Tag: Biden administration
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...
Biden targets noncompete agreements, which restrict the job opportunities of millions...
Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University
Most American workers are hired “at will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the...
The gas tax’s tortured history shows how hard it is to...
Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
As the Biden administration and Republicans negotiate a possible infrastructure spending package, how...
Zero-trust security: Assume that everyone and everything on the internet is...
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University
President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order, signed May 12, 2021, calls for the federal government...
How electric cars can advance environmental justice: By putting low-income and...
Andrea Marpillero-Colomina, The New School
The global auto industry has begun a historic shift from gas- and diesel-fueled cars...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
