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Ever since the September 7 Republican debate, a lot of attention has been paid to Governor Rick Perry's executive decision requiring that young girls receive a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV). Perry's measure was admirable: Persistent HPV infections are the primary cause of cervical and anal cancers.
Americans rightly scoffed at Congressman John Flemming (R-FL) when he complained about only bringing home a net profit of $400,000 from his business. Never mind that Flemming is also paid $174,000 as a member of Congress. The more important point is that the Florida representative belongs to a growing sympathy brigade for Americans making over $250,000 annually -- swearing that these high earners can't spare a dime to address the nation's fiscal crisis.
A new report from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards looks at economic well-being in Canada and the Provinces over a nearly 30-year period. Instead of using Gross Domestic Product to determine economic well-being, however, the new report uses a different indicator called the Index of Economic Well-Being (IEWB). The Index looks at four variables when determining economic well-being:
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who a few months ago said Blacks were "getting tired" of the president's unresponsiveness to Black unemployment, is now on the bandwagon. In response to the American Jobs Act (AJA), the Hill blog quoted the Congresswoman saying, "[President Obama] heard [the Black community].
Today is the opening day of Climate Week NYC, a week long event that brings together high-level government officials, advocates and businesses to promote a “clean industrial revolution.” While only in its third year, Climate Week has successfully brought diverse interests together to plan for a massive scaling up of clean-energy technologies to create jobs and economic growth while making the natural and built environment more sustainable.
Audi runs ads in hopes of selling cars. That’s what ads are supposed to do. But, in yesterday’s New York Times, a full-page ad for the Audi A6 appeared twice and it not only aimed to sell cars, it promoted the idea that wealthy Americans can buy protection from the public decay likely to surround us all as our cities, our states, and our nation reduce investment in our public systems and structures. (A similar ad is also running on television, which you can watch below.)
Civil rights groups will release a letter to the Department of Justice charging an unnecessary, unfair, restrictive photo voter ID law intentionally discriminates against African American and Latino voters.