Our national media and global banking 1% pols continually create talking points about EDUCATION REFORM today being tied to more efficient pathways to actually going from school to job.  This is the reason the far-right wing has used these few decades for dismantling a highly functioning public K-university structure.  The articles we shared yesterday and reality shows the goals are opposite.  These reforms are staging our US 99% to spend tens of thousands of dollars on degree pathways which are deliberately being undermined as future employment.

What was 300 years to a sure pathway to employment at strong wages in US has now been made into a criminal enterprise sacking and looting our US citizens' wealth and throwing them into deep poverty with large student loan debt and no pathway to a job.

All of this was the MASTER PLAN from REAGAN/CLINTON era 1980-90s by global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS to capture all public wealth and kill all pathways to employment.  Today, our young adults and parents are being made to fear incurring higher education debt feeling the US system does not lead to employment and higher wages.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global banking neo-liberalism these few decades brought these FAR-RIGHT WING EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY policies while Clinton/Obama PRETENDED to be 'left' social progressives helping labor and justice 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

Obama and Clinton neo-liberals as well created a tiered-level of student debt forgiveness via sending our new college grads into NGOs also PRETENDING to be 'left' where our public university grads are captured far longer to these FREE LABOR APPRENTICESHIPS to pay student debt----instead of entering workforce with strong developed nation salaries.


The FAKE OUR REVOLUTION global banking players like Warren, Gabbard, Turner, Ellison, Sanders, Stein pretending to address these student loan debt problems are actually MOVING FORWARD the same K-CAREER APPRENTICESHIP pathways started during Clinton era.



The Incredible, Rage-Inducing Inside Story of America’s Student Debt Machine
Why is the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program failing the people it’s supposed to help?


By Ryann Liebenthal; Photographs by Zach GrossSeptember/October 2018 Issue



When Leigh McIlvaine first learned that her student loan debt could be forgiven, she was thrilled. In 2008, at age 27, she’d earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Minnesota. She’d accrued just under $70,000 in debt, though she wasn’t too worried—that’s what it took to invest in her future. But graduating at the height of the recession, she found that the kind of decent-paying public-sector job she’d anticipated pursuing was suddenly closed off by budget and hiring freezes. She landed a gig at a nonprofit in Washington, DC, earning a $46,000 salary. Still, she was happy to live on that amount if it was the cost of doing the work she believed in.


At the time, she paid about $350 each month to stay in a decrepit house with several roommates, more than $100 for utilities, and $60 for her cellphone bill. On top of that, her loan bill averaged about $850 per month. “Rent was hard enough to come up with,” she recalled. Then one day while researching her options, she read about something called the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) plan. At the time, Congress had just come up with a couple of options for borrowers with federal loans. They could get on an income-based repayment plan and have their student loans expunged after 25 years. Or, for borrowers working public service jobs—as social workers, nurses, nonprofit employees—there was another possibility: They could have their debt forgiven after making 10 years’ worth of on-time payments.



The PSLF program, backed in the Senate by Ted Kennedy and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, was the first of its kind, and when people talk about “student loan forgiveness,” they’re usually talking about PSLF. It was implemented to address low salaries in public service jobs, where costly degrees are the price of entry but wages often aren’t high enough to pay down debts. A Congressional Budget Office report last year found that public-sector workers with a professional degree or doctorate earn 24 percent less than they would in the private sector. In Massachusetts, a public defender in 2014 made just $40,000, only about $1,000 more than the court’s janitor. Meanwhile, 85 percent of public-interest attorneys in 2015 owed at least $50,000 in federal student loans, according to one study. More than half owed at least $100,000. According to a 2012 study, 65 percent of newly hired nonprofit workers had student debt, and 30 percent owed more than $50,000. In order to keep people working as public defenders, or rural doctors or human rights activists, something had to be done. PSLF was an attempt at a fix.

LEIGH McILVAINE: University of New Mexico (bachelor’s, 2006); University of Minnesota (master’s, 2008); $70,000 owed at graduation; $50,000 paid back so far; $410 paid per month, on average; 12 months of delayed forgiveness because of FedLoan errors; $70,000 still owed today



The program was by no means a handout. Successful PSLF participants, according to one estimate, pay back as much as 91 percent of their original loan amount, so enrollees primarily save on interest. The program’s appeal was that it offered a clear path for people who struggled to pay back loans, or struggled to envision how they would ever pay them off without abandoning public service jobs for higher-paid positions elsewhere. For McIlvaine, who dreamed of working to make cities more livable, PSLF was the only way she could imagine paying off her debt. When she sent in her first payment in the fall of 2009, she felt like she’d put herself on track to get to “a place where the debt would eventually be lifted.”



Several companies, including one called FedLoan Servicing, contracted with the Education Department to handle loan repayment, and until 2012, when the government assigned all PSLF accounts to FedLoan, borrowers had to keep track of their progress toward forgiveness. At the time she began paying into the program, McIlvaine wasn’t too perturbed that there was no official way to confirm her enrollment, no email or letter that said she had been “accepted.” She trusted the Education Department to run the program effectively and followed its parameters, taking care to send in the yearly tax forms that proved her eligibility and always submitting her payments on time.



Everything seemed fine for the first few years—McIlvaine initially made payments through an Education Department website, and then, as the department increasingly outsourced its loans, hers were transferred to a company called MOHELA. But once FedLoan took over, things quickly started to go awry. While FedLoan was sorting out the transfer, her loans were put into forbearance, an option usually reserved for people having difficulty making payments; during a forbearance, any progress toward forgiveness stalls, and loans balloon with interest. Then the company failed to put several of her loans on an income-based plan—so her payments briefly shot up, she says. And when McIlvaine submitted her tax information, she says FedLoan took months to process the paperwork—while she waited, the company again put her into what it called “administrative forbearance,” so none of the payments she made during this period counted either. (McIlvaine requested a forbearance at least once, after turning in late renewal paperwork.)



McIlvaine initially hoped these problems were just “hiccups,” but they kept piling up. And when she tried to figure out what was going on, she says, FedLoan’s call center “loan counselors” brushed the whole thing off as an inconsequential administrative oversight. Astonishingly, the cycle would repeat over the next four years.



Despite these frustrations, McIlvaine kept diligently sending in her checks. In January 2016, she took advantage of a new program introduced by President Barack Obama that helped lower her monthly bill, and when she did, her loans were again inexplicably put into forbearance. On top of that, four months later, as she was trying to save for her wedding, FedLoan sent her a bill for $1,600, more than $1,300 above her monthly payment amount. When she phoned the company in a panic, they told her the bill was an administrative glitch and said not to worry about it; they’d sort it out. Warily, she accepted—after all, there wasn’t much else she could do.



In August 2016, McIlvaine was offered a job at Mercy Corps, a nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, which came with a $10,000 raise and great benefits—the extra security she believed would allow her to start a family. But Mercy Corps required a credit check, and McIlvaine discovered that FedLoan had never actually dealt with that $1,600 bill, instead reporting it as 90 days past due and plunging her previously excellent credit score to an abysmal 550. When she called FedLoan in tears, she recalls, she was treated dismissively and told to “pay more attention” to her loans—and again the only option offered to her was to take an administrative forbearance while the company sorted out the issue. Ultimately she got the job, but only after she lodged a formal complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog agency created during the Obama era, which prompted FedLoan to send her a letter in October 2016 claiming the company had fixed the issue and that her credit had been restored. “But in true FedLoan Servicing style,” she told me, “they only contacted two of the three credit bureaus.” It took several more months to fix her score with the third bureau, Equifax.

Listen to author Ryann Liebanthal talk about how debt forgiveness can go horribly wrong on this episode of the Mother Jones Podcast.
The Mother Jones Podcast


America's Rage-Inducing Student Debt Machine

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If not for FedLoan’s errors and delays, McIlvaine estimates, her loans would be eligible for forgiveness as soon as 2020. But instead, in the nine years she’s been participating in PSLF, months of payments haven’t been counted toward her 10-year requirement, ultimately delaying the date of her forgiveness by at least a year. All the while, although she’s been making payments of between $300 and $450 a month, her total debt has not gone down. After nearly 100 payments, she still owes the entire amount she initially borrowed.



FedLoan declined to comment on McIlvaine’s tribulations. But as complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and lawsuits against the Education Department and FedLoan pile up, she’s hardly alone. In 2017, the bureau issued a report excoriating FedLoan for mismanaging PSLF, misleading borrowers, and losing track of payments. The previous year, the American Bar Association had filed suit against the Education Department for reneging on its own rules about how the program was supposed to work and who was eligible for forgiveness. Then, in August 2017, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey sued FedLoan on behalf of the state’s borrowers, alleging it had overcharged them and bilked them out of payments. And just this January, a set of borrowers filed a class-action suit against the company for repeatedly putting them into needless forbearances that delayed their forgiveness.



A decade after McIlvaine and scores of others began paying into the program, many are only barely closer to their goal of being debt-free. And some are even more in debt than when they started.Now, the Trump administration has begun disassembling one of the only checks on companies like FedLoan, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, all while arguing that these companies are off-limits to state attorneys general like Healey—essentially trying to give them legal protection.



“We’ve seen an industry that’s really been given a pass by the DeVos administration,” Healey told me, referring to Trump’s education secretary. “That’s why you see Betsy DeVos clean house and bring into the Department of Ed lobbyists and executives from the for-profit schools industry, from the loan-servicing industry. They’re the ones who are attempting now to rewrite all the rules. And the rules and the policies of the department favor corporations and furthering the bottom line of executives at the expense of students.”


Meanwhile, in early June, Republican legislators were trying to find votes for a sweeping and massively unpopular higher-education bill called PROSPER that would get rid of many grant programs as well as loan subsidies and PSLF. Trump’s 2018 and 2019 budgets also proposed axing the PSLF program. Congress has so far rejected the idea, but if the efforts succeed they would remove what was a very small sliver of hope for a generation underwater.



October 2017 should have been a moment for celebration for those sunk by debt—it was the first time a cohort of PSLF participants, after 10 years of payments, could be forgiven. Yet of almost 900,000 people who have submitted at least one payment to the PSLF program and FedLoan since 2012, the Education Department expects fewer than 1,000 to be forgiven by the end of its fiscal year. The reasons for these astonishingly dismal statistics are myriad, but one fact is clear: A decade after McIlvaine and scores of others began paying into the program, many are only barely closer to their goal of being debt-free. And some are even more in debt than when they started.


Today, FedLoan services about a third of all federal student debt, and last year the company took home $195 million from the Education Department. But for years, there were reasons to doubt the company’s competency to administer such a large portion of the government’s loan portfolio.


To understand how FedLoan grew so powerful, you have to go back to the 1960s. At the time, about a quarter of high school students dropped out, while half of those who did graduate went on to college. To boost those numbers, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Higher Education Act in 1965. The bill came along at a moment when states were creating their own institutions to promote higher-­education access, including the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), which would eventually branch off and create FedLoan. It was a recipe that we still rely on today—the federal government provides loans to students across the country, and state governments and other agencies like PHEAA fill in the funding gaps. “When you look into the faces of your students and your children and your grandchildren,” Johnson said, “tell them that the leadership of your country believes it is the obligation of your nation to provide and permit and assist every child born in these borders to receive all the education that he can take.”


But Johnson’s student aid program immediately fell short of his lofty aims. Over the next four decades, it shifted from a model relying on tax dollars to provide a public good into a loan-centered system that viewed education as a “private responsibility and risk”—and student borrowers as sources of profit, says Deanne Loonin, an author and attorney at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School.


Johnson had wanted to create a national scholarship fund for students—like a universal GI Bill—but Congress told him it would be too expensive. So he struck a compromise with Republicans: He would supplement federal funds with loans doled out by private banks, which in turn would receive subsidies from the government, ensuring they would get their money back if a borrower skipped out on the debt. To shore up its insurance program, the feds partnered with dozens of nonprofits and state agencies, including PHEAA. The government would pay out 1 percent of each loan an agency managed. And if borrowers did stop paying, PHEAA and the other institutions would reimburse the lending bank and then act as collection agencies—pocketing collection fees to the tune of 16 cents on the dollar.


Meanwhile, as demand for higher education grew, so did college costs, while incomes didn’t keep pace. So in 1972, President Richard Nixon did two things: He expanded a federally funded grant program for low-income students, which became known as the Pell Grant, and he created an entity called Sallie Mae that used Treasury funds to buy up student loans from banks.

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The FAKE OUR REVOLUTION global banking players like Warren, Gabbard, Turner, Ellison, Sanders, Stein pretending to address these student loan debt problems are actually MOVING FORWARD the same K-CAREER APPRENTICESHIP pathways started during Clinton era.


 Remember last week we discussed a 'failing landlord/tenet tax policy in UK-----that actually was successful since the goal was to kill real estate ownership for landlords------so too this education debt forgiveness was never meant to solve that indebtedness---it was designed to make it worse

'Why is the nation’s flagship loan forgiveness program failing the people it’s supposed to help'?

Our US university executives KNOW these education policy goals -----they say WE DON'T CARE because we work for global corporations and not US public education.  Below we see where the process of US Federal student loans PELL GRANTS which worked for decades providing easily paid student loans at low cost----NIXON creating that global banking 1% SALLIE MAE ----that filled this process with criminality and fraud.  SALLIE MAE is to education student loans what FREDDIE MAC is to FHA housing loans.  Global banking pols subprimed these student loans as they did the subprime housing loans.


'He expanded a federally funded grant program for low-income students, which became known as the Pell Grant, and he created an entity called Sallie Mae'

THE REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE ISSUE ON US STUDENT LOAN FRAUD AND CORRUPTION BY GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS IS TO END THE PRIVATIZATION OF THESE FEDERAL LOANS---ABOLISH FREDDIE MAC AND SALLIE MAE CONNECTION OF FUNDING TO GLOBAL WALL STREET.

Below we see our good friend BENEDICT ARNOLD-----we discussed his use of fraudulent billions to install DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE here in Baltimore MD----and here we see him using those same fraudulent gains KILLING PUBLIC SCHOOLS with THE CITY FUND.

'Billionaire Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, has joined with billionaire former Enron executive, John Arnold, to launch an aggressive destroy public education (DPE) initiative. They claim to have invested $100 million each to start The City Fund'.



Thomas Ultican: The Destroy Public Education Movement Creates a New Vehicle

By dianeravitch
August 21, 2018 //


Retired physics and math teacher Tom Ultican continues his investigation of the Destroy Public Education movement with this post about a new organization determined to extinguish public education by privatization.


He begins:


'Billionaire Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, has joined with billionaire former Enron executive, John Arnold, to launch an aggressive destroy public education (DPE) initiative. They claim to have invested $100 million each to start The City Fund'.

Neerav Kingsland declares he is the Fund’s Managing Partner and says the fund will help cities across America institute proven school reform successes such as increasing “the number of public schools that are governed by non-profit organizations.”



Ending local control of public schools through democratic means is a priority for DPE forces. In 2017, EdSource reported on Hastings campaign against democracy; writing, “His latest salvo against school boards that many regard as a bedrock of American democracy came last week in a speech he made to the annual conference of The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington D.C., attended by about 4,500 enthusiastic charter school advocates, teachers and administrators.”


When announcing the new fund, Kingsland listed fourteen founding members of The City Fund. There is little professional classroom teaching experience or training within the group. Chris Barbic was a Teach for America (TFA) teacher in Houston, Texas for two years. Similarly, Kevin Huffman was also a TFA teacher in Houston for three years. The only other member that may have some education experience is Kevin Shafer. His background is obscure.
The operating structure of the new fund is modeled after a law firm. Six of the fourteen founding members are lawyers: Gary Borden; David Harris; Kevin Huffman; Neerav Kingsland; Jessica Pena and Kameelah Shaheed-Diallo.


Ready to Pilfer Community Schools and End School Boards


In a 2012 published debate about school reform, Kingsland justified his call for ending democratic control of public education writing,


“I believe that true autonomy can only be achieved by government relinquishing its power of school operation. I believe that well regulated charter and voucher markets – that provide educators with public funds to operate their own schools – will outperform all other vehicles of autonomy in the long-run. In short, autonomy must be real autonomy: government operated schools that allow “site level decision making” feels more Orwellian than empowering – if we believe educators should run schools, let’s let them run schools.”


This is a belief in “the invisible hand” of markets making superior judgements and private businesses always outperforming government administration. There may be some truth here, but it is certainly not an ironclad law.


Please open the post to read the rest of this shocking story of arrogance and contempt for democracy, as well as many links.


If we lived in a society that took democracy seriously, the perpetrators of the City Fund would be ridiculed as agents of plutocracy.

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You betcha! Benedict Arnold and his global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS KNIGHTS OF MALTA meets TRIBE OF JUDAH installing more MOVING FORWARD sacking and looting far-right wing policies


'Ready to Pilfer Community Schools and End School Boards'


THE CITY FUND-------is a far-right wing global banking 1% with goals of indeed sacking and looting all future funds designated for our public K-12 under the guise of helping PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Below we see our same Baltimore City Council-----led by the same City Council President Jack Young and Baltimore City Mayor PUGH championed by global banking Baltimore Development FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT social progressive groups ------installing BENEDICT ARNOLD'S THE CITY FUND pretending it is about assuring funding for our local public schools.  Remember, these same global banking 5% freemason/Greek player pols did the same for AFFORDABLE HOUSING----they are creating TRUSTS to replace what used to be Federal and State funding for low-income housing and public schools tied to FEDERAL equal opportunity and access civil rights.  When we allow our city/state revenues to be tied to TRUSTS-----our 99% WE THE PEOPLE lose all control of where these funds go----those appointed to TRUST BOARDS will always be global banking players.

Here we see just one of global banking Baltimore Development FAKE social progressive groups PRETENDING this TRUST----which is the same as ARNOLD'S CITY FUND-----is good for our 99% Baltimore citizens.

This # FUND THE TRUST working for global 1% is BENEDICT ARNOLD'S -----'THE CITY TRUST'.

'These are referred to as the “Sundry Trusts,” each maintained separately and administered according to the terms of the benefactor'.



None of the low-income and poor citizens in this photo understand they are supporting FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% policies with goals of killing 99% of Baltimore citizens black, white, and brown---in both HOUSING AND EDUCATION.



#FundTheTrust!

From the launch of our 20/20 Campaign in January 2016, through the collection of 18,000 signatures that summer to put Question J on the ballot in November and passing with an overwhelming 83% of the vote... every phone call, petition signature, door knocked, community meeting has led us to this moment. Earlier this month, we reached an historic agreement with Baltimore's leadership to put 20 million dollars a year towards creating affordable housing and development without displacement in our city: $20 Million every year to #FundTheTrust!


The Fund The Trust Act will be heard by Councilwoman Middleton's Taxation and Finance Committee on Thursday, September 27th- join us at 10 AM to rally outside of City Hall and at 11 for the hearing! After all our sacrifice to create the AHTF, to influence our City's Budget, and to engage communities around the need to address blight without displacing low-income residents, passing the Fund The Trust Act will be a a decisive step towards a more equitable, accountable, participatory, universal, and transparent city- one that recognizes the power of the people.

OH, REALLY?????????????????


***In advance of the hearing, please call Council President Young to thank him for his hard work and leadership to get us to this moment! His office number is 410-396-4804.***

THU, SEP 27 AT 10 AM
Fund The Trust Rally & Hearing!
Baltimore City Hall · Baltimore

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Both UNITED WORKERS and BUILD are far-right wing global banking 5% freemason/Greek player NGOs working for Baltimore Development to sell policies that kill our 99% of WE THE BALTIMORE CITIZENS.

THE CITY TRUST discussed in our education posts today is the same as what are called EDUCATION TRUSTS----HOUSING TRUSTS------LAND BANK TRUSTS all of which have goals of taking every control and accountability from our local 99% of citizens and hand all that power to global banking 1%. It is another policy that kills our LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL SOVEREIGNTY.

All these FAKE 'LEFT' GROUPS ARE TIED TO FREEMASON/GREEKS WITH CITIZENS WANTING TO CLIMB TO THAT 5% PLAYER. KNOW WHAT? THAT 5% PLAYER GROUP ARE GOING UNDER THE BUS. WHY NOT FIGHT TO BE AMERICAN CITIZENS INSTEAD?

This is how the FAR-RIGHT WING in US was able to undermine 300 years of American democrat government, civil rights and liberties----which go back centuries more to I AM MAN----AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT.


These are global banking national NGOS pushing policy talking points with goals of killing our 99% WE THE PEOPLE while these groups PRETEND these polices HELP THE POOR.  When our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our new to US immigrant citizens join THESE political movements---they are killing their futures----not protesting and marching for GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM 99% WE THE PEOPLE policies----advancing MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1%.


Our MissionOur Mission Statement:
The Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust, in partnership with our nineteen independent member schools, recruits and supports through the admissions process academically ambitious, African American students with financial need from the Baltimore area. Once students are enrolled, B.E.S.T. positions them for success through academic preparation, character and leadership development and support programs.





United Workers
August 13 at 1:03 PM · Last Friday's historic announcement of city leadership committing to $20 million annually to the affordable housing trust fund was an example of a grassroots movement doing things in a new way - mass participation, transparency and accountability to movement goals #endpoverty #fundthetrust Development without Displacement


BUILD
June 29 ·
One more time, June 6 action, clear video. Thank you Kingdom Life Church!
The Kingdom Life Church
June 29 ·

Al-Rahmah Educational Trust

ASET is an independent 501(3)(c) non-profit organization that was setup to support the future financial needs of Al-Rahmah School & Nursery through the creation of a healthy and sustainable endowment fund.


With all the above outsourcing of 'EDUCATION FUNDING' in Baltimore we KNOW 99% of Baltimore citizens have the WORST PUBLIC SCHOOL system in America.  All of what was Federal K-12 school funding was misappropriated to these kinds of freemasonry groups and missing in action just as happens to our state education funding all tied to TRUST FUNDS.

None of the FAKE DEMOCRATIC candidates will FIX this education robbery----they are the same global banking 5% players as GOV HOGAN. MARYLAND has a long history of sending Federal and state funding to TRUSTS where all is used as PAY-TO-PLAY.



