Currently, 5.4 million people in the U.S. want a job but can’t secure one; according to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, around 75 percent of formerly incarcerated people struggle to find work. Lack of access to employment and incarceration in the U.S. go hand in hand, but Brady believes that open hiring proves they do not have to. In a sense, it comes down to pure math: It costs around $30,000 a year to incarcerate a single person. Imagine if that money was used instead to pay someone a living wage?
Especially in places like Yonkers, which is struggling with disinvestment after its textiles industry went under several decades ago, the idea is transformative. Greyston has employed 176 people from the poorest neighborhood in the city over its history, and, in doing so, it’s equipping people with the resources to remain in place and contribute to the local economy.
I think the left wing’s push for gun control and the right wings push back against crime and the war on cops is kind of tone deaf.
While the media is highlighting crime and gun violence, the opposite is true in most people’s lives – crime is going down, neighborhoods are the safest they’ve been in half a century. Murders have fallen to historically low levels, indeed much of the reason why suicides have increased in the country is because murder has fallen so much. Murder after all is suicide by other means.
Indeed, if you look at the push by the left to loosen criminal penalties and legalize marijuana, much of it comes from the realization crime has fallen dramatically. Likewise, right wing gun advocates can legitimately say that fears of gun violence are overblown when crime and murder has fallen so much in recent decades.
Television news brings violence into one’s home every night. It shows sad relatives and friends of the dead, it shows the drama of the courtroom as mostly the colored and poor are brought to what the television calls justice. But despite what indigestion television is causing to folks eating TV dinners, and the cheers and jeers of the politician class, it’s distant from the everyday reality folks are living.
I drove up to the Voorheesville Traffic light this evening, waited for three minutes — there was over a 1/4 mile traffic backed up behind me — and the light never turned green. I tried rolling forward, but still couldn’t trip the damn induction loop.
Ultimately, ended up running the red — the light turned as soon as the next car moved up the sensor.
This happens from time to time — but it’s been happening more frequently for me. I wonder if the DOT has turned down the sensitivity on the induction loops. It’s not like I replaced my truck with a completely plastic vehicle.
In what apparently is first-of-its-kind research, scientists say air pollution can be the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes - and if you already smoke, it is the equivalent of another packs. The study is important enough that it was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA has long been an arbiter of what is important in health research.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports, the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, today released an analysis showing that American consumers will lose about $460 billion dollars in fuel savings in the coming years if the federal government goes forward with plans to roll back the nation’s fuel economy and emissions standards for new cars and light-duty trucks.
The rollback was just submitted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for review within the White House, suggesting the proposal may soon be finalized. Even though the basis for the rollback proposal is purportedly to improve highway traffic safety, and thus named the “SAFE Rule” by federal agencies, this analysis by Consumer Reports (CR) finds that freezing fuel economy and emissions standards would not improve safety.
