Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Denver's Erik J Clarke on President Biden's 'American Jobs Plan'

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with @ErikJClarke about the implications for Denver, Colorado and the nation from President Biden's new infrastructure plan to fulfill his campaign promise to "rebuild the backbone of America". The expansive proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, intends to build 20,000 miles of roads and highways and to repair the 10 most economically significant bridges in the country among a sprawling list of other projects that Biden said would confront the climate crisis, curb wealth inequality and strengthen US competitiveness. The measure includes hundreds of billions of dollars to expand access to high-speed broadband; replace lead water pipes, ensuring access to clean drinking water; and upgrade the electric grid, making it more reliable while shifting to new, cleaner energy sources.It also seeks to improve community care facilities for seniors and people with disabilities, modernize schools and retrofit homes and office buildings while dedicating funding to training millions of workers and supporting initiatives that strengthen labor unions. The spending over eight years would generate millions of new jobs, Biden said. To pay for the package, he proposed a substantial increase on corporate taxes that would offset the spending over the course of 15 years. Among the changes, Biden called for a rise in the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21% and measures to force multinational corporations to pay more taxes in the US on profits earned abroad. The funding plan would unwind major pieces of Donald Trump's tax-cut law, which lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and was his predecessor's signature legislative achievement.

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Reforming The World's Financial Systems Heretically - Brett Scott

Reforming The World's Financial Systems Heretically - Brett Scott

(Reprise from 2014, but very sadly the US - and indeed the world's - financial system has not been reformed to offset inbuilt disadvantages against the economically underserved or deprived. Here at #I...

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Texas Proves Anti-Racist, Feminist Policies Must Be Applied vs. Climate Change

Texas Proves Anti-Racist, Feminist Policies Must Be Applied vs. Climate Change

Claudia Cragg speaks here for @KGNU with Dr. Jennie C. Stephens, @jenniecstephens, the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Po...

18 Helmi 202122min

The Democratization of Tech as Business Aide during COVID TImes

The Democratization of Tech as Business Aide during COVID TImes

Claudia Cragg @KGNU (@claudiacragg) addresses the business operational adjustments everyone is having to make in what we hope will soon be a post-COVID world. At Zenreach, where he is CEO, John Kelly ...

11 Helmi 202130min

Rape, (inJustice) and The Objects That Remain

Rape, (inJustice) and The Objects That Remain

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Laura Levitt @llevitttemple about her book, The Objects That Remain. On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord hea...

27 Tammi 202129min

Small Planet's Moore Lappe - Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Small Planet's Moore Lappe - Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

Many Americans have been distraught for the last four years as tightly held economic and political power drowned out their voices and values. But now, with a new administration and the Biden-Harris pa...

21 Tammi 202127min

Nuclear Disaster Update for Fukushima Daichi Japan

Nuclear Disaster Update for Fukushima Daichi Japan

Claudia Cragg speaks here for @KGNU with Caitlin Stronell, for an update about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, an 11 March 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in...

14 Tammi 202131min

In Her Own Words, An Essential Mental Health Worker on the CO Covid Frontline

In Her Own Words, An Essential Mental Health Worker on the CO Covid Frontline

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with an essential mental health worker on the Colorado front lines in the age of the COVID19 pandemic.

7 Tammi 202128min

Christa Parravani, on Her Reckoning with Life, Death and Choice.

Christa Parravani, on Her Reckoning with Life, Death and Choice.

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Christa Parravani @cparravani about her harrowing account, Loved and Wanted, the story of one woman's reckoning with life, death and "choice". It is, she s...

16 Joulu 202033min

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