Sean Johnson
Feb 16

After Diverting $1.4 Billion from the Education Trust Fund, Hogan Backs Plan to Fix the Fund

 MSEA’s Up the Street

Chart showing how Gov. Hogan has used the Education Trust Fund shell game to shift $1.4 billion away from education during his time in office. Source: Department of Legislative Services


THIS WEEK IN ANNAPOLIS



Gov. Hogan Backs Fix the Fund, Announces His Own Bill



On Wednesday, Gov. Hogan backed the legislature- and educator-led campaign to Fix the Fund — albeit by introducing his own bill. According to his press conference remarks, his version would merely make it mandatory by law for the governor’s budget proposal to use the Education Trust Fund revenue to increase education funding. His bill aims to avoid the far stronger lockbox that would be created by taking this step by way of a constitutional amendment; leaving the funds susceptible to the same shell game we have seen for years since a governor could “pick the lock” of Hogan’s version of the lockbox whenever they wanted to via the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act. Finally, his proposal would also send a small portion of the revenue to school construction dollars, leaving less to fill the $2.9 billion annual underfunding gap for operating expenses like educator salaries and staffing increases.While the governor stole headlines by claiming credit for the idea, he also inadvertently conceded that his own budgets have amounted to a $1.4 billion broken promise. After all, that’s how much more funding would have gone to schools during his time in office had he not raided the Education Trust Fund to plug holes in other parts of his budget proposals.


MSEA released a statement in response, saying in part, “There’s some real hypocrisy in proposing legislation to make you do something you’ve refused to do on your own.” We then called on Gov. Hogan to send the legislature an additional budget — called a supplemental budget — with the $364 million he took away from the Education Trust Fund in his current budget proposal.


Kirwan Preliminary Report Released


The long-awaited Kirwan Commission Preliminary Report was released yesterday following a press conference by legislative leaders and the Commission’s chair, Dr. Brit Kirwan. The report paints a bleak picture of the state of Maryland education based on consultant findings that the average public school is underfunded by $2 million every year.



The Commission wants to address this underfunding by focusing on policy strategies like providing universal access to pre-kindergarten programs, expanding Career and Technical Education (CTE), utilizing the community school model in communities of concentrated poverty, raising teacher salaries, reducing teacher workload, and hiring more mental health professionals.


THESE ARE ALL FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% EDUCATION POLICY GOALS----NOTHING 'LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE' HAPPENING.


Legislative leaders are advancing some small recommendations from the Commission this session in one omnibus bill (HB1415/SB1092). Sponsored by House Speaker Michael Busch (D-Anne Arundel-District 30A) and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, Jr. (D-Calvert, Charles & Prince George’s-District 27), ideas included in the bill include:
· Establish a Career and Technical Education group, composed of individuals with expertise in CTE programs and the needs of the business community to develop rigorous CTE pathways leading to industry-certified credentials.
· Expand the current program of early childhood education by increasing the funding for prekindergarten expansion grants.
· Require MSDE, in collaboration with stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive recruitment program aimed at the top 25% of graduates from high schools (in each school system) to encourage them to consider teaching as a profession.
· Expand and fully fund the Maryland Teaching Fellows Scholarship to provide tuition remission for teachers in return for a commitment to teach in high-needs schools.
· Establish a grant program for jurisdictions or schools with high concentrations of poverty to provide additional academic instruction through after-school and summer programs.

MSEA is planning a march in Annapolis on March 19 called The March to Fix the Fund -- which will focus on asking members of the General Assembly to put a constitutional amendment on the 2018 ballot to ensure casino gaming revenue goes towards increasing education funding. Please RSVP at this link and widely distribute the form to members and community partners.

MSEA KNOWS WE MUST GET RID OF EDUCATION TRUST FUND TO FIX PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING.



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What BENEDICT ARNOLD'S -----THE CITY TRUST targeting education and schools will do if allowed to MOVE FORWARD is replace the local corruption and criminality of PAY-TO-PLAY FAKE NGOs allowed to pretend to have their own TRUSTS for housing and education------with what will be a GLOBAL BANKING 1% CITY TRUST.  As we see all these CITY TRUST funds are geared to funding only K-career schools that perform well on STOCK MARKET----GREAT SCHOOLS RATING CORPORATIONS.  Of course those RATINGS are CORRUPT towards schools pretending to be 'public' -----making sure the RATINGS and the STOCK MARKET gains go only to those K-career corporate schools tied to global corporate campuses as here in Baltimore all K-career schools are being tied to city center global hedge fund corporation JOHNS HOPKINS.

So, it is a given that JOHNS HOPKINS' corporate K-career schools once our US PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ----will be RATED HIGH----will earn great profits----and the CITY TRUST created by JACK YOUNG AND BALTIMORE CITY HALL will only fund those global corporate campus schools.

Below we see national media using THINK TANK talking points still calling THIRD WAY CLINTON NEO-LIBERALISM-----LEFT CENTER.

“Our model is probably different from the model of the [Trump] administration, and it’s not the same model of, if you would, a traditional school district,” said Henderson Lewis Jr., the head of the district that oversees New Orleans charters, in a recent interview. “We’re somewhere in the middle, which I see as a third way.”

Henderson Lewis Jr., the head of the district that oversees New Orleans charters AND TRUMP----same team global banking 5% players.

This is what OBAMA era education reforms did to our FEDERAL K-12 funding system AND our Federal STUDENT LOAN system----killed all that equal opportunity and access and is now handing all those hundreds of billions of dollars to these CITY/STATE TRUSTS.

Here is PENCE INDIANA doing the same to education funding using a different TRUST name


'The groups and schools that the Indianapolis-based Mind Trust — whose logo is at the center — have supported. (The Mind Trust)'



A ‘portfolio’ of schools?

How a nationwide effort to disrupt urban school districts is gaining traction


By Matt Barnum  -  December 6, 2017

Several years ago, Indianapolis Public Schools looked like a lot of urban school districts. The vast majority of students attended traditional public schools, though enrollment was dwindling, and the district had an adversarial relationship with its small but growing number of charter schools.



That’s no longer true. The district is actively turning over schools to charter operators, and it’s rolling out a common enrollment system for district and charter schools that could make it easier for charters to grow. Nearly half of the district’s students now attend charters or district schools with charter-like freedoms.



It’s a remarkable shift that many in Indianapolis credit to — or blame on -- the Mind Trust, a well-funded local nonprofit with a clear vision for improving education in Indianapolis.



Since its founding in 2006, the organization has called for dramatic changes to schools; recruited outside advocacy, teacher training, and charter groups; and spent millions to help launch new charter and district schools. The Mind Trust’s vision has also won support from the school board — which was elected with the financial backing of Stand for Children, an advocacy group recruited by the Mind Trust.



“They’re more influential than the IPS school board and the IPS superintendent,” said MaryAnn Schlegel Ruegger, an Indianapolis public schools advocate who has been critical of the Mind Trust’s role.



Now, a Mind Trust–style organization may be coming to a city near you.



A growing number of philanthropists, advocates, and policymakers say the way to improve schools is to upend the traditional school district. Usually pointing to the same cities as models — Indianapolis, along with Denver, New Orleans, and Washington D.C. — they want to see more charter schools and more district schools run like charter schools.

In their idealized vision, families are free to choose schools outside their neighborhood using an enrollment system encompassing all schools. The district gives up most of its traditional role setting policy for schools and instead becomes the body holding all kinds of schools accountable by closing ones that don’t succeed.


Together, those ideas make up what’s known as the “portfolio model” for managing schools, and its advocates are making a significant mark on a number of American school districts. Their sights are set on even more.


From Atlanta to Cincinnati to Oakland, a loosely connected network of nonprofit groups is working to reshape the way their school districts function. Their national scope has gone mostly unexamined, even as their influence is arguably far more likely to affect schools in the average American city than a Betsy DeVos-inspired voucher program.



Over time, something close to a playbook has emerged from their work. It’s not an exact sequence, and people within the same camp have different opinions about exactly what it should entail.


This is a look at how we got here, a few of the essential steps to reshaping a traditional school district, and what happens next.


A model emerges:


Dozens of cities and millions in support


To understand the growing movement, a good place to start is with Ethan Gray and his organization, Education Cities.


The group started as a project of the Mind Trust, which hired Gray to create a network of peer groups across the country. Gray says his views were deeply influenced by the Mind Trust’s founder and leader David Harris, who helped him “understand how all the different pieces fit together when you’re trying to catalyze major change at the city level.”



Ethan Gray, head of Education Cities.


“Give us the freedom from overly prescriptive regulation and micromanagement, and in turn we will promise to help kids achieve on assessments at a certain level and create a strong school culture,” said Gray, who believes the traditional district model has fallen short, pointing to low test scores and vast achievement gaps.



Those ideas came originally from the academic world, specifically the University of Washington, where a professor named Paul Hill founded the Center on Reinventing Public Education in 1993. There, Hill pushed the idea that the key to improving schools was to rethink school boards.



Instead of operating all schools, boards should oversee them, focusing on which ones do best and worst, he argued. “Like investors with diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds, school boards would closely manage their community’s portfolio of educational service offerings, divesting less productive schools and adding more promising ones,” Hill wrote more than a decade ago.


The stock-market imagery was not a stroke of marketing genius when it came to winning allies in public education, and some advocates still bristle at the term “portfolio.”


“Diane Ravitch and the teachers unions now call us ‘corporate reformers’ and the phrase ‘portfolio model’ plays right into their hands,” said David Osborne, the author of a recent book that rebrands the approach as the “21st century schools” model.



Some charter critics accuse the portfolio model of being a plan to turn all schools into charters, as essentially happened in New Orleans, one of the models for the movement. Osborne argues that districts shouldn’t run schools, instead leaving that to outside groups. Gray insists it can work with district schools, and already is in Denver and Indianapolis.


But even as portfolio advocates differ on some specifics, they are united by broad beliefs, and brought together by unifying hubs. CRPE, the think tank now led by Robin Lake, regularly gathers districts interested in the portfolio model, and Education Cities, which has helped start some of the nonprofit groups, convenes them and offers advice and consulting.



Their work spans the country. Education Cities now counts 32 separate member organizations in 25 cities. So while Gray’s group itself is moderately sized, with around a $2 million budget and a dozen staff members, the ecosystem of independent local groups being built around its ideas is much larger in scope.

Member groups exist in three cities often promoted as models: in Indianapolis, it’s the Mind Trust. In New Orleans, it’s New Schools for New Orleans. Denver — a district with a self-described portfolio-management team — has two local philanthropies in the Education Cities network, and a new organization recently opened there that Gray says he helped advise.


Potentially representing the next wave of the movement, other member groups operate in cities like Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Oakland, which have not generally embraced the portfolio model.


Those organizations, which Gray calls “quarterbacks,” distribute money to get the portfolio approach off the ground in their cities — supporting schools seen as successful (often both charter and district schools), pushing for policies like common enrollment, and recruiting national education groups like Teach for America, Relay Graduate School of Education, TNTP, and Stand For Children.


Exactly how much money has flowed to support the portfolio model across the country is unclear. But prominent philanthropies, including some that have also spent millions in recent years funding charter schools nationwide, are investing heavily.


Education Cities is supported by a number of them, including the Dell and Walton foundations, as is CRPE. (Walton also supports Chalkbeat. Read more about our funding here.)



Many of the member groups are headed by former charter leaders and receive money from those national foundations, who see their investments as creating proof points that could become models for other cities. The Mind Trust, for instance, says it has raised $77 million since its inception in 2006, the bulk of which cames from local donors and a third from national groups.


The philanthropy that has most clearly embraced the portfolio model is the Arnold Foundation, whose K-12 education work is now led by Neerav Kingsland, the former head of New Schools for New Orleans. The Arnold Foundation has awarded a nearly $2 million grant to Education Cities and millions more to a handful of local quarterback groups, including the Mind Trust.



“If The Mind Trust can help to produce … gains in Indianapolis, the city can serve as a model for other communities across the nation,” John Arnold said in a video explaining his foundation’s investments.


But Education Cities operates on the principle that good ideas alone won’t reshape districts.
“We’re skeptical that systems themselves will actually go through some sort of self-driven transformation,” Gray says.



That’s where the nonprofit “quarterbacks” and their allies come in. They have varying perspectives and priorities, and there isn’t a set sequence of actions that they all take. But for simplicity’s sake, here are three common pieces of their strategy.



Strategy #1: Apply outside pressure.

Rather than waiting for districts to improve their schools, the groups pressure them to change course by directly supporting schools they see as effective and by creating new schools altogether.



The Mind Trust, for instance, partners with Indianapolis Public Schools to help select, fund, and launch new innovation schools. Those schools are run by outside operators, not unionized, and free from district rules around things like teacher pay or length of the school day, though they are officially counted as district schools.


The Philadelphia Schools Partnership, an Education Cities group, funded the opening of five new schools (four charters and one district-run) last school year. Great Public Schools Now, a Los Angeles-based group, pledged nearly $4 million to expand five district schools and has helped pay for a charter school’s new building.


In other cases, that means inviting charter operators to include the local market in their expansion plans, like when the Mind Trust tried to bring the Rocketship charter school network to Indianapolis, though ultimately no Rocketship schools opened there.



The idea is that with new, high-quality schools attracting local students, school districts may have to close their lowest-performing schools to stay solvent — a process some see as a feature, not a bug.


Myrna Castrejón, the head of Great Public Schools Now, at a town hall event. (GPSN)“To the extent that our expansion creates the urgent need for [district] realignment and closures, I think we would be very supportive of that,” said Myrna Castrejón, the head of Great Public Schools Now.


“We believe strongly [that] schools shouldn’t have an automatic right to taxpayer resources in the absence of effectiveness,” said Mark Gleason, the head of the Philadelphia School Partnership.


Advocates for the idea of opening new schools and closing others based on performance often point to New Orleans, where the school district was dismantled after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and has been almost completely replaced by charter schools. Charters there are largely free to operate as their leaders see fit, but their student performance is monitored, and a number have been closed for low test scores.



Test scores have improved dramatically across New Orleans in the years since, though some of those gains appear to have faded recently. Research found a substantial chunk of the improvements came from closing or replacing existing schools.
But the success of school closures or takeovers is far from guaranteed.

Students’ new schools are not necessarily better; for instance, the Achievement School District in Tennessee, which had charter operators take over district schools and has been praised as a leader in implementing the portfolio model, did not improve test scores.


Districts also don’t always close schools quickly, resulting in students and resources being spread thin across all schools. And when they do shutter schools, communities often resist, worrying about the loss of a local institution.
“I’m concerned about the number and burden of closures on particular communities,” said Terrenda White, a professor at the University of Colorado who has questioned the success of Denver’s school reforms. “That means more risk for displacement of kids and teachers.”


Strategy #2: Push for one-stop school enrollment.

Another piece of the portfolio playbook is supporting enrollment systems that allow families to easily choose among district and charter schools.



Adding new schools and new choices can make things harder on parents, who must navigate several enrollment processes to make a choice and get assigned to a school. Common enrollment systems create a single place to navigate it all — while also ensuring that all parents are exposed to new schools, and making it especially clear to district leaders which schools are attracting the fewest students.




“In addition to efficiency for families, unified enrollment helps the system make better decisions about which schools to replicate, recruit, incubate, scale, and maximize and, perhaps, where to locate them,” according to an Education Cities report.


Denver, New Orleans, and Washington D.C. all have common enrollment systems, and Indianapolis just adopted one. In Denver, the use of a streamlined system did in fact increase enrollment in charters among low-income students and English-language learners, though in New Orleans parents said it was actually harder to navigate initially.



"We believe strongly schools shouldn’t have an automatic right to taxpayer resources in the absence of effectiveness."Mark Gleason, Philadelphia School Partnership

In places where this system doesn’t exist, Education Cities groups are often pushing for it.



The Philadelphia Schools Partnership created a detailed plan to unify enrollment in the city’s district, charter and private schools, though the idea hasn’t taken off. Oakland-based Educate78 also spearheaded an ultimately unsuccessful effort to create a common system for district and charter schools with a $300,000 grant. The head of SchoolSmartKC, a Kansas City group, has testified before the state legislature in favor of a unified system, though the district’s superintendent says he’s skeptical.


While charter critics see the approach as a veiled effort to expand charters, centralized systems like this have also drawn another surprising adversary: more conservative supporters of school choice.



These free-market charter supporters fear that a single entity — a portfolio manager — with the power to manage enrollment and choose which schools to open and close would actually limit choice, put too much focus on test scores, and risk allowing unions to wrest control of the entire apparatus.



In fact, in 2016 it was Betsy DeVos, now the U.S. Secretary of Education, who was the key opponent of a plan to create a commission to act like a portfolio manager in Detroit, an effort spearheaded by an Education Cities member group in the city.



Strategy #3: Create a very different power structure.


Outside groups like the Education Cities quarterbacks can only do so much to implement this vision.
To see it brought to life requires the buy-in of the school board, mayor, or state — whoever runs the schools. That’s why the portfolio approach has gained particular traction in districts where states have taken over the schools, including New Orleans, Newark, and Lawrence, Massachusetts.



The groups and schools that the Indianapolis-based Mind Trust — whose logo is at the center — have supported. (The Mind Trust)



In other instances, supporters of charter schools have pushed change in school districts by working to fill local school boards with people sympathetic to the portfolio model.


Indianapolis is a case in point. The Mind Trust recruited Stand For Children, an advocacy organization that supports political candidates. In the 2012 election, Stand-endorsed candidates shifted control of the school board.



The organization doesn’t have to disclose how much it spent to support school board members in the city, but Stand for Children’s annual report says that in 2012, it “help[ed] elect two new members to the Indianapolis Public Schools board, which [led] to the exit of an ineffective superintendent.” The report also claims credit for school board victories in 2014 and 2016.



The capture of the school board cleared the way for many subsequent changes, including the hiring of a superintendent Lewis Ferebee who has supported a portfolio vision of the school district.


“If you look at Indianapolis, there’s no way to implement the vision without democratically controlled support,” Gray said.


School boards favorable to a portfolio-aligned vision have also been elected in Denver and more recently in Los Angeles, with financial backing from wealthy advocates of charter schools. Those charter school supporters have matched and sometimes exceeded spending by unions in a number of school board races previously dominated by teachers groups.



The portfolio model undercuts the unions and associations that represent teachers in other ways. The biggest is by reducing the number of schools whose teachers belong to the union, diminishing the union’s membership — and thus its power and its money.



The degree to which this is true depends on the political climate: in Indianapolis, innovation network schools are not under the district’s collective bargaining agreement, and thus lose certain job protections. Denver’s innovation schools can waive certain parts of the union contract, though teachers can still choose to join the union.



But most charter schools are not unionized. In New Orleans, soon after Hurricane Katrina teachers in the existing district were unilaterally fired, gutting the United Teachers of New Orleans, which has since organized at a handful of charters.


To some advocates, the reduction in union strength is integral to the model. They see an entrenched bureaucracy, maintained by “adult interests” — usually code for teachers unions — as the problem, and the portfolio vision as the solution.


“More than any other single reform this model breaks the political stranglehold interest groups have over elected school boards,” writes Osborne in his book “Reinventing America’s Schools.” (Osborne recently compared teachers unions’ opposition to charter school expansion in Massachusetts to George Wallace’s promotion of mandated school segregation.) Osborne’s work has been funded by prominent philanthropic supporters of charter schools and the portfolio model: the Arnold, Broad, and Walton foundations.




Some worry about the role of philanthropy, big-money donors, and state takeovers as undermining local, democratic control.


"We’re skeptical that systems themselves will actually go through some sort of self-driven transformation."Ethan Gray, Education Cities“As elected school board members, once our term is up, we come back up for consideration,” said Jennifer Wolfsie, a school board member in Kansas City. “If the constituents I serve are not happy they have the opportunity … to vote me out,” she said. “In philanthropy, there isn’t that process.”




Huriya Jabbar, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who has studied New Orleans schools post-Katrina, acknowledges the large test-score gains in the city as a result of the reforms. But, she said, that came with a cost: community buy-in, in the wake of the mass dismissal of New Orleans’ largely black teaching force and the state takeover of most of the city schools.


“Even advocates of the reforms have acknowledged that the one thing they got wrong was community,” Jabbar said. “And I think of that as quite a big thing.”



The future: The portfolio idea in the DeVos era


Exactly how far these groups will be able to push their school districts toward a new way of running its schools is unclear. Few places are like Indianapolis or Denver, with strong political support for the model — and New Orleans’ hurricane-induced changes make it entirely unique.


New quarterback-style groups have continued to emerge, including ones recently formed in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, and Memphis. But other Education Cities members have faced setbacks.


In Nashville, the group Project Renaissance recently scaled back its operations, and despite heavy involvement from Stand for Children, charter skeptics maintained control of the school board in elections last year. A Detroit group also recently closed down, though the Skillman Foundation there remains an Education Cities member.



One place where there is no Education Cities group: New York City, which under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg was held up as a model by portfolio advocates like Paul Hill. That approach was substantially altered by Bloomberg’s replacement, Bill de Blasio, who has been cool to charters, slowed school closures, and reduced principals’ autonomy.


These setbacks underscore the challenges portfolio advocates will face in advancing their vision. Even its supporters disagree on a number of points — how clear their case is for a nationwide expansion, what strategies to pursue, and whether the model can work for district-run schools.


Meanwhile, the effort comes in a perilous time for charter school supporters, as nationwide support has dropped and they have become linked to an unpopular president and education secretary.


But for left-of-center charter backers, the portfolio approach presents an opportunity to position their brand of school choice as distinct from DeVos and other conservatives, who emphasize private school vouchers and want few limits on parent choice.


“Our model is probably different from the model of the [Trump] administration, and it’s not the same model of, if you would, a traditional school district,” said Henderson Lewis Jr., the head of the district that oversees New Orleans charters, in a recent interview. “We’re somewhere in the middle, which I see as a third way.”

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'Ethan Gray, head of Education Cities'.

Here in Baltimore our Baltimore City Hall and Baltimore Development Corporation ---Greater Baltimore Committee, and global hedge fund corporation JOHNS HOPKINS are already MOVING FORWARD the killing of AMERICAN PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY with this THE CITY FUND policy bringing out all those far-right wing 5% freemason/Greek player global banking non-profits to PRETEND all this is good for the poor.

The REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE education policy stance is killing all these NGOs tied to far-right wing and rebuild our US Federal public school funding system tied to US CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS----tied to US BILL OF RIGHTS-----tied to several decades of FEDERAL COURT PRECEDENCE.

How hard is it to get all these global banking NGOs out of our US city government?  It is as EASY PEASY as getting rid of all global banking 5% player pols black, white, and brown.  All our US public education structure is still in place----the system has simply been corrupted by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.


