Tag: education cuts
Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education
We’re paying investment bankers hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year to make money for Wall Street. We ought to be paying educators and staff a decent wage to develop and guide the nation’s human capital – an investment that would benefit everyone.
Cheating the School Kids: Corporations Don’t Pay Their STATE Taxes, Either
It's hard for a nation to build work skills when its corporations have largely stopped paying for education. Both federal and state corporate tax avoidance is at a stunning rate. This is millions of dollars that isn't going to state taxes, which fund public education.
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The renewable energy transition is failing
Renewable energy isn’t replacing fossil fuel energy—it’s adding to it.
Let’s rename the day after Thanksgiving ‘extinction Friday’
The annual Black Friday ode to commercialism and overconsumption sits at the core of our ongoing destruction of Earth’s ecosystems.
Guinea Pig Nation: How the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reducing government regulations for ‘advanced’...
“Under the direction of Congress, the NRC is developing new regulations to facilitate licensing of experimental reactors."
Biden administration announces largest direct federal investment in transmission and distribution infrastructure
The announcement to dedicate $13 billion in grants to improve transmission and distribution systems will "improve energy resiliency through microgrids, local renewable energy, and energy storage.”
On Black Friday, Amazon workers in 40+ countries strike and protest ‘despicable’ treatment
"We have to make Amazon pay all its workers a decent wage in dignified workplaces and for its environmental damage."