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Tuesday, August 13, 2019 Electric vehicles don’t just promise to tackle our air quality problems. They will also bring additional consumer benefits from lower fuel costs and fewer maintenance expenses. Transportation Student Grants Help – Avoid Student loans through grant money….
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Abortion rights protesters in the Tennessee State Capitol in 2015. The outright abortion bans enacted and temporarily stayed in Alabama and Missouri, and currently under consideration in Tennessee, are completely at odds with public sentiment in those states.
Yesterday in the Tennessee state senate, legislators held a hearing on an amendment to ban abortion in the state. Once “a viable pregnancy is presumed to exist or has been confirmed,” women would be banned from getting abortions. They…
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A worker checks Spiderman dolls assembled at the production line of Dongguan Da Lang Wealthwise Plastic Factory in China.
Trump has just walked back his threatened new tariffs on China again, this time supposedly to spare customers for Christmas toys and electronic products made in China. Retailers will be ordering these products over the next few months.
The 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese products were set to take effect September 1. That…
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A homeless man sleeps on Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange.
The American dream promises that anyone can make it if they work hard enough and play by the rules. Anyone can make it by pulling themselves up by their “bootstraps.”
Baloney.
The truth is: In America today, your life chances depend largely on how you started—where you grew up and how much your parents earned.
Everything else—whether you attend college, your chances of landing a well-paying job, even your…
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A sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
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It’s long been understood that ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft may pose a threat to public transit. Despite those companies’ claim that they’re complementary to buses and trains, research has shown repeatedly that ridesharing does indeed siphon riders from municipal transportation. One such study from the University of Kentucky illustrates this dynamic starkly: For every year after…
On Monday, clean car advocates announced that 6,201 Coloradans are calling on Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission (AQCC) to adopt the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) program, a critical step that Colorado needs to take to protect public health and tackle the climate crisis. The AQCC will begin a public hearing on the rule starting Tuesday, with testimony open to the public from 12:30 to 3pm and 6 to 8pm. They will vote on whether to…
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The Prospect has reported on numerous regulatory changes that the Trump administration has made in order to enact policy without legislative input, and the new DHS policy is no different.
President Trump’s attacks on the safety net continue, and all the better for him if he can disenfranchise multiple marginalized populations in one fell swoop. Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finalized its “public charge” rule, which targets both welfare recipients and immigrants. The…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during his meeting with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
A week ago, China allowed its currency to depreciate past a key benchmark of seven yuan to the dollar, a record low. A cheaper currency translates into cheaper imports, and offsets to some degree the hardship from tariffs on goods made in China.
This sent markets plummeting and pundits castigating the Trump administration for further damage from the…
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American Airlines sued New York City over its paid sick leave laws—one more example of American businesses’ frequent reflexive reaction against any pro-worker laws.
Earlier this month, just in time for people’s summer vacations, American Airlines took a legal action that has the potential to expose travelers to more germs. The airline sued New York City over its paid sick leave laws.
This is perhaps not the best public-relations move by an industry widely seen…
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United States president Donald Trump looks to his supporters seated behind the stage at a campaign rally in Cincinnati.
The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is re-publishing this conversation.
As we witness the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and around the globe, Yale University philosopher Jason Stanley has authored How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Donald Trump’s rendition of…