Tag: Biden administration
Bridges, bike lanes, electric car chargers and more: 5 essential reads...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
After months of debate and negotiation, Congress has passed a sweeping measure to upgrade many...
Congress passes $1T infrastructure bill – but how does the government...
Ana Maria Dimand, Boise State University
The U.S. Congress passed an infrastructure bill that funds more than a trillion...
Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...
SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes...
Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University
The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as US$4.5 trillion...
‘Tax the rich’? Democrats’ plans to make the wealthy pay a...
Gabriel Zucman, University of California, Berkeley and Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley
Demanding tax increases on the rich...
The EPA is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food...
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
On Aug. 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it...
US families with kids are getting monthly payments from the government:...
Emily Schwartz Greco, The Conversation
Most U.S. families with children will get six monthly payments from the government in...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