Destroy Public Education, Version 2.0: The City Fund

August 29, 2018 by Thomas Ultican



Credit: Pixabay
By Thomas Ultican / Tultican


Billionaire Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings, has joined with billionaire former Enron executive, John Arnold, to launch an aggressive destroy public education (DPE) initiative. They claim to have invested $100 million each to start The City Fund. Neerav Kingsland declares he is the Fund’s Managing Partner and says the fund will help cities across America institute proven school reform successes such as increasing “the number of public schools that are governed by non-profit organizations.”


Ending local control of public schools through democratic means is a priority for DPE forces. In 2017, EdSource reported on Hastings campaign against democracy; writing, “His latest salvo against school boards that many regard as a bedrock of American democracy came last week in a speech he made to the annual conference of The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Washington D.C., attended by about 4,500 enthusiastic charter school advocates, teachers and administrators.”



When announcing the new fund, Kingsland listed fourteen founding members of The City Fund. There is little professional classroom teaching experience or training within the group. Chris Barbic was a Teach for America (TFA) teacher in Houston, Texas for two years. Similarly, Kevin Huffman was also a TFA teacher in Houston for three years. The only other member that may have some education experience is Kevin Shafer. His background is obscure.



The operating structure of the new fund is modeled after a law firm. Six of the fourteen founding members are lawyers: Gary Borden; David Harris; Kevin Huffman; Neerav Kingsland; Jessica Pena and Kameelah Shaheed-Diallo.



Ready to Pilfer Community Schools and End School Boards

In a 2012 published debate about school reform, Kingsland justified his call for ending democratic control of public education writing,



“I believe that true autonomy can only be achieved by government relinquishing its power of school operation. I believe that well regulated charter and voucher markets – that provide educators with public funds to operate their own schools – will outperform all other vehicles of autonomy in the long-run. In short, autonomy must be real autonomy: government operated schools that allow “site level decision making” feels more Orwellian than empowering – if we believe educators should run schools, let’s let them run schools.”



This is a belief in “the invisible hand” of markets making superior judgments and private businesses always outperforming government administration. There may be some truth here, but it is certainly not an ironclad law.



The City Fund has distinct roots stretching back to early 2016.


On April 4 that year, Kingsland announced on his blog, Relinquishment, “Very excited about this update: Ken Bubp and Chris Barbic are joining the combined efforts of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and Hastings Fund.”



In January of 2016, Philanthropy News Digest reported, “Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings has announced that he has created a $100 million fund at the  (SVCF) that will be focused on education.”




The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a donor-directed fund, so Hastings’s fund is dark money with no way of tracking where its tax-free spending is directed. The SVCF 2016 tax form shows Neerav Kingsland earning $253,846 as a Managing Director of the Hastings fund. He was also simultaneously serving as Senior Education Fellow at the Arnold Foundation and was on the board at the California Charter Schools Association.



The SVCF was founded in 2006 and has grown to be one of the largest non-profit charities in America. The tax form cited above shows a total income in 2016 of $4.4 billion and end of year assets of $7.2 billion while making grants totaling to $1.9 billion.


A March 2018 article in Chalkbeat reported,


“Eleven years after founding a nonprofit that has dramatically reshaped Indianapolis schools, David Harris is stepping down to help launch an as yet unexplained national education group.”
“The national group is in the early stages of development, said Harris, who declined to provide more details about his co-founders or their plans. A release from The Mind Trust said the new organization aims to ‘help cities around the country build the right conditions for education change.’”




Much of the description of The City Fund sounds like the activities of the national DPE organization, Education Cities. At the end of July, the Education Cities website disclosed,



“Today, we are announcing that Education Cities is undergoing an evolution that we think will better support local education leaders.


“Several staff from Education Cities – including our Founder and CEO, Ethan Gray – are partnering with colleagues from the philanthropic, non-profit, district, charter, and state sectors to create a new non-profit organization called The City Fund.”



The City Fund has not shared a web-address, but they have clearly started work. Four of the announced members have updated their LinkedIn profiles indicating they started working for The City Fund in either June or July.



The City Fund’s central agenda is promoting the portfolio model of school reform. Schools scoring in the bottom 5 percent on standardized testing are to be closed and reopened as charter schools or Innovation schools. In either case, the local community loses their right to hold elected leaders accountable, because the schools are removed from the school boards portfolio.


Even Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas wrote an open letter to John Arnold warning about what a bad idea the portfolio model is. He began, “The Arnold Foundation invests heavily in another initiative that promotes rigorous science for medical and policy decision-making, yet they do not seem to apply that same standard of proof to their own education strategy.’
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We will end this week's discussion of education public policy by returning to a topic often discussed----TEACH FOR AMERICA as that global banking 1% privatized teaching corporation which is literally forcing our public school teachers to join them as they get forced to retire or are fired by our local SCHOOL BOARDS-----under FALSE pretenses.

What is sad for our American 99% WE THE PEOPLE is watching our citizens simply fighting to have a job-------being pushed into the national media as the face of support for these EDUCATION REFORMS----made to look like WINNERS when they are tied to THE CITY TRUSTS and GREAT SCHOOLS RATING CORPORATIONS for corporate K-career schools on STOCK MARKET.

Folks, we are MOVING FORWARD to an end of US FED/US WALL STREET as ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE creates ONE CENTRAL BANK with only private stock options open to only the global 1%.  No one is WINNING in future income supporting all these EDUCATION TRUSTS ---HOUSING TRUSTS-----LAND BANK TRUSTS.



'When announcing the new fund, Kingsland listed fourteen founding members of The City Fund. There is little professional classroom teaching experience or training within the group. Chris Barbic was a Teach for America (TFA) teacher in Houston, Texas for two years'.


We do not see HAPPY CAMPERS in our TEACH FOR AMERICA CORPORATE education employees.

We do not see HAPPY CAMPERS in our TEACH FOR AMERICA CORPORATE education employees. Of course our global banking 5% player international labor leaders simply see organizing TEACH FOR AMERICA as the solution---soon those same 5% labor players will be organizing ROBOTS and AI----well, not really.

If 350 million US citizens black, white, and brown and our new to US immigrant citizens do not support this----work to STOP MOVING FORWARD we can indeed FIX BALTIMORE by building a REAL public K-university.


This is to where all our US STEM college grads were forced to work----not in their careers but pushing BAD EDUCATION POLICIES


'Teach for America, a program which places high-achieving college graduates as teachers in low-income schools around the country',

US CITIES AS FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES------are those CITY TRUSTS.



Teach For America under heavy fire from educators and former members


Critics allege that the program destabilizes schools and communities and questioned its role in privatization of education


Teach for America, a program which places high-achieving college graduates as teachers in low-income schools around the country, is coming under heavy criticism by educators who allege its training for teachers is insufficient and that it destabilizes schools and communities.

About 100 of those critics assembled in Chicago last weekend at the Free Minds Free People education conference to discuss "organizing resistance against Teach for America", which is one of the most well-known efforts to improve the nation's flagging educational system. Its educators represent less than 1% of teachers in the US.

TFA alumni, parents, community activists and veteran teachers gathered to discuss concerns over the role the program plays in the privatization of education. Their criticisms fall in line with those mounted against the program in the past: that the seven-week training program is insufficient, that it destabilizes schools with short-term teachers, and that it disenfranchises communities. In 2009, USA Today reported on concerns that the program's teachers were displacing older educators.



"In the end, I felt the way I was teaching brought me and my students and their communities pain, and that's why I'm part of this movement now," said Hannah Price, a TFA alumna and current teacher who attended the meeting in Chicago. "It doesn't have to be like that."

"We certainly have areas of improvements are looking to be better, but based on what we hear from the principals that employ our teachers and the results we see in organizations where our alumni play leadership roles, we have had a positive impact, and that has to be part of the discussion," said TFA spokesman Steve Mancini.


Problems in New Orleans
TFA participants, usually recent college graduates who have majored in subjects other than teaching, must pass a test before they are are placed in schools in low-income communities for a two-year commitment. They undergo seven weeks of training before the school year begins, and continue to receive coaching from veteran teachers, a TFA coach and an alumni network throughout their commitment.

Price began her two-year commitment in New Orleans in 2010 and said she felt unprepared to teach. She said she was distressed by things including an expectation that she should keep her students silent in the hallways, at lunch and in reading periods.


"It felt so unnatural, but I didn't have the experience or language to process how detrimental that was to students," Price said.


Price was on the verge of quitting until she started using resources outside TFA to augment her teaching and help her connect with the local community. Price still works as a teacher in New Orleans, and she credits veteran teacher Stephanie Anders for providing her with the support to continue with the program.


The two met at the New Teachers' Roundtable, a group that encourages new teachers to think critically about the New Orleans public school system. Anders, now a doctoral student at the University of New Orleans, said that before joining the group: "I had kind of thought of the TFA people as bad guys."



Anders is a traditionally trained teacher, with multiple professional certifications and extensive experience as an instructional coach for teachers. Yet she has been unable to find a full-time teaching position in New Orleans and she feels TFA's permeation of the New Orleans school system has played a role in that. This year, approximately 375 New Orleans teachers are members of TFA, up from 85 a few years ago.


Louisiana state officials laid off more than 7,000 employees and took over 102 of 117 city schools after Hurricane Katrina left the city's population scattered in 2005. When it was time to rehire teachers, the government overlooked the fired employees, who have since won a $1.5bn class action lawsuit which the school system is appealing. At the same time, Teach for America's New Orleans program thrived, creating tension in the city's educational community.


Mancini, the TFA spokesman, said those hiring decisions were made by school principals, not the program.


"Teach for America, for over 20 years, has brought smart, caring and dedicated people into education and work in low-income communities," Mancini said. "Over 80% of our alumni are either working in schools or in education or in low-income communities."

ISN'T THAT A COINCIDENCE----FOR 20 YEARS OF CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA OUR US COLLEGE GRADS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND JOBS IN THEIR DEGREE FIELDS----THEY ARE BEING PUSHED TO TEACH FOR AMERICA.


The organization has long used data to defend criticisms, though many feel the reports are skewed and a fair study comparing a TFA teacher to a traditionally trained teacher doesn't yet exist.



TFA's co-chief executives recently completed a "listening tour" during which they received feedback from members, community members and alumni who provided "a wide range of opinions", said Mancini.


"Teach for America is not the only program who has teachers who struggle in their first year – teachers in traditional programs struggle," said Mancini. "The question should be how do we help first year teachers improve and grow, how do they become constant learners in the classroom. We're constantly thinking about the feedback to give those teachers to get better."

IS THERE REALLY a crying need for graduates with STEM degrees?  Absolutely NOT.

The article below appears in PARENTING------and it is written by GREAT SCHOOLS.  We discuss often that GREAT SCHOOLS is a global banking STOCK MARKET rating agency geared to CORPORATE EDUCATION promoting those global education corporations to boost profit-margins.  When PARENTING prints an article on education written by global banking 1%---it is not providing REAL INFORMATION for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

'Students who manage their time well may succeed in STEM programs that are self-paced and have kids working on independent projects'.

The statement above should be a warning to a super-majority of our US parents.  Our US public education plummeted from BEST IN WORLD to worst in developed nations because of CLINTON ERA 1990s EDUCATION REFORMS that removed all classroom RIGOR----that removed all individual responsibility for learning when it installed the classroom format of GROUP LEARNING.  Our US student results led to large numbers of students not able to read or write because they were allowed to be LOST inside GROUP LEARNING.  We KNOW only 10-20% of our students respond well to GROUP LEARNING FORMATS.  Even those percentage of students often do not perform well without guided learning.

As this article states---the format inside these STEM schools besides having GROUP LEARNING is computer oriented lesson programs where all the basics of creating graphs, creative thought on how data should be represented are provided in online lessons.  Remember, our US students lost the ability to do BASIC MATH-----because they were allowed to use CALCULATORS.


The lowdown on STEM schools


Given the crying need for graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees, is a STEM school right for your child?

by: Crystal Yednak | September 21, 2015 PARENTING
 
A high school student tosses a ball into the air and watches it fall. Then he films the falling ball and graphs the movement on his computer. Nearby, a sophomore scrawls out equations with a blue marker, while a classmate looks over his shoulder and shakes her head. “I think that number should be negative.” They come to an agreement before the teacher stops by, nudging them to explain how they got it. This action-packed hour is a science class — “Scientific Inquiry — Physics,” to be exact.



This type of noisy, exuberant classroom exemplifies what Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) schools are about. Learning is collaborative and project-based; kids work closely together in a hands-on way to solve real-world problems. Learning problem-solving skills — and helping students develop into creative, critical thinkers — is at the core of any true STEM school. “Teachers are not just telling us,” says Jennifer Bailey, 17, a senior at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. “We use our own data and discovery to realize a concept.” While all schools teach math and science, good STEM schools focus deeply on these subjects in hopes of better preparing students for the high-demand tech jobs of the future.


Is a STEM school right for my child?

If your child has an innate interest in science or building things, a STEM school may be a natural choice. But administrators say these schools cater to all kinds of learners and that most students appreciate the hands-on nature of the curricula. Students who manage their time well may succeed in STEM programs that are self-paced and have kids working on independent projects.


Why you might consider a STEM high school


Over the past 10 years, jobs in STEM fields have grown three times as fast as jobs in non-STEM fields, according to the Department of Commerce, and STEM fields are expected to grow by 17 percent between 2008 and 2018, compared to just 9.8 percent growth for non-STEM fields in the same time frame. But without an influx of graduates in these areas, the U.S. will not have enough workers to fill those jobs. STEM schools can help young people gain the skills necessary to succeed in these fields. Over the next decade alone, the U.S. must produce approximately 1 million more STEM-degree graduates than currently projected to meet the demands of the economy, according to a 2012 report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Recognizing this gap, educators have focused on getting more students hooked on math and science earlier in their school careers, which is why more STEM programs are being launched nationwide.



You’ll mainly find STEM high schools, but there are some middle schools with a STEM emphasis, too. Some STEM schools are open to all students, meaning there are no tests required; others are selective and consider a student’s academic record in admission decisions.

There are three primary types of STEM programs:

• A STEM specialty school: The entire school’s focus is on STEM and every student participates in a curriculum of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
• A STEM program within a larger school: Some schools create STEM academies within their schools that allow interested students to study STEM in more depth.
• Residential STEM programs: For these intensive programs, students live on campus and attend a STEM school.

Programs may delve broadly into all STEM subjects or they may specialize in a particular area, such as computer technology. Vocational or CTE programs that prepare students for certain high-tech fields also fall within the spectrum of STEM schools.


What you might find in a STEM classroom

• Students behaving as scientists: On a typical day, they may be recording observations, carrying out experiments, or conducting their own research. Learning is project-based and sometimes messy, but students learn by doing, not by rote memorization.
• Connecting STEM learning to a career: To help students understand what kind of STEM jobs are available, schools may bring in tutors from local technology companies or organize internships at hospitals or research institutions.
• Integrating with other subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math subjects are woven into other areas of the curriculum, with courses such as the “History of Science” or “Environmental History.”
• Making use of technology: By taking quizzes on their laptops, entering data into spreadsheets, and creating graphs to illustrate the results of their experiments, students are using technology in their daily studies. STEM programs such as L&N STEM Academy in Knoxville, TN, participate in one-to-one programs through which students are given their own individual computer (or iPad, in this case) for their work. Teachers may have web pages featuring necessary classroom materials, which may also allow students to work ahead if they want to or review a lesson if need be.
• Noise: Classrooms are not quiet and are often arranged so that students can sit and work in groups. This encourages collaboration as students discuss their work and challenge each other’s ideas.

Questions to ask when considering a STEM school

• Is this really a STEM school? With the recent national focus on creating more STEM graduates, “You see lots of places springing up calling themselves STEM schools, but they don’t necessarily have a clearly articulated explanation of what makes them STEM,” said Christopher Kolar, founding co-chair of the Committee for the Advancement of STEM Specialty Schools. Does the school offer a full STEM program beyond the science and mathematics offered in typical schools? A look at the course schedule may indicate whether the coursework is there to challenge students and prep them for higher-level college STEM courses. For instance, are pre-calculus, calculus, and AP calculus offered? Can students take a second year of physics or engineering? Consider the breadth and depth of the school’s STEM offerings.
• Does it help prepare students for a STEM career? To be sure the school is properly preparing students for the jobs of the future, ask school administrators if they communicate with students’ potential employers. Businesses should be partners, bringing in resources, providing role models for students, and keeping staff up-to-date on new developments so the curriculum stays relevant.
• Are students working with computers and other technology? Or are the new iPads sitting in a box in the corner because teachers have not been trained on how to incorporate them into lesson plans? Ask for examples of how laptops (or tablets) help with instruction and if the administration provides ongoing technology training for teachers. Likewise, does the school have the lab equipment necessary for students to do a broad range of experiments?
• Do teachers have backgrounds in the subjects they are teaching? Science should be taught by teachers who are excited about and understand science. Also, do mentoring programs exist to encourage teachers to improve their STEM skills and knowledge?

What supporters say


If we want to have the scientists and engineers to solve future problems, STEM schools are important to the country’s future: finding sustainable energy sources, keeping water supplies clean, and discovering new technologies that help us compete in a global economy. Supporters say there is an urgent need to attract and educate more students in these fields and keep them engrossed throughout their elementary, high school, and college years. And from the student’s perspective, if they have the skills employers need, they will have an easier time finding a job upon graduation.
What critics sayBy increasing the emphasis on science, math, technology, and engineering, some worry that students may lose out on other key skills. Electives like foreign languages and the arts help foster creativity and broaden students’ world view. Some STEM programs try to make up for this by offering arts programs after school; others say they recognize the need and incorporate as much arts education as they can into the school day.


Because girls historically have not shown the same interest in STEM fields as boys, critics say the schools need to do more to reach out to girls and get them excited about science by providing role models in female scientists or crushing traditional gender stereotypes in the classroom.


A final word of advice

Make sure you understand how fully the school has embraced a STEM curriculum. If you are expecting your child to be taking advanced physics courses and the school only offers one introductory course, both you and your child could be disappointed. Ask the school to see sample schedules. As always: visit any school you’re considering. Talk to teachers about the ways students use technology in class. Poke your head in the labs. Ask what professional development opportunities exist for teachers to stay on top of their game and whether the school has networked with local companies and research institutions.


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Here we have an article written with REAL data on education and job stats. The US has all last century been the world leader in STEM education and graduates----our US students are not DUMBER incapable.

When we think about the article shared this week telling us CHINA is already retooling those global factories to robotics and AI to a point of needing a few dozen human workers----we know there are hundreds of millions of Chinese 99% perfectly capable of being STEM GRADS who will not be getting those jobs either. So, there is a GLUT of student grads around the world wanting those STEM jobs.

WHEN OUR US k-12 AND UNIVERSITIES DELIBERATELY STAGE CAREER CURRICULA KNOWING OUR US COLLEGE GRADS WILL NOT FIND JOBS----THEY ARE NOT WORKING IN PUBLIC INTEREST.


The problem is NOT that US 99% WE THE PEOPLE are being made to compete with global labor pool for increasingly fewer jobs especially in STEM----the problem is US students are losing the best in world history BROAD CATEGORIES of vocational pathways having the PARENTS AND STUDENTS deciding and choosing what fits best for our children.


11 million US STEM grads working outside their degree category-----you better believe this is a conservative figure.



30 Aug 2013 | 14:00 GMT

The STEM Crisis Is a Myth

Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians


By Robert N. Charettet


You must have seen the warning a thousand times: Too few young people study scientific or technical subjects, businesses can’t find enough workers in those fields, and the country’s competitive edge is threatened.


It pretty much doesn’t matter what country you’re talking about—the United States is facing this crisis, as is Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Brazil, South Africa, Singapore, India…the list goes on. In many of these countries, the predicted shortfall of STEM (short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workers is supposed to number in the hundreds of thousands or even the millions. A 2012 report by President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, for instance, stated that over the next decade, 1 million additional STEM graduates will be needed. In the U.K., the Royal Academy of Engineering reported last year that the nation will have to graduate 100 000 STEM majors every year until 2020 just to stay even with demand. Germany, meanwhile, is sa to have a shortage of about 210 000 workers in what’s known there as the MINT disciplines—mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology.



The situation is so dismal that governments everywhere are now pouring billions of dollars each year into myriad efforts designed to boost the ranks of STEM workers. President Obama has called for government and industry to train 10 000 new U.S. engineers every year as well as 100 000 additional STEM teachers by 2020. And until those new recruits enter the workforce, tech companies like Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are lobbying to boost the number of H-1B visas--temporary immigration permits for skilled workers—from 65 000 per year to as many as 180 000. The European Union is similarly introducing the new Blue Card visa to bring in skilled workers from outside the EU. The government of India has said it needs to add 800 new universities, in part to avoid a shortfall of 1.6 million university-educated engineers by the end of the decade.



And yet, alongside such dire projections, you’ll also find reports suggesting just the opposite--that there are more STEM workers than suitable jobs. One study found, for example, that wages for U.S. workers in computer and math fields have largely stagnated since 2000. Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid- and late-career Ph.D.s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.




  A Matter of Supply vs. Demand: Every year U.S. schools grant more STEM degrees than there are available jobs. When you factor in H-1B visa holders, existing STEM degree holders, and the like, it’s hard to make a case that there’s a STEM labor shortage.



To parse the simultaneous claims of both a shortage and a surplus of STEM workers, we’ll need to delve into the data behind the debate, how it got going more than a half century ago, and the societal, economic, and nationalistic biases that have perpetuated it. And what that dissection reveals is that there is indeed a STEM crisis—just not the one everyone’s been talking about. The real STEM crisis is one of literacy: the fact that today’s students are not receiving a solid grounding in science, math, and engineering.



In preparing this article, I went through hundreds of reports, articles, and white papers from the past six decades. There were plenty of data, but there was also an extraordinary amount of inconsistency. Who exactly is a STEM worker: somebody with a bachelor’s degree or higher in a STEM discipline? Somebody whose job requires use of a STEM subject? What about someone who manages STEM workers? And which disciplines and industries fall under the STEM umbrella?



