The H-1B program applies to non-immigrant workers hired by employers in specialty occupations without undermining the salaries or workplace conditions of U.S. workers (American Immigration Council). The intent of allowing non-immigrant workers to work in the U.S. with H-1B visas is to help employers who cannot obtain needed skills from the U.S. workforce by providing temporary employment of qualified individuals. According to a recent study, … Continue reading The H-1B Program
Economic policy is fundamentally based on the system of trade-offs. Considering any legislation and aiming to determine whether it is objectively helpful or harmful is dependent on values in a particular society in a particular time period and governed and populated by particular individuals (Goodman). Considering the immense spectrum of ideology that is predominant today, no policy can be singularly positive or negative. This notion … Continue reading Defining Economic Policy and Protectionism: A 21st Century Examination of the Jones Act
China trades for a lot of soybeans. In 2023 alone, the country imported over 87 billion kilograms of soybeans, equivalent to more than $ 59 million in value. The country relies on Brazil for most of its product, but the US, Argentina, Canada, and the Russian Federation also provide significant amounts of beans for the country. For American soybean farmers, China is the majority buyer … Continue reading Soybean Farmers & America’s Hidden Crisis
Editor’s Note: there are multiple reputable sources that are cited such as the IRS, however the views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author. Taxes, although crucial for providing essential services to the nation, can become a financial burden for many Americans as they grudgingly file tax returns, or receive paychecks with a large portion already taken out and sent to the … Continue reading Opinion: Tax Avoidance in the Ultrarich Population
Xiao Wu, Rachel C. Nethery and Francesca Dominici of Harvard University published the first national study conducted on COVID-19 and air pollution in the United States on April 7, 2020. Due to the fact that many pre-existing conditions identified to potentially increase risk of death for COVID-19 are the same diseases affected by air pollution, they “investigate whether long-term average exposure to fine particulate matter … Continue reading Earth Day Read: Harvard publishes a study linking air pollution to COVID-19 mortality in the United States as the EPA resists tighter stricter controls on fine particulate matter (PM2.5)
Proposed by the leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency, under Andrew Wheeler, on April 30, 2018, this rule would determine the research taken into account in future environmental decision making in the United States. The proposal states that “This action provides that EPA will ensure that the regulatory science underlying its actions is publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent validation.” Essentially, the EPA … Continue reading Earth Day Read: Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, the EPA continues to advocate proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” Rule
As the country came under state stay-at-home orders in the last two weeks of March 2020, American Petroleum Institute executives wrote to Donald Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency, lobbying the administration to waive “non-essential compliance obligations,” such as reporting and monitoring for existing environmental regulations on companies. They claimed that relaxed regulations would allow them to distribute fuel more efficiently during the outbreak. The … Continue reading Earth Day Read: EPA announces Enforcement Discretion Policy for COVID-19 Pandemic
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