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Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
Grouped Articles
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/2024
Washington Post 06/10/2024
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/2020
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/2018
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/2020
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/2021
Public reaction to the 2010 US Deficit Commisssion report
11/18/2010
Grouped Articles
Deficit Proposal Draws Mixed Review
Wall Street Journal 11/18/2010
New York Times 11/22/2010
Favorable response to the U.S. Deficit Commission's report.
11/15/2010
Grouped Articles
Left, Right and Wrong on Taxes
New York Times 11/15/2010
Sheila C. Bair - Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?
Washington Post 11/26/2010
Debt and Taxes: Will Washington Ever Grow Up?
BusinessWeek 11/17/2010
Deficit Plan Fails to Win Panel Support
Wall Street Journal 12/03/2010
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/2011
Debt Hawk Alan Simpson on the Work Ahead
BusinessWeek 08/04/2011
The US Deficit Commission report in 2010.
11/08/2010
Grouped Articles
Panel Chairmen Recommend Cutting Federal Spending by $200 Billion
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2010
Deficit Commission’s $200 Billion in Proposed Spending Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2010
Deficit Panel's Leaders Push Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/08/2010
Debt Commission Seeks Social Security Cuts and Tax Increases
New York Times 11/10/2010
Deficit-Cutting Chairmen Call Washington's Bluff
Wall Street Journal 11/12/2010
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2010
The 2010 U.S. Deficit Commission report.
10/25/2010
Grouped Articles
Key Tax Breaks at Risk as Panel Looks at Cuts
Wall Street Journal 10/25/2010
Deficit Commission’s $200 Billion in Proposed Spending Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/10/2010
Deficit Panel's Leaders Push Cuts
Wall Street Journal 11/08/2010
Deficit-Cutting Chairmen Call Washington's Bluff
Wall Street Journal 11/12/2010
Wall Street Journal 11/11/2010
Deficit Reduction Plan Draws Scorn From Left and Right
New York Times 11/11/2010
The U-6, broad measure of labor underutilization in the USA.
10/08/2010
This figure reached 17.1% in the USA in September 2010, according to the Labor Department.
Grouped Articles
It's Still Bad for the Long Term Unemployed
New York Times 04/04/2014
'Real Unemployment' Rate Points in the Wrong Direction
New York Times 04/04/2014
Broader U-6 Jobless Rate up to 17.1%: Why the Jump?
Wall Street Journal 10/08/2010
Job Numbers Mask Complex Picture
Wall Street Journal 01/07/2012
The Hiring Hare Will Soon Morph Into a Tortoise
Wall Street Journal 02/03/2012
Jobs Data Show Sustained Growth
Wall Street Journal 02/03/2012
Report of the Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig Gulf oil spill
06/05/2010
Grouped Articles
In Gulf, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Rig
New York Times 06/05/2010
Recipes for Ruin, in the Gulf or on Wall Street
New York Times 06/11/2010
Chinese Walls, Pocked With Peepholes
New York Times 06/11/2010
Oil Executives Try to Explain Differences From BP
New York Times 06/15/2010
At BP, a History of Boldness and Costly Blunders
New York Times 07/12/2010
Oil Rigs’ Biggest Risk: Human Error
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2015
April 2010 Defense Department biannual report on the war in Afghanistan.
04/29/2010
It shows little progress from the escalated effort, and the critical fact of the lack of acceptance of the Karzai government remains. Of 92 districts assessed in this report none are sympathetic to the Karzai government.
Grouped Articles
Gates Faults Obama Over Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2014
U.S. Report on Afghan War Finds Few Gains in 6 Months
New York Times 04/29/2010
Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 06/02/2010
Official Admits Militancyâs Deep Roots in Pakistan
New York Times 06/02/2010
McChrystal article renews attention to split with Biden over Afghanistan
Washington Post 06/23/2010
McChrystalâs Fate in Limbo as He Prepares to Meet Obama
New York Times 06/23/2010
Old print media.
01/11/2010
How does the old print media compare to the new online media. Who generates the news and reporting? What are the significant changes ocurring in all the tumult from new generation of readers and technological change which is shrivelling the reporting staffs of old print media.
Grouped Articles
Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information
New York Times 01/11/2010
Wall Street Journal 10/12/2011
The Internet Tide Hits Alabama Newspapers
New York Times 06/27/2012
Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News
The New York Times 11/07/2016
America has forgotten it is American workers who built America
09/28/2023
Entry level tier wages for auto workers at $17 an hour in 2022 as the UAW union goes on strike in 2023. At $34,000 a year entry level young auto workers make less than the $35,000- 40,000 a year for families set as the Federal Poverty Level by the Department of HHS. Lincoln and TR-FDR would see this as outrageous as American workers built American factories and America since the Industrial Revolution. America has forgotten its workers and worker's families, worker's children. Two thirds of children with the vast majority from the workers families not able to pass ACT reading comprehension at the 4th grade, and 50 % of retired people having zero savings. Not the America of Lincoln or TR-FDR.
