Excerpts from publishers in the U. S. U. S. and Abroad:
October 11
The Washington Post on Child Care in the United States
Many sectors are reeling from severe labor shortages, but few families have more details than childcare. With long waiting lists and skyrocketing costs, the scale of the crisis is obvious. What is less transparent is how the country can deal so quickly. .
First, the problem: Like other childcare industries, childcare has been hit hard by covid-19. Today, there are nearly 90,000 fewer employees than in February 2020, an 8. 4% relief in the workforce. According to a February 2022 report through Child Care Aware of America, a nonprofit organization, nearly 16,000 systems in 37 states shut down the pandemic. With birth rates rebounding and millions of employees returning to the office, those closures have put a huge strain on parents.
However, childcare was in trouble long before the pandemic. The industry has operated in a commercial style for decades. Because infants and toddlers require more staff than other age groups, the systems are labor-intensive and difficult to manage. reflecting those prices would make them unaffordable for many families. As a result, the centers operate with very low profit margins, providing low salaries to staff and few benefits for grueling jobs. and hospitality.
In addition, providers are concentrated in high-income neighborhoods, while communities of color and rural spaces are severely underserved. In 2018, the Center for American Progress found that more than 50 percent of Americans lived in “child care deserts,” where the source is insufficient. .
The quo is obviously unsustainable. But creating a greater style will require artistic thinking, collaboration, and resources.
Stimulating public investment
Without government action, the child care crisis will almost get worse. Currently, public spending on child care is fragmented, inconsistent, and meager: the US government spends about $500 a year on child care, while the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development averages $14,436. . Pandemic aid programs, namely the US bailout, have been lifelines for the industry at a desperate time. . If we don’t need American families to bear the monetary burden of a declining industry, the government will have to step in.
This can take many forms. The most politically viable option would be for Congress to participate in the Child Development and Care Class Subsidy Program, which supports low-income families. This would ease pressure on the most vulnerable families, but it would not solve the labour shortage. dependent care credits, or expanding and offering child tax credits to all families. Both would help more families pay close to the real cost of child care, allowing providers to raise wages.
And not everything deserves to be the duty of the federal government. New Mexico, for example, announced in April that it would offer a year of loose child care to families earning up to 400 percent of the federal poverty line, a fossil fuel production tax budget. While it’s tricky to make this kind of expansive style permanent or reflected elsewhere, there is an opportunity for governments to be artistic in terms of profit streams.
ONLINE: https://www. washingtonpost. com/opinions/2022/10/11/how-fix-child-care-united-states/
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October 8
The New York Times on behalf of Iranian women
The hijabs that thousands of Iranian women and women have burned in recent weeks, since the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s moral police on September 16, are a symbol of a much broader discontent with Iran’s corrupt and incompetent leaders. Protests since Ms. Amini’s death, led by women, have persisted for weeks and have brought Iranians to dozens of villages into the streets to reveal the intensity of their anger. Iranians who are tired of living under a tyrannical theocracy deserve U. S. recognition. and its allies.
The death of Ms. Amini, who was arrested through the Orientation Patrol for allegedly wearing her hijab inappropriately, is a scandalous example of the violence that the Islamic Republic has inflicted on women since it came into force in 1979. The devout clique that has always ruled Iran ever since, recently led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sees hostility toward the United States and keeping women in position as a necessity for their survival in power.
The risk of a violently anti-American, anti-Israel regime obtaining nuclear weapons is real, but diplomatic efforts to block it will have to go hand in hand with efforts to help Iranians seeking respite and change.
Ayatollah Khamenei is 83 years old and ill, and is among the last Islamic revolutionaries to overthrow the monarchy. His death, however, would not ensure a more liberal regime in Tehran. As Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote in a recent Times essay, his cohort of true believers has been largely supplanted by opportunists seeking wealth and privilege.
Global isolation would possibly be negative for the regime, but global integration would be dangerous, as Mr Sadjadpour said. The regime may also see its most productive chance of survival by maintaining a repressive regime and “just the right amount of isolation. “Ayatollah Khamenei need be “neither North Korea nor Dubai. “It needs to be to sell Iranian oil on the global market without sanctions, but it doesn’t need Iran to be fully incorporated into the global system.
Since Donald Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, Biden’s management and other nations involved have been looking to revive it. They are stuck in two specific Iranian situations that Western negotiators cannot meet: that the International Atomic Energy Agency ends investigations into uranium lines at undeclared sites; and that the United States provide promises that the agreement will not be eliminated again. It is up to Iran to decide whether or not to restart the deal, and its resolution is unlikely to be influenced by US behavior.
Whatever the long term of the nuclear deal, its fate will not save the United States and its allies from vigorously supporting Iranian protesters’ preference for global integration, through greater access to indispensable communication, organizing, and protest equipment.