Such definitions obviously affect the counts. For example, in the United States, both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Commerce track the number of STEM jobs, but using different metrics. According to Commerce, 7.6 million individuals worked in STEM jobs in 2010, or about 5.5 percent of the U.S. workforce. That number includes professional and technical support occupations in the fields of computer science and mathematics, engineering, and life and physical sciences as well as management. The NSF, by contrast, counts 12.4 million science and engineering jobs in the United States, including a number of areas that the Commerce Department excludes, such as health-care workers (4.3 million) and psychologists and social scientists (518 000).



The STEM Crisis Through the Decades

Predictions of an impending shortage of scientists and engineers are nothing new

“Right now…there is a sufficiency of engineers, but one of our greatest industrial organizations, after careful study, predicts the entire absorption of this group by the end of 1936, with a probable shortage of available engineers at that time.”
—Collins P. Bliss,dean of New York University’s College of Engineering, 1934



“With mounting demands for scientists both for teaching and for research, we will enter the postwar period with a serious deficit in our trained scientific personnel.”
—Vannevar Bush,director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1945



“Our national welfare, our defense, our standard of living could all be jeopardized by the mismanagement of this supply and demand problem in the field of trained creative intelligence.”
—James Killian,president of MIT, 1954



“From 1972 through 1975, the expected demand for engineers will exceed not only the supply coming from American engineering schools, but also the combined supply from the United States and foreign countries, according to the [Engineering Manpower Commission] estimates.”
—John W. Graham Jr.,president of Clarkson College of Technology, 1970



“The electronics and information technology industries will be short more than 100 000 electrical and computer science engineers over the next five years.”
—American Electronics Association,1983

“Already spot shortages exist in some science fields in the United States, and unless dramatic changes are made in the way we educate all of our students, including our most talented, the shortages will increase.”
—U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement,1993



“U.S. companies face a severe shortfall of scientists and engineers with expertise to develop the next generation of breakthroughs.”
—Bill Gates,chairman of Microsoft, 2008



“There is a skills gap in this country—for every unemployed person in the United States, there are two STEM job postings. The gap will only widen if we don’t engage now to address STEM education at the elementary and high school levels.”
—Richard K. Templeton,chairman, president, and CEO of Texas Instruments, 2013





Such inconsistencies don’t just create confusion for numbers junkies like me; they also make rational policy discussions difficult. Depending on your point of view, you can easily cherry-pick data to bolster your argument.


Another surprise was the apparent mismatch between earning a STEM degree and having a STEM job. Of the 7.6 million STEM workers counted by the Commerce Department, only 3.3 million possess STEM degrees. Viewed another way, about 15 million U.S. residents hold at least a bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, but three-fourths of them—11.4 million—work outside of STEM.



The departure of STEM graduates to other fields starts early. In 2008, the NSF surveyed STEM graduates who’d earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2006 and 2007. It found that 2 out of 10 were already working in non-STEM fields. And 10 years after receiving a STEM degree, 58 percent of STEM graduates had left the field, according to a 2011 study from Georgetown University.


The takeaway?

At least in the United States, you don’t need a STEM degree to get a STEM job, and if you do get a degree, you won’t necessarily work in that field after you graduate. If there is in fact a STEM worker shortage, wouldn’t you expect more people with STEM degrees to be filling those jobs? And if many STEM jobs can be filled by people who don’t have STEM degrees, then why the big push to get more students to pursue STEM?



Now consider the projections that suggest a STEM worker shortfall. One of the most cited in recent U.S. debates comes from the 2011 Georgetown University report mentioned above, by Anthony P. Carnevale, Nicole Smith, and Michelle Melton of the Center on Education and the Workforce. It estimated there will be slightly more than 2.4 million STEM job openings in the United States between 2008 and 2018, with 1.1 million newly created jobs and the rest to replace workers who retire or move to non-STEM fields; they conclude that there will be roughly 277 000 STEM vacancies per year.



But the Georgetown study did not fully account for the Great Recession. It projected a downturn in 2009 but then a steady increase in jobs beginning in 2010 and a return to normal by the year 2018. In fact, though, more than 370 000 science and engineering jobs in the United States were lost in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.



I don’t mean to single out this study for criticism; it just illustrates the difficulty of accurately predicting STEM demand and supply even a year or two out, let alone over a prolonged period. Highly competitive science- and technology-driven industries are volatile, where radical restructurings and boom-and-bust cycles have been the norm for decades. Many STEM jobs today are also targets for outsourcing or replacement by automation.



The nature of STEM work has also changed dramatically in the past several decades. In engineering, for instance, your job is no longer linked to a company but to a funded project. Long-term employment with a single company has been replaced by a series of de facto temporary positions that can quickly end when a project ends or the market shifts. To be sure, engineers in the 1950s were sometimes laid off during recessions, but they expected to be hired back when the economy picked up. That rarely happens today. And unlike in decades past, employers seldom offer generous education and training benefits to engineers to keep them current, so out-of-work engineers find they quickly become technologically obsolete.



Any of these factors can affect both short-term and longer-term demand for STEM workers, as well as for the particular skills those workers will need. The agencies that track science and engineering employment know this to be true. Buried in Chapter 3 of a 2012 NSF workforce study, for instance, you’ll find this caveat: “Projections of employment growth are plagued by uncertain assumptions and are notoriously difficult to make.”


So is there a shortfall of STEM workers or isn’t there?


The Georgetown study estimates that nearly two-thirds of the STEM job openings in the United States, or about 180 000 jobs per year, will require bachelor’s degrees. Now, if you apply the Commerce Department’s definition of STEM to the NSF’s annual count of science and engineering bachelor’s degrees, that means about 252 000 STEM graduates emerged in 2009. So even if all the STEM openings were entry-level positions and even if only new STEM bachelor’s holders could compete for them, that still leaves 70 000 graduates unable to get a job in their chosen field.



Of course, the pool of U.S. STEM workers is much bigger than that: It includes new STEM master’s and Ph.D. graduates (in 2009, around 80 000 and 25 000, respectively), STEM associate degree graduates (about 40 000), H-1B visa holders (more than 50 000), other immigrants and visa holders with STEM degrees, technical certificate holders, and non-STEM degree recipients looking to find STEM-related work. And then there’s the vast number of STEM degree holders who graduated in previous years or decades.



Even in the computer and IT industry, the sector that employs the most STEM workers and is expected to grow the most over the next 5 to 10 years, not everyone who wants a job can find one. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C., found that more than a third of recent computer science graduates aren’t working in their chosen major; of that group, almost a third say the reason is that there are no jobs available.


Spot shortages for certain STEM specialists do crop up. For instance, the recent explosion in data analytics has sparked demand for data scientists in health care and retail. But the H-1B visa and similar immigrant hiring programs are meant to address such shortages. The problem is that students who are contemplating what field to specialize in can’t assume such shortages will still exist by the time they emerge from the educational pipeline.



What’s perhaps most perplexing about the claim of a STEM worker shortage is that many studies have directly contradicted it, including reports from Duke University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Rand Corp. A 2004 Rand study, for example, stated that there was no evidence “that such shortages have existed at least since 1990, nor that they are on the horizon.”



That report argued that the best indicator of a shortfall would be a widespread rise in salaries throughout the STEM community. But the price of labor has not risen, as you would expect it to do if STEM workers were scarce. In computing and IT, wages have generally been stagnant for the past decade, according to the EPI and other analyses. And over the past 30 years, according to the Georgetown report, engineers’ and engineering technicians’ wages have grown the least of all STEM wages and also more slowly than those in non-STEM fields; while STEM workers as a group have seen wages rise 33 percent and non-STEM workers’ wages rose by 23 percent, engineering salaries grew by just 18 percent. The situation is even more grim for those who get a Ph.D. in science, math, or engineering. The Georgetown study states it succinctly: “At the highest levels of educational attainment, STEM wages are not competitive.”



Given all of the above, it is difficult to make a case that there has been, is, or will soon be a STEM labor shortage. “If there was really a STEM labor market crisis, you’d be seeing very different behaviors from companies,” notes Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York state. “You wouldn’t see companies cutting their retirement contributions, or hiring new workers and giving them worse benefits packages. Instead you would see signing bonuses, you’d see wage increases. You would see these companies really training their incumbent workers.”



“None of those things are observable,” Hira says. “In fact, they’re operating in the opposite way.”


So why the persistent anxiety that a STEM crisis exists?

Michael S. Teitelbaum, a Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School and a senior advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has studied the phenomenon, and he says that in the United States the anxiety dates back to World War II. Ever since then it has tended to run in cycles that he calls “alarm, boom, and bust.” He says the cycle usually starts when “someone or some group sounds the alarm that there is a critical crisis of insufficient numbers of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians” and as a result the country “is in jeopardy of either a national security risk or of falling behind economically.” In the 1950s, he notes, Americans worried that the Soviet Union was producing 95 000 scientists and engineers a year while the United States was producing only about 57 000. In the 1980s, it was the perceived Japanese economic juggernaut that was the threat, and now it is China and India.



You’ll hear similar arguments made elsewhere. In India, the director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, Vijay Kumar Saraswat, recently noted that in his country, “a meagre four persons out of every 1000 are choosing S&T or research, as compared to 110 in Japan, 76 in Germany and Israel, 55 in USA, 46 in Korea and 8 in China.” Leaders in South Africa and Brazil cite similar statistics to show how they are likewise falling behind in the STEM race.



“The government responds either with money [for research] or, more recently, with visas to increase the number of STEM workers,” Teitelbaum says. “This continues for a number of years until the claims of a shortage turn out not to be true and a bust ensues.” Students who graduate during the bust, he says, are shocked to discover that “they can’t find jobs, or they find jobs but not stable ones.”



At the moment, we’re in the alarm-heading-toward-boom part of the cycle. According to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. government spends more than US $3 billion each year on 209 STEM-related initiatives overseen by 13 federal agencies. That’s about $100 for every U.S. student beyond primary school. In addition, major corporations are collectively spending millions to support STEM educational programs. And every U.S. state, along with a host of public and private universities, high schools, middle schools, and even primary schools, has its own STEM initiatives. The result is that many people’s fortunes are now tied to the STEM crisis, real or manufactured.



Clearly, powerful forces must be at work to perpetuate the cycle. One is obvious: the bottom line. Companies would rather not pay STEM professionals high salaries with lavish benefits, offer them training on the job, or guarantee them decades of stable employment. So having an oversupply of workers, whether domestically educated or imported, is to their benefit. It gives employers a larger pool from which they can pick the “best and the brightest,” and it helps keep wages in check. No less an authority than Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, said as much when in 2007 he advocated boosting the number of skilled immigrants entering the United States so as to “suppress” the wages of their U.S. counterparts, which he considered too high.



Q. If a student came to you for advice, would you encourage him or her to pursue a career in STEM?IEEE Spectrum recently posed that question to a select group of IEEE members. Nearly three-quarters of respondents said they would “strongly encourage” the student to take such a career path because it is “interesting and stimulating work” and one in which a person “can make a difference in the world.”

Governments also push the STEM myth because an abundance of scientists and engineers is widely viewed as an important engine for innovation and also for national defense. And the perception of a STEM crisis benefits higher education, says Ron Hira, because as “taxpayers subsidize more STEM education, that works in the interest of the universities” by allowing them to expand their enrollments.



An oversupply of STEM workers may also have a beneficial effect on the economy, says Georgetown’s Nicole Smith, one of the coauthors of the 2011 STEM study. If STEM graduates can’t find traditional STEM jobs, she says, “they will end up in other sectors of the economy and be productive.”



The problem with proclaiming a STEM shortage when one doesn’t exist is that such claims can actually create a shortage down the road, Teitelbaum says. When previous STEM cycles hit their “bust” phase, up-and-coming students took note and steered clear of those fields, as happened in computer science after the dot-com bubble burst in 2001.



Emphasizing STEM at the expense of other disciplines carries other risks. Without a good grounding in the arts, literature, and history, STEM students narrow their worldview—and their career options. In a 2011 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Norman Augustine, former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, argued that point. “In my position as CEO of a firm employing over 80 000 engineers, I can testify that most were excellent engineers,” he wrote. “But the factor that most distinguished those who advanced in the organization was the ability to think broadly and read and write clearly.”




A broader view, I and many others would argue, is that everyone needs a solid grounding in science, engineering, and math. In that sense, there is indeed a shortage—a STEM knowledge shortage. To fill that shortage, you don’t necessarily need a college or university degree in a STEM discipline, but you do need to learn those subjects, and learn them well, from childhood until you head off to college or get a job. Improving everyone’s STEM skills would clearly be good for the workforce and for people’s employment prospects, for public policy debates, and for everyday tasks like balancing checkbooks and calculating risks. And, of course, when science, math, and engineering are taught well, they engage students’ intellectual curiosity about the world and how it works.



Many children born today are likely to live to be 100 and to have not just one distinct career but two or three by the time they retire at 80. Rather than spending our scarce resources on ending a mythical STEM shortage, we should figure out how to make all children literate in the sciences, technology, and the arts to give them the best foundation to pursue a career and then transition to new ones. And instead of continuing our current global obsession with STEM shortages, industry and government should focus on creating more STEM jobs that are enduring and satisfying as well.

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The article we posted earlier about the agenda of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE installed in US around the time US FED and UNITED NATIONS were created came with the global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS unleashing the LONG GAME of killing all our US national, state, and local governance structures by allowing them to be made so corrupt, criminal, dysfunctional that our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE would hate our own government even though the US founding fathers built the best in world history I AM MAN AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT PEOPLE'S government.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global banking pols super-sized all this dysfunction with ROBBER BARON few decades and our US PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY was top priority in being made a FAILED STATE.  So, we had Bush era telling our US college students they needed graduate degrees since BS/BAs were not going to be good enough----creating massive student loan debt at the same time BUSH/OBAMA were outsourcing more and more high-skilled jobs.  CREATE MASSIVE DEBT WITH NO JOBS------people hate COLLEGE.




'How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won

• Aug. 15, 2017

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS
The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
By Nancy MacLean
334 pp. Viking. $28.




Buchanan, however, also had what MacLean calls a “stealth” agenda. He knew that the majority would never agree to being constrained. He therefore helped lead a push to undermine their trust in public institutions'.

This is now MOVING FORWARD to our US public K-12 schools.  We are shouting today that our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE will HATE what global banking 5% freemason/Greek players are installing with STEM K-12 for the same reasons.


So, global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA are MOVING FORWARD a saturation in STEM KNOWING the future will not employ all most ALL of our US grads in STEM------AND they are installing LEARNING FORMATS in K-12 we already KNOW a super-majority of students do not respond well to.

Education
The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage


American students need to improve in math and science—but not because there's a surplus of jobs in those fields.


Michael S. Teitelbaum
Mar 19, 2014

Everyone knows that the United States has long suffered from widespread shortages in its science and engineering workforce, and that if continued these shortages will cause it to fall behind its major economic competitors. Everyone knows that these workforce shortages are due mainly to the myriad weaknesses of American K-12 education in science and mathematics, which international comparisons of student performance rank as average at best.


Such claims are now well established as conventional wisdom. There is almost no debate in the mainstream. They echo from corporate CEO to corporate CEO, from lobbyist to lobbyist, from editorial writer to editorial writer. But what if what everyone knows is wrong? What if this conventional wisdom is just the same claims ricocheting in an echo chamber?



The truth is that there is little credible evidence of the claimed widespread shortages in the U.S. science and engineering workforce. How can the conventional wisdom be so different from the empirical evidence? There are of course many complexities involved that cannot be addressed here.

The key points, though, are these:



Science and engineering occupations are at the leading edge of economic competitiveness in an increasingly globalized world, and science and engineering workforces of sufficient size and quality are essential for any 21st century economy to prosper. These professional workforces also are crucial for addressing challenges such as international security, global climate change, and domestic and global health. While they therefore are of great importance, college graduates employed in science and engineering occupations (as defined by the National Science Foundation) actually comprise only a small fraction of the workforce.



A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research, the RAND Corporation, and the Urban Institute. No one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S. higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually than there are S&E job openings--the only disagreement is whether it is 100 percent or 200 percent more. Were there to be a genuine shortage at present, there would be evidence of employers raising wage offers to attract the scientists and engineers they want. But the evidence points in the other direction: Most studies report that real wages in many—but not all—science and engineering occupations have been flat or slow-growing, and unemployment as high or higher than in many comparably-skilled occupations.  



Because labor markets in science and engineering differ greatly across fields, industries, and time periods, it is easy to cherry-pick specific specialties that really are in short supply, at least in specific years and locations. But generalizing from these cases to the whole of U.S. science and engineering is perilous. Employment in small but expanding areas of information technology such as social media may be booming, while other larger occupations languish or are increasingly moved offshore. It is true that high-skilled professional occupations almost always experience unemployment rates far lower than those for the rest of the U.S. workforce, but unemployment among scientists and engineers is higher than in other professions such as physicians, dentists, lawyers, and registered nurses, and surprisingly high unemployment rates prevail for recent graduates even in fields with alleged serious “shortages” such as engineering (7.0 percent), computer science (7.8 percent) and information systems (11.7 percent).



Over time, new technologies, price changes, or sharp shifts in the labor market can create rapid rises in demand in a particular occupation. When that happens, the evidence shows that the market seems to adjust reasonably well. Entire occupations that were previously unattractive and declining, such as petroleum engineering in the 1980s and 1990s, have rather suddenly become attractive and high-paid—due to increased energy prices and new technologies for domestic extraction of oil and gas. Others, such as those linked to manufacturing and construction—industries in which well over half of all engineers are employed--have declined over the same period. Surprisingly, some of the largest and most heavily financed scientific fields, such as biomedical research, are among those with the least attractive career prospects, as a recent blue-ribbon advisory committee reported to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Biomedical Ph.D.s are unusually lengthy and often require additional years of postdoctoral training, yet after completion those with such degrees experience labor market demand and remuneration that are relatively low.

Labor markets for scientists and engineers also differ geographically. Employer demand is far higher in a few hothouse metropolitan areas than in the rest of the country, especially during boom periods. Moreover recruitment of domestic professionals to these regions may be more difficult than in others when would-be hires discover that the remuneration employers are offering does not come close to compensating for far higher housing and other costs. According to the most recent data from the National Association of Realtors, Silicon Valley (metro San Jose) has the highest median house prices in the country, at $775,000—nearly four times higher than the national median.



Far from offering expanding attractive career opportunities, it seems that many, but not all, science and engineering careers are headed in the opposite direction: unstable careers, slow-growing wages, and high risk of jobs moving offshore or being filled by temporary workers from abroad. Recent science Ph.D.s often need to undertake three or more additional years in low-paid and temporary “postdoctoral” positions, but even then only a minority have realistic prospects of landing a coveted tenure-track academic position.



Among college-educated information technology workers under age 30, temporary workers from abroad constitute a large majority. Even in electrical and electronic engineering—an occupation that is right at the heart of high-tech innovation but that also has been heavily outsourced abroad--U.S. employment in 2013 declined to about 300,000, down 35,000 and over 10 percent, from 2012, and down from about 385,000 in 2002. Unemployment rates for electrical engineers rose to a surprisingly high 4.8 percent in 2013.



Claims of workforce shortages in science and engineering are hardly new. Indeed there have been no fewer than five “rounds” of “alarm/boom/bust” cycles since World War II. Each lasted about 10 to 15 years, and was initiated by alarms of “shortages,” followed by policies to increase the supply of scientists and engineers. Unfortunately most were followed by painful busts—mass layoffs, hiring freezes, and funding cuts that inflicted severe damage to careers of both mature professionals and the booming numbers of emerging graduates, while also discouraging new entrants to these fields.   

• Round one from the decade immediately following World War II, waning a decade later.
• Round two following the Sputnik launches in 1957 but waning sharply by the late 1960s, leading to a bust of serious magnitude in the 1970s.
• Round three from the 1980s Reagan defense buildup, alarming Federal reports such as “A Nation at Risk” (1983), and new Federal funding for the “war on cancer.” Most of these had waned by the late 1980s, contributing to an ensuing bust in the early 1990s.
• Round four from the mid-1990s, driven by concurrent booms in several high-tech industries (e.g. information technology, internet, telecommunications, biotech), followed by concurrent busts beginning around 2001.
• Round five from the rapid doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget between 1998 and 2003, followed by a bust when subsequent funding flattened.

Each of these rounds was accompanied by excessive claims, and a notable lack of credible evidence. Rounds one through three were motivated by existential Cold War concerns, with advocates focused on expanding the numbers of US students pursuing higher education and careers in science and engineering. As I discovered while researching my book, during rounds four and five, after Cold War security concerns had waned, shortage claimants focused on visa policies that enabled U.S. employers and universities to recruit large numbers of temporary workers and graduate students from countries (especially China and India) that had rapid growth in science and engineering graduates but much lower income levels.



One thing we might reasonably conclude is that over the past six decades there has been no shortage of shortage claims. But what about the present and foreseeable future?


Since 2005 a series of influential reports have been produced by respected organizations and individuals, once again pointing to alarming current (or more commonly “looming”) shortages due to failing K-12 education. Three such reports were published in 2005 alone, by the Council on Competitiveness, by a special committee appointed by the National Research Council, and by a group of 15 business and technology organizations. Were these the opening salvos of the “alarm” stage of another 10-15 year cycle of alarm/boom/bust, the sixth such cycle since World War II? A deep recession with high unemployment has intervened, and in any case we would not be able to know for sure until another 5 or more years have passed.



These publications report correctly that the average performance of American K-12 students is middling in international testing. These data also show that this average performance results from large numbers of both high-performing and low-performing US students. The average national scores reflect both ends of the scale, yet there continues to be a large pool of top science and math students in the U.S. OECD data on “high-performing” students suggests that the U.S. produces about 33 percent of the world total in this category in the sciences, though only about 14 percent in mathematics.



No one should conclude from this that American K-12 science and math education does not need major improvement. Emphatically to the contrary: Every high school graduate should be competent in science and mathematics—essential to success in almost any 21st century occupation and to informed citizenship as well. But there is a big disconnect between this broad educational imperative and the numerically limited scope of the science and engineering workforce.  



Editorial writers in respected publications continue to assert that American student interest in these fields is low and declining. Yet according to a recent report from ACT, the college admissions testing service, “student interest in STEM [Science,Technology, Engineering, Mathematics] is high overall,” characteristic of some 48 percent of high school graduates tested in 2013. American high-school students are taking more math and science courses than ever before. Meanwhile UCLA’s respected annual surveys of entering college freshmen show that over the past several years nearly 40 percent have been reporting intentions to major in a STEM subject, not only a large fraction but also a substantial increase from past decades—this percentage was about 32 to 33 percent from 1995 to 2007.


