Tag: Opinion
High school internships offer employers advantages
There has never been a better time for employers to recruit and develop a broader, more diverse talent pool than now. The new reality...
Taxing billionaires’ wealth will never work
The speed with which a tax on billionaires came and went as a means to pay for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda shows why...
In education system, school librarian as crucial as ever
School librarians hear the question all the time: Why do we need school libraries and school librarians when students have the internet?
The perception is...
ESG should be focal point for all businesses
Increased awareness around climate change, racial and social equity issues and COVID-19 has changed the way that many companies in Rhode Island and elsewhere...
Our love-hate Facebook relationship
When Facebook was down for most of the day on Oct. 4, did you miss it, were you relieved or some of both? Social scientists have...
A crucial, final step for infrastructure bill
With billions of dollars of federal relief authorized over the past 18 months, and more and more Americans receiving vaccinations each day, our economy...
Climate change is an infrastructure problem
Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric-vehicle chargers –...
A plan to squash food insecurity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in October is set to permanently increase the value of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits by 25% above pre-pandemic...
U.S. economy is feeling the heat
Summer 2021 will likely be one of the hottest on record as dozens of U.S. cities experience all-time high temperatures. The extreme heat is...
Infrastructure spending not always good
Over the past two centuries, federal, state and municipal governments across the U.S. have launched wave after wave of infrastructure projects.
They built canals to...
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