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Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on Green Collar Jobs

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Her exciting, new proposal would give federal support to 'green collar job training' programs, which would help give U.S. in Lansing, MI. The Select Committee held a special hearing, entitled: "Economic Impacts of Global Warming: Green Collar Jobs."

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Finance / @nysscpa.

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

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The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the lawsuit). He did propose a solution that I will post below. In his newish chief scientist role, Pratt gives advice to the company from a “scientific point of view” and tries to educate the public and policy makers about issues that are of concern to Toyota.

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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. As policy changes unfold at the federal, state and local levels, the communities and issues we care about as corporate social responsibility professionals inevitably face uncertainty. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

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5 As for Uber and Lyft, these companies maintain policies that reward workers for low ride- cancellation rates—policies that are so tightly enforced, drivers are pressured to continue their rides even in the face of verbal abuse or physical assault. There has been some movement in this direction.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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Over $700 billion of the proposed budget will go to improving resiliency against natural disasters; upgrading critical water, power, and internet infrastructure; and rehabilitating and improving public housing, federal buildings, and aging commercial and residential real estate. . Water and power infrastructure .

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The Station: Elon’s Tesla share sale, Ford teases a second EV truck and GM’s Cruise spending ramps

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Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. They just need to get the policy to align with demand. Divergent Technologies , a Los Angeles-based manufacturing startup, raised $160 million in a Series C funding round. In the U.S.,

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