The ethical case is not only the scandalous habit of the clerical regime. It’s also the fact that much of the economic suffering of Iranians is other people: rents that have multiplied, goods that are prohibitively priced, a currency that has fallen so low that Iranians want piles of spending to do their daily shopping, is the result of waves of U. S. sanctions.
The United States will have to halt its efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and this council supports continued diplomatic efforts that can diminish Iran’s nuclear weapons program and open the door to long-term agreements. But some of the existing sanctions have disappeared too far and have fallen mainly on the same militants that the U. S. has been targeting. I would like to help. In fact, the regime has used Iran’s economic isolation to further consolidate its power. Therefore, the United States has a primary interest in helping Iranians live a better life, preferably without sanctions, moral police, or nuclear weapons.
The United States also has the ability to facilitate access to one of the main teams of popular resistance: communications. Iranian dissidents have long complained that sanctions on generation hamper their ability to talk to the outside world and others. Immediately after the Iranian government cut off Internet access to the maximum of its 85 million or so citizens, Biden’s leadership did what it deserved to have done much earlier, issuing a general license that allowed tech companies to provide technical means for Iranians to evade government restrictions.
In making the announcement on Sept. 23, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “we will make sure that other Iranians are not isolated and in the dark. “he is convicted of violence against protesters and Amini’s death. Usa. The U. S. government can go further and inspire tech companies, adding Google, Apple, Amazon and others, to make available equipment and increase requests to sell technologies that exceed the general license.
The existing wave of protests may not force clerics to adopt a more open and tolerant government anytime soon. But every wave of protests over the years (2009, 2017, 2019 and others) has stripped them of some other layer of legitimacy. The existing discontent, less widespread than the previous ones, questions one of the founding dogmas of the reactionary regime, and the calls in the streets are no longer for reform, they are for revolution.
The ideal leader responded to those calls to replace with the same tired claim that the U. S. would not be able to replace the U. S. The US and the “Zionist regime” are the protestas. su uncompromising president, Ebrahim Raisi.
Biden’s management and its allies got off to a smart start by lifting restrictions on technology, adding targeted sanctions, and condemning Ms. Amini’s death and the upcoming crackdown on protests. about this through joint statements with allies, academics and non-governmental organizations during the protests. It can also impose more sanctions on those who act as agents or mouthpieces of government repression, produce more Farsi broadcasts, and push for a solution in the UN Security Council.
These are not empty symbolic gestures; They are demonstrations of solidarity with others whose courage is an example to the rest of the world, and who have asked us to fight. Iran’s long road as a filthy rich and loose country depends on them.
ONLINE: How the U. S. U. S. Can Help Iranian Women Calling for Change
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October 9th
The Wall Street Journal on Uighurs and the Human Rights Council
If pathological optimists still think the UN Human Rights Council cares about human rights, they may need to take note of last week’s events. A move presented in Geneva to discuss China’s abuses against Uighurs in Xinjiang province, and the council voted 19-17 not even to talk about it.
Alongside China opposing the movement are normal lackeys like Cuba and Venezuela, as well as countries like Nepal, Indonesia and Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that need to offend China or are accused under its Belt and Road Initiative.
The bottom 4 on this list are Muslim-majority nations voting to forget about the documented persecution of a Chinese Muslim minority group. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world and the state of Pakistan is Islam.
In addition to China, the other nations in disgrace roles were: Bolivia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Gabon, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Namibia, Senegal, Sudan and Uzbekistan. There were also 11 abstentions, including India, Mexico and Ukraine. Kiev might be hoping to prevent China from offering military aid to the Russian invaders, but that’s not Ukraine’s most productive moment. Mexico under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has never encountered a left-wing dictatorship it did not support.
In August, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report based on interviews with former detainees in Xinjiang. said. ” Almost all respondents described injections, pills or were administered regularly.
Routine abuses included sleep deprivation and prayer, as well as being forced to sing patriotic songs. The report urges China to read about “allegations of torture, sexual violence, ill-treatment, forced medical treatment, as well as forced labor and reports of deaths in custody. “He said the trend of repeated ill-treatment in Xinjiang “could constitute foreign crimes, especially crimes against humanity. “
Pragmatists would arguably be pleased that Thursday’s move failed by just two votes, after a fierce crusade of lobbying through Beijing to defeat it. But what a shame. Everyone knows that the UN Human Rights Council is a well of ethical equivalence. But if he can’t approve a move just to open up a discussion about China’s abuses in Xinjiang, there’s no explanation for why it exists or why the U. S. is going to be able to do so. The U. S. remains a member.
