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It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.
And what I've found is, rather than investing their money in food subsidies and other things, they invested in a school feeding program.
The freeways, coupled with massive governmental subsidies for the suburbs via infrastructure and home loans, allowed people to leave the city at will, taking with it tax base, jobs and education dollars.
For all the money and subsidies, for all the streetlights installed, the dollars for new stadiums and slick advertisements and positive buzz, we're shutting off water to tens of thousands of people living right on the Great Lakes, the world's largest source of it.
But of course, if you look at exactly what those profits are, almost 8,000 of those dollars are, in fact, subsidies.
And so in the industrialized world, we have very generous subsidies that are specifically designed to bring down those upfront costs.
Those subsidies don't exist in Haiti.
Moreover, this transition needs no new inventions and no acts of Congress and no new federal taxes, mandate subsidies or laws and running Washington gridlock.
In fact in this country, no new nuclear power plant has been able to raise any private construction capital, despite seven years of 100-plus percent subsidies.
If we assume fair wages, which means not slave labor, and we remove the subsidies from our calculation, the map turns into this.
In fact, on aggregate, subsidies are four times larger than the profits.
So we have five countries doing most of the fishing in the high seas and the economics are dependent on huge government subsidies, and for some countries, on human rights violations.
And we all should ensure that our countries will support the protection of the high seas and get rid of subsidies to industrial fishing.
It is not subsidies to a few companies.
And as you think about this stuff and what the implications of this are, we're going to start not just converting ethanol from corn with very high subsidies.
We really need regulation, we need subsidies, taxes on carbon.
We also spend about 650 billion dollars a year in subsidies for oil and gas and renewable energy.
There are clean energy subsidies, which are to switch to fuels which don't pollute as much or perhaps don't need fossil fuels.
Today, 500 billion dollars a year goes into subsidies for fossil fuels.
Here, Nightingale's coxcomb was the inspiration to organize data on thousands of federal energy subsidies, scrutinizing the lack of investment in renewables over fossil fuels.
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king.
This would constitute only about two percent of current federal expenditures and be far less than the 500-plus billion dollars that's already being spent by the federal government on asset promotion through tax credits and subsidies.
And governments do that when they hand out subsidies to just the favorite few, the selected.
Those subsidies stop companies from competing on equal terms.
We need to step up to this global opportunity to rebuild fisheries: with field workers to stand with communities and connect them, to support them to act and learn from one another; with governments and lawyers standing with communities to secure their rights to manage their fisheries; prioritizing local food and job security above all competing interests in the ocean economy; ending subsidies for grotesquely overcapitalized industrial fleets and keeping those industrial and foreign vessels out of coastal waters.
And these policies work fine without taxes, subsidies or mandates.
A parade of government subsidies is going to propose big-box and stadium developments in the South Bronx, but there is scant coordination between city agencies on how to deal with the cumulative effects of increased traffic, pollution, solid waste and the impacts on open space.
We identified 10 of the biggest challenges in the world, and I will just briefly read them: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers.
Basically, the model showed that if we could get free trade, and especially cut subsidies in the U.S. and Europe, we could basically enliven the global economy to an astounding number of about 2,400 billion dollars a year, half of which would accrue to the Third World.
They were creating subsidies either for large farms, or they were giving inputs to the farmers that they thought they should use, rather than that the farmers wanted to use.
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