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Trevor Jackson explores history and economics in his latest book 'The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World' The post Following the money: A new history of capitalism analyzes the destructive economic system appeared first on rabble.ca.

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10 ივლისს, უკრაინის დრონებით მიტანილი იერიშის შემდეგ რუსეთმა შეაჩერა მოძრაობა აზოვი-დონის საზღვაო არხში, რომელიც მდინარე დონს აზოვის ზღვასთან აკავშირებს და მათ შორის მარცვლეულის ექსპორტისთვის გამოიყენება. ამ ცნობას ავრცელებს სააგენტო Reuters-ი, მარცვლეულის სექტორში მომუშავე ორ წყაროზე დაყრდნობით. წყაროები არ აზუსტებენ როდის შეიძლება განახლდეს მოძრაობა. 10 ივლისის ღამეს უკრაინის დრონებმა დარტყმები განახორციელეს აზოვზე, ტაგანროგზე, აზოვისა და მატვეევო-კურგანსკის რაიონებზე რუსეთის როსტოვის...

By Rose Hoban Key Takeaways: There’s a fundamental principle in the field of economics: “incentives matter.”  The premise is that if the right kinds of financial carrots are put in place, rational people will weigh costs and benefits and adjust their behavior, especially if it’s in their self-interest to do so. That’s the conclusion Tom […] The post What’s coming for state employees’ insurance in the coming year? Here are the details. appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

Spring frosts meant summer troubles for Michigan cherry farmers, who are lowering expectations and offerings.

Proposed amendments would give the $100 million aquaculture facility 30 months to start construction and redefine what counts as a "substantial start."

Audio of a Carnegie Mellon University staff council meeting two days after the school hosted last year’s controversial Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit — attended by President Donald Trump — details CMU leadership’s thinking on student speech, the institution’s reputation and risks to academia under the current administration.  The hourlong audio, obtained by Public Source […] The post Recording captures CMU president’s dilemma, thinking on controversial Trump visit   appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

مسیح علی‌نژاد کنشگر سیاسی روز جمعه ۱۹ تیرماه اعلام کرد که بعد از حضور در یک برنامه تلویزیونی و «افشای پروپاگاندا و دروغ‌های رژیم ایران» درباره مراسم تشییع جنازه علی خامنه‌ای، پیام‌های بی‌شماری از تهدید به قتل دریافت کرده است.

La Central de Televigilancia de Antofagasta permitió coordinar con Carabineros dos exitosos procedimientos en la Plaza Bicentenario y en la Feria Pantaleón Cortés. Los operativos concluyeron con la incautación de una pistola de aire comprimido manipulada por una menor, el retiro de un estoque artesanal y la captura de una mujer que caminaba con dos órdenes de arresto vigentes. Este artículo Ojos en las calles: Cámaras municipales permiten capturar a prófuga y desarmar a delincuentes en Antofagasta fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

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Lawyers for New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the state Early Childhood Education and Care Department on Thursday argued that a Republican lawsuit before the state Supreme Court over the state’s universal childcare program is “less a legal challenge than a political lament.”

The intense marine heatwave conditions that began roiling the Bering Sea in about 2016 resulted in the lowest winter sea ice extent measured in 150 years, widespread bird and marine mammal die-offs, a drastic shift in fish populations and a crash of snow crab stocks. Now new research is tying the marine heatwave to the […]