ONLINE: https://www. wsj. com/articles/the-u-n-abandons-the-uyghurs-human-rights-council-vote-china-ukraine-xinjiang-province-11665350883
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October 5th
The Guardian on the Cop27 weather summit of the month
Speaking to The Guardian last month, Belize’s representative to the UN vividly described the devastation his country is wrought by global warming. “Loss and damage is already occurring,” Fuller said. farmers and damage infrastructure; (there is) coral bleaching; Saltwater intrusion affects the water supply. From the recent catastrophic floods in Pakistan to the ongoing drought emergency in Kenya, similar disastrous effects are wreaking havoc on emerging countries around the world. the economic resources to deal with new climate threats, the vast majority of which are the result of historic carbon emissions from the world’s richest countries.
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres said this week ahead of November’s Cop27 summit in Egypt, adequately addressing the magnitude of the climate crisis, the damage already done, is a “moral imperative that can no longer be ignored. “In Copenhagen in 2009, Evolved Countries pledged to provide $100 billion a year to states affected by severe climate-related impacts.
This promise, which was originally meant to be fulfilled until 2020, has yet to be fulfilled and it is unclear exactly when it will be fulfilled. Aid has been provided in the form of loans rather than grants and has targeted middle-income countries than poorer nations. Private finance and establishments such as the World Bank have funneled cash into projects designed to reduce emissions, where profit streams are easier to come by, but they have overlooked the need for poorer countries to cope with the climate-demanding situations afflicting fragile economies.
Belatedly, there are signs that the global rich are waking up to their day-to-day jobs in the global South. Last month, Denmark became the first party to COP negotiations to offer investments akin to “loss and damage,” explained as destruction. caused by weather-like errors so excessive that you can’t imagine coverage opposing them. The $13 million pledged through Copenhagen to the Sahel region in Northwest Africa deserves to serve as a catalyst for other developed countries to intervene. Britain, which, by cutting its contribution to aid for progress abroad, has scandalously taken the opposite direction, can and deserves to stick to the measure.
As governments focus on skyrocketing energy costs, skyrocketing inflation, and the geopolitical fallout from the war in Ukraine, the dangers of the climate emergency are relegated to the background of policymaking. With just one month to go until COP27, there has been a global failure to deliver through commitments made last year at Glaspassw, where countries pledged to provide more ambitious methods to restrict warming to the 1. 5°C target. Beyond inaction. Guterres is right to identify COP27 as a “litmus test” of how seriously evolved nations are ready to shoulder the developing burden of vulnerable nations.
Announcing Denmark’s commitment to loss and damage, Development Minister Flemming Moller Mortensen said: “It is incredibly unfair that the world’s poorest are suffering the fullest from the consequences of climate change, to which they have least contributed. “The next collection in Sharm el-Sheikh will have to be the forum in which this injustice is not only identified but put into practice.
ONLINE: https://www. theguardian. com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/the-guardian-view-on-cop27-climate-justice-must-take-center-stage
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October 10
China Daily on Biden and increased nuclear risk
As everyone knows, a nuclear war means human annihilation, since a nuclear winter would result in the death of as many humans on a mass extinction occasion similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. , the foreign network faces the most pressing task of working in combination to check anything that might cause its use.
Therefore, it is not helpful for the U. S. president to be able to do so. US President Joe Biden recently evoked this “end of the world” perspective by referring to a nuclear “Armageddon,” when he veered about the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation at the end of his same old fundraising remarks in New York on Thursday. Saying that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “was not joking when he talked about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons,” he added that “we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and Cuban missiles. “Crisis. “
Biden’s comments were a reaction to Putin’s pledge to “use everything in our power” to “protect Russia and our people” last month when he announced his goal of recruiting Russian men to serve in Ukraine.
However, Biden’s warnings still seem misplaced, especially as U. S. intelligence tests are not enough. UU. no have produced evidence to recommend that Putin has imminent plans for a nuclear attack. adjust its own strategic nuclear posture. “
Biden’s choice of words appears to brandish the use of nuclear weapons, rather than diminish that possibility, which has drawn attention around the world, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying, “We will have to speak cautiously when commenting on such issues. “Pope Francis also suggested that world Sunday be informed from the history of the risk of nuclear war and decided on the path of peace.
In March, as he finished a speech in Warsaw, Biden gave the impression that he was calling for Putin’s impeachment and said, “For God’s sake, this guy can’t stay in power. “Even before Biden boarded Air Force One to start the flight back to Washington, attendees tried to explain that he was not calling for an early replacement of the government in Moscow.
U. N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that humanity is “just a misunderstanding, a miscalculation of nuclear annihilation. “
World leaders will have to exercise the utmost caution, especially at this time of heightened tension, and avoid making comments that increase humanity’s chances of nuclear annihilation.
ONLINE: https://www. chinadaily. com. cn/a/202210/10/WS63441695a310fd2b29e7ba9b. html
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