Forget fairness: Canceling all student debt makes great economic sense for America - here s why
Paul ConstantDec 25, 2020, 20:51 IST
Countless Americans are burdened with student loan debt that can hold them back from buying homes or starting businesses.recep-bg/Getty
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the Pitchfork Economics podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein.
In this week s episode of Pitchfork Economics, Hanauer and Goldstein spoke with Fenaba Addo, an associate professor at University of Wisconsin Madison whose research focuses on racial disparities and
student debt.
WI specialty crop Block Grants awarded to 19 projects
Wisconsin State Farmer
Nearly $1.2 million to be split among 19 specialty crop projects, according to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP).
These recipients were selected from a total of 36 funding requests totaling $2,550,444. Grants are awarded to projects intended to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crop industries through research, education or market development. Recipients are required to provide 25 percent of the grant funds as a matching contribution.
Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture and nursery crops according to the USDA which funds the program.
More leadership by ex-governor. Money to be used for UW’s nursing education and internships. By John Torinus - Dec 20th, 2020 04:20 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Tommy Thompson. Photo courtesy of the UW System.
There he goes again.
Tommy Thompson, former governor and now interim president of the University of Wisconsin System, is showing the state once again how leaders lead.
He had already turned the powerful University of Wisconsin loose on statewide testing for the coronavirus. He used the 26 UW campuses to get it rolling.
Then he addressed the shortage of nurses to deal with the pandemic by asking the UW campuses to send their seniors in nursing school to the front lines of the battle against the deadly virus.
Update: December, 20/2020 - 10:26 | Prof. Vu Ha Van, Scientific Director of Vingroup Big Data Institute
Vingroup Big Data Institute (a member of Vingroup), on December 18, 2020, announced its partnership with 10 leading research organisations around the world in the field of precision medicine, aiming to promote precision medicine research and application in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. At the same time, the group officially launched the largest biomedical data analysis and management system in Viet Nam. Ten new international partners signing partnership agreements with VinBigData are all leaders in the fields of Medicine, Molecular Biology, Computer Science and Bioinformatics. They include the Center for Data and Computing - University of Chicago (USA); Cancer Research Laboratories - MD Anderson Cancer Center (USA); NIH-funded UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Californ
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