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For Thursday, Karch and Rose ch. 8, conclusion 

Racial and ethnic identity redux

From the email:

Not mandatory, but if you have time, this John Oliver video is worth talking about in small groups tomorrow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liptMbjF3EE&t=1220s 

 (As my previous email indicated, the Claremont in the video is the one in San Diego County.)

After the passage of the infrastructure bill, POTUS said:

Vice President Harris and I look forward to having a formal signing ceremony for this bipartisan infrastructure soon.  Because — but everybody is not — I’m not doing it this weekend because I want people who worked so hard to get this done — Democrats and Republicans — to be here when we sign it.

But we’re looking more forward to having shovels in the ground to begin rebuilding America.

​He might recall what President Obama said in 2010, the year after Congress enacted another large stimulus bill:

Infrastructure has the benefit of for every dollar you spend on infrastructure, you get a dollar and a half in stimulus because there are ripple effects from building roads or bridges or sewer lines. But the problem is, is that spending it out takes a long time, because there's really nothing -- there's no such thing as shovel-ready projects.

 

 From the mid-1970s on, federal deficits (solid line) were deeper in the hole (% of GDP) than aggregate state and local deficits (dotted line).  

Shriver Center on Poverty Law: more than 70 percent of hazardous waste sites officially listed on the National Priorities List are located within one mile of federally assisted housing. 

Superfund progress over time

No Child Left Behind...

RERUN!  JUKING THE STATS