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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 4 articles What is in President Biden's reduced spending proposal? | :format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22963349/KBSBp_what_biden_wants_democrats_to_keep_br_in_a_build_back_better_compromise__4_.png) | |
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Biden's new Build Back Better plan invests big in climate and child care.
The American Independent Institute (Left) • Factual Grade 83% • 3 min read
The administration called it "the largest effort to combat climate change in American history" and "the largest single investment in our clean energy economy in history." With the $555 billion investment, the White House says the United States would be on track for its goal of a 50%-52% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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The revised $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan also includes a $400 billion investment in affordable child care and two years of free pre-K education. It would make permanent the expanded child tax credit for more than 35 million families. That credit of up to $300 a month per kid — enacted for 2021 as part of Biden's American Rescue Plan — has already lifted an estimated 3 million children out of poverty.
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Proposals to invest billions more in free community college and paid family and medical leave — and to reduce the costs of prescription drugs through price negotiations — will not be part of this package.
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Build back better framework: the bad and the ugly.
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The national debt dilemma.
Council on Foreign Relations (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 83% • 10 min read
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| | | 567 votes, 117 comments Context: US college enrollment continues decline even after pandemic peak. HIGHLIGHTED COMMENTS " Yes - More accurately, I would say the ROI on a college degree has gone down as costs have skyrocketed and employers are realizing that other than specialized technical fields, experience and aptitude are much more important than a $100k + piece of paper that only seems to show that you posses three things: intelligence to get accepted, work ethic to finish, and means to pay for it." " No - Yes, its true that many degrees are worthless, tuitions are rising, grade inflation's a thi..." " Unsure - I'd prefer to define value in this case as the degree to w..." | | | #2 in U.S. News • 12 articles Why is the Justice Department paying victims of the 2015 Charleston shooting? | 
The justice department will pay $88m, which includes $63m for the victims' families as well as $25m for five survivors who were injured at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston...
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| | #1 in World News • 19 articles Why are U.S. forces training Taiwan's military? |
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told CNN in an interview published on Thursday that U.S. military personnel were in Taiwan as part of a training program. She declined to give d...
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| | #1 in Business News • 46 articles Why is Facebook renaming itself to Meta? |
CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change Thursday, saying he wanted a new brand and a clearer corporate naming scheme to help focus on what's next for the internet beyond social media....
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| | #1 in Science News • 32 articles How is Big Oil responding to allegations of climate disinformation? |
House Democrats compare the inquiry with the tobacco hearings of the 1990s, which brought into sharp relief how tobacco companies had lied about the health...
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