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The Trudeau government recently unveiled a new “green” program that provides grants of up to $5,600 to homeowners who make their homes more environmentally…

New consumer rebates can incentivize the purchase and installation of key household electric appliances over their fossil-fuel counterparts and help put the country on a path to fully electrifying its housing stock.

View Comments Judith Maina is COO of Neighborhood Preservation, Inc., whose programs use Networking, Policy and Innovation to battle blighted properties in Memphis. Financial planners recommend that you save 30% of your take home income for housing. Well, for some of us, the utilities expense falls in the same percentile that really hurts the bottom line. Typically, energy costs are considered unaffordable if they hit a threshold of above 6% of household income. Research shows that low-income ...

Joey Bunch: "Without question, those with the least suffered the most the past year. Folks with lower-income jobs — restaurant and hotel workers, childcare providers, teachers, moms — are still

Without question, those with the least suffered the most the past year. Folks with lower-income jobs — restaurant and hotel workers, childcare providers, teachers, moms — are still being tossed

Without question, those with the least suffered the most the past year. Folks with lower-income jobs — restaurant and hotel workers, childcare providers, teachers, moms — are still being tossed

Energy efficiency programs promise to be a “win-win”: by reducing energy consumption, they lower households’ electricity bills and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time. Yet, studies by have found that energy savings from programs consistently fall short of expectations.

Senate committee budget vote delayed until next week As the end of the week approached, the Senate Appropriations Committee was still finalizing FY 2022 budget details, and a planned Friday vote was pushed until Monday. On Wednesday, Committee Chair Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, expressed repeated frustration that she was still receiving bills and specific appropriation requests from committees, including H.171 (a child care bill) and H.360 (a broadband bill). Those attempting to follow the budget...

President Biden unveiled a new $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on Wednesday, March 31, focused on infrastructure, the care economy, climate and, as the name implies, creating desperately needed good jobs. Previous U.S. COVID-19 spending stimulus packages were focused on short-term emergency response, and too much of it propped up the business-as-usual, polluting economy. This new proposal is designed to promote longer-term economic recovery and keep the United States competitive while responding...

Toggle open close On March 31, the Biden Administration released details on its “American Jobs Plan.” Containing $2.25 trillion in new spending, $400 billion in tax credits, and $2.75 trillion in tax increases, if passed as proposed, the plan would be among the largest pieces of legislation in American history.REF The sprawling nature of the proposal, which includes taxes, transportation infrastructure, schools, health benefits, economic incentives, and more, makes the package difficult to ...