Tag: policy

Biden Touts Cheaper Gas As Progressive Policies Stoke Energy Inflation

Politicians tout falling gas prices while championing policies that inflate energy costs. getty The White House is touting declining gas prices heading into the Thanksgiving holiday. Yet the downward trend in fuel costs will strike many as an awkward data point for the Biden administration to promote. That’s because this administration and the most high […]

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Liberty Ladd: Going above and beyond

Liberty Ladd has been drawn to public service and fighting injustice from a young age. At 15, as a student representative from the first congressional district of Maine, she testified to the state board of education about unfair grading policies at her school. Later, she decided to join the Air Force, with the understanding that […]

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States Limit Chinese Investment, Take Care To Avoid Unintended Effects

The Florida State Capitol Building in Tallahassee, Florida. getty Following the recent release of a government memo noting that law enforcement has identified 270 illegal cannabis growing operations in Maine alone, the state’s congressional delegation sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for information on the Department of Justice’s efforts to thwart foreign-owned […]

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Pakistan Deports Afghan Refugees

Afghan refugees gather at a makeshift camp upon their arrival from Pakistan, near the … [+] Afghanistan-Pakistan Torkham border in Nangarhar province on November 2, 2023.Thousands Afghans have fled Pakistan in the month since its government ordered 1.7 million people to leave or face arrest and deportation, officials said on November 2. (Photo by Wakil […]

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How to decarbonize the world, at scale

The world in recent years has largely been moving on from debates about the need to curb carbon emissions and focusing more on action — the development, implementation, and deployment of the technological, economic, and policy measures to spur the scale of reductions needed by mid-century. That was the message Robert Stoner, the interim director […]

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Hundreds Of Colleges Now Offer Automatic Admission To Students

Programs offering “direct admissions”—without a formal application–are spreading. The trend could accelerate in the the wake of the Supreme Court decision killing affirmative action. By Emma Whitford, Forbes Staff More than half of students report that applying to college is the most stressful academic experience they’ve had, but 18-year-old Elsy-Marbeli Cruz-Parra skipped the angst and […]

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Redwood Materials Gears Up To Recycle First Big Wave Of Used EV Batteries

Even battery packs that have been involved in crashes or a fire have valuable materials that can be recycled and reused, according to Redwood Materials. Associated Press In 2024, a quarter million aging electric vehicles will be ready for dismantling and recycling. That could be more than a 30% jump from 2023 — and Redwood […]

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Wording Of Colorado Ballot Measure Is Misleading, State Board Confirms

Proposition HH, the Colorado ballot measure that would weaken the nation’s strongest taxpayer … [+] safeguard, is deceptively worded according to state board. getty While most of the off-year election coverage has focused on the Virginia Senate elections and the gubernatorial contests in Louisiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi, early voting has already begun in Colorado on […]

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F. A. Hayek, Conservatism, And The Free Economy

I have spent my entire professional life promoting economic freedom. Most of this has been in the United States, where parties and groups labeled “conservatives” have favored the free economy. Various leaders and groups made some exceptions, usually for national security, education, health, and the environment, but by and large they always defended private property. […]

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Net Neutrality Resurfaces To Join The Bidenomics Regulatory Costberg

“It was always about government control.” —Commissioner Brendan Carr, Federal Communications Commission Open Meeting, October 2023 Just in time for Halloween, “net neutrality” regulation buried by the Trump-era Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the auspices of then-commissioner Ajit Pai has been unearthed from the grave. Chanting subterranean and abhorrent rites, last week’s FCC Open Commission […]

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Q&A: Magnifying research impact with policymakers

The MIT Policy Lab at the Center for International Studies works with researchers across the Institute to develop and enhance connections between the worlds of academia and public policy. Led by Associate Professor Chappell Lawson, who serves as faculty director, and Drew Story, who serves as managing director, the MIT Policy Lab has supported over […]

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Lawmakers react to Biden’s Oval Office address 

Lawmakers react to Biden’s Oval Office address  | The Hill Skip to content Lawmakers reacted after President Biden delivered an Oval Office address Thursday night, during which he spoke on the Israel-Hamas conflict and the war in Ukraine. Democrats seemed to react well to their leader’s Thursday night speech, with many praising the president’s words […]

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3 Questions: What should scientists and the public know about nuclear waste?

Many researchers see an expansion of nuclear power, which produces no greenhouse gas emissions from its power generation, as an essential component of strategies to combat global climate change. Yet there is still strong resistance to such expansion, and much of that is based on the issue of how to safely dispose of the resulting […]

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Nathaniel Hendren wants to understand the conditions of opportunity

The U.S. is a land of opportunity, but it’s a complicated thing. People in the workforce today are much less likely to earn more than their parents did, compared to people born around 1940. Some parts of the country generate much more economic mobility than others. And even with other matters being equal, there are […]

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Closing The Talent Gap: From K-12 To Career

In the post-pandemic era, our nation is facing a persistent and increasingly urgent challenge: many students graduating from our education systems are not adequately prepared to meet current and future workforce needs. A concern I’ve previously shared is that in my home state of Tennessee, for every 100 job openings, we have just 56 workers […]

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Join VentureBeat and Anzu Partners for our first DC meetup: ‘AI ❤️ DC’

VentureBeat is partnering with Anzu Partners on an exclusive gathering for the AI community in Washington DC this coming Thursday, October 26: AI ❤️ DC! Join us for an evening of incisive discussions and high-level networking, spotlighting the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and its implications for national security in the city that’s at the […]

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