Institute for Policy Studies The Story of Cap and Trade:
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The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street ...
Institute for Policy Studies Cap and trade ain't so great. HuffPo op-ed by Daphne Wysham. Also, check out the NEW "Story of Cap and Trade" video at the bottom, brought to you by IPS and the great folks from Story of Stuff!
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Carbon offsets are attractive to polluters because they're cheaper than cuts. But they'll open up a new market in carbon, open to gaming, corruption, and the creation of a "carbon bubble."
Institute for Policy Studies History repeats itself. Phyllis Bennis on Obama's impending Afghanistan decision.
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Youth unemployment provides a backdrop to the recession. Fellow Dedrick Muhammad on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story
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The recession is not only forcing many young people to move back home, it is forcing them out of the workforce. Guest host Jennifer Ludden speaks with Dedrick Muhammad, Senior Organizer and Research Associate ...
Institute for Policy Studies Daphne Wysham: We welcome Obama's commitment to Copenhagen, but proposed emissions reductions = 4% below 1990 levels by 2020, all of which could come from bogus carbon offsets. We need to get to 25-40% in real, verifiable emissions cuts for the U.S. by 2020, not create another speculative bubble in carbon (like House &... Senate bills).The $ for a surge in Afghanistan would be better spent on clean, renewable energy.
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Putting the brakes on Afghanistan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffe
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Imagine finding yourself in the driver's seat of a car heading directly at a brick wall. You panic: What to do?
Institute for Policy Studies This Thanksgiving, let's remember the native people of America and the continuing struggles they face. New report by our Inequality and the Common Good project, authored by Dedrick Muhammad.
Institute for Policy Studies: Challenges to Native American Advancement: The Recession and Native Am
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These are exciting times to be a Native American. The century-old movement for Indian self-determination is now bearing fruit, as Native Americans have increased control over their assets and can apply Indigenous principles to shape their economies. ...
Institute for Policy Studies Care yet? Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change, from the folks at Grist:
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So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats.
Institute for Policy Studies The Congressional Progressive Caucus asks Obama to meet on Afghanistan: "There’s political space for the president to refuse to increase troops, and growing public support for bringing them home. If the president put his considerable public charisma behind a policy of de-escalation, he could relieve his presidency of a... burden that threatens to sink it." Via Firedoglake.
The Seminal » Breaking: Progressive Caucus Requests Meeting with President Obama to Rethink Afghanis
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Institute for Policy Studies Republicans seem entirely unfazed when told, "There's a health care crisis, and the entire country is waiting for you to be responsible and do your duty." These same lawmakers will soon be told, "There's a climate crisis, and the entire world is waiting for you to take your obligations seriously." Will they find this c...ompelling? I suppose time will tell.
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Forty years of writing from Taylor Branch, James Fallows, Katherine Boo, Marjorie Williams, Joshua Micah Marshall, and more.
Institute for Policy Studies This is not a moment for another White House gab fest. It's a time for progressive leadership.
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If past Obama White House Summits are any guide, this one will invite a broad cross section of people: trade unionists and deficit hawks, investment bankers and labor economists, industrialists and Republicans; and everyone will speak of the importance of their pet project for job creation. ...
Institute for Policy Studies "Anything that takes it out of the hands of local commercial banks in terms of creating their own (district bank) boards would be a good reform," said Chuck Collins, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal policy organization.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's sweeping new financial overhaul legislation, which proposes to strip the Federal Reserve of its authority to regulate banks, ...
Institute for Policy Studies "Farrah Hassen, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, notes that, historically, sanctions have a dismal success rate. In both Iraq and Cuba, they failed to alter the behavior of the targeted governments, but hit the general population hard, making it difficult for civilians to obtain basic supplies and precipitating a humanitarian crisis."
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President Obama appears hesitant to endorse Congress's push for sanctions against Iran. (Photo Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted from: jamesomalley, erjkprunczyk, mohammadali)
Institute for Policy Studies "I hope people are really clear that this is not an equal-opportunity recession, that it's hurting the weakest," says Dedrick Muhammad. "Generation Recession," from The Nation:
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Young people have lost 2.5 million jobs to the crisis, making them the hardest-hit age group.
Institute for Policy Studies "More than a year after the onset of the financial crisis, three things are apparent: Congress has not passed any financial reform legislation (except for credit card rules); the more time passes, the more Wall Street objects to the prospect of any meaningful controls of its operations; and the legislation that has so ...far progressed in Congress is not commensurate with the scale of the crisis Wall Street caused." From Public Citizen.
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More than a year after the onset of the financial crisis, three things are apparent: Congress has not passed any financial reform legislation (except for credit card rules); the more time passes, the more ...
