Articles by tag: Joe Biden
The Biden administration has set its sights firmly on breaking down anti-competitive practices across a wide range of industries, and the nation’s agricultural sector is beginning to feel the effects. According to the president, the executive orders the administration has issued are aimed at anti-competitive practices in agriculture like consolidation in chicken procession, meatpacking, sourcing…
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After Texas Crisis, Biden’s Climate Plan Hangs on Fragile Power Grid
(Bloomberg) — The millions of people who struggled to keep warm in Texas, with blackouts crippling life inside a dominant energy hub, have laid bare the desperate state of U.S. electricity grids. To fix nationwide vulnerabilities, President Joe Biden will have to completely reimagine the American way of producing and transmitting electricity. Biden wants to overhaul the nation’s grids so they derive…
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Biden Administration’s EdTech Plan: Bridge the Student Digital Divide
With a new administration comes new policy visions, and the Biden administration has already vocalized some priorities for the United States’ education system. Reporting out of The 74 Million asserts that the new administration is pointing to the digital divide amongst students as one of the first inequities it plans to tackle, as millions of…
Education & EdTech
How Betsy DeVos Impacted the US Education System
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was among resignations this week after what she called an “inflection point” in the wake of Washington DC-based riots from supporters of President Donald Trump. Right before resigning, DeVos announced $54 billion in relief funding for reopening K-12 schools, as well as the ongoing analysis and addressing of potential…
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Why President Elect Joe Biden Chose to Take a Weight Bearing CT Scan of His Foot
President-elect Joe Biden’s physician recommended he get a weight bearing CT scan to monitor the healing progression of a sustained hairline fracture, according to an AP report. President-elect Joe Biden’s medical visit to Philadelphia made headlines over the weekend after his physician recommended he receive a “special” weight bearing CT scan. Biden visited Pennsylvania Hospital, a Penn…
Drones In America
Will the Election Impact the Future of Drones?
Election Day 2020, which will see Americans decide between incumbent Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, has plenty of implications – including for the advanced technology solutions roaming our skies. On this episode of Drones in America, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Senior Policy Advisor Justin Towles dove into a weighty topic…