Putin believes “there is no global warming, that this is a fraud to restrain the industrial development of several countries, including Russia,” Stanislav Belkovsky, a political analyst and Putin critic, told The New York Times.
“That is why this subject is not topical for the majority of the Russian mass media and society in general,” Belkovsky said.
Putin has been casting doubt on man-made global warming since the early 2000s, according to the Times. In 2003, Putin told an international climate conference warming would allow Russians to “spend less on fur coats,” adding that “agricultural specialists say our grain production will […]
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, (R-WV) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have both come out strongly against the Clean Power Plan.
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Republicans in Congress are trying every means available to stop the Clean Power Plan, and they might go as far as putting a government shutdown on the line, experts say.
A resolution announced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), and Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) this week will seek to use the Congressional Review Act to essentially strike the Clean Power Plan from the books. If the resolutions disapproving of the Clean Power Plan pass — and the president signs them into law — the rule would be prohibited from going into effect.
Granted, there is no way that President Obama is going to sign a resolution killing what is widely considered to be his most important legacy on climate, […]
“We did see a higher growth rate of what states spent of their own dollars on Medicaid in the in non-expansion states than we did in the expansion states” said Laura Snyder, a senior policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report found that total spending in expansion states grew by 17.7 percent, but the state spending only grew by 3.4 percent. Meanwhile, state spending on Medicaid in non-expansion states increased by […]
Among the pernicious collateral damage of mass incarceration is the devastation it causes in the lives of children who lose parents to prison. A new study from research firm Child Trends finds that the problem has reached troubling proportions, with one out of every 14 American children having one parent who is currently, or has previously been incarcerated. The numbers are a direct consequence of our system of over-incarceration;, America jails more of its citizens than any other country on Earth, in both raw numbers and by population percentage.
According to a Child Trends report released this morning, more than five million American children—or 7 percent of all of the country’s youth—has had a parent who lives with them spend time in prison or jail. The vast majority of those incarcerated parents, a staggering 99 percent, are fathers.
For black children, parental incarceration rates are even more troubling. The new study finds that one out of every nine black children under the age of 18 has a parent who is, or has been, in prison or jail. Other children disproportionately affected […]
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WASHINGTON — Results from national math and reading tests show slipping or stagnant scores for the nation’s schoolkids.
Math scores were down for fourth and eighth graders over the last two years. And reading grades were not much better: flat for fourth graders and lower for eighth graders, according to 2015 results released Wednesday for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam.
The falling mathematics scores for fourth and eighth graders mark the first declines in math since 1990.
The results suggest students have a ways to go to demonstrate a solid grasp or mastery in reading and math.
Only about a third of the nation’s eighth-graders were at proficient or above in math and reading. Among fourth graders, the results were slightly better in reading and in math, about two in five scored proficient or above.
The report also found a continuing achievement gap between white and black students.
There were a few bright spots: the District of Columbia and Mississippi both saw substantial reading and math gains.
Education […]
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