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...million for suicide prevention programs, and $16 million for community-based services for the elderly and disabled.In forming the budget, the House Committee on Ways and Means relied on a projected $19.53 billion in tax collections, a figure that Wolf said may need to be revised as per capita income drops.Wolf said that her constituents in Cambridge have expressed a preference for tax increases rather than “Draconian cuts in services.”According to Wolf, state lawmakers have been discussing a number of options to raise revenue and minimize the budget cuts, including raising taxes...
Think you're a frequent flyer? Then talk to the whitethroat, a common warbler found throughout much of Europe and western Asia, which migrates on average an incredible 3,417 miles each year, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa. (Americans, by contrast, fly about 2,000 miles each year per capita...
...recent bank bailouts and mortgage plans will, even if they succeed, build an economic foundation of bricks without straw - ready to crumble - if we don't create a productive economy again. That means creating a workforce that is educated well enough to produce more value per capita than other countries. This will be especially true in the 21st century economy, which promises to be based foremost on knowledge. And that is why the U.S. needs, particularly at this juncture, 21st century American standards for its schools...
Though it's caricatured as a concrete jungle, New York is already surprisingly eco-friendly. Thanks to its density and public transit, the city has a per capita carbon footprint 71% smaller than the U.S. as a whole. With more than 8.2 million people calling New York home, surpassing a historical high set in the 1950s, the city's infrastructure - its crowded subways, traffic-choked streets, aging water mains - is being pushed past its limits. City planners realize that New York is on track to gain an additional 900,000 people by 2030. If that growth isn't managed properly...
...bestseller that complained about the influence of the West and the U.S. in particular on China. Thirteen years later, the authors of Unhappy China point to the protests along the route of the Olympic flame, complaints about pollution from China by Western nations that consume far more resources per capita, and the West's unwillingness to share key technology with China as examples of continuing foreign disdain for the Middle Kingdom. Song Qiang, who contributed to both China Can Say No and Unhappy China, writes in the latest work that China should reduce the importance of Sino-French relations because...