Some of these students do change their minds and complete their degrees in different fields, but others shift into science and engineering majors. As noted earlier, the outcome is that the numbers of science and engineering graduates is at least double those being hired into such occupations each year.  



The evidence all points to high levels of student interest, high-performance levels among the students most likely to pursue majors and careers in science and engineering, and large numbers of graduates in these fields.



Ironically the vigorous claims of shortages concern occupations in science and engineering, yet manage to ignore or reject most of the science-based evidence on the subject. The repeated past cycles of “alarm/boom/bust” have misallocated public and private resources by periodically expanding higher education in science and engineering beyond levels for which there were attractive career opportunities. In so doing they produced large unintended costs for those talented students who devoted many years of advanced education to prepare for careers that turned out to be unattractive by the time they graduated, or who later experienced massive layoffs in mid-career with few prospects to be rehired.



Recent forecasts of looming shortages of scientists and engineers may prove to be self-fulfilling prophecies if they result in further declines in the attractiveness of science and engineering careers for talented American students.

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Who is MOVING FORWARD all this worst in world history education format in US?  It is enfolded in RACE TO TOP----COMMONER CORE-----installed during OBAMA era with CLINTON NEO-LIBERALS partnered with BUSH neo-cons----not able to do all this without our state GOVERNORS and state assemblies passing these education policies AND without our city/county councils and SCHOOL BOARDS pushing these education reform policies under the guise of needing all that global corporate funding simply to rebuild community public schools.

We have always had plenty of FEDERAL funding to build and maintain our public schools----we especially have those education funds NOW after these few decades of ROBBER BARON fraud of trillions of dollars needing to come back to our US cities and counties.

Here in Baltimore those frauds were driven by global banking BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION-----GREATER BALTIMORE COMMITTEE----GLOBAL HEDGE FUND CORPORATION JOHNS HOPKINS.  Lots of overseas global corporate campuses built with our US Federal public school funding these few decades.

Placing an emphasis for our US 99% of female students on STEM when we KNOW MOVING FORWARD has goals of taking women out of workforce competition for the most part-----is CYNICAL. 

BUT GLOBAL BANKING 5% FREEMASON/GREEK CLINTON/OBAMA ARE BEING SO ----'LEFT' SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE FOR WOMEN----OH, REALLY????


2 major investments support STEM education
By Laura Ascione, Managing Editor, Content Services, @eSN_Laura
August 9th, 2018



Most future jobs will involve STEM, and efforts at the K-12 level can help fill the future STEM pipeline
Schools may be out for summer, but STEM education efforts and investments are going strong.


STEM investments are critical for a number of reasons. First, many of the jobs today’s K-12 students will hold in the future don’t exist yet, and nearly all of them are predicted to require solid STEM skills. Second, there are large gender and racial gaps in the STEM workplace. These gaps start as early as middle school, when girls and minorities stop engaging with STEM lessons and extra-curricular activities.


Some educators seem to have it figured out, and they’re doing their part to fill the STEM pipeline with engaging lessons that grab students’ attention with real-world relevance. But in order to do this consistently, broad-scale investments, including funding, time, and advocacy, are needed.



Here’s the latest:
Carnegie Science Center educators have developed a STEM curriculum with Girl Up designed to inspire participants in Girl Up’s 2,200 clubs in 103 countries to consider careers in STEM fields.

The curriculum is part of a program supported by BNY Mellon to encourage Girl Up participants to consider STEM careers, introduce them to female STEM role models, and educate them on applying STEM solutions to real-world problems. It is the first large-scale project Girl Up has undertaken to involve its young leaders in STEM, and the goal of the program is to educate, inspire, and engage girls in STEM for social good. The curriculum developed by the Science Center will introduce girls to design thinking, the scientific method, and problem-solving skills fundamental to STEM and other fields. Girl Up leaders seek to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields, where men are more likely to pursue careers.


“The gender gap in STEM starts early, with many girls not being encouraged to pursue STEM careers. Girl Up’s partnership with BNY Mellon and Carnegie Science Center helps bridge that gap with an innovative approach that focuses on human-centered design thinking, while connecting girls to how STEM can be used to make a difference in the world,” says Anna Blue, Girl Up executive director.



The Girl Up STEM curriculum includes 10 activities that girls will be able to participate in with their Clubs. Once they complete the activities, they can participate in a STEM challenge for social good. Also, STEM boot camps that will take place this fall around the nation will include talks by local female STEM leaders who will encourage the girls to get involved in STEM in their communities. Girls will participate in hands-on skills-based training that provides STEM solutions for issues taking place in their communities.



Ann Metzger, the Henry Buhl, Jr., co-director of Carnegie Science Center, says developing this curriculum fits in with the Science Center’s efforts to increase the number of women pursuing STEM jobs. “We are gratified and honored that Girl Up chose us to participate in this important project,” Metzger says. “Girl Up has a proven record in providing leadership training for girls, and we are excited that its future programming will strengthen girls’ STEM skills. This will give girls more tools they can use to improve their futures and the futures of their communities.”




In other news, Microsoft Philanthropies announced a new partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) in which Microsoft will provide $2 million over three years to help CSTA build a stronger community to better serve computer science teachers.




“We’re thrilled that students of all ages are discovering the exciting–and critical–field of computer science. From the Hour of Code, to Minecraft Education, and even Advanced Placement Computer Sciences courses, participation rates are expanding,” says Mary Snapp, corporate vice president and lead for Microsoft Philanthropies, in a LinkedIn post. “This surge of student interest, combined with the premium our economy places on technology skill of all kinds, requires us to do all we can to ensure every student has access to computer science courses. And it all starts with our teachers.”



Microsoft Philanthropies also focuses on computer science education through its Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program, which pairs technology-industry volunteers with classroom teachers to team-teach computer science in 350 U.S. high schools.


“While technology can be a powerful learning tool, nothing can replace the expertise, guidance, and encouragement that teachers provide to students each day of the school year,” Snapp writes. “I remember my own favorite teachers who helped me see a world beyond the rural town in which I grew up. I would guess that nearly everyone has a similar story. We thank our teachers and we hope that this investment in computer science teachers, through CSTA, empowers more educators to do what they do best: make a positive difference in the lives of students.”


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NO ONE is a bigger raging global banking 5% freemason/Greek player MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD COMMONER CORE RACE TO TOP knowing the goal will kill 99% of US and global citizens' ability to have that strong, first world, developed nation PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY that made Americans BEST IN WORLD in education attainment-----then these two FAKE 'LEFT' POPULIST players. Sanders is simply a Clinton neo-liberal morphing into far-right wing LIBERTARIAN MARXISM pretending OUR REVOLUTION is populist for our US 99% when it is for global 1% only-----and AFT WEINGARTEN has been raging NEO-LIBERAL EDUCATION partnered with Bill and Hillary---Bill Gates MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD.



We discuss often why these education policies are FAKE NEWS.


'• Maintaining federal support for afterschool programs provided through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program.
• The inclusion of wrap-around support services like health, mental health, nutrition and family supports'.



So, our choices in US politics are BAD whether voting right wing REPUBLICAN----our left wing DEMOCRAT and even our third and fourth parties are stacked with global banking 5% farm team players.


TO STOP MOVING FORWARD OUR US 99% BLACK, WHITE, AND BROWN MUST COME TOGETHER VS GLOBAL 1% WITH ROLLING PEACEFUL PROTESTS IN ALL US CITIES DEEMED US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----LET'S GET RID OF THESE GLOBAL BANKING PLAYER POLS BY DANCING IN THE STREET IN PROTEST.

Sanders making WEINGARTNEN a champion for our US 99% in education ---THAT IS AN INSULT to both teachers and students.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: Teachers Are Part of the 'Political Revolution'

By Madeline Will on July 15, 2018 1:07 PM

Pittsburgh, Penn.
Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke to a receptive crowd here at the American Federation of Teachers' biennial convention, saying there was a political revolution "sweeping across this country." 

Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, condemned many of the president's actions and praised recent activism among workers, including the teacher strikes and protests in about six states this spring. He spoke of a changing tide among public opinion for "radical" ideas, such as tuition-free college education. That policy proposal was part of his campaign for president in 2016. 


"The American people are going to make Donald Trump a one-term president," he said to huge applause. "We intend in the 2018 midterm elections to ... take back the House and the Senate."


Sanders, who ran against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary presidential election, is widely expected to run for president in 2020, though he has not announced his candidacy. A New York Times article published today looked at how both Warren and Sanders were preparing for a 2020 campaign, along with a slew of other hopefuls. (Warren addressed delegates at the AFT convention yesterday, and Clinton spoke on the opening day of the conference.) 


In his speech, Sanders criticized wealth inequality, saying that the "top 25 hedge-fund managers of Wall Street make more money than all of the kindergarten teachers in this country combined." 


He also slammed Trump for his social policies, including the child-separation policy at the U.S.-Mexican border. 


"I know every day, you tell your students, you say to your kids: Tell the truth," Sanders said. "You say to your kids: Don't be bullies. And what kind of terrible example is he setting to the children of this country?"


Sanders, who pledged to fight against Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, also criticized many of the Supreme Court's decisions, including the recent decision that prohibited "agency" or "fair share" fees that unions in 22 states had been charging to nonmembers to cover the cost of collective bargaining. 



"They have recently given us the disastrous Janus decision," Sanders said to boos. "Well, you know, sometimes decisions and actions have unintended consequences, and I have a feeling that those who thought that the Janus decision would hurt the trade unions in this country may be in for a big surprise. It may end up being one of those decisions that helps us rebuild the trade union movement in America."



That line generated a standing ovation among the crowd, as did several other lines throughout his speech. Delegates chanted, "Bernie, Bernie," at the end of his speech. In 2016, the AFT and the other major national teacher's union, the National Education Association, both endorsed Clinton over Sanders—a controversial decision among the delegates, many of whom favored Sanders. Today, AFT President Randi Weingarten said Sanders has "inspired an entire generation" and added that many people have "felt the Bern more and more over those past two years ... including myself."


Sanders concluded his speech by saying, "We are not going back, we are going forward."

INDEED, BERNIE----YOUR REVOLUTION IS MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1%.

"As part of this political revolution, teachers are standing up and leading the fight for education reform," he said. "Who would have thought that in West Virginia or Kentucky, in Oklahoma, teachers are demanding decent education for our kids and are taking on right-wing political establishments? Thank you, teachers." 


Sanders also praised a wave of progressive candidates who are running in the 2018 midterm elections, including Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City. (Sanders will soon head to Kansas with Ocasio-Cortez to campaign for other Democratic congressional candidates, according to the Washington Post.) 



In fact, after Sanders' speech, two campaigning Democrats delivered remarks, as well: Rep. Conor Lamb, from Pennsylvania, and Randy Bryce, who is running for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin. Both candidates, but particularly Bryce, a former union activist, were warmly received by the crowd.


"Our job now as is never before is to stand up, fight back, and create the nation we can become," Sanders concluded to the cheering educators. 

We will take this week to discuss in detail public policy issues from yesterday's articles.  First, we want to acknowledge everyone knows robotics and AI will kill a tremendous number of job categories across all industries.  Global banking 1% are using media and corporate EVIDENCE-BASED DATA to sell WINNERS AND LOSERS in all these TRANSFORMATIVE economic policies while having goals of killing all 99% of US and global labor pool citizens.

We want to remind for example our US 99% white men who killed US labor unions and moved corporate factories overseas?  REAGAN/CLINTON two raging global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  Who are TRUMP/HILLARY?  They are the same global banking 1% both ready to kill our US 99% of white men.  Please do not fall for the FAKE WINNERS/LOSERS for another generation.  These few decades have seen our GBLT and black 99% of US citizens as global banking 5% freemason/Greek winners-----MOVING FORWARD will indeed make them great big LOSERS.

We shared yesterday a video from TEXAS of a NEW TECHNOLOGY school welcoming its students back with two school employees dressed in great big robot costumes.  One thing we KNOW is a goal of global banking 1%-----

ROBOTS WILL BE SUPERVISORS OVERSEEING WORKSITE

So, when our US public K-12 brings out giant robot costumes to greet our US 99% of students ----they are conditioning our US students to sharing space with robots which in many cases will subordinate them as future workers.

One thing we KNOW about TEXAS education reform as is true here in BALTIMORE----most of those getting jobs as TEACHERS are tied to global private teaching corporations like TEACH FOR AMERICA.  Private teaching staff working for a GLOBAL CORPORATION will not be a PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER.


When our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allow it to be OK to end status of TEACHERS as PUBLIC EMPLOYEES----when our US labor unions keep saying its OK to privatize all that is US public sector as long as they can organize the outsourced and global corporate privatized employees-----all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens will be LOSERS.




Automation Is Killing, Creating and Transforming Jobs

As demands for certain skills rise, employees will work side by side with robots, experts predict

By Steve Bates August 24, 2016

An unstoppable wave of automation is transforming the workplace. While many low-skill jobs are being eliminated, positions demanding higher skills are being created. Most jobs in existence today will add and lose specific functions in the future as robots and other forms of technology take on routine tasks and free humans to focus more on creative and analytic efforts, according to experts.


It will be a messy transition. It will be particularly painful for workers who lose their jobs and for employers that fail to recognize where automation fits into their operations.

Labor market experts disagree about how many American jobs will be lost to automation. A 2013 report by Oxford University researchers concluded that about 47 percent of total U.S. employment is at risk because of automation. A 2015 report by McKinsey & Co. forecast that automation could eliminate as much as 45 percent of work activities currently performed in the U.S.

Forrester Research predicts that robots—all forms of automation, machine learning and intelligent machines—will replace 16 percent of American jobs but will create the equivalent of 9 percent of those jobs by 2025. That would represent a net loss of 7 percent of jobs.

"This transition has, in fact, been going on for decades," said a 2016 Forrester report, The Future Of White-Collar Work: Sharing Your Cubicle With Robots. For example, software "bots" are already scheduling humans' meetings online, handling travel request forms and processing employment contracts. Intelligent devices are helping manage warehouses and parking garages to boost efficiency. IBM's supercomputer Watson, which defeated humans on the quiz show "Jeopardy," is working with doctors to improve diagnoses of patients' diseases.

Among the traditional jobs most endangered by automation are travel agent, meter reader, flight attendant, lumberjack, librarian and newspaper reporter.

The loss of jobs is a particularly hot issue in the 2016 elections. Labor market experts point to automation and globalization as the primary reasons for jobs being eliminated or shifted overseas. They note that transformations such as these have happened frequently during history.


"For centuries, humans have feared machines," said Harry J. Holzer, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. "Their worst fears have never turned out to be true." Experts say that while there are always winners and losers in these transitions, the big-picture view is that technology will boost productivity and fuel the economy.


Shifting Roles

Occupations focusing on human interaction, such as doctor, nurse and massage therapist, will be among those most immune to being replaced by robots. Flesh-and-blood artists, designers, athletes and entertainers also will retain a place in society. New jobs attributable to the rise of automation will include software developers and managers who can integrate automation technology into existing business models. People will work directly with robots to help them learn new functions or handle their tasks better, though the robots might not look like humans and the human-robot communication will occur mostly via keyboard.


The shifting of job tasks from humans to robots will require a massive change in job descriptions, not to mention in talent acquisition strategies. According to Forrester, automation will change every job category by at least 25 percent as soon as 2019. "Few firms are prepared for their [cognitive tipping points], which will lead to a restructuring of work nearly as profound as the transition from the agricultural age to the industrial age," said its 2016 report.


 The Training Challenge

Training future employees—and retraining current ones—will be an immense challenge in the face of the transformation. Experts say that workers will need skills related to a specific job function as well as broader competencies.


"Thriving in today's fast-changing world requires breadth of skills rooted in academic competencies such as literacy, numeracy and science but also including things such as teamwork, critical thinking, communication, persistence and creativity," according to the 2016 report Skills for a Changing World from the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank.


"Back in the 1970s, you took part of yourself to work. Now you take the whole person to work," said Anthony P. Carnevale, Ph.D., director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. "There's a much broader range of human competencies necessary."

For decades, employers have hired young people and trained them to do a particular job. Today, however, employers are expecting job applicants to be better prepared for jobs with highly technical requirements.


"Students can't learn everything once they get to the job," said Mary V.L. Wright, senior director of national career education advocacy group Jobs for the Future.
Educational systems can't turn on a dime, but "employers can help colleges figure out 'What are the competencies we require for this position' and 'Here's how we want you to teach them,' " said Angela Hanks, associate director of workforce development policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive public-policy advocacy organization.


"We need to contextualize skills to the needs of today's economy," said Maria Flynn, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future. She said that, to minimize disruption, employers "can embed learning in an individual's job to prepare them for the next job."
Retraining displaced workers is particularly difficult. Some of them lack the fundamental skills that are prerequisites to learning today's sophisticated job functions. Training programs are fragmented, and many are not matched closely to the emerging needs of employers.


"How do you prepare people for jobs that are not really there yet?" Hanks asked.

While some local and regional job training partnerships involving employers have shown great promise—and apprenticeships are drawing increasing interest from employers—the best programs are not large and widespread enough to make a big dent in the ranks of the unemployed.

Experts say it's difficult to predict exactly how the technology revolution will play out. But they offer some solace to employers: Don't expect to see robots asking for raises or organizing their own labor unions anytime soon.


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We notice immediately lots of FALSE FLAGS in the article above.  First, the article is written by a global HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CORPORATION-----so, it will be FAR-RIGHT WING global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----and not US 99% WE THE PEOPLE of AMERICA.  This is confirmed by the sources throughout this article----BROOKINGS INSTITUTE----GEORGETOWN/OXFORD------CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS------all far-right wing global banking 1% NEO-LIBERAL institutions. So, there is nothing in this article that is REAL INFORMATION----that has any social benefit to any population group.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)



is the world’s largest HR professional society, representing 300,000 members in more than 165 countries. For nearly seven decades, the Society has been the leading provider of resources serving the needs of HR professionals and advancing the practice of human resource management. SHRM has more than 575 affiliated chapters within the United States and subsidiary offices in China, India and United Arab Emirates.



For more information about SHRM, see the 2017 State of the Society address and News About SHRM.


The SHRM 2017 State of the Society Report and accompanying SHRM 2016 Audited Financial Statement highlight our goals, recent accomplishments and how we are delivering on our mission. 

It is no secret these few decades global banking 5% freemason/Greek player pols have dismantled what has been 300 years of broadly educating US students from K-12 with higher education bringing more specialization-----and CORPORATIONS having responsibility to train on the job for specific job duties.  There is no way to have our US citizens graduate ready to do a specific job at a time when corporations are being allowed to push employees into rotating job categories unless they are FOREVER APPRENTICED.


"Back in the 1970s, you took part of yourself to work. Now you take the whole person to work," said Anthony P. Carnevale, Ph.D., director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

So, that is what GEORGETOWN GLOBAL CORPORATION and Carnevale is stating above.  Baby boomers KNOW back in 1970s we brought OUR WHOLE PERSON TO WORK having no idea what this academic is trying to relate.

Our 99% WE THE PEOPLE would not go to a Georgetown University Center on EDUCATION IN WORKPLACE to find REAL INFORMATION on what our 99% WE THE PEOPLE need as education public policy.  We go there to see what global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS are MOVING FORWARD TOWARDS ONE WORLD AMERICA AS A COLONIAL ENTITY.


Educational systems can't turn on a dime, but "employers can help colleges figure out 'What are the competencies we require for this position' and 'Here's how we want you to teach them,' " said Angela Hanks, associate director of workforce development policy at the Center for American Progress, a progressive public-policy advocacy organization.

THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS was created by global banking 1% Clinton neo-liberals---it is a FAR-RIGHT WING think tank--our 99% WE THE PEOPLE would not go there to find REAL INFORMATION on policy stances GOOD for our US citizens OR our new immigrant citizens.

Business



Robots are killing jobs after all, apparently: One droid equals 5.6 workers



So much for the utopian techno future, according to this study

By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 28 Mar 2017 at 22:22

Industrial robots are depressing wages and increasing unemployment, according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, non-profit, non-partisan research organization in America.



Written by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" appears only days after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin dismissed the possibility of automated systems taking jobs from people, saying, "It's not even on our radar screen."



Similar to the cosmological conundrum about whether the universe will continue expanding indefinitely or collapse upon itself, the impact of automation and AI on human employment is the subject of ongoing debate about whether automated systems will create more jobs than they destroy.


Among technology advocates, there's predictable optimism. Robert D Atkinson, president and founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, has gone so far as to place a bet through the Long Now Foundation that by June of 2025 the labor force participation rate and unemployment rate, reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, will respectively be above 60 per cent and below 7.5 per cent.



"The 'robots are killing our jobs' proponents miss the fact that automation lowers prices (or raises wages), which in turn spurs increased demand for goods and services, and hence labor," he states in his argument.



If Acemoglu and Restrepo are correct, however, that may not be a wise bet. The researchers analyzed how the increase in industrial robot usage between 1990 and 2007 affected US local labor markets.


These robots are fully autonomous machines that operate without human intervention, doing tasks that at some point in the past were done manually, such as welding, painting, product assembly, moving materials, and packaging.



There are presently somewhere between 1.5 and 1.75 million industrial robots operating around the globe, according to the International Federation of Robotics. The auto industry uses about 39 per cent of such robots, followed by the electronics industry (19 per cent), metal product manufacturing (9 per cent), and the plastics and chemicals industry (9 percent), according to the researchers.



Acemoglu and Restrepo found that in areas exposed to industrial robots, between 1990 and 2007, "both employment and wages decline in a robust and significant manner (compared to other less exposed areas)."



Using the researcher's preferred parameters, "one more robot per thousand workers reduces aggregate employment to population ratio by about 0.34 percentage points." In other words, every new robot added to a given commuting zone reduces employment by 5.6 workers. And the researchers project that the number of industrial robots will reach between 4 and 6 million by 2025.



If the number of industrial robots quadruples by 2025, the researchers expect 0.94 to 1.76 per cent lower employment-to-population ratio and 1.3 to 2.6 per cent lower wage growth between 2015 and 2025.


What needs to be done


Technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotic automation will erase 16 per cent of US jobs by 2025, research consultancy Forrester said [paywalled] last year, while adding to the job count by 9 per cent over the same period.


