Metra is spending $400 million on a federally mandated system to improve train safety and hopes to have it ready by the end of 2019.
More than half of American schools are estimated to be in buildings that are not up to standard.
U.S. stocks have been on a tear, with major averages setting records for both strength and low downside. However, the benefits of that for investors arenât as broad-based as one may expect, meaning the advances in the market arenât making a difference for most Americans.
Source: www.marketwatch.com/story/why-only-a-tiny-percentage-of-americans-benefit-from-dow-25000-2018-01-04
After lots of huffing and puffing for the cameras in the wake of the Equifax breach, Republican lawmakers have blocked all legislation aimed at improving privacy protections or holding companies more accountable for the loss of peopleâs info.
Source: www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-cybersecurity-data-breaches-20180102-story.html
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
Source: www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
According to a new report, the average compensation for Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs hit a record $10.4 million in 2016 — that’s more than 200 times an average worker’s salary.
Source: www.cbc.ca/news/business/ceo-income-pay-canadian-worker-1.4462496
It’s three minutes to 11 in the a.m., the first working day of the new year. You are about to purchase your second cup of coffee.
Source: www.thespec.com/opinion-story/8031946-top-100-ceo-compensation-hits-2-489-an-hour/
In the just released EIP report, North Carolinaâs overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table â a deeply flawed, partly-free, democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.
Source: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.html
State governments receive a significant amount of aid from the federal government. Here’s a look at federal aid to states as a percentage of state revenue.