Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nation’s First Hybrid Electric Street Sweepers
Posted by Linda H on 6:30:00 AM
Officials are expecting significant energy and environmental benefits:
White House launches youth jobs program
Posted by Linda H on 6:05:00 AM
The program, which is being dubbed Summer Jobs +, is a private-federal government partnership and has already drawn commitments from several companies and federal agencies to hire 180,000 youth next summer. President Obama had proposed a summer jobs program for young people in his American Jobs Act that failed to win congressional approval.
"America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job," Obama said in a statement announcing the program. "It's important for their future, and for America's."
Now That We Have A CFPB Director, It’s Time To Ban Corporate-Owned Courts In The Financial Industry
Posted by Linda H on 5:04:00 AM
One of the most important, if overlooked, provisions in the law creating the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a provision allowing the agency to push back against one of the most egregious errors committed by the Supreme Court in recent years — a line of decisions allowing companies to force their consumers into a privatized, corporate-owned arbitration system that overwhelming favors corporate parties. Now that CFPB Director Richard Cordray is in place, his agency can ban this practice altogether from much of the consumer finance industry:
Apple Needs to Make it in America