In an email to The Register, Daron Acemoglu suggested two policy responses: labor market adjustment assistance, which includes retraining programs for people displaced by robots; and overhauling the education system, to teach skills that are more relevant to the times.



Asked about how automation might affect jobs that involve more fluid tasks and responsibilities, Acemoglu said it was unclear how technology will affect work that isn't easily programmed, but suggested it would be unwise to dismiss automation's impact on even complex occupations.



"We don't see similar negative effects from general IT capital (eg, software and hardware)," he said. "So it's difficult to project into the future, say about the effects of artificial intelligence. But given what we know about artificial intelligence, this technology also creates ample room for major dislocations. We have to be prepared."




Acemoglu said that as with past technological innovation, robotics is creating productivity growth.
"What it is not doing is to create jobs," he said.
"There might be several reasons for this:

1. We are still at the beginning of this process. It took several decades for the new spinning and weaving technologies of the British Industrial Revolution to start creating jobs and higher wages.
2. Many other technologies, such as computers, were displacing some workers but also complementing some other workers quite strongly (eg, computers were highly complementary to college graduates, middle managers and engineers). Robots may be less clearly complementary to existing sets of skills available in the workforce.
3. We may be facing bottlenecks in other areas that are slowing down the creation of new jobs." ®

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The major attack on our US sovereign economy these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA was not only sending our US corporations overseas to be enfolded into global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS multi-national corporations----it was expanding that 5% freemason/Greek player network creating PATRONAGE ECONOMY where players have been PAID NOT TO WORK-----players have been subsidized in FAKE BUSINESSES just to keep them feeling they are WINNERS as they are brought in to be those ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT PLAYERS SACKING AND LOOTING US CIVIL SOCIETY.  These few decades have the largest employer in US being FAKE MONEY HANDOUTS.

We KNOW our US 5% freemason/Greek players are seeing the light as this TUNNEL of PLAYER LOVE is coming to an end.  No matter how many time national media pretends policies like BASIC INCOME will continue to pay our US 5% freemason/Greek players to DO NOTHING-----it will not.


'To support those workers, he hopes the country will embrace portable benefits, streamline regulations, invest in training and skills, and build more housing'.

There is a reason here in Baltimore most NEW SCHOOLS are ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS owned by global investment firms controlled by global HOPKINS corporation.  The goal as we said is sending our MIDDLE SCHOOL students into the workplace under the guise of APPRENTICESHIPS----all the while being FREE LABOR.

All of the infrastructure development in Baltimore has underground TECHNOLOGY GRID cables serving only global corporate campuses with no expectation our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens will be able to afford access or be ALLOWED access.  There is NO EXPECTATION OF A GIG ECONOMY.

Our US 99% of WE THE FREEMASON/GREEK 5% PLAYERS better WAKE UP----we read two decades ago that the ME GENERATION ---that being those dastardly PLAYERS was ending.   That is what the UNITED NATIONS #ME TOO group for global banking PLAYERS are trying to do----it AIN'T HAPPENING.


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Why the robot apocalypse won’t kill all gig economy jobs
Carolyn Said June 16, 2018

Updated: Aug. 6, 2018 2:47 p.m.

• arrell Ross marries LeAnn and Douglas Coto at the Martinelli Event Center in Livermore. The school principal finds wedding gigs through Thumbtack.
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  A diverse set of professionals works at Thumbtack in San Francisco.
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Robots won’t eat all the jobs, says Marco Zappacosta, the CEO and co-founder of Thumbtack, a marketplace for service professionals from plumbers to yoga teachers to personal trainers. While automation is expected to replace many positions, he thinks huge growth will come in the types of local trades that Thumbtack showcases — work that cannot be sent offshore or done by machines.



To support those workers, he hopes the country will embrace portable benefits, streamline regulations, invest in training and skills, and build more housing.


Thumbtack has more than 200,000 people offering more than a thousand types of services. The lion’s share do home-related work: maintenance, construction and systems. Events, health and wellness, business systems and education are also popular.


People peddling their services on Thumbtack say it helps them cast a wide net to reach potential clients, eliminating one of the biggest hassles of being an independent professional.


Darrell Ross, an Oakland high school principal, does double duty as a wedding officiant, for instance, finding jobs on Thumbtack. His five-star ratings have led to about two wedding gigs a month. The site is an efficient way to reach people, he said.

“I believe in love, want to promote love, and this is a great way to bring people together to share a lifetime of joy, happiness and love,” said Ross, an ordained Christian minister since college.


This interview with Zappacosta has been edited for length and clarity.


Q: How did Thumbtack start?


A: My co-founders (Jonathan Swanson and Sander Daniels) and I went hunting for the biggest problem that technology could solve. It was a banal observation: Why is it so damn hard to hire a plumber? It’s not that there aren’t hard-working professionals; it’s a matchmaking problem. In 2008-09, all we saw were online versions of offline products: directories and classified links. You were still on the hook for calling, saying, “Can you do this?” The missing link was a true marketplace experience, helping customers connect with the right pro.



Q: There’s a lot of talk about (artificial intelligence) and automation killing jobs. Why do you say the future of work isn’t as bleak as predicted?


A: The doom-and-gloom narrative is easy to tell and fun to scare people with. Thumbtack has a perch to see what will be left: The nonroutine, nontradable jobs are the future of work. They’re growing, providing great wages and can be the source of purpose for people for a long time to come.


Q: What are some examples?


A: When a human being is providing service to the real world. All of health care and education. Florist, personal trainer, social worker, mechanic, interior decorator, electrician, engineer. Local services are expected to be 91 percent of all jobs created in the next decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.


Q: Will all these future jobs be small businesses?


A: Industries growing over the next decade will overwhelmingly be comprised of small firms or self-employed workers, basically local services. It’s easy to understand: Most plumbers, housekeepers, personal trainers don’t work for big conglomerates. There aren’t economies of scale like in manufacturing.


Q: What do workers lose by not being employees?


A: Being part of a big firm provides benefits and income smoothing. Thumbtack provides income smoothing by providing a constant stream of customers. Etsy, Shopify, other platforms empower local professionals and small businesses to do more, and through that to employ more. That’s gotten lost in the conversation about automation replacing all the work.

Software engineer Bryan Jensen works at the Thumbtack offices in San Francisco.
Photo: Photos by Liz Moughon / The Chronicle



Q: Isn’t a lot of gig work essentially low-wage McJobs?


A: Average Thumbtack workers make more than $70 an hour; that’s middle-class employment right there. About two-thirds of Thumbtack professionals do the work as their primary form of employment.

WHAT HAPPENS AS US MIDDLE-MERELY RICH DISAPPEAR---WHO IS DOING THAT HIRING AND WILL THEY REALLY BE PAYING THAT US QUALITY WAGE?  OF COURSE NOT.


Uber (and) Lyft are the inverse; about 80 percent of drivers do it very part time. What Uber (and) Lyft have done for labor is of immense value. Almost every adult being able to tap into a secondary source of income is very powerful. They’re great sources of secondary short-term income. But elevating that as the future of work is a mistake. They are doing everything they can to automate away the main cost structure of their business: the drivers.


Q: What’s the impact of the recent California Supreme Court ruling making it harder to classify gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees?


A: “Gig economy” has become a muddied term. Gig work has a long history: journalists, Hollywood workers, consultants — many, many industries already operate this way. Gig work itself is not a sign of low wages or unstable income. It’s just industries where you serve a number of varied clients over time, not one salary. We think gig work can be highly remunerative.
Q: How are you changing the gig economy?



A: The sharing economy to date has been about sharing capital assets: cars, home, apartments. But the biggest underutilized asset is human talent. We give that talent a market, a place to showcase itself, find customers, ultimately turning time into money. In doing that, we empower a huge range of workers.


People have talent, but often don’t have ... skill sets to find a market for that; to market themselves, create a web page, drive clients, do small business administration. We’re making it more viable to be self-employed.



Q: What policies would best help support the gig economy?


A: One of the best would be benefits portability. The Affordable Care Act already provides that for health insurance. Lots of other benefits need to decouple from formal employment. By articulating that the future of work will be small businesses, (we can) support these workers with rights, privileges and benefits.


Society should say disability insurance, tax-advantaged retirement accounts, access to health care should be provided to all workers, not just those who have jobs at companies. It’s philosophically key to decouple benefits from formal employment.


Q: What other policy changes are needed?


A: Make regulation less burdensome for small businesses. It’s not that they should be more- or less-regulated; it’s about ease of compliance. As the size goes down, the cost of compliance goes up. A big company has a compliance department and an army of lawyers and accountants. For a two-person roofing company in Omaha dealing with workers’ comp for the first time, it’s terrifying. It arguably deters people from hiring more.


Q: You’ve said that housing is linked to job growth, too.


A: Local is very important for service jobs. If you can’t live somewhere because it costs too much, you can’t work there. Housing policy needs to enable more home construction and lower home prices. It’s obvious: There aren’t enough homes, so we need to build more. We know how. Plenty of contractors would like to do it. Homeowners would pay for them. We just have to enable it.



Q: How do macro trends affect the gig economy?

It arose during the economic downturn when jobs were scarce. Now unemployment is at historic lows.


A: The gig economy isn’t a monolith. As the macro economy continues to strengthen, that might mean fewer people going to ... platforms like Uber and TaskRabbit. But it’s good for Thumbtack, because as incomes rise, you see more consumption of local services.




Q: What are unusual or new jobs on Thumbtack?


A: Life coach, which isn’t even recognized by the (Bureau of Labor Statistics) as an occupation but has blown up over the past five to 10 years, with an estimated 18,000 life coaches in the U.S. Personal trainers 30 years ago weren’t recognized by the government; it was an obscure niche industry. Other surprising ones: skateboard instructor, balloon artist.


Very few categories are as big as this trillion dollars of spending on local services, almost completely offline with no digital revolution for how they are discovered and transacted. I’d bet that in the next five to 10 years you are more likely to find and hire professionals online.
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We want to remind our US 99% and our new to US immigrants that since CLINTON era 1990s we have listened to national media and global banking Wall Street tell us where the shortfalls in US economy were as regards job categories followed by our US universities all aligning curricula around those shortages while our US college grads were left unable to get jobs in their fields because MOVING FORWARD always intended to bring global labor pool 99% to US for those jobs.  We had a big push for NURSES in 1990s after which our US nursing grads could not find steady work

This same global banking economic structure is doing the same today ----this time with TECHNOLOGY having all our US K-university geared towards those job degrees while already bringing in global labor pool for the shrinking number of jobs.  So, when our US public K-12 and these new corporate school buildings are opening to great fanfare------where are our US 99% of WE THE STUDENTS going after all that NON-EDUCATION-----STEM MINUS ALL THAT IS BROAD HUMANITIES AND LIBERAL ARTS needed to be CITIZENS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS?

'The so-called gig economy will cease to exist in 20 years, according to a new report from venture-backed start-up Thumbtack, an online marketplace that helps skilled workers find customers'.

We already KNOW there will be no GIG ECONOMY----there will be no LOCAL STARTUP TECHNOLOGY companies---there will not be FAKE PATRONAGE BUSINESSES for future 5% freemason/Greek players.


Below we see the WORLD BANK ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE Roosevelt Institution filled with global banking 5% players PRETENDING to be 'left' social progressive.  This is where ROBERT REICH and all those far-right wing global banking OUR REVOLUTION for only the global 1% FAKE 99% POPULISTS  hang out.

Here we see SOCIAL EQUITY at DUKE UNIVERSITY-----Duke University was of course top gun in supplying US citizens in building overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES filled with the most brutal, enslaving, global human slave trafficing structures in world history-------below telling our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE----

DON'T WORRY---BE HAPPY-----at the same time pushing BASIC INCOME because what this THINK TANK says is FAKE NEWS. THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTION is far-right wing global banking 1% ONE WORLD----we do not want our US young adults and new immigrants FOOLED by propaganda our US public K-university allows to go unchecked.


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DON’T FEAR THE ROBOTS:

Why Automation Doesn’t Mean the End of Work

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About the Author

Mark Paul is a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, where he works on the 21st Century Economy project, and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.



His current research is focused on understanding the causes and consequences of inequality and assessing and designing remedies to address inequality. He will be starting as an assistant professor of economics at the New College of Florida in the fall of 2018.



Acknowledgments

The author thanks Dean Baker, Josh Bivens, Lenore Palladino, Frank Pasquale, and Todd Tucker for their comments and insight.

Executive Summary
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The narrative that large-scale automation will imminently lead to mass unemployment and economic
insecurity has become prevalent in the media. As the story goes, we are on the cusp of a major technological change that will drastically alter the nature of work, leave masses unemployed, and exacerbate already high levels of economic inequality.



In this paper, we argue that this narrative detracts from the bigger underlying problems with the rules of
our economy and the distributional consequences of increased automation under current institutional
arrangements.



First, we find that there is little evidence to suggest that the U.S. economy is approaching massive
technological change: productivity levels are remarkably low and capital investment is significantly
slower than would be expected under impending technological upheaval. Second, historical evidence
suggests that even if we were on the verge of rapid technological change, mass unemployment would
not be inevitable. In the past, the long-term effects of technological advancement on employment have
been positive. Technology has allowed workers to do their jobs better and faster, which in turn, increased
output and raised living standards.



As with any major structural shift in the economy, technological change has the potential to create job
loss in the short term but does not necessarily lead to net job destruction in the long term. The amount of
work available is not a fixed quantity, and technology can complement labor, instead of substitute for it,
making workers more productive rather than simply replacing them. The job gains from technology often
outpace the job losses over time and allow workers to focus on better, high-productivity jobs.


However, we should not trivialize the costs of this kind of economic transition for workers in the
short term, nor can we ignore the structural disadvantages in today’s economy that define economic
outcomes. Workers are right to be concerned about the negative effects of technological change because
the historical link between labor productivity and wages, which grew side-by-side for most of the
20th century, is broken. In the past, productivity growth from technological innovation led to shared prosperity for workers, including higher wages and better living standards. When that link broke, it changed how the economic pie was divided.


In order to fix this broken link, we propose a few policy changes that would ensure that economic growth
from technological change benefits everyone:

NEITHER OF THESE POLICY GOALS WILL DO ANYTHING FOR OUR US 99% AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD ONE WORLD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES AND ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE WORLD BANK KNOWS THIS.

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Full employment: The U.S. government should recommit to pursuing full employment.
Implementing full employment would create a significantly tighter labor market, which
would both encourage technological advance and nullify the potential negative effects of
technology on workers.
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Revised intellectual property law: Intellectual property law is a primary reason why
technological advances currently exacerbate inequality. While a first step would be
reducing the lengths of patents and copyright protections, more substantial measures
should also be pursued.
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The new far-right wing ECONOMIC catch phrase after SUPPLY SIDE TRICKLE DOWN REAGAN neo-liberalism------is now robotics increasing productivity-----but not harming US 99% employment for 50% of Americans----no, make that 30% of Americans ---no, make that 20% of white men-----no, let's make women think they will be WINNERS----no, wait the goal of global banking 1% is

DESIGNER MANUFACTURING PRODUCING PRODUCTS PRICED HIGH TARGETING ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% WITH FACTORY AND SERVICE BEING AS MUCH ROBOTIC AND AI----AS POSSIBLE.

So, while today's fanfare is the opening of what used to be our LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS----now privatized and corporate to nothing but STEM and technology-----placing our US students on career paths we already know will not exist

IF WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD TO ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY GRID.

Production Soared After This Factory Replaced 90% of Its Employees With Robots
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by June Javelosa and Kristin Houser February 9, 2017 Future Society

In Brief

• After a Chinese factory replaced 90% of its human workforce with automated machines, it experienced a 250% increase in productivity and an 80% drop in defects.
• As technology improves, the range of tasks that can be taken over by automated systems will continue to expand, leaving the future of human labor in a state of flux.

The Rise of the Robot Workforce


It’s hard to argue against automation when statistics are clearly illustrating its potential. The latest evidence comes out of a Chinese factory in Dongguan City. The factory recently replaced 90 percent of its human workforce with machines, and it led to a staggering 250 percent increase in productivity and a significant 80 percent drop in defects.



Changying Precision Technology Company’s factory used to need 650 human workers to produce mobile phones. Now, the factory is run by 60 robot arms that work around the clock across 10 production lines. Only 60 people are still employed by the company — three are assigned to check and monitor the production line, and the others are tasked with monitoring computer control systems. Any remaining work not handled by humans is left in the capable hands of machines.



According to Luo Weiqiang, general manager of the factory, the number of people employed could drop to just 20, and given the level of efficiency achieved by automation, it won’t be long before other factories follow in their footsteps.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Employee Displacement

This efficiency comes at a price, though: our jobs. In fact, according to a joint study conducted by Oxford University and the Oxford Martin School, “[…] 47 percent of jobs in the US are ‘at risk’ of being automated in the next 20 years.”



And these won’t just be factory jobs, either. At the rate that robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are advancing, machines will soon be able to take over tasks in a variety of industries and do them just as well as, if not better than, humans. This early into our inevitably automated future, we already have robot lawyers capable of defending parking ticket violations, an AI that can deliver a medical diagnosis as well as a human doctor, robot “journalists,” and even AI therapists that can outperform their human counterparts in terms of drawing out necessary personal information from patients.



The uncertainty surrounding the future of human employment in the age of automation is already apparent, and machines are poised to keep getting better and better at what they do. Fortunately, governments and private organizations are putting some serious thought into this subject and have come up with some potential solutions to address widespread employee displacement.


Among those is universal basic income (UBI),  a system in which all citizens of a country receive an unconditional amount of money on top of income they generate through other means. Pilot studies in countries like India, Canada, and Finland have already begun, and thus far, they’ve delivered promising results. It’s too early to say if UBI could address widespread job loss due to automation head on, but it could ultimately prove to be an empowering economic move as we make the transition.
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The US 3 branches of government -----going, going, MOVING FORWARD to being gone.  As these articles state the LAWYERS making the biggest 5% freemason/Greek job category outside of REAL ESTATE will be fighting to be just another GIG startup having no future.  Accountants and lawyers are of course a MUST in civil society tied to RULE OF LAW------JUSTICE FOR ALL 99% OF WE THE PEOPLE.  

Please do not allow the FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS create more FAKE ECONOMIC phrases like TRICKLE DOWN.  There will be no job categories in any industry not reduced.  What level of corporate management will exist between global banking 1% and their BIG DEAD HEAD SUPER-DUPER COMPUTERS.

Well we are told---those robots must be REPAIRED.  Here in Baltimore our city buses are run until they fall apart often in several years because they get no MAINTENANCE.  Our street plants die agonizing deaths because there is no PLANT MAINTENANCE.  Global banking 1% eliminated that entire level of management these few decades---the goal will be eliminating even MORE.

'Browder’s online bot has helped overturn more than 200,000 parking tickets in these three cities, with a 60 percent success rate. He hopes to expand the service to San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles'.

What we are seeing across US with digitized credit card parking meters is the next BIG GLOBAL BANKING SCAM since the SPEED CAMERAS creating deliberate corruption in ordinary policing forcing our 99% WE THE PEOPLE into BOT COURT to shed corrupt TICKETS.

This is worse than PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS replacing our local CITY/STATE ATTORNEYS as PUBLIC DEFENDERS.




Have Parking Tickets? This Robot Lawyer Can Come to Your Rescue
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by Dom Galeon and Chelsea Gohd January 18, 2017 Artificial Intelligence

In Brief

• Market research company Forrester estimates that by 2021 new technology will get rid of 6% of jobs
• Joshua Browder spends a lot of time personally researching issues with confusing signage and parking rules

No More Need for Lawyers?

A new online service is becoming popular among people disputing parking tickets. We all respect the law, but parking tickets can be questionable.

This is where DoNotPay could help.




DoNotPay was originally made available in London and New York by Joshua Browder, a 20-year old Stanford University student from London who believes DoNotPay can help drivers with parking ticket disputes by leveling “the playing field so anyone can have the same legal access under the law,” Browder said.. Recently, he has expanded the service into Seattle. Browder’s online bot has helped overturn more than 200,000 parking tickets in these three cities, with a 60 percent success rate. He hopes to expand the service to San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles.




AI lawyers


This isn’t the first time an artificially intelligent (AI) system has dabbled in law. IBM Watson has an AI lawyer named Ross, and a recent study showed promise in an AI lawyer that reviewed human rights cases in Europe. While the effectiveness of these AI systems remains questionable, DoNotPay’s robot provides a unique paralegal service.

Seattle’s city officials think it could be useful. “Currently, we have four part-time field investigators to do the investigations for signs and curbs in the city of Los Angeles,” Wayne Garcia, parking operations chief for the city of Los Angeles, said.

So, DoNotPay will be a refuge for victims of confusing signages or for people who rush into no parking spots. This might seem like a small and insignificant development that will be used by just a few. But, if this system is successful, it could lead to the creation and adoption of similar programs. This could streamline and improve the efficiency of outdated processes like fighting parking tickets. This could save massive amounts of legal time and resources. But, will it be taking away jobs from humans?



It is possible that, as AI becomes integrated into new technology, jobs that were once done by people will become obsolete. With new technology, however, comes new jobs to develop and maintain new systems. It is difficult to predict, with accuracy, exactly how the adoption of AI technologies will affect job growth. However, while jobs might be threatened, there is the promise of new job creation.
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We took today simply to remind our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE that what global banking 5% freemason/Greek CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA is MOVING FORWARD as our FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE ONE WORLD economy-----does have a goal of ending all job categories----does have a goal of ending 5% PLAYER PATRONAGE FAKE BUSINESSES -----and these 'PUBLIC SCHOOLS' being allowed to open as PUBLIC K-12 are NOT PUBLIC SCHOOLS---they are not even AMERICAN SCHOOLS.

Here we have a group of global banking 5% media players tied to RAGING GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL----THE ECONOMIST pretending to discuss concerns that our 99% WE THE PEOPLE should have never mentioning the GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issue of simply STOPPING MOVING FORWARD and ENDING DESIGNATION OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES in all US cities.

We will look locally at how our PUBLIC K-12 is being rebuilt and how we will RE-PURPOSE these TECHNOLOGY SCHOOLS to serve all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE.

The world if robots take our jobs |

The Economist

The Economist

Published on Feb 15, 2017
Computers are taking on increasingly sophisticated tasks, a trend which will cost many people their jobs. With so much automation to come, how many humans will still be needed?

