April 06, 2021
A new poll released Tuesday shows that a large, bipartisan majority of voters in the United States supports President Joe Biden s proposal to spend $2.25 trillion over eight years to upgrade the nation s physical and social infrastructure.
The survey (pdf), conducted by Invest in America and Data for Progress, found that voters support Biden s American Job Plan by a 52 point margin, with 73% of all voters in favor and only 21% opposed.
Notably, 67% of Independents and 57% of Republicans support the American Jobs Plan, even as GOP lawmakers opposed to raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations have vowed to fight against the modernization of the country.Voters Across Party Lines Support the American Jobs Act (Source: Data for Progress)Biden has proposed creating millions of good-paying jobs to clean up abandoned fossil fuel sites; expand broadband; repair drinking water systems; fix roads, bridges, and schools; green power grids and transportation
Republicans aren t trying to squash voting rights for people of color, explains Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Apparently, Baseball is, "caving to fears and lies."And his Republican teammates in the U.S. Senate are backing the play, now finding time once again for an irrelevant threat to withdraw anti-tru.
April 09, 2021
Conservative economist Michael R. Strain, director of economic policy for the American Enterprise Institute, has been critical of President Joe Biden s expanded child tax credit â which he believes has the potential to negatively change the relationship between the citizen and the state. And other conservative economists share Strain s viewpoint. But liberal journalist Jonathan Chait, in an article published by New York Magazine on April 9, lays out some reasons why expanding the child tax credit to the American middle class is good policy on Biden s part â noting that conservatives have a long history of attacking social programs as a move in the direction of socialism.
ALBANY, N.Y. Following a yearslong push, New York is limiting the use of solitary confinement in state and local correctional facilities and banning the practice altogether for some inmates. The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act, known as HALT, prevents inmates from being h.
PHILADELPHIA The family of Walter Wallace Jr., the West Philadelphia man whose fatal shooting by Philadelphia police in October set off days of protests and unrest in the city, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against the two officers who killed him. The suit, filed in Common Pleas Court, a.