webinar

Hospital closures, shrinking budgets, a diminishing workforce and poorer health outcomes in rural areas are prompting policymakers to look for ways to boost maternal health care in the nation’s less-populated communities. Women and families living in rural areas often must drive long distances for prenatal visits, delivery and postpartum care. This webinar will highlight strategies to improve access to maternity care in rural counties. Speakers will provide examples of state actions related to coverage, workforce and remote services.

Moderator: Khanh Nguyen, project manager, NCSL Health Program. Speakers: Colleen Durocher, executive director, New Mexico Rural OB Access & Maternal Services, Representative Kimberly Moser, Kentucky and Senator Cristina Castro, Illinois.

The Census is Over; Data Delays and Dilemmas Remain

The 2020 Census is over. Or is it? More data releases from the “decennial” are on the way (but delayed), along with annual surveys and estimates that are released all decade long. Find out what’s coming and when, what’s causing delays, does privacy balance with accuracy, what’s worrisome to state and local data users about data privacy protocols and what this all means for confidence in our nation’s public data.

Speakers: Margo Anderson, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Susan Brower, Minnesota State Demographer, Cynthia Davis Hollingsworth, U.S. Census Bureau and Michael Hawes, U.S. Census Bureau 

Student Loan Forgiveness in Focus [Part 2]

Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Borrower Defense, and Pandemic-Era Student Loan Policy

Speakers: Ashley Harrington, senior advisor, Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education and Austin Reid, senior legislative director, NCSL.

Student Loan Forgiveness in Focus [Part 1]

Federal Income-Driven Repayment Plans and State Student Loan Legislation

Moderator: Austin Reid, senior legislative director, NCSL. Panelists: Phil Oliff, director, Student Loan Research Project, Pew Charitable Trusts, Regan Fitzgerald, manager, Project on Student Borrower Success, Pew Charitable Trusts and Andrew Smalley, policy associate, NCSL.

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