We will discuss what is fast becoming the only EDUCATION topic in town as ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID MOVES FORWARD-----what we are seeing in our US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones is FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL 1% CORPORATE FASCISM-----as part of rebuilding our US public K-12------and public universities. Remember, there is no US PUBLIC SCHOOLS----in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES. The new schools opening whether elementary, middle, high school are installing global corporate NEO-LIBERAL WORLD BANK schools-----NOT public schools.

REAL left social progressives understand that after these few decades of ROBBER BARON FAILED STATES made of our US cities killing our public school systems----parents and students simply want PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. What is being built will kill US public education---will kill broad economic opportunity and access for 99% of US and global citizens.

PLEASE DO NOT SETTLE FOR NEW BUILDINGS THINKING OUR CHILDREN ARE GETTING A PUBLIC SCHOOL.






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Published 11:38 AM ET Wed, 9 March 2016 Updated 12:16 PM ET Wed, 9 March 2016 CNBC.com

The so-called gig economy will cease to exist in 20 years, according to a new report from venture-backed start-up Thumbtack, an online marketplace that helps skilled workers find customers.


The study predicts that logistics companies — from start-ups like Uber to tech giants like Amazon — will soon replace drivers and delivery workers with autonomous vehicles and drones. Highly skilled workers, such as lawyers and accountants — no longer guaranteed jobs at big firms — will be the new gig economy workers, the study finds.


"The gig economy as we know it will not last," Jon Lieber, chief economist at Thumbtack, and Lucas Puente, an economic analyst at the firm, said in the report. "In the past few years, analysts and reporters have obsessively focused on transportation technology platforms such as Uber and Lyft and delivery technology platforms such as Instacart and the workers needed for these on-demand services. This narrow focus on low-skilled 'gigs' misses a larger story. These relatively commoditized, undifferentiated services are supplementing income, not generating middle-class lifestyles. Moreover, these tasks are overwhelmingly likely to be automated over time, performed by self-driving cars and drones."



Uber is upfront about its plans to replace drivers with robots over time. "Autonomous driving technology has the potential to drastically reduce deaths in cars and make transportation even more affordable," an Uber spokesperson told CNBC. "That's an exciting future and one Uber intends to be part of, but that transition for technical, regulatory and adoption reasons, at scale, will take some time."




"In the meantime, our focus is providing flexible work opportunities for as many people in the world as possible," said the spokesperson.




Almost half of U.S. jobs are at high risk of computerization over the next 20 years, according to Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne. Their findings were published in 2013 and remain unchanged, though there are some caveats — such as resistance from stakeholders and relative wage levels — that will determine if a job is in fact automated, said Osborne.

We keep seeing this stat-----50% of US jobs will be robotics-----when in fact that percentage is far-larger.



Predictions about how many jobs robots will ultimately displace vary widely.
"We forecast that 16 percent of jobs will disappear due to automation technologies between now and 2025, but that jobs equivalent to 9 percent of today's jobs will be created," said Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder in a report. "Physical robots require repair and maintenance professionals — one of several job categories that will grow up around a more automated world."



Taking a global view, more than 3 million workers will be supervised by a "robo-boss" by 2018, research and advisory firm Gartner predicted late last year.

The jobs least likely to be automated first are those that require a high level of creativity or emotional intelligence, Osborne said. For example, school teacher jobs are relatively safe because of the elevated level of social intelligence required to teach and mentor children.

OH, REALLY?????



Positions that are particularly vulnerable to automation include telemarketers, tax preparers, watch repairers, insurance underwriters, cargo and freight agents, and mathematical technicians, the Oxford study found. Within each category, some jobs will be automated sooner.



"There are a lot of driving tasks today that really only require the navigation of relatively structured environments," said Osborne, co-director of the Oxford Martin Program on Technology and Employment. "In those types of environments, autonomous vehicles are very much on the near horizon."



Driving jobs on mining sites are already being automated and long-distance truck drivers, forklift operators and agricultural drivers could be replaced within five to 10 years, he said.



Professional drivers navigating complex inner-city environments, tricky intersections and pedestrians crossing roads involve all the higher-end difficulties of driving. That's why Uber drivers will be the last to be replaced by robots, perhaps within a couple of decades, said Osborne.



In the meantime, the gig economy is creating invaluable data to feed Uber's algorithms and build artificial intelligence systems — the brains of those robots. For example, an Uber driver is sending back a lot of data on where customers are as well as traffic and road conditions.


"All these things might ultimately enable the autonomous vehicles that Uber is very actively pursuing to better complete those kinds of tasks," said Osborne.



"This gig economy — in that it is being pursued through digital platforms — is actually getting people to automate themselves out of a job through delivering data back to the platforms that can be used to provide an automated alternative," he said.
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If our FB FRIENDS whether US citizens or global citizens do not KNOW the REAL INFORMATION we have posted every week for a dozen years -----if a citizen does not understand how these few decades our US media has been allowed to be completely myth-making and propaganda-----that is because the K-university schools in your communities were not US PUBLIC SCHOOLS----they were CORPORATE and FREEMASON--HIDING AND LYING information.

'Ruchir Sharma Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management,


is the author of “The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the The Post-Crisis World,” from which this essay is adapted'.

Here in US we will see those national media, global banking NGOs, and global technology think tanks telling us---DON'T WORRY-----we are creating new industries for employment---not killing all employment opportunity. Well, above we see MORGAN STANLEY INVESTMENT doing just that----in a WASHINGTON POST now owned by AMAZON BEZOS.

Now, if the US these few decades was not captured by ROBBER BARON CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----Morgan Stanley would be out of business and all its executives in PRISON. So, we would not turn to JAIL BAIT-----for what is good for American education and economic structure.

When we recover the massive corporate fraud from these few decades from MORGAN-----and GOLDMAN SACHS----we can have an FDR rebuilding of all the public K-universities we need in each state and community.



PostEverything

Robots won't kill the workforce. They'll save the global economy.


Across the world, the labor pool isn't growing fast enough to support our needs.

A robot collects dishes to be cleaned at Chilli Padi Nonya Cafe in Singapore.


(REUTERS/Edgar Su)
By Ruchir Sharma
, Contributor, Post


Everything


December 2, 2016



The United Nations forecasts that the global population will rise from 7.3 billion to nearly 10 billion by 2050, a big number that often prompts warnings about overpopulation. Some have come from neo-Malthusians, who fear that population growth will outstrip the food supply, leaving a hungry planet. Others appear in the tirades of anti-immigrant populists, invoking the specter of a rising tide of humanity as cause to slam borders shut. Still others inspire a chorus of neo-Luddites, who fear that the “rise of the robots” is rapidly making human workers obsolete, a threat all the more alarming if the human population is exploding.



Before long, though, we’re more likely to treasure robots than to revile them. They may be the one thing that can protect the global economy from the dangers that lie ahead.



An increase of 2.5 billion people may sound catastrophic. But what matters for economic growth is not the number of people but the rate of population growth. Since its peak in the 1960s, that rate has slumped by almost half to just 1 percent, and the U.N. forecast assumes that this slowdown will continue. Women are having fewer children, so fewer people are entering the working ages between 15 and 64, and labor-force growth is poised to decline from Chile to China. At the same time, owing to rapid advances in health care and medicine, people are living longer , and most of the coming global population increase will be among the retirement crowd. These trends are toxic for economic growth, and boosting the number of robots may be the easiest answer for many countries.





One simple way to estimate how fast an economy can grow is by adding working-age population growth and productivity growth: If the number of workers and output per worker are both increasing by 1 percent a year, then economic output should rise by roughly 2 percent. Over the past decade, both sides of that equation have declined dramatically across the world. In the United States, productivity growth has fallen by almost half from its postwar average, but growth in the labor force has slid even faster, dropping by two-thirds to an average pace of 0.5 percent, according to calculations performed for my book. Though many explanations have been offered for the slow recovery from the global financial crisis of 2008, the clearest answer may be aging populations. Something will have to fill the void left by, say, retiring farmers, and particularly at a time of rising hostility to immigrants, it is likely to be farmbots.

WE KNOW THESE STAGNANT US ECONOMIES ARE DELIBERATELY CAUSED BY US FED AND GLOBAL CORPORATIONS HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH AGING BABY BOOMERS.



It may not be long before economists are worrying about a global shortage of robots. In many industrial countries, from Germany to Japan to South Korea, growth in the working-age population has already peaked, acting as a drag on the economy. Widely overlooked, however, is the fact that the population-growth slowdown is unfolding even faster in the emerging world, according to my research.



Consider the turning point that China hit last year. For the first time since records began in the 1950s, its working-age population growth was negative. As a result, China’s labor force is expected to lose 1 million workers each year for the foreseeable future, and it is also aging rapidly. Studies by Evercore ISI, a research firm, show that the elderly share of the population is rising more than twice as fast as it did in the United States and more than four times faster than in France at similar stages of development. Asked by an alarmed dinner companion about the threat robots posed to jobs in China, Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman responded: “You just don’t get it. In China, the robots are going to come just in time.” No wonder Beijing now offers heavy subsidies to companies involved in industrial automation.

CHINA HAS TWO BILLION CITIZENS LEFT UNEMPLOYED THESE FEW DECADES OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE FOR WORK IN CHINA FOR GOODNESS SAKE----

And timing is critical. Those who fear the job-destroying impact of machines say this generation of technology is different because it is coming so fast. If older generations created tools for use by humans, such as sewing machines, the new forms of automation are imbued with artificial intelligence, capable of “machine learning” and of rapidly replacing humans in a broad swath of jobs, from manufacturing to services — even jobs that involve writing about robots. Concern about this disruptive advance has been stirred up by authorities such as Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, who predicted in 2013 that nearly half of U.S. jobs would be at risk from automation in the next decade or two.



These alarms have sounded before, however. The Machine Intelligence Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley has found that today, the average forecast for when artificial intelligence will arrive is about 20 years. But that was also the standard prediction in 1955. And often, humans find a way of working with their automated creations. After the introduction of supermarket scanners, the number of cashiers grew. Though legal-discovery software appeared to threaten the jobs of paralegals, their ranks increased, too. Now, many fear that self-driving trucks will displace millions of American truckers, but they may create more and better jobs for those who service those increasingly complex vehicles.



If automation was displacing human workers as fast as implied in recent books like Martin Ford’s “The Rise of the Robots,” then we should be seeing a negative impact on jobs already. We’re not. Since 2008, economic growth has been weak compared with that in other post-crisis recoveries, but job growth in the major industrial countries has been relatively strong. In the Group of Seven, the world’s top industrial countries, unemployment has fallen faster than expected in the face of weak economic growth, and faster than in any comparable period since at least the 1970s. The Japanese economy is growing at 0.8 percent, yet it is at full employment. According to my research, the job picture has been particularly strong in Germany, Japan and South Korea — the industrial countries that employ the most robots .

ABSOLUTELY NOBODY BELIEVES TODAY'S US EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES----OF COURSE IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING.



True, robots do represent a new obstacle for some poorer nations, namely those few that do not suffer from population decline. In the postwar era, countries like China escaped poverty by moving a rising young population off the farm and into more productive jobs in factories. Indeed, it was unusual for any country to sustain rapid growth unless the working-age population was increasing faster than 2 percent a year. My analysis shows that, in the 1980s, 17 of the 20 largest emerging economies had a working-age population expanding that fast, according to my research, but now there are only two: Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. And they will have a hard time moving a large segment of their young populations into industrial jobs, given that they now have to compete with robotic manufacturing elsewhere.


Yet for the rising number of countries facing population decline, the effort to lift the labor force has begun. Starting in the 1980s, led by Singapore, nations from Chile to Australia have offered baby bonuses for women to have more children, but many have found that these bonuses are ineffective in the face of stronger cultural forces, including the desire of many women to pursue a career before having children. Others have tried with some success to boost the workforce directly by raising the retirement age, offering women incentives to join or return to the labor force after having kids, and opening doors to immigrant workers.



The simple math, however, shows that particularly in rapidly aging, conservative societies such as Japan and Germany, none of these groups has the potential to make up for coming declines in the working-age population. Germany decided to admit roughly 1 million refugees in 2015, in part for economic reasons, but the resulting controversy has reduced the flow. Germany would have to admit 1.5 million each year through 2030 to fully offset the economic impact of its aging population. Japan, which on average admits fewer than 70,000 immigrants per year, would have to admit 1 million annually. Given the widespread political backlash against immigration, increases this large are unlikely.




So far, robots are drawing comparatively little populist fire, perhaps in part because their numbers are still quite low. Worldwide, the industrial labor force includes about 320 million humans, compared with just 1.6 million robots. That’s a huge gap, even counting the superior strength and speed of the robots. And most of them fall in the category of unintelligent machines, committed to a single task such as turning a bolt or painting a car door. Nearly half of them work in the auto industry, which is still the largest employer (of humans) in the United States.



In the future, economists may start counting robots the way they now count gains in the working-age population, as a driver of growth. For much of the world, robots will stand alongside immigrants, women and the elderly as a fourth pool of labor.

DID ANYONE MISS THE INCLUSION OF MEN ------alongside immigrants, women, and elderly------our 99% of US men better know they are great big losers MOVING FORWARD no matter what those global banking 5% freemason/Greek labor players are selling.



Whether by design or accident, many of the countries with the most rapidly aging populations already have the most robots. According to the International Federation of Robotics, the nations with the highest density of industrial robots include South Korea, with 531 per 10,000 employees, Japan with 305 and Germany with 301. The United States ranks eighth with 176. China is well behind with only 49, but on the bright side — arguably — it had the world’s fastest-growing robot population.



Today, population trends are the most powerful force shaping the rise and fall of nations, the starting point of any discussion about an economy’s prospects. Most of the world is graying fast, and the economic answer to aging will be all hands on deck, no matter what they’re made of.

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Those US cities having an ACLU not only backing, but leading in the building of what global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS ONE WORLD call '21st century schools'----you have an ACLU working for the civil liberties of extreme wealth and extreme corporate power----that's FAR-RIGHT WING LIBERTARIAN--------you do not have an ACLU working for 99% of WE THE PEOPLE both US and new immigrants-----claiming they are 'LEFT' and helping bring social benefit.

Here is Baltimore 'Public' Schools having literally raided for these few decades ALL public funding to our city K-12 so each community school was allowed to decay and struggling. All that public school funding was misappropriated to build global for-profit schools overseas---we are watching as a Baltimore City Center which is fast being made ONE MASSIVE GLOBAL HOPKINS CORPORATION CAMPUS----funneling all school building funds to those schools only.

LIVE WHERE YOU WORK MEANS ONLY HOPKINS EMPLOYEES WILL BE ATTENDING THESE SCHOOLS----THESE SCHOOLS HYPER-GLOBAL NEO-LIBERAL BRINGING NO VALUE TO OUR 99% PARENTS OR STUDENTS.

Everyone in this Baltimore Sun article quoted as supporting these schools and thinking it is great for our 99% of Baltimore citizens black, white, and brown citizens ---is a global banking 5% freemason/Greek player.  What started under Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake with then Maryland Gov Democratic O'Malley is simply MOVING FORWARD same ONE WORLD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE education policies under today's Baltimore Mayor PUGH and Maryland REPUBLICAN GOV HOGAN.   This is because both O'MALLEY AND HOGAN are FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING 1% ----not US Democrat or Republican.


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First of many new city schools opens in East Baltimore under $1.1B push


With gratitude, cheers, dancing and hope for the future, the new Fort Worthington Elementary and Middle School opened Wednesday, the first in an ambitious $1.1 billion school construction program in Baltimore that will upgrade and rebuild up to 28 schools.



The Fort Worthington project cost a total of $37 million and Mayor Catherine Pugh joined Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young and City Schools CEO Sonja Santelesis among other elected officials and advocates to cut a red ribbon to open it.



"They will come here and they will excel," Pugh said, as her voice grew louder like she was delivering a sermon in church. "This could be where the next president, the next cure for cancer could come from. We can do it, just give us the opportunity. That's what this school represents."


A second school in the state's 21st Century Schools program, Frederick Elementary School for grades pre-K through 5, is set for its ribbon cutting on Saturday at 2501 Frederick Ave. at noon. The school received a $30 million renovation and addition and will reopen merged with Samuel F.B. Morse Elementary School with a new principal, Harold S. Henry Jr.



Baltimore City Public School classes are set to begin on Sept. 5.



Ke'Maya Hopson, 9, a rising fourth grader at Fort Worthington was excited as she walked through the hallways of the new school at 2710 E. Hoffman St.
"The technology here will help me learn and the lunchroom is better," Hopson said.



"It's bigger and has a lot of glass," she added, pointing up toward a two-story atrium in the main lobby just off of the "cafetorium" where lunch and academic gatherings will be held in the very near future.

Gov. Larry Hogan helped to break ground at Fort Worthington last June 14 in a ceremony not attended by the city's former mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who was feuding with the governor at the time. The 21st Century Schools program was approved by the General Assembly in 2013 and officially kicked off in 2014.



The brick and glass school is a boost for the community of Berea, located a dozen blocks from Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore. The school is surrounded by working class rowhouses, but a few blocks away, there are dozens of vacant and abandoned houses. It is hoped to be a new anchor in the community, Santelesis said.



The Maryland Stadium Authority is overseeing the construction and designs of the 21st Century Schools program. Last year, MSA officials said they had realized $15 million in savings over original cost estimates as work at Fort Worthington and Frederick Elementary got underway. Two other schools are expected to deliver under the program by the end of the year.


There are a total of eight schools underway in the 21st Century project now and design and bidding work for two others is moving forward. Those schools are Arlington Elementary and Middle School and Patterson High School.



MSA officials have said a total of 17 city schools will be in the pipeline for the project by the end of the year.
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'In January 1857, Freemason James Buchanan was elected president to replace Franklin Pierce'.

Above we see global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS BUCHANAN as a minor US President-----this book brings modern day BUCHANAN as those with THE LONG GAME.

The fundamental duty of US public schools is to educate our US people to be CITIZENS and COMMUNITY LEADERS.  The article below claims the FAR-RIGHT WING RADICALS have WON--------calling the book DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS----non-fiction.  DEMOCRACY is in chains when all political parties are captured by global banking 5% freemason/Greek pols and players working for a FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY OF MALTA---OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.  DEMOCRACY is in chains when all national media is captured to myth-making and propaganda-----which was allowed to taken place over just a few decades CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA because our US public K-university schools were captured and corporatized.

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS tries to tell us that a nation with broad political input from communities and states having 99% of citizens wanting to create societal conditions allowing for REAL multiculturalism-----placed US DEMOCRACY in chains.  What we are MOVING FORWARD with ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%-----is 1000BC Democracy where only the GLOBAL 1% have rights as CITIZENS.

WHEN WE DISCUSS PUBLIC EDUCATION POLICY IN US TODAY----IF OUR US K-UNIVERSITY HAS NOT MADE THE CORRUPTION OF ALL OUR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES TOP IN EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA----WE HAVE 'FAILED SCHOOLS'.


We discuss in detail the goals and agenda put in place late 1800s ----early 1900s in taking America from being a sovereign nation to being a colonial nation by global banking 1% and OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----all these goals were known to our US citizens who educated on public policy and economics these several decades. NO DOUBT what is being called a RADICAL FAR -RIGHT did corrupt our US politics for a LONG GAME-----but these REVISIONIST HISTORY 'non-fiction' books do not tell the REAL STORY.


Nonfiction
How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won


James McGill Buchanan, shortly after the announcement that he won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics.

By Heather Boushey

• Aug. 15, 2017

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS
The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America


By Nancy MacLean
334 pp. Viking. $28.



Earlier this year, when the Republican pollster Glen Bolger sat down with Donald Trump voters who had previously voted for Barack Obama, one Wisconsinite summed up his reason for favoring Trump this time around: “I think they all lie, but Trump was more — is more obvious.” This statement presents quite a puzzle. Why would any voter think that being a known liar is an asset?




Insight into this conundrum comes from an unlikely source, the life’s work of the economist James McGill Buchanan — who happens to be the subject of a new book, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America,” by the historian Nancy MacLean. Buchanan, who was born in 1919 and died in 2013, advanced the field of public choice economics into politics, arguing that all interest groups push for their own agenda rather than the public good. According to this view, governing institutions cannot be trusted, which is why governing should be left to the market.


In the United States, promising and then delivering services and protections for the majority of voters provides a path for politicians to be popularly elected. Buchanan was concerned that this would lead to overinvestment in public services, as the majority would be all too willing to tax the wealthy minority to support these programs. So Buchanan came to a radical conclusion: Majority rule was an economic problem. “Despotism,” he declared in his 1975 book “The Limits of Liberty,” “may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”



Buchanan therefore argued for “curbing the appetites of majority coalitions” by establishing ironclad rules that would curb their power. As he was known for saying, “the problems of our times require attention to the rules rather than the rulers.” In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for “his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision making.”




Buchanan, however, also had what MacLean calls a “stealth” agenda. He knew that the majority would never agree to being constrained. He therefore helped lead a push to undermine their trust in public institutions. The idea was to get voters to direct their ire at these institutions and divert their attention away from increasing income and wealth inequality.


This is the sordid tale that MacLean lays out in “Democracy in Chains.” She starts with Buchanan’s early engagement in policy work in the late 1950s, when he offered to help the state of Virginia respond to the federal mandate to desegregate public schools. After the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public school segregation was unconstitutional, Buchanan and a fellow economist called for the state to issue tax-subsidized vouchers to any parents who wanted to send their children to private schools. What these economists were calling for was essentially the privatization of public education.




But even in 1950s Virginia, public schools were popular with many white parents, and “a fire sale of tax-funded public schools to private school operators would be political suicide,” MacLean writes. Buchanan’s plan failed, and he learned a tough lesson from this foray into policy making: If the majority demands services such as free public schools, politicians will acquiesce.

Buchanan decided he needed to influence policy at a deeper level. In the ensuing years, he sought to lead an economic and political movement in which he stressed that “conspiratorial secrecy is at all times essential” to mask efforts to protect the wealthy elite from the will of the majority. In September 1973, Buchanan held the inaugural meeting of the International Atlantic Economic Society, arguing for the need to “create, support and activate an effective counterintelligentsia” to reshape the way people thought about government. He believed the center-left controlled academia and “effectively indoctrinated political actors in both parties,” MacLean writes. To fight back, conservatives needed to develop new surrogates who could be “indoctrinated” in turn with right-wing ideas, and then “mobilized, organized and directed” to disseminate them.

