Nominal wage growth has stagnated, and real earnings have fallen this year. More than one in every five dollars in real disposable income now comes as a transfer payment from government. The strengthening in the dollar (and slowing growth overseas) could reduce demand for exports, and housing ...
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The approach is an integral component of California’s “optimal path” to a decarbonized electric sector, as outlined by technology company Wärtsilä, and would equip the state with a distributed, long-term energy storage system “with durations of weeks, not hours, providing seasonal balanc...
The PLF’s money comes from war tax resisters in Northern California who conscientiously deposit or donate all or part of the amount they would otherwise pay to the federal government in income taxes. Please seewww.nowartax.orgfor more information about how people go about resisting paying “war...
Today Bea’s Kids is a small nonprofit that offers after-school tutoring in three other low-income apartment complexes besides Metrocrest. Every year, about two hundred kids spend about an hour a day at one of the four centers. But the organization is desperately trying to raise money to ...
There’s also the recent example of Seattle’s city council, which is currently working on a plan to raise its city’s minimum wage, an idea that might strike terror in the hearts of Texas employers but would help with growing income inequality. But the most startling idea floating around...