(The Center Square) - A housing proposal that would have given Seattle developers an 80 percent break on Mandatory Housing Affordability fees for two years to help expedite much needed multifamily housing projects is apparently dead, with developers wondering what comes next. The Housing Development Consortium informed the office of Mayor Katie Wilson that HDC was withdrawing its support for advancing the proposal, and the mayor then announced they were not moving forward. The goal of the planned two-year suspension of MHA fees was aimed at speeding up housing production as Seattle is in the middle of a major housing crisis. The idea being developers would be incentivized to build in the city if they could save millions on MHA fees per project. Developers building in Mandatory Housing Affordability, or MHA-zoned areas choose between two options: Payment Option: Make an "in-lieu" financial contribution to the City's Seattle Office of Housing trust fund, which currently has hundreds of millions of dollars to support nonprofit affordable housing construction.Performance Option: Dedicate a specific percentage of new units to be rented out at affordable rates for low-income households. Typically, at least 5%. Wilson’s office negotiated the outlines of a deal with private sector housing developers and the Housing Development Consortium to suspend those fees and get some projects in the pipeline. The proposal was expected to unlock the construction of at least 30 new housing projects by allowing private capital markets to invest locally in building housing. But then suddenly, the brakes were applied. During a Tuesday HDC meeting that included a representative from the mayor’s office, some members expressed feeling left out of the planning process. “By the time I heard about the proposal, it seemed pretty fully baked and then we were sort of negotiating down from what the Seattle Housing Roundtable was discussing with your office,” said Jared Jonson, co-executive director of the Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority. Nicole Vallestero Soper from the mayor’s office responded to say they had heard from communities that felt left out in policy planning. “They felt like it could potentially harm their neighborhoods or communities. We really wanted to make sure that those perspectives were included in the final policy package.” Natalie Quick, co-founder of the Seattle Housing Roundtable, a developers group supportive of the MHA holiday, told The Center Square they have been in talks with the mayor’s office and HDC on the policy for a long while and putting the brakes on now would be devastating. “New permit applications, according to city data, have dropped 88% from the 2020 peak for housing production. We just got the Q2 2026 numbers from the city and now it's 94%. So new housing applications are down 94% right now for multifamily housing in Seattle,” said Quick. “Alarm bells are going off for us, right? We're not getting new production. Supply and demand tell us we are running out of new supply coming to market, and for renters, that is not a good equation.” Behind the scenes According to Publicola, Downtown Emergency Service Center’s Daniel Malone sent an email to Wilson last month expressing “deep concern” about the proposal, which he said would reduce local funding for the kind of housing-first projects DESC builds at a time when federal funding may dry up. The mayor’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a July 3, Facebook post, Seattle Politics and Public Affairs Consultant Sandeep Kaushik gave his thoughts on the issue. “The old school anti-capitalist, anti-developer cohort of Seattle's more Jacobin left intervened in the negotiations. They ardently back public and social housing but see development of private housing as a net negative, harming poor and minority communities by driving displacement and gentrification. They sharply ramped up pressure on the mayor, telling her she would be betraying her socialist base by signing off on the deal,” wrote Kaushik. Quick told The Center Square that her group is holding out hope the mayor’s office won’t kill the deal. “If you work in the realm of housing and politics, I think you always have to have some hope that things can come together and the optimistic side of me says, where there's a will there’s a way.” “It's not going to get better without something monumental like this in a temporary way to get things moving. But this is a very short window. This isn't let's stakeholder this for three months and see how we feel. Moving this into 2027, deals are going to die,” said Quick.