We know all of this because MacLean found documentation of Buchanan’s plans — including correspondence, meeting minutes and personal papers — in his previously unexplored archives. She came upon her biographical subject “by sheer serendipity,” she writes, while researching how the state of Virginia responded to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Seeing the name of an unfamiliar economist eventually led her to rooms full of documents that made clear how “operatives” had been trained “to staff the far-flung and purportedly separate, yet intricately connected, institutions funded by the Koch brothers and their now large network of fellow wealthy donors.” Buchanan’s papers revealed how, from a series of faculty perches at several universities, he spent his life laying out a game plan for a right-wing social movement.




One part of his plan involved Social Security. The election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980 was a watershed for conservatives, yet it quickly became clear that he, too, would succumb to political pressure. By 1982, Reagan’s fight to end Social Security — long a bugbear of Buchanan’s — was faltering. Amid that debate, the libertarian Cato Institute, funded by the brothers Charles and David Koch, made privatization of Social Security its top priority and turned to Buchanan for a master plan. Buchanan told them that “those who seek to undermine the existing structure” must do two things: Make people doubt the viability of Social Security, and divide the public by suggesting high earners be taxed at higher rates — which might sound progressive but would ultimately undo the universal foundation of the program itself.

REAGAN WAS NEVER RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE---HE WAS ALWAYS FAR-RIGHT WING NEO-LIBERAL WHICH IS BASICALLY LIBERTARIAN-----AS WAS CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA---now TRUMP.


MacLean doesn’t hide her antipathy to Buchanan’s goals. As a historian of American social movements, she brings this expertise to her study of Buchanan, showing how his work helped to sow doubt that anyone — whether individuals, groups or institutions — can act in the public good. Nevertheless, her overt moral revulsion at her subject can sometimes make it seem as if we’re getting only part of the picture.



American democracy was unprepared to defend itself against the agenda of Buchanan and conservative benefactors. Buchanan may not have been the only actor in this movement, and the role of conservative donors and economists has been documented elsewhere, but we are now living in a world he helped shepherd into reality. Public choice economists argue that those with the most to lose from change will pay the most attention, which has certainly been the case with Charles and David Koch. They and their friends have invested enormous sums in organizations that have changed the national debate about the proper role of government in the economy. Our politically polarized and increasingly paralyzed government institutions are the result.



With this book MacLean joins a growing chorus of scholars and journalists documenting the systematic, organized effort to undermine democracy and change the rules. In “Dark Money,” Jane Mayer tells the tale of the Koch brothers. In “Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal,” the historian Kim Phillips-Fein shows how a small group of businessmen initiated a decades-long effort to build popular support for free market economics. The political scientist Steven M. Teles writes about the chemicals magnate John M. Olin in “The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement.”



Power consolidation sometimes seems like a perpetual motion machine, continually widening the gap between those who have power and money and those who don’t. Still, “Democracy in Chains” leaves me with hope: Perhaps as books like MacLean’s continue to shine a light on important truths, Americans will begin to realize they need to pay more attention and not succumb to the cynical view that known liars make the best leaders.


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Here is just ONE example of MYTH-MAKING AND PROPAGANDA in Baltimore as global banking 5% sell the idea that GLOBAL GREEN TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ------is GREEN-----is SUSTAINABLE-----is good for our 99% WE THE PEOPLE-----economic future.



We often discuss how the PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD------is FAKE ENVIRONMENTALISM----it is tied to FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL CORPORATIONS having pretended to be advancing social benefit---as with global big AG and big MEAT-----as with GLOBAL ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY GRID.



The reason OBAMA sent to PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD our former Baltimore MAYOR RAWLINGS-BLAKE -----is BALTIMORE could care less about climate change----could care less about being GREEN or ENVIRONMENTAL-----Baltimore is FAR-RIGHT WING BUSH/CHENEY-----nothing happening in Baltimore tied to environmentalism.



THIS IS SMART CITIES DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE-----being sold as CLEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

When our Baltimore Public K-university allow all this myth-making and propaganda surrounding in this case---ENVIRONMENTALISM/WHAT REALLY IS GREEN-----we have no PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

THIS is how the FAR-RIGHT WING played the long-game in KILLING US DEMOCRACY-----it is these far-right wing ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 5% freemason/Greek player NGOs pretending to be 'left' social benefit that killed DEMOCRACY in America.  It is our US public K-university where all broad open discussion of public policy occurs-----



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The very first goal of any US public school system would be to assure the American people the most BASIC and FUNDAMENTAL definitions of what is PROPAGANDA---MYTH-MAKING-----vs what is REAL INFORMATION---NON-FICTION.

There is no doubt that a pluralist society is filled with people thinking what THEY believe is REAL INFORMATION.  BIAS/OPINION comes with POLITICS.  But there is a core of information that we KNOW to be a BASELINE for real information.  Here in US we have KNOWN that national media and global NGOs were corrupting the definitions of political philosophy---of what goals politicians have with MOVING FORWARD a political agenda.

IT REALLY IS EASY PEASY FOR ANY PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY TO ACT AS A CENTER FOR REAL INFORMATION.


Defining Propaganda


prop·a·gan·da

[prop-uh-gan-duh]
noun


1.  information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.


2.  the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.


3.  the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.


 What is Propaganda?



        As opposed to information that is objectively presented to inform a audience, propaganda is constructed with the intent to influence the attitudes, beliefs, or opinions of a target audience.  Richard Alan Nelson defines propaganda as such: “Propaganda is neutrally defined as a systematic form of purposeful persuasion that attempts to influence the emotions, attitudes, opinions, and actions of specified target audiences for ideological, political or commercial purposes through the controlled transmission of one-sided messages (which may or may not be factual) via mass and direct media channels” [1].


  Propaganda is considered to be by popular opinion a wholly negative term, loosely considered to be a synonym for blatant lying and manipulative coercion.  Settling on a universally agreed upon definition of propaganda has not been achieved ever since its coinage.  Indeed, “The experts have plenty of trouble in agreeing upon a satisfactory definition of propaganda, but they are agreed that the term can’t be limited to the type of propaganda that seeks to achieve bad ends or to the form that makes use of deceitful methods” [2].



  Various individuals and groups have attempted to pin down propaganda in one way or another.  Some say that propaganda must have emotional appeal, but many things which most would consider propaganda are based purely in logic (just, perhaps, false logic).  Some people assert that propaganda is present only in periods of controversial situations, but this is not the whole case because we widely regard things such as STD awareness as propaganda.  Robert B. Townsend closes his examination of what propaganda is with the following remark: “Most students of the subject agree that propaganda has to do with any ideas and beliefs that are intentionally propagated. They agree also that it attempts to reach a goal by making use of words and word substitutes.  Types of propaganda range from the selfish, deceitful, and subversive to the honest and aboveboard promotional effort. It can be concealed or open, emotional or containing appeals to reason, or a combination of emotional and logical appeals” [2].



       The definition used for purposes here is:  “Propaganda is information that deliberately attempts to persuade the attitudes, beliefs, or opinions of a target audience for ideological or political reasons”.


Types of Propaganda  



      There is a way in which propaganda is classified that is popular in propaganda studies, this is the black-white-gray classification. This classification system focuses primarily on the originator of the propaganda in question and its terms are as follows:



White Propaganda:  Propaganda which truthfully states its origin (the source is outright identified). The information presented is accurate (even if one sided, etc.). It is the most common type of propaganda.




Gray Propaganda:  Propaganda whose source may or may not be correctly identified.  Accuracy of information is uncertain.  “The objective of gray propaganda is to advance viewpoints that are in the interest of the originator but that would be more acceptable to target audiences than official statements. The reasoning is that avowedly propagandistic materials from a foreign government or identified propaganda agency might convince few, but the same ideas presented by seemingly neutral outlets would be more persuasive” [3].



Black Propaganda:  Black propaganda, like gray, camouflages the true source of the propaganda. But while gray propaganda is unattributed, black propaganda is typically falsely attributed. “Black propaganda is highly subversive and provocative; it is usually designed to appear to have originated from a hostile source, in order to cause that source embarrassment, to damage its prestige, to undermine its credibility, or to get it to take actions that it might not otherwise” [3].



      This classification of propaganda is not universally agreed upon and is not useful for our purposes here. These forms, in any significant sense, only account for the origination source of the propaganda and for the most part over look methods and intent of the source.  These three forms of propaganda will be considered only so far as the originating source of the propaganda will be considered in light of the following categories.




Soft Propaganda: 

• Most closely resembles “white propaganda”
• Source is known
•  Information presented is largely accurate and truthful
• Seeks informed support from target audience
• Goal is to further the goals of the propagandist but not without regard to the well-being of the audience

Hard Propaganda:

• Most closely resembles “black propaganda”
• Source may be unclear or unknown
• Information presented is largely inaccurate, false or deceitful [4]
• Seeks to coerce its audience, rather that truthfully inform
• Goal is to further the goals of the propagandist, with no concern for well-being of the audience
• In general it does the following: calls on false authority, lies, fabricates, exaggerates, deceives, coerces, or disinforms.

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Gov Rauner of Illinois is a FAR-RIGHT WING global Clinton neo-liberal NOT A DEMOCRAT-------he made the STATE OF ILLINOIS a SANCTUARY STATE meaning the entire state is now a US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE. So too did STATE OF MARYLAND under O'MALLEY another FAR-RIGHT WING Clinton neo-liberal allowed to be called a DEMOCRAT. Of course Rauner would veto set salaries of any kind especially those tied to US first world developed nation quality of life and LIVING WAGE. There will be NO US SCHOOL TEACHER PROFESSIONALS in ONE WORLD ONLINE COMMONER CORE----and certainly no employee wages not in line with overseas Asian Foreign Economic Zones----$40,000 salary?
HOW 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN.


Of course FAKE REPUBLICANS are MOVING FORWARD all these ONE WORLD neo-liberal education policies as well.


Rauner vetoes bill that would set minimum teacher salary at $40,000 within five years


Mike Riopell

Chicago Tribune



Gov. Bruce Rauner on Sunday vetoed legislation that would have raised the minimum salary for an Illinois teacher to $40,000 within five years, putting the re-election-seeking Republican at odds with teachers unions once again.



The bill approved by lawmakers in the spring would make the minimum teacher salary for next school year $32,076. The number would rise to $40,000 for the 2022-23 term and grow with the Consumer Price Index after that.

REMEMBER, IN US THE LIVING WAGE IS NOW $18 AN  HOUR----$30,000 A YEAR=====SO THESE 'MINIMUMS ARE POVERTY LINE.

“Teachers are our greatest asset in ensuring the future of our youth and they deserve to be well-compensated for their hard work,” Rauner wrote in his veto message. “However, minimum pay legislation is neither the most efficient nor the most effective way to compensate our teachers.




“Things like pay-for-performance, diversified pay for teachers in hard-to-staff schools or subjects, or pay incentives for teachers with prior work experience are all viable options to provide greater compensation for teachers,” the governor wrote.


The Democrat who sponsored the salary bill said Sunday that he was “disappointed.”



“Refusing to guarantee professional educators a livable minimum wage is no way to lure more teachers to Illinois,” Democratic state Sen. Andy Manar of Bunker Hill said in a statement. “I’m disappointed in the governor’s veto, and I know thousands of dedicated, hard-working, creative educators throughout the state are too.”

SOMEHOW SEN ANDY MANAR DOES NOT MENTION THE DESIGNATION OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES ASSURES THIRD WORLD WAGES AND NOT US PUBLIC EDUCATION.



Rauner has feuded with labor since his first campaign, including teachers unions that backed the minimum salary proposal. But he often touts his signature last year on a new school funding formula among his top achievements.

State lawmakers could try to override Rauner’s veto when they go back to Springfield after the November election, but it could be difficult. Supporters would have to find six more supporters of the minimum teacher salary bill than voted for it back in May.



Illinois law currently lists the minimum salary for a teacher at $9,000, a level that took effect in July 1980.

We will end this week's discussion of LANDLORD/TENANT public policy MOVING FORWARD the goals of none of our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE being able to be LANDLORDS and/or not able to be RENTERS anywhere we want to live.

As always we target our US 99% of young adults because they have not experienced our strong US first world, developed  nation enforcing US RULE OF LAW, providing oversight and accountability, having legal structures enforcing civil rights of citizens.  CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global banking pols killed all that these few decades.

When we discuss the goals of filling our US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES with a few billion new immigrants forced to live and work in US zones as they do in third world nations-----these are the future citizens to US who will have absolutely no experience of an America as a first world, developed nation, with strong RULE OF LAW and citizens' rights.  They will be targeted by the global banking institutions in US cities today, fleeced of all their wealth ----as here in Baltimore with Baltimore Development Corporation, Greater Baltimore Committee, global hedge fund Johns Hopkins---and all those FAKE social progressive organizations PRETENDING to be working for our 99% as populist leaders.


We want to address NEW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS regarding buying and renting property.  The new global 1% foreign rich are protected by ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% although we feel sure they will be fleeced by global banking 1% players tied to our US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.  These foreign rich either BUY duel citizenships or they bring dozens of corporate lawyers to try to secure property rights within these US zones---like Baltimore.

Things are much different for our global 99% of new immigrants---they have already these few decades been the target of fleecing over property sales----I.E victims of subprime mortgage loan frauds in great numbers.  Below we see a discussion by our US 99% over what they call 'illegal immigrants' and what they think property rights are for them.


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1. 06-19-2011, 08:58 PM #1
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2. I was wondering , can an illegal immigrant own property legally? I tried to find the basic federal laws against illegal immigration in google but couldn't find any.
3. 06-19-2011, 09:19 PM #2
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   Yes. Around here many do a "rent to own" to buy property or they pay cash. At least that's the way it is in my town.
4. 06-19-2011, 09:22 PM #3
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   There is no law against it currently however some states passing tough immigration laws are making similiar type of laws. The catch is though that the federal government and even states when allowed to enforce immigration law could turn the tables on that. Laws about "proceeds of a crime" can be used to take that house and virtually anything else but the mood hasn't been right of course in states and the federal government yet.
5. 06-19-2011, 09:28 PM #4
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   Normally one is required to provide a Social Security number and photo identification, usually a drivers license, and banking information. A contract to "buy and sell" is legal, but the contract is being made with a person who is committing a criminal act (illegal alien) and who does not possess the rights and privileges of citizenship.
   
   The Federal government does what they always do. They look the other way and let banks sell morgages to Illegals even though It Is against Federal law. This easily falls under the term "aiding and abetting" Illegals ...
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   They probly use that famous T.I.N.
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   Originally Posted by pattyk
   They probly use that famous T.I.N.
   T.I.N?
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   Tax Identification number. They use it to file their tax returns cause they dont have social security numbers.
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   They use it to open bank accounts too.
10. 06-19-2011, 10:15 PM #9
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    Originally Posted by pattyk
    They use it to open bank accounts too.
    Thanks Patty, most dont even have that!!!! Our pandering former mayor ,funded a bank so illegals could get accounts without a ss so they wouldnt get robbed on pay days
11. 06-19-2011, 10:16 PM #10
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    Makes you wonder how much US territory is owned by foreign nationals.
    
    Rent-to-own illegals usually don't end up with the property. I see a house get turned over again and again. They move in and do illegal remodeling and then leave, then someone inspects it when they try to rent-to-own again and the places gets boarded up. Then some sucker comes along that will do the repairs for the down and tries to bring it up to code but he can't live in it while he fixes it, then another sucker comes along, and another... Then they get it up to code and do a rent-to-own and they do illegal remodels and the whole mess starts over again. Illegal remodeling can really trash a house. Often, they catch on fire, the walls bow out, walls or roof cave in or just end up ugly eye soars because they've used salvaged construction materials or stuff they stole from a job site. It's a mess. Every time I hear about one of these deals, the owner always seems to be living in Mexico.

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It always kills REAL left social progressives when our US 99% right wing focus like hawks on civil behaviors of those lower income 99% of new immigrants calling them ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS while those global 1% foreign rich have sacked and looted the US as partners with FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY OF MALTA/TRIBES OF JUDAH.  So, global 1% foreign rich being allowed to buy and be partners to US city development deals are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS---THEY COMMITTED CRIMES against the US as partners with CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  Our US 99% must look UP the income ladder to FIX BALTIMORE.

The discussion above makes a few good points.  It describes how these few decades global banking 5% freemason/Greek players have allowed new immigrants to be CAPTURED in subprime mortgage loan frauds knowing these new immigrants would be losing those homes down the road.  As well, our 99% of new immigrants are being allowed to be captured in schemes like RENT TO OWN------while global banking players KNOW these immigrants are likely to be pushed out of these communities for one reason or another----losing that RENT TO OWN.

As we shouted at the beginning of TRUMP'S term in office------EVERY PRESIDENT since CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA starts the terms doing just what TRUMP did regarding immigrants told they were welcome-----then pushed out when they get close to naturalized citizenship----or when they get close to being actual homeowners.  These PRESIDENTIAL attacks on US immigrants are WELL-TARGETED. 

THIS IS WHEN YOU KNOW OUR US POLITICAL SYSTEM IS CAPTURED TO FAR-RIGHT WING----REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES DO NOT PEDDLE CRIMINAL HOUSING POLICIES.

NPR's MARKETPLACE MONEY knows this-----CASA de MARYLAND knows this------civil rights groups like NAACP knows this------this is how we know all these groups are global banking 5% freemason/Greek players PRETENDING to care about our 99% new immigrants while working to kill their futures.


What happens to your house when you get deported?
By Reema Khrais
August 10, 2017 | 1:20 PM



President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to ramp up immigration enforcement.


From February through June, an average of 13,085 undocumented immigrants were arrested each month, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That compares to an average of 9,134 arrests per month during the last three months of 2016.



The economic ripple effects of arrests – and eventual deportations – are wide-ranging. But one little noticed consequence is their effect on the housing market.


Research shows that deportations lead to higher rates of foreclosure among Latino communities. That’s because the loss of an income for families – especially if it is the breadwinner who is detained – can make it harder for remaining family members to make mortgage payments.


That reality is what spurred Maria, an undocumented immigrant who runs a Quinceañera shop in Los Angeles, to recently transfer the title of her house to her 22-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen.


“I refinanced it and took the money because if they come up and deport us, we have that money put away,” Maria said in Spanish. “It’s with my daughter.”
Maria, who didn’t want her last name used to protect her safety, has owned a home in California for more than 20 years. 



She and her husband scraped together $2,000 for the down payment and have since remodeled it over the years. The thought of losing the house because of a deportation, she said, is terrifying.
“Because everything we made, all that we built could fall apart at any moment,” she said.



Maria is among the 31 percent of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who own a home, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Without social security numbers, many undocumented immigrants are able to take out loans by using their Taxpayer Identification Number.


The link between deportations and foreclosures is something Jacob Rugh, an assistant professor of sociology at Brigham Young University, has studied extensively.



He found that deportations during the Great Recession, which reached record levels, exacerbated foreclosures among Latinos. Rugh, along with Matthew Hall of Cornell University, looked at data from 2005 to 2012, focusing on counties that collaborated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the 287 (g) program. That’s the program that allows local law enforcement to help arrest and detain people suspected of violating immigration law.



They found that in 42 counties, foreclosure rates among Latino households were nearly 70 percent higher than in otherwise similar counties.


That’s because while many undocumented immigrants are homeowners, many live – and contribute income — to multi-generational households owned by Latinos who are here legally.



“Even in expensive markets, you could see that immigrants were pooling their resources across legal statuses, across families, to make the American dream possible,” Rugh explained.



Rugh said deportations act like other triggers for foreclosure that are well-known: “It’s as though someone was divorced or became ill,” he explained.



Most undocumented immigrants who are deported are Latino men with jobs. So, for families that hold the bulk of their wealth in a home, that loss of an income can mean losing money for college or medical bills.

“It has this sort of domino effect on the rest of the community and on the economy, frankly,” said Marisa Calderon, executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.

 
Calderon said a huge spike in deportations could have an impact on the housing market as Hispanics are expected to drive home demand over the next decade.
“People don’t come to this country dreaming to be renters, they want to be able to have a little place to call their own,” she said.


That’s what Claudia, who’s undocumented, wanted. Her parents brought her to Wichita, Kansas from Mexico when she was a young girl. That’s where she eventually fell in love with her boyfriend, got married and bought her first home.

“I wanted to have something more stable for my son. Like a lot of my friends, they still have their memories or like their pictures, and I didn’t have that,” she said.
Claudia was on her way to building that stability when, in 2005, her husband, who’s also undocumented, was detained. He lost his painting business. The court fees and bills started piling up.

“We were really trying to save the home,” she said.
But they couldn’t make the mortgage payments. They lost their home. Eventually Claudia’s husband was deported. He is now back in the U.S. and both Claudia and her husband are seeing political asylum.


But instead of the two-bedroom home with the big backyard, they’re renting in the same Wichita apartment complex they were in when they first got married.



“It was really hard for me last year when I turned 40,” she said. “It was like, I cannot believe I’ve been working hard my whole life, had dreams, and here I am at 40, starting all over again.”

She said she wonders where they’d be if they hadn’t lost their house.
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The problems our 99% of new to US immigrants have in REALLY securing property as homes or being LANDLORDS is tied with our immigrants being able to STAY EMPLOYED over the long term------and remaining SOVEREIGN to one city/county/state or staying in the US.

What are the laws of buying and selling land in US?  Well, most legal contracts require both parties involved not have CRIMINAL STATUS still active.  Those new immigrants not in US on VISAS OR GREEN CARDS will, no matter how much global banking 1% pols PRETEND to be SANCTUARY CITY/STATE pro-immigrant-----we see those open arms CLOSE TIGHT around your WEALTH.

The problem for our new immigrants here in US cities LEGALLY as green card holders or VISA holders is this:  global banking intends to end your legal immigrant status BEFORE you can OWN THE BUILDINGS or shortly AFTER you have bought them.  There is no intent of allowing global 99% of new immigrants NOT TIED TO BEING GLOBAL 1% -----to be home-owners or LANDLORDS.

Below we see TEXAS doing just this.  No state actively stages any person living inside its borders to be fleeced of their wealth than TEXAS ----BALTIMORE as a city is top gun as well.  So, these are 'ILLEGAL' immigrants being told it is OK to stay in TEXAS----it is OK to buy a house, to be LANDLORDS, all while global banking 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA