State wise election results 2019

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin A new conventional wisdom has emerged that state funding cuts are the main factor behind increases in college tuition. So argues economics professor Doug Webber of Temple University in a recent column at FiveThirtyEight. The logic makes sense on its surface: when universities see their state appropriations decline, they must raise tuition to cover the shortfall. But there are several problems with this argument. For starters, it ignores the tuition increase at private universities. Since 2000, the net cost of attendance at a public four-year university has risen $5,610, according to the College Board. But the same figure for private nonprofit four-year universities is comparable , at $5,190. Private universities do not receive direct state appropriations, and so their tuition should be mostly unaffected by budget cuts. Since both the public and private sectors have experienced large price increases, this suggests that …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The fact that governors and legislators in a dozen states have enacted income tax relief in the first half of 2021 is getting deserved coverage . All 12 of these income tax cuts have been approved by legislatures that are run by Republicans. Two of the 12 income tax cutting states, Wisconsin and Louisiana, have Democratic governors, while the other 10 state income tax cuts have been signed into law by GOP governors. At the same time that millions of red state taxpayers across the U.S. are benefitting from the enactment of income tax relief this year, millions more Americans residing in blue states will hang onto more of their income thanks to the failure of progressive tax hikes that had been proposed and rejected in a number of states where Democrats control state government. In Maine, for example, several bills to raise tax rates on upper income households have been pushed by legislative Democrats since the beginning of …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Joe Biden has picked a running mate and, while the election is still 64 days away, many are thinking about what a potential Biden administration might look like, including cabinet secretaries. It’s been reported that Senator Elizabeth Warren “ is definitely in the Cabinet ,” should she want it. While Treasury is often the role mentioned for Warren, her recent Democratic National Convention speech created a stir on social media with some saying she should become the next Secretary of Education . At the Democratic National Convention, Warren focused on the child care crisis the country is facing . Speaking from the Early Childhood Education Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, Warren talked about her personal struggle early in her career without child care and spoke of her beloved “Aunt Bee” who stepped in to help her, while championing Joe Biden’s plan to make high-quality child care affordable and provide universal …

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Taekwondo exponent Ng Ming Wei lost the SEA Games men's Under-58kg final yesterday but was still in good spirits because he had much to be proud about. For one thing, the 25-year-old's silver is Singapore's best result in the men's kyorugi (sparring) discipline since S. Sinnathurai's flyweight gold in 1999. Secondly, his achievement comes on the back of a turbulent few months for the athletes, after the Singapore Taekwondo Federation (STF) was suspended by World Taekwondo, over good governance and other issues, and the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) in May. After his 27-14 loss to Ramnarong Sawekwiharee, Thailand's 2015 and 2017 world championships bronze medallist, Ng dedicated his medal to the fraternity in Singapore. "I feel very happy, because I think this medal means a lot for the future and for those who are doing taekwondo in Singapore," said Ng, who also expressed gratitude to the SNOC and the national team of Norway, where he spent about three of the past …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin After a 2020 that saw 10.1 million acres in the U.S. burned by wildfire, the second most since 1960, wildfire season is once again upon west coast communities. That, however, isn’t stopping California and Washington State officials from advancing a new policy that would reduce the number of fire engine fleets while saddling fire departments with responsibilities that have nothing to do with preventing, putting out, and mitigating the spread of fire. Such would be the result of Tacoma’s proposed takeover of EMS and ambulance services. Tacoma City Council Member Chris Beale explains how the city manager’s proposal to have the fire department takeover all EMS services, which are currently handled by a private company, will expand the department’s responsibilities: “The city is planning to take over Basic Life Transport Services (BLS) from the ambulance company AMR,” Council Member Beale told Grit City Magazine about the …

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advertisement advertisement advertisement Five years since the Brexit vote and three since the Cambridge Analytica scandal , we’re now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising can play in fomenting polarization . It was revealed in 2018 that Cambridge Analytica had used data harvested from 87 million Facebook profiles, without users’ consent, to help Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign target key voters with online ads. advertisement advertisement In the years since, we’ve learned how these kinds of targeted ads can create political filter bubbles and echo chambers , suspected of dividing people and increasing the circulation of harmful disinformation . But the vast majority of the ads exchanged online are commercial, not political. Commercial targeted advertising is the primary source of revenue in the internet economy , but we know little about how it affects us. We know our personal data …

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This November was a good one for the market. The S&P 500 logged an 11% gain for the now-ended month, reversing losses logged during October as well as September. In fact, all of the major indices recently hit record highs. It would be short-sighted, however, to overlook the fact that energy stocks did more than their fair share of this heavy lifting. S&P 500 components Occidental Petroleum ( NYSE:OXY ) , Devon Energy ( NYSE:DVN ) , and Diamondback Energy ( NASDAQ:FANG ) were each up more than 70% in November, leading the sector's rebound from a rather rough October plunge. In fact, oil and gas stocks were more than ripe for a recovery this past month, having fallen nearly 40% from their June highs. The coronavirus pandemic really rattled the surprisingly sensitive energy market. If you're thinking this rebound marks the beginning of a bigger-picture recovery for oil and gas names, though, you may want to reconsider. The underlying dynamics of the sector …

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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The post-9/11 GI Bill (PGIB) is an enormous and generous education benefit package aimed at getting veterans into and through college. According to the authors of a new report published in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), its annual price tag is more than $13 billion, which is more than all the grants and scholarships provided by all the states combined. They say it represents half of total Pell Grant spending. They also say the program isn’t working. For example, years after accepting the benefits of the PGIB and enrolling in college programs, the incomes of the veterans in the program are actually lower than if they’d not gone to college at all. That emerging reality is driven in part by the poor quality of the for-profit colleges many veterans are choosing - programs and degrees that, even when completed, return little to no value. On the surface, the failure of for-profit colleges and programs is not …

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SINGAPORE: The first thing that Ms Rahayu Natalya did after her newborn was allowed to go home -  she was born premature and had to remain in hospital for a month - was to bring her along to see their Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Christopher de Souza, to seek help in getting a rental flat from the Housing and Development Board (HDB). The single unwed mother started her quest for a rental flat when she was about four months pregnant in 2016, and was still without a home after giving birth. “When I brought my daughter to him (the MP) …  I said, ‘Why do I feel like my government has turned its back on me?’. Because I am here literally homeless with my daughter,” said Ms Rahayu, who works part-time at non-profit organisation Daughters of Tomorrow. About a year after she first started her search for a home, the 39-year-old eventually got her one-room rental flat — after “a lot of letters” and much help from Mr de Souza, who looks after the Ulu Pandan ward in the Holland-Bukit Timah …

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The light is finally shining at the end of dark tunnel of the pandemic for American Express ( NYSE:AXP ) . The premium credit card company took a wallop while its customers took a break from their travel and entertainment spending, but it shifted gears to spur spending in other areas. A slow and steady climb back up turned into a huge recovery in the second quarter, and there's a lot to be excited about for the future. Eager to spend again American Express' revenue increased 33% year over year in the second quarter to $10.2 billion, almost matching 2019 levels. The company posted a profit, growing nearly 800% year over year to $2.3 billion. Some $866 million of that was released credit reserves as a result of improved creditworthiness. Image source: Getty Images. Goods and services spending increased 31% year over year and was 16% above 2019 levels. It accounted for 82% of the total. Travel and entertainment (T&E) spending was still 42% below 2019 levels, but it …

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