Rather than the Current Electoral College system. The hill newspaper in the making every Vote Count Foundation hosted this event. Good morning, everyone. We are on cspan and also Live Streaming on the making every vote count facebook page. I want you all to behave. The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy. Thats not me speaking. Thats donald trump or it was donald trump before he changed his mind a few times. He also said this i would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know you get 100 million votes and someone else gets 90 million and you win. I quote him not for irony but because he is right and his affinity for the popular vote may reflect his instinct that a president who was elected without winning a majority is perhaps not so legitimate. Think of all the factors that have contributed to voter cynicism and alienation. Of all the measures that we could institute to help restore confidence in democracy. This is the one that can be easily and quickly remedie
Popular vote in the United States president ial elections. Rather than the Current Electoral College system. The hill newspaper in the making every Vote Count Foundation hosted this event. Good morning, everyone. We are on cspan and also Live Streaming on the making every vote count facebook page. I want you all to behave. The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy. Thats not me speaking. Thats donald trump or it was donald trump before he changed his mind a few times. He also said this i would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know you get 100 million votes and someone else gets 90 million and you win. I quote him not for irony but because he is right and his affinity for the popular vote may reflect his instinct that a president who was elected without winning a majority is perhaps not so legitimate. Think of all the factors that have contributed to voter cynicism and alienation. Of all the measures that we could institute to help restore confidence in democr
Tuition. What new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is proposing for two and fouryear degree are for state klemps for low and middle income families. Sounds great. But its one part of paying for an education. That is our cover story the cost of college. If you come from any family earning 125,000 or less, the state will provide free tuition. The average cost of tuition at a Public College nationwide is approaching 10,000. At private schools its more than 33,000. But thats only part of the actual cost. Room and board averages more than 10,000 at public klemps and even larger expense in tuition. Nearlies 12ds,000 at private schools. More than 20 million americans attend private or universities and many taking on massive debt. In 1996 the average College Student graduated with nearly 13,000 in loans. The 2016 graduates that number nearly tripled. It should be a wakeup call to this nation if you really want to be competitive globally we have to have the best educ e educated work force. So is Gove
Good day it is tuesday july 11th, 2016. Yes. Because yesterday was 7 11 free slurpe thing. Yes. It is july 12th, 2016. We earned that take at getting up at 2 00 in the morning. Yesterday sue had the perfect forecast, it it was perfect outside. You know, today is pretty close to that. We will go with the nine out of ten. The just a smidge more humidity around but still another Beautiful Day ahead, nothing to show you on radar, no precipitation once again a few cloud around here and there and temperatures slightly milder then they were yesterday at this time in the 60s in allentown, reading, lancaster, trenton, 66 Atlantic City. Sixtyfive millville. Zero seven in wilmington. We were in the the 50s this time yesterday. Dew points are starting to rise a little bit the not to the north of us but still comfortable but with that 64degree dew point, it is higher. Wind are starting to change direction from the northerly wind we saw yesterday with southeasterly breezes today, it was a great sund
Experimentation candidly happening at the local level across the country. So, you know, we have m. I. T. Media lab working with the Boston Public School district on all sorts of Different Technology programs that theyre doing, longitudinal tracking study of, whether its working with certain clusters of schools to have everything be moved to tablets and then kids having the right to take those tablets home and those being kind of wifi accessible and so they can also learn, explore on their own while still doing their home work to iowa, building kind of networks of teachers who are really interested in helping to ensure that girls engage in the sciences and stay engaged in the sciences. Kind of aggregating together middle school and High School Teachers to support the same girls as they transition from middle school to high school who have shown and expressed interest and kind of aptitude in the maths and sciences. So, we have so much innovation happening. Some which is built around tech