We will soon deliver several civic Apple Watch apps supporting civic apps in education, transit, and other civic agencies.
This year, he argues, $5.5 billion was diverted from higher education, transit, parks and other programs to meet liabilities.
Innovations tend to originate elsewhere, whether in education, mass transit, homelessness, health — or bicycles.
Too bad; as with many things — health care, education, public transit — this is one area in which what is possible now drastically exceeds what is affordable.
Much of the money Washington sends to state and local governments for health care, education, mass transit, housing and other programs is determined by population.
Early plans single out basic community improvements, like a $100,000 tree-planting initiative, the development of a community-based art plan and improvement of employment, education and transit services.
Mr. Reich said "Democrats should stop their bellyaching about 'raids,' " arguing that eventually those constraints would undercut both economic recovery and traditional Democratic commitment to education, mass transit and child health care.
The estimated $140 million a year in new revenue will be used to, among other things, provide affordable housing, education, and transit.
Spending on personal consumption, health care, education, mass transit, and construction for home weatherization and infrastructure repair all were found to create more jobs per $1 billon in expenditures than military spending does.
Unless hedge funds are a "social good" like education, mass transit or public health that deserve subsidies because they benefit everyone, this preference has no basis in social policy or economics.
"It's education spending, not transit spending.
