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...Throw Off the CAP? In your ode to the E.U. you praised its Common Agricultural Policy (cap) - Brussels-speak for protectionism - and credit it with preserving that bucolic French countryside [March 26]. By preventing Africa from exporting to Europe, cap condemns millions of Africans to poverty and worse, but hey, what's that compared to a morning stroll around the Dordogne? I wish you would keep your aid, your condescension and the Irish rock stars who go with it, and just unshackle us by scrapping cap. But then Africa would develop of its own accord, with no thanks to Western...
...productive workers from overseas isn’t only unfair to those across the world who want a share in the American dream—it’s a bad policy for those of us who already live here. The federal government should dramatically raise the Congressionally-mandated cap on the H-1B high-skill work visa if not lift the cap entirely.To many highly-educated professionals around the globe, America has long been a beacon of opportunity. Unfortunately, the United States has become a victim of its own popularity: last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reported receiving...
...Canadian citizen seeking other types of visas for full-time employment in the United States. Chan said that she is pursuing a TN-1 visa that allows Canadian citizens to work in the United States for a one-year period. “Especially now that the cap has already been filled, none of these initiatives amount to anything material,” Chan said about the efforts by the UC and the College. “I think this is now the time to get creative with your employers.” Dimitris Lagias ’07 also...
...embattled President may decide that vetoing a piece of broadly popular legislation is not a fight worth picking now, especially since corporations see value in it. Kristin Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will not rule out the President's signing onto cap-and-trade or any other green bill. "It's a bit premature to have that conversation," she says...
...curb emissions from power plants--the coal burned in Pennsylvania, after all, doesn't pause at the New Jersey state line. In 2003 then Governor George Pataki of New York launched the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a confederation of northeastern and mid-Atlantic states that has created its own cap-and-trade program, with the goal of reducing emissions 10% below the current level by 2019. Nine states are part of the group, with Maryland set to join in June. In February five Western states embraced a similarly ambitious goal...