Tag: US Features

Drought Has Farmworkers Dreaming of Escape From California’s Breadbasket

By Priscella Vega From Los Angeles Times Rosario Rodríguez never wanted to leave her hometown of Trigomil, Nayarit. She was surrounded by family and could quickly get to the nearest grocery store or clinic. But love called, and she followed her then-boyfriend to Three Rocks—a speck in Fresno County where he worked in the fields….


US Democrats Propose Dramatic Expansion of EV Tax Credits That Favors Big Three

WASHINGTON—U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Friday proposed an expansion of tax credits for electric vehicles that includes significantly higher subsidies for union-made zero emission models assembled in the United States. The proposal, a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to ensure EVs comprise at least 50 percent of U.S. vehicle sales by 2030 and boost…


Democrats Propose Dramatic Expansion of EV Tax Credits That Favors Big Three

WASHINGTON—Democratic lawmakers on Friday proposed an expansion of tax credits for electric vehicles that includes significantly higher subsidies for union-made zero emission models assembled in the United States. The proposal, a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to ensure EVs comprise at least 50 percent of U.S. vehicle sales by 2030 and boost U.S….


20 Years After 9/11: Did War on Terror Achieve Its Objective?

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attack a question remains if the mission in Afghanistan achieved its objective of eradicating terrorism. Allen Weiner, an international legal scholar and senior lecturer at Stanford University, said that the initial goal to destroy al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan was largely achieved. “Al-Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan were destroyed, many…


Life Without Gas: Rural Louisianans Adapt After Hurricane Ida

Living without power after a hurricane sounds like a return to a simpler time, but the reality is more complex. At the Big Boss Travel Plaza gas station in Tickfaw, Louisiana, simple staples became survival essentials. Outside, a cooler, that once held ice, sat smashed open. A few days ago, several people fighting over ice…


The 4 Key Tenets of Every Successful Partnership

By Joshua Goines The saying “your network is everything” has never rang truer than over the past year and a half. Building relationships and partnerships has been the key to many businesses’ survival during the pandemic, and even outside of the everyday challenges faced in this current economic climate, partnerships are hard work. Healthy business partnerships…


Crossing Over: How Central America’s Desperate Poor Get to New York

The 3-month-old baby in the airplane had a scabby forehead and dirty fingernails, yet she was a dark-eyed darling in her father’s arms. She was named after her dead mother, Maria Isabella, and she had spent her life to that point traveling north from El Salvador. All she knew was her family’s passage to the…


Investigation Into COVID-19 Origin Should Continue After Inconclusive US Intelligence Report: Expert

The investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic should continue, said Thomas Wright, a senior fellow of foreign policy at Washington-based think tank Brookings Institution, after U.S. intelligence agencies earlier this week delivered an inconclusive assessment on the issue to President Joe Biden. “It’s important to get to the bottom of it,” Wright told…


The COVID-19 Fallout: Collateral Damage and Lost of Trust

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He helped develop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s system for monitoring potential vaccine risks and is also one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for “focused protection”…


The COVID-19 Fallout: Collateral Damage and Loss of Trust

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He helped develop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s system for monitoring potential vaccine risks and is also one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for “focused protection”…