Grouped Articles
Trump’s pitch for autoworker votes in car heartland is short on autoworkers
The Guardian 09/28/23
Biden Joins Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan
NYTimes.com 09/27/23
Biden Joins UAW Picket Line Ahead of Trump Visit, Opening 2024 Election Fight
WSJ 09/26/23
Five Clues to Where the UAW Strike Is Headed Next
WSJ 09/23/23
Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike
NYTimes.com 09/17/23
Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won
WSJ 09/16/23
Home Depot strategies
11/16/2010
Grouped Articles
Home Depot Sets Up for CEO Succession As Focus Shifts To Web
Wall Street Journal 03/03/14
Be Sure to Check Home Depot's Foundation
Wall Street Journal 08/19/14
Home Depot's Earnings Driven by Big-Ticket Items
Wall Street Journal 08/20/14
Home Depot Reports Better-Than-Seen Sales
Wall Street Journal 11/19/14
Home Depot Hunts for Cheer in the Fridge
Wall Street Journal 11/16/10
Supply-Chain Boosts Net at Home Depot
Wall Street Journal 11/16/11
Criticism of the 2010 President's Deficit Commission report.
11/11/2010
Grouped Articles
New York Times 11/11/10
A Panel's Plan to Cut the Deficit
New York Times 11/12/10
The president's deficit commission: Nice try
Economist 11/13/10
America's deficit: Confronting the monster
Economist 11/20/10
New York Times 11/22/10
Deficit Plan Fails to Win Panel Support
Wall Street Journal 12/03/10
The US Military Intelligence Program Budget in 2010.
10/28/2010
The Military Intelligence Budget was 80.1 billion in 2010 according to Defence Department sources.
Grouped Articles
Intelligence spending at record $80.1 billion in first disclosure of overall figure
Washington Post 10/28/10
Alternative deficit commission report by Rivlin-Domenici
10/21/2010
Grouped Articles
Another Deficit Plan Targets Taxes
Wall Street Journal 11/17/10
Sheila C. Bair - Will the next fiscal crisis start in Washington?
Washington Post 11/26/10
Tax-cut deal has liberal Democrats fuming
Washington Post 12/07/10
CBO: U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever
Washington Post 01/26/11
Wall Street Journal 03/03/11
To Cut the Deficit, Look to Social Security
New York Times 04/04/11
Consumer Reports continues to educate a new generation of consumers in the 21st century.
07/22/2010
With 7 millon subscribers Consumer Reports, published by nonprofit advocacy group Consumer's Union, and based in Yonkers, New York, continues to provide completely independent opinion on products to consumers. Lexus 460 and the Apple Iphone have come under scrutiny in recent months. A new generation of younger subscribers looks to Consumer Reports, as did a previous generation.
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 07/22/10
Asian Handset Makers May Find Room to Shine
Wall Street Journal 10/05/11
Britain's new 2010 Budget marks a big change from the past.
05/13/2010
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, put forward a budget with a 25% spending cut by 2015 in all departments except health and international aid. This marks a huge departure in years of spending by the Labor governments. The new Conservative-Liberal coalition government is determined to take austerity measures to reduce the national debt.
Grouped Articles
Britain's accidental revolution
Economist 05/13/10
U-Turn in the U.K.: Big Spending Cuts
Wall Street Journal 10/14/10
Britain Details Radical Spending Cuts, Citing Debt
New York Times 10/20/10
U.K. Plans New Taxes on Banks, Multinationals
Wall Street Journal 12/04/14
Tough Slog to Balancing U.K.’s Budget
Wall Street Journal 12/04/14
Overheard: Digging for Answers on Coal
Wall Street Journal 03/29/15
2010 high Inflation and asset price bubbles in in India and China, and low or no inflation in Europe, Japan and the USA.
01/14/2010
Wide divergence in conditions and the prospects of tightening credit in Asia affecting export prospects of the USA which depends on exports for half the growth generated in 2009 and early 2010 according to Commerce Department figures.
Grouped Articles
Japanese Economic Data Give Abe a Lift
Wall Street Journal 06/10/13
Central Bankers Hone Tools to Pop Bubbles
Wall Street Journal 07/08/13
India's Central Banker Lobbies Fed
Wall Street Journal 10/13/13
Staying Away from Indian Bonds
Wall Street Journal 12/18/13
Corrosive Inflation Eats at Developing World
Wall Street Journal 02/11/14
Japan and China: Edging closer
Economist 10/06/14
India- lack of transparency and fairness in auctions of telecommunications bandwidths.
04/10/2009
2008 auctions were rigged according to the Auditor-General's report. The loss to the governmet of $38 billion. The department of Telecommunications is described as failing miserably to do the due diligence. Adds to the general sense of corruption in the handling of governmental affairs.
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
China Slips in Corruption Perceptions Report
New York Times 12/02/14
Upstart Party Scores Victory in India State Elections
Wall Street Journal 02/11/15
India Auction for Cellphone Spectrum Was Rigged, Report Says
New York Times 11/16/10
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