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Per Capita Balance of Payments
The amount of federal spending distributed in a state minus the amount paid to the federal government by a state's residents and businesses. 🇺🇸
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The amount of federal spending distributed in a state minus the amount paid to the federal government by a state's residents and businesses. 🇺🇸
📊 rockinst.org/issue-areas/...
February 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Per Capita Balance of Payments
The amount of federal spending distributed in a state minus the amount paid to the federal government by a state's residents and businesses. 🇺🇸
📊 rockinst.org/issue-areas/...
The amount of federal spending distributed in a state minus the amount paid to the federal government by a state's residents and businesses. 🇺🇸
📊 rockinst.org/issue-areas/...
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US highways are a mess. Instead of focusing on repairs, the country wastes $ adding lanes in a Sisyphean quest to vanquish congestion.
A 🧵 with highway stories I wrote in 2024:
In @vox.com I challenged road engineers’ false claims that wider roads slow climate change.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
A 🧵 with highway stories I wrote in 2024:
In @vox.com I challenged road engineers’ false claims that wider roads slow climate change.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic?
How America’s ever-widening highways are built on a lie.
www.vox.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:58 PM
US highways are a mess. Instead of focusing on repairs, the country wastes $ adding lanes in a Sisyphean quest to vanquish congestion.
A 🧵 with highway stories I wrote in 2024:
In @vox.com I challenged road engineers’ false claims that wider roads slow climate change.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
A 🧵 with highway stories I wrote in 2024:
In @vox.com I challenged road engineers’ false claims that wider roads slow climate change.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Legalizing online sports gambling was a mistake.
December 4, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Legalizing online sports gambling was a mistake.
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Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.
Ontario's government has vowed to tear up Toronto's new bike lanes, stoking tensions between the city and its suburbs
In Traffic-Weary Toronto, a Battle Breaks Out Over Bike Lanes
Ontario’s government has vowed to tear up newly installed cycling infrastructure, stoking tensions between the city and its suburbs over rider safety and congestion.
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Do the folks who want to tear up bike lanes not understand that if the cyclists are not in the bike lanes they are in the lanes with the cars? In most cases in their own cars? Which means they are now (noisy, polluting) traffic? More car lanes just means more cars.