Is Broadband Internet Access a Public Utility?
Should broadband Internet service be treated as a basic utility in the United States, like electricity, water, and traditional telephone service? That’s the question at the heart of an important and provocative new book by Susan Crawford, a tech policy expert and professor at Cardozo Law School. In Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age, released Tuesday by Yale University Press, Crawford argues that the Internet has replaced traditional phone service as the most essential communications utility in the country, and is now as important as electricity was 100 years ago. “Truly high-speed wired Internet access is as basic to innovation, economic growth, social communication, and the country’s competitiveness as electricity was a century ago,” Crawford writes, “but a limited number of Americans have access to it, many can’t afford it, and the country has handed control of it over to Comcast and a few other companies.” Because the U.S. ...
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(Almost) Everyone Loves Solar
You probably like solar energy. i know this because I recently got a press release from the solar lobby, “Poll Reveals Strong Support for Solar Energy Across Political Spectrum.” It turns out that 92% of likely voters, including 84% of Republicans, want more sun-powered electricity. In America, solar is motherhood and apple pie. Of course, in Washington, even motherhood is a partisan issue, some super PAC is probably rebranding apple pie as a socialist dessert, and solar power is now a political football too. Thanks largely to President Obama’s stimulus bill, solar has become the U.S.’s fastest-growing industry, expanding more than tenfold in four years and adding more than 100,000 jobs. Prices have plunged nearly 50% since Obama took office. (MORE: Why Climate Change Has Become the Missing Issue in the Presidential Campaign) But many Beltway Republicans who had embraced green energy and green jobs turned against them after they became associated with the Obama agenda. Electric ...
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Battleground Ohio: Governors past and present on election 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 01:41 Win McNamee/Getty Images Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) speaks during the Republican National Convention on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Welcome to Ohio. On today's show we are broadcasting live from Cleveland where we have reached the day of the first presidential debate and early voting kicked off yesterday. "If you were to shrink America, you would end up with Ohio," says former democratic Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, "we are a very diverse state, and I think because of that, no politician, no political party, can ever take Ohio for granted." Strickland, who served as Governor from 2007 to 2011 during dismal economic times in Ohio, credits Obama's policies for jumpstarting job growth in the state. Current Governor John Kasich says his plan for Ohio is to develop diversified industries, "we are located within 600 miles of 60 percent of the country, we are very big in financial services, we are on the cusp of real significant gains in the area of ...
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Who lost the middle class?
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 14:04 iStockphoto Who will save the middle class? Who lost the middle class? That's the question confronting President Obama and Mitt Romney as they march toward voting day. Their answers are predictable: Romney blames regulations and big government; Obama points to policies favoring rich guys like Romney. Sadly for the embattled American middle class, both viewpoints miss the mark. The great stagnation in median incomes since the early 1990s stems from a failure to calibrate domestic policy to the demands of a rapidly changing world economy. Whether Democrats tax too much or Republicans too little is irrelevant against the sweeping economic disruptions caused by two decades of unprecedented globalization. Global money flows have grown exponentially as restrictions on trade and investment have eased. But the exchange rates used to price these money flows have become distorted. China's manipulation of its currency has reduced the price of its exports in dollar terms. ...
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Who lost the midde class?
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 14:04 iStockphoto Who will save the middle class? Who lost the middle class? That's the question confronting President Obama and Mitt Romney as they march toward voting day. Their answers are predictable: Romney blames regulations and big government; Obama points to policies favoring rich guys like Romney. Sadly for the embattled American middle class, both viewpoints miss the mark. The great stagnation in median incomes since the early 1990s stems from a failure to calibrate domestic policy to the demands of a rapidly changing world economy. Whether Democrats tax too much or Republicans too little is irrelevant against the sweeping economic disruptions caused by two decades of unprecedented globalization. Global money flows have grown exponentially as restrictions on trade and investment have eased. But the exchange rates used to price these money flows have become distorted. China's manipulation of its currency has reduced the price of its exports in dollar terms. ...
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