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While the president has his staff looking at ways to torpedo the investigation, he also is allegedly asking questions about his power to pardon -- including whether he can pardon himself.
All over Appalachia, communities and organizations are working around the clock to come up with a way to "justly transition" the Appalachian economy to whatever comes next.
To rein in financial instability and other destructive financial practices, we not only must re-regulate finance -- we must develop more public options in finance. (Photo: f11photo / iStock / Getty Images Plus)
Finance is inherently destabilizing because it's based on a promise that can be reneged on, or just plain miscalculated, says economist and Amherst professor Gerald Epstein. But the capitalist system that drives modern economies thrives increasingly on debt and quick profits, so when something goes wrong, there's no way to stop the vulnerability from spreading and bringing the economy crashing down.
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The International Labor Organization's Convention 169 establishes that the rights of Indigenous peoples in relation to natural resources must be protected, but it does not grant them exclusive rights over those resources. Many in Costa Rica assert that consultations with the government are just tools used to legitimize resource extraction.
The White House has proposed cutting 25 percent of SNAP's budget -- about US $193 billion -- over the next decade. SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, though it's more widely known by its pre-2008 name, food stamps. This program helps about 44 million people per month buy food. Last year, the government spent $71 billion in total on the program.
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