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ivygorgon · 4 days

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS; STATE GOVERNORS & LEGISLATURES

Act Now: Save Public Transit from Extinction!

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I am writing to highlight the critical state of public transit in the United States and urge your support increased investment in this essential service. The challenges facing public transit—under-investment, over-reliance on car ownership, and racial disparities—have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is imperative that we take bold action to address these issues for the benefit of our communities and our future.

Investing in public transit is not merely a matter of convenience; it is a necessity for tackling climate change, advancing equity, supporting essential workers, and fostering economic recovery. The largest source of carbon emissions in the U.S. stems from transportation, and increased investment in public transit can significantly reduce this impact. Furthermore, public transit plays a crucial role in providing equitable access to jobs, schools, and services, especially for those who cannot afford or do not have access to private vehicles.

With over 2.8 million essential workers relying on public transit, our pandemic response and economic recovery hinge on the strength and viability of our transit systems. According to studies, sustained investment in public transportation yields substantial economic returns, with every $1 billion invested annually resulting in approximately $5 billion in additional GDP.

I commend initiatives like the Green New Deal for Transportation and efforts by organizations such as the CHARGE coalition to electrify and expand public transportation. These initiatives are pivotal in shaping a more sustainable and equitable transportation system for all Americans.

Therefore, I urge you to support emergency relief funding for public transit and join the movement to rebuild and improve our public transit system. This is not just an investment in infrastructure; it is an investment in our collective future.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. I look forward to your support in advancing policies that will ensure a robust and accessible public transit system for all.

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afrotumble · 1 year

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The Fiji Times » Report highlights sectors that will lead growth in 2023

#fiji #economy #economic recovery #economic growth

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 1 year

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 6, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson

The Chinese spy balloon shot down off South Carolina on Saturday after spending four days in U.S. airspace will almost certainly make the history books but not because, by itself, it is a hugely significant factor in the changing relationship between the U.S. and China under President Joe Biden. The reason the balloon will be remembered in the future is that the Republican response to it has been so completely unrelated to reality, and has been so magnified by the media, that it has provided a window into the dysfunction of modern politics. The facts are these: On Saturday, January 28, a Chinese airship entered U.S. airspace north of the Aleutian Islands, then crossed Alaska. It left U.S. airspace, then reentered over northern Idaho on Tuesday, January 31. On February 1 it was over Montana. On February 3 it was near St. Louis, Missouri. On Saturday, February 4, the pilot of an Air Force F-22 shot the airship down in shallow water off the coast of South Carolina, where the wreckage could be recovered. The Trump administration had an inconsistent relationship with China. Trump attacked China in a trade war early in his presidency, placing tariffs on a range of products (which induced China to retaliate, prompting Trump to pump $28 billion into the U.S. farming sector to compensate for lost revenue). But by 2019, according to Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, Trump “pleaded” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him get reelected in 2020, and inked a deal for China to buy significant amounts of the farm products it had turned to other countries to provide after the tariffs (that was why Trump downplayed China’s role in hiding Covid in the early months of 2020). According to former representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Trump also asked congressional leaders to “lay off” Xi, because Trump didn’t want to disappoint Xi. In contrast, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have worked to counter China by building Indo-Pacific cooperation, reinforced U.S. support for Taiwan, established export controls on technology that have hamstrung the Chinese semiconductor industry, worked to counter Chinese investment in Africa, and enhanced security cooperation with South Korea and Japan. But the balloon sparked a frenzy from Republicans insisting that Biden had been weak on China or even was working for China: right-wing talk show host Mark Levin said Biden is “bought and paid for by the Communist Chinese government,” and former president Trump said that Biden “has surrendered American airspace to Communist China.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) said China was showing “that the United States is once-great superpower that’s hollowed out, it’s in decline.” South Carolina Republican representative Joe Wilson—the man who shouted “You lie” at President Obama—said that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris should resign from office because of the balloon. In fact, U.S. standing in the world has strengthened considerably since Biden took office, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which Trump tried to scuttle, is strong enough that Sweden and Finland want to join. It also turns out that at least three similar balloons crossed into U.S. airspace while Trump was president. Today, General Glen D. VanHerck, who oversees the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, told reporters today that this weekend’s balloon was at least the fifth that had come into U.S. airspace, including at least three during Trump’s presidency, but that NORAD didn’t know about that until the intelligence community—under Biden—notified them. As for the fact that Biden waited to shoot the thing down until it flew over the water, the administration says it did not want to take the risk of downing it over the American people. VanHerck estimated it weighed about 2,000 pounds, carried equipment the size of a regional jet, and was about 200 feet tall. As terrorism expert Malcolm Nance wrote on Twitter: “WHY let spy balloon in our space? 1) It was 18.5 miles up, almost in space. 2) it sends data link to PRC. We can intercept that & learn what China knows. We can jam it so they see nothing new. 3) The collection system is ours & can reconstruct it. They lose asset & we win spy game[.]” Indeed, U.S. officials say they blocked the instruments from gathering intelligence, and turned the tables to gather intelligence from the equipment itself. You would think this balloon marks terrible U.S. weakness and is the most important thing to happen in years. But, in fact, the U.S. is stronger internationally than it has been in a while, and the balloon is just one more piece of a larger story about the changing relationship between China and the United States. The breathless attention paid to the balloon starved a story that mattered far more in the long term: the economy under Biden has shown extraordinary job growth—another 517,000 jobs added in January—and the unemployment rate is at a low that has not been seen since 1969 (not a typo). Inflation is dropping. Today, Carly Wanna at Bloomberg noted that since the Inflation Reduction Act became law, more than 100,000 clean energy jobs have been created in the U.S. After months of reports that we are on the brink of a recession, today Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the chances of a recession are low. “You don’t have a recession when you have 500,000 jobs and the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years,” she said. This economic news is not a blip; it is proof that Biden’s revival of the traditional understanding of how the economy works, shared by both parties before the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan, works. Biden has rejected the trickle-down economics of the Republicans, which is based in the idea that moving capital upward will prompt investment in the economy and help everyone. In its place he has revived the older idea that investing in ordinary Americans and infrastructure creates widespread prosperity. His plan is a reversal of 40 years of economic policy, and we need to pay attention to it. Biden has been crystal clear about the meaning behind his policies and has challenged House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to lay out for the American people his own policies in a proposed annual budget. Instead, McCarthy is obfuscating, mixing together the debt ceiling, on which Biden refuses to negotiate because it is about funding obligations already incurred—in large part under Trump—and the budget, on which Biden has said he’s quite happy to negotiate. McCarthy can’t produce a budget because his conference cannot agree on the cuts they insist are imperative. Instead, Republicans are threatening to refuse to lift the debt ceiling, although they lifted it three times under Trump. That refusal would tank the economy just before the 2024 election. A poll conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, written up today in the Washington Post, shows that 62% of Americans think Biden has not accomplished much in his two years in office. In fact, his administration ranks as one of the most consequential since the New Deal in the 1930s. Whether you love what he’s done or hate it, to think nothing has happened suggests a terrible disconnect between image and reality. Today at a press briefing, reporters peppered White House Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese with questions about why that disconnect exists. Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin later tweeted, “Ummm. Heal thyself!” Two other stories that are in the news today will likely also be remembered. Neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell, 27, and Sarah Clendaniel, 34, were charged with plotting to bring down the electric power grid in Maryland, hoping to “destroy” Baltimore. In September, Ilana Krill and Bennett Clifford of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University warned that violent extremist white supremacists were focusing on attacking critical infrastructure “in the hopes that it will trigger a cataclysmic confrontation in American society and collapse the country from within.” And attacks on power stations have, indeed, been rising. Finally, thousands are dead from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake and its strong aftershocks in Turkey and Syria last night. Biden has spoken to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and pledged to support our NATO ally. U.S. teams will help search and rescue teams, as well as coordinate other assistance.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/farm-aid-package.html

