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To lower the cost of an electric vehicle, the legislation offers American consumers what could be as much as a $12,500 rebate for the purchase of an electric vehicle. The tax credit is structured to come off the sticker price at the point of sale, making it easy for consumers to cash in on the rebate. And the biggest rewards of the targeted credits go to American-made vehicles, as the proposed credit of $7,500 tax credit for purchase of an electric vehicle would be boosted by $4,500 if the vehicle is made in the United States, with another $500 credit if the battery is American-made.
With a nod to automaker labor unions, the tax credit provision requires that at least 50 percent of the parts be made in the United States from a plant where workers are covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
But representatives of America’s non-unionized automakers said the measures were discriminatory against those companies and the workers who would make electric vehicles in the United States.
The tax credits, along with other policies to develop stronger consumer demand, were among Biden’s plan to promote electric vehicle adoption in the U.S., Deese said. The others include setting electric vehicle sales targets of 50 percent by 2030, as well as investing in research and development, manufacturing, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
Policy changes like these could pay big dividends for American workers, potentially creating 150,000 new jobs by 2030, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute released on Wednesday. However, the report also said that failure to enact policies to promote domestic electric vehicle manufacture could cost as many as 75,000 over the same time period.
Dingell, Deese and other lawmakers spoke during an online panel promoting the report, which they said could help show other Democrats the benefits of the $3.5 trillion legislative package. But achieving all of these policy changes through legislation will face significant challenges. Some Democrats in the House and Senate, such as West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, are pushing back on the $3.5 trillion spending package.
The $3.5 trillion spending bill that House Democrats are advancing is designed to follow the rules of budget reconciliation, restricting it to only spending and taxation changes, while also allowing it to skirt the Senate’s filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to move legislation forward. With a 50-50 split in the Senate, the Democrats could pass the legislation with a party-line roll call aided by Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote, if Manchin, Sinema and other Democrats are on board.
To sell the proposals, Democrats are pointing not only to the potential benefit for U.S. manufacturing and its labor force, but also the challenge coming from China, which is also pressing forward with its electric vehicle manufacturing ambitions.
The report also specifically pointed to the benefits that Biden’s electric vehicle manufacturing strategy would bring to union workers. The report showed that as unionization rates in the auto industry fell, so did the autoworkers’ pay advantage over the economy’s median wage. In 1988, when autoworker unionization was high, they made 62.5 percent more than the average wage, compared to 7.1 percent now, as autoworker union representation has declined.
The Economic Policy Institute’s report also noted that at black autoworkers have a disproportionately larger share of the auto parts manufacturing workforce, where they represent 16.6 percent of workers, compared with 12.5 percent of workers nationwide. And in Southern states, where little of the auto manufacturing workforce is unionized, Blacks represent an even larger 18.9 percent of the workforce.
“This strongly suggests that, given the racial composition of the regional economy, the unionized segment of the auto-production sector has done a much better job of making job opportunities available to black workers,” the report said.
Meanwhile, Deese and other speakers said that the U.S. must act swiftly to retool its auto manufacturing capacity to meet the growing worldwide demand for electric vehicles.
“If we’re looking back a decade from now, and we’re exporting this technology around the world, it will be because of an industrial strategy that put workers at the center,” Deese said.
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Beginning in 2022-23, every public elementary school and high school needs to include a curriculum unit of instruction studying the events of Asian American history, including the history of Asian Americans in Illinois and the Midwest. There also needs to be a focus on recognizing the contributions of Asian Americans toward advancing civil rights as well as challenging the current wave of anti-Asian American hate and violence.
Our professional development for educators and school leaders will be over two days and online from 9 AM to 12 PM on Tuesday, August 16th, and Wednesday, August 17th. It is a two-day professional development workshop that will also lead to credentialing for educational leaders. Each participant will also receive a packet of helpful resources as a part of the workshop. We are also open to providing onsite professional development for your school and district with the hope of developing Asian American focused curriculum and instruction.
We will discuss the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of Asian American children and families.
We will examine the cultural and linguistic differences across each group as well as the diversity from within each group.
We will discuss the biases, stereotypes and hate toward Asian American children and their families and its long-term impact.
We will discuss issues of identity development and the complicated stories of Asian American children and youth balancing multiple languages, cultures, and communities.
Samina Hadi-Tabassum (EdD) is an associate professor at Erikson Institute in Chicago where she teaches courses in cognitive and language development and family and culture. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, culture, and language and she recently published a book on Black-Brown race relations in American public schools. She identifies as South Asian American.
Jung Kim (PhD) is an associate professor at Lewis University in Romeoville, IL and teaches in the college of education. Her research focuses on Asian American children’s books and young adult fiction and graphic novels, racial identity development, culturally relevant pedagogy, and racial equity and social justice. Her recent book publication addresses how Asian American teachers in the US have adapted, persisted, and resisted racial stereotyping and systematic marginalization throughout their educational and professional pathways. She identifies as Korean American.Aries 2018
Everyone is at it.
Comey beating up Trump, Trump beating up Syria. Syria killing people. The people against Theresa May. May and Putin in the clinch and Macron getting in on the act. Jews and Arabs … again, and so it goes on. Celestially the gods have been at it too. It’s been a triggering couple of weeks in the sky. Mars, the lord of Aries, the battering ram, has been having a field day, with bombings and all manner of fights. How was it for you? Any conflicts?
This month I’m going to use my photos taken in Amsterdam as Aries is also the sign of spring which we finally have here in the north. And I’m sick of war stories! We see far too many of those.
Fire with fire?
Yes, fire with fire is a good homeopathic idea – if it was positive. However that is not really what we have seen. This month I take a look at how a few of the world’s leaders fight and defend. I won’t spent a lot of time on Trump as I have written on him before. He’s totally Marsy (very prominent in his horoscope) – short fuse, do it now, easily angered. And as a Gemini … his medium of choice for his tirades? Twitter of course.
Britannia rules the waves?
No longer I fear. As I write, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, is being beaten up by nearly everyone, including Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition, who is also being beaten up by nearly everyone about antisemitism issues within the Labour party. But I digress. May is under fire for going along with the US and France in a bombing raid on Syria. She had no parliamentary mandate and, according to many, no proof that Russia and Syria were involved in a chemical attack within Syria. This comes on the heels of a nerve agent being used in the UK on a former Russian spy. It is a scary time when anyone takes on Russia. But May thinks enough is enough. Russia needs to be held to account.
May is a Libra – in principle a sign of peace. But this also suggests that a sense of fair play is very important to her. She is tired of Russia constantly not playing by the rules. Mars (giving an indication of how we fight and defend) in her chart is in Pisces, a sign definitely not associated with punch-ups! I think May is (partly) truly acting out of compassion for the people of Syria. She also has a very strategic Mars, a big picture approach to conflict, unlike Trump and Macron.
French pride?
It has been reported that Emmanuel Macron encouraged the US to launch an attack in Syria. With Mars in the showy sign of Leo, the same as Trump, he probably knows which arguments to use when talking to number 45. Like Trump, he also has Mars in an aspect with the Moon, meaning