(The Center Square) – The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit challenging the environmental approval of the Vantage data center by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Emails showed that DNR staff initially informed data center representatives that a full Environmental Impact Statement would be required for the project but that report ultimately was not required after pushback from the company saying it would “kill the project,” as shown in public records. Those records also showed concern in communications between Vantage employees and Port Washington Mayor Ted Neitzke over videos from comedian Charlie Berens opposing the project and suggestions that the Port Washington data center is differentiated from Microsoft’s data center projects with state leaders. Sierra Club is represented by Midwest Environmental Advocates in the case. “This case is about transparency and accountability,” MEA attorney Michael Greif said in a statement. “Wisconsinites have a right to know why the state changed course and why one of the largest development projects in Wisconsin history is moving forward without the level of environmental review and public input the law requires.” Lawmakers last year estimated that the $2.1 billion project will use as much electricity as the city of Los Angeles. A new report from the Public Service Commission estimates that Wisconsin will need 40% more peak demand power.in coming years due to the data center boom, especially hyper-scale projects in Beaver Dam, Port Washington and Mount Pleasant. The data centers are also a large beneficiary of tax benefits throughout the state, including tax increment financing deals and an estimated $1.5 billion in initial foregone state sales tax from four data center projects that will later become $369 million annually once construction on the projects are complete.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.Did student behavioral issues worsen after the pandemic? How many students have been suspended or expelled in recent years, and what proportion of those students have disabilities? How many enroll in Advanced Placement courses — and where?The federal data that could help answer these questions is now six months late. It’s not entirely clear what the hold up is, but it’s one of many data sets that the federal government hasn’t updated amid widespread layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education.Researchers, advocates, and civil rights attorneys say the Office for Civil Rights data for the 2023-24 school year is critical, not only because it provides a national picture around pressing education issues such as discipline, but because it also digs into district by district data in a consistent way.The Education Department estimated it would be available to the public by December 2025. In an interview with Chalkbeat reporters in late June, Assistant Secretary Kimberly Richey, said the release of the national civil rights data will come “later this summer.”And the department appears to have already reviewed the data. A press release Friday cited the unreleased 2023-24 numbers as reason to open more than a dozen investigations into school districts, because their submissions to the data collection “contained responses that suggest that districts might not be addressing staff on student sexual misconduct appropriately.”That’s just one possible use for the Civil Rights Data Collection, or CRDC, which the department typically conducts every two school years.The information represents a wellspring of statistics about a variety of important topics. The CRDC has long been a tool for proponents of school equity to understand how well students of color, students with disabilities and other historically disadvantaged groups are faring in schools across the country, particularly when it comes to expulsions, suspensions and arrests.While some states collect some of this data, it’s not always consistent or readily accessible to the public. Jennifer Rainville, an education attorney with the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center, said in her state, disciplinary data isn’t publicly broken down by disability status. Parents can make a public records request, but few might take that extra step.Rainville often cites statistics from the last batch of data, including that South Carolina suspends more preschool students than any other state, based on the most recent CRDC. Seeing disciplinary actions broken down by race and disability status helps inform broader policy and bolster arguments for reform, she said.The last time the data was released was by the Biden administration in 2023, with numbers from the 2020-21 school year. “We are disciplining kids at a high rate, and so it’s important to know what those kids look like,” she said. “Having the breakdown of that is important to know exactly where we’re falling short, right, because we are falling short.”Academics also rely on the data due to its consistency. It is “the only source of information” covering every school and district in the nation using the same definitions, said Daniel Losen, senior director for education at the National Center for Youth Law. “It’s vitally important,” he said. “It really gives you a good sense of what’s going on.”A lot has changed in education since the last data collection, including the aftermath of the pandemic, a rise in school cell phone bans, and a continued plunge in academic achievement. Researchers are particularly interested in disciplinary data from the years immediately after students returned in-person, in which teachers reported a surge in disruptive behavior.While the 2020-21 data showed suspensions and bullying had plunged, it reflected a time when about 88% of schools were providing a combination of in-person and remote instruction due to the pandemic. In 2020, the Education Department delayed the CRDC scheduled for the 2019-20 and moved it to 2020-21. “There are lots of really basic questions that we have limited insight into, because we haven’t gotten any data since really the times that schools were, you know, deep in the weeds of the pandemic,” said Erica Frankenberg, an education professor at Penn State.Advocates are watching not only for the data’s release but for how the administration might interpret the numbers. In an executive order last year, President Donald Trump discouraged schools from considering whether students of color are subjected to disproportionate levels of discipline.The Office for Civil Rights, which administers the data, has been at the center of a flurry of action. The department announced in June that some of the work in that office would be shifted to the Department of Justice, as part of an interagency agreement. The agency has been slowly shifting more and more work out of the department.However, in announcing the agreement, a senior department official said civil rights data collection would continue under the Education Department.Erica Meltzer and Matt Barnum contributed reporting.Lily Altavena is a national reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Lily at laltavena@chalkbeat.org.

Gracias a la condescendencia de la RAE, que admite que las palabras escritas con ps- inicial también se puedan escribir con s-, la ciencia del alma se ha convertido en la ciencia del higo.

O presidente da Argentina, Javier Milei, começa nas próximas semanas uma série de visitas a políticos da extrema direita pela América Latina. As primeiras paradas, no dia 25 de julho, serão em Brasília e São Paulo, com uma prometida visita ao ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro, que está em prisão domiciliar, e ao senador e pré-candidato à […] Fonte

The two-week summer program exposes high school students to the medical field, encouraging them to pursue a career in health care and settle in rural areas, where they’re needed. The post Fredonia Medical Academy promotes health care work for students, one suture at a time appeared first on KLC Journal - A Civic Issues Magazine from the Kansas Leadership Center