Adam Kinzinger #fella @AdamKinzingerI was in a meeting where Donald Trump asked a group of us to lay off XI and China telecom ZTE because he promised XI, and he doesn’t want to disappoint him. Bolton wrote about this, I can confirm. I was shocked. https://t.co/VX54WinVYrRoger Fisk @RogerFisk@MonicaCrowley 1) according to John Bolton trump begged Xi for help in 2020. Tough to be strong when begging. https://t.co/mIhmynRgj7

11:05 PM ∙ Feb 5, 202342,565Likes15,678Retweets

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/05/china-spy-balloon-gop/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/06/chinese-balloons-failed-detection/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-06/companies-adding-100-000-green-jobs-under-new-us-climate-law

https://thedispatch.com/article/ranks-of-republicans-refusing-a-clean-debt-ceiling-hike-grows/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/chinese-spy-balloons-trump-administration/index.html

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/06/10/americas-image-abroad-rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/06/poll-americans-dont-feel-biden-impact/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/economy/janet-yellen-recession-job-gains/index.html

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBloggerWH press corps peppered @BrianDeeseNEC with the "disconnect" between the economy and voters' views. Ummm. Heal thyself! The neverending drum beat of recession might have something to do with it.Also with lack of serious coverage of ripple effect from infrast, CHIPs, etc

11:51 PM ∙ Feb 6, 2023543Likes119Retweets

Jim Sciutto @jimsciuttoNotable: US officials say they were able to block the balloon from gathering intel during its overflight of the US, while the US military was able to turn the tables, so to speak, to gather intel on the balloon itself and its equipment.

9:04 PM ∙ Feb 4, 202339,307Likes9,269Retweets

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/02/06/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-economic-council-director-february-6-2023/

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3288543/f-22-safely-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-south-carolina-coast/

https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3288618/senior-defense-official-and-senior-military-official-hold-an-off-camera-on-back/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/06/maryland-power-grid-neonazi-brandon-russell/

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/CriticalInfrastructureTargeting09072022.pdf

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/06/readout-of-president-bidens-call-with-president-erdogan-of-turkiye/

Thomas Catenacci, “Republican demands Joe Biden, Kamala Harris resign after ‘catastrophic Chinese spy balloon spectacle,’ Fox News, February 4, 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/06/china-balloon-war-hysteria-taiwan/

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #SOTU #Economic recovery #Media #news #misinformation #polls #Biden's Accomplishments

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indizombie · 2 years

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The health and care sector has endured low pay in general, stubbornly large gender pay gaps, and very demanding working conditions. The Covid-19 pandemic clearly exposed this situation while also demonstrating how vital the sector and its workers are in keeping families, societies and economies going. There will be no inclusive, resilient and sustainable recovery without a stronger health and care sector. We cannot have better-quality health and care services without better and fairer working conditions, including fairer wages, for health and care workers, the majority of whom are women. The time has arrived for decisive policy action, including the necessary policy dialogue between institutions.

Manuela Tomei, Director of Conditions of Work and Equality Department at the ILO

#ILO #Manuela Tomei #health and care sector #low pay #working conditions #gender pay gaps #inclusivity #resilience #sustainability #economic recovery #health and care services #fair wages #policy action #policy dialogue

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kathleen-tonn · 5 hours

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Understanding by Kathleen Tonn

Understanding a person, place or thing relies on a humility that acknowledges one’s limited perception of oneself and that which one seeks to understand. To frequently, individuals regard themselves as experts in the vast array of human experience. In doing so, they lose self-control in a fervent effort to judge those who likewise deem themselves as experts on the human condition, albeit from…

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carlocarrasco · 24 hours

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Philippines unemployment rate falls down to 3.5% in February 2024

Recently the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) confirmed that the unemployment rate of the nation fell down to 3.5% in February 2024, according to a Philippine News Agency (PNA) news article. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the PNA news article. Some parts in boldface… Unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent in February this year from 4.5 percent in January, the…

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tmarshconnors · 10 months

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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He previously served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952 and from 1959 until 1960.

Born: 6 February 1911, Tampico, Illinois, United States

Died: 5 June 2004, Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States

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mrthomasfrank · 10 months

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State of Portland 2023

As a follow up to my post last fall, here are some data points and facts of the state of downtown and where it is in the economic rebound. I would like to see Downtown Portland recover. What are your thoughts on making this happen?

Last fall I visited downtown after mainly staying out of the central business district (CBD) since COVID had set in. I was looking to get my daughter’s computer fixed at the Apple Store which was the only one that had next-day appointments available. After arriving and walking around the CBD, I was shocked. I took some pictures to document what I was seeing and not seeing — people. I received a…

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#Downtown Portland #Economic Recovery #portland

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womenindiplomacyday · 3 years

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Strengthen women’s participation in peacebuilding efforts.

Strengthening women’s participation in peacebuilding is high on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO). As outlined in the Secretary-General’s report on Women’s participation in peacebuilding women are crucial partners in shoring up three pillars of lasting peace: economic recovery, social cohesion and political legitimacy. PBSO together with UN Women are supporting the implementation of a seven-point Action Plan, the commitment of the United Nations to improve women’s situations in post-conflict countries.

PBSO co-organized with UN Women a workshop on integrating a gender perspective into Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Needs Assessments to ensure that women’s needs and a gender perspective are integrated into all post-disaster and post-conflict planning documents from early on.

Report of the Secretary-General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding - 7 Point Action Plan

#women in peacebuiding #Women’s participation #women in diplomacy #inclusive peacebuilding #Post-Conflict Needs #gender perspective #UN-Women #workshop #political legitimacy #economic recovery #social cohesion #3 pillars of lasting Peace #Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)

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rodspurethoughts · 1 year

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Downtown Rebound: Los Angeles Ranks Second in Recovery Post-Pandemic

Downtown Los Angeles after sunset The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the world, leaving businesses at a standstill and downtown areas silent. Los Angeles was no exception, with its downtown area being hit hard by the crisis. However, new data is giving a clearer picture of the past and a new view of how far the city has come in its “downtown rebound.” Three years since the pandemic…

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#AppNation News.#business recovery #cellular data #COVID-19 recovery #Downtown LA #economic recovery #Los Angeles #pandemic impact

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carlocarrasco · 30 days

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Fitch sees Philippine economy outpacing Southeast Asian economies this year with 6.4% growth

Financial firm Fitch Ratings expects the economy of the Philippines to grow the fastest among Southeast Asian economies this year with a growth rate of 6.4%, according to a news article by BusinessWorld. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the BusinessWorld news report. Some parts in boldface… THE PHILIPPINES is expected to be the fastest-growing economy in Southeast…

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