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AmeriCorps members with Arizona Conservation Corps, a program of Conservation Legacy, make improvements on the Manning Camp Trail at Saguaro National Park.
(Photo courtesy of the Corps Network/InsideClimate News)
Amy Kuo saw firsthand how powerful it can be to tackle the big problems of our times in small ways when she was on a California Conservation Corps work crew a few years ago in the sweltering summer heat deep in a forest outside of Los Angeles. Kuo, now a legislative analyst for the corps, recalls slogging upstream, sometimes waist deep in water or poison oak, hauling gasoline, chain saws and other heavy gear to clear fallen trees and debris blocking the riverbed.
Proponents of New Deal/Great Society liberalism have long argued that social programs and policies that help the middle class are not anti-business, but are good for business â and liberal economist Paul Krugman takes a Biden-era approach to that theme this week in his New York Times column. Analyzing the American Family Plan and other proposals coming from President Joe Biden and/or Democrats in Congress, Krugman lays out some reasons why social safety net programs are pro-business. Conservatives beware: If the main elements in Joe Biden s American Family Plan become law, they ll be very hard to repeal, Krugman writes. Why? Because they ll deliver huge, indeed transformational benefits to millions. I mean, just imagine trying to take away affordable child care, universal pre-K and paid leave for new parents once they ve become part of the fabric of our society. You d face a backlash far worse than the one that followed Republican attempts to eliminate protection for coverag
ksuadminApril 28, 2021
“Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem” is the famous phrase of former US President Ronald Reagan in his inaugural address in 1981. It was the start of 40 years to hate the “big government” And the increased role of the state in the American economy. Even Democratic presidents like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have avoided implementing more ambitious policies to expand the welfare state in a country where there is no universal access to health care or maternity leave. obligatory.
It was up to a 78-year-old man, moderate to the point of boring, to come up with a revolution: resurrecting the role of the state as a major service provider and burying reorganization in the United States. The coronavirus pandemic, which highlighted the difference between an absent government and an efficient administration, was essential.
Former House Speaker discusses media s coverage ahead of the president s first congressional address on The Ingraham Angle
President Biden on Wednesday will give a primetime address to a joint session of Congress, marking the biggest speech of his presidency so far and giving him the opportunity to lay out his agenda for the rest of his time in office.
Biden s address also comes on the eve of his 100th day in office, giving him the chance to reflect on what s been a busy few months, including a coronavirus stimulus, a subsequent spending plan that he proposed and partisan battles over immigration.