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JOE BIDEN’S administration has launched itself with striking purpose and drive, pushing through an initial $1.9 trillion stimulus package heavily targeted towards the poorest workers in the US. He is now following up with a planned $2 trillion “American Jobs Plan.”
$621bn is earmarked to overhaul America’s creaking road and rail infrastructure, $300bn is planned for manufacturing, $221bn for affordable housing, $100bn for superfast broadband across the whole country and billions for research and development.
In terms of scale, nothing like this has been attempted by a US government since President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” of the 1930s.
Crucially, Biden’s plan builds in what his team are calling “human infrastructure,” with $400bn for health and elder care. We all accept that big physical constructions are needed to keep modern life going, from roads to electricity generation to, today, broadband internet. But it is also obvious that keeping society going
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A year on from the WHO declaring Covid 19 a pandemic, we examine the economic impact. Economists Marianna Mazzucato from University College London and Richard Portes from the London Business School discuss whether coronavirus has presented an opportunity for policymakers to build back in a way which might actually benefit people around the world. Also in the programme, the Australian government has launched a subsidy scheme offering half price air tickets to domestic holiday spots such as the Gold Coast. Margy Osmond is chief executive of Australia s Tourism and Transport Forum, and tells us what impact the move is likely to have on the country s faltering tourism sector. Plus, the BBC s Ijeoma Ndukwe reports on the difficulties that many of those held in the United States pre-trial have with paying bail, and asks whether a new reform agenda might help reverse social and racial inequality in the American justice system.
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It is interesting that the recent editorial by Josh Thomas chose to focus on a small seven-page segment in a report and supplement of 229 pages and 465 footnotes. To call the report and its supplement “bordering on propaganda” because it questions not only the attacks on Alberta’s energy industry, but also the trajectory of our country, is not a misinterpretation, it is flat out wrong.
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My reports offer a bigger picture of the attacks that have been mounted against Alberta’s energy industry, situating them within a global context. They pull together various trends and activities that document a Transnational Progressive Movement that has diverse fellow-travellers, in Canada and abroad, including elements in the media, working towards a reset of the entire global economic and political system. The transformation or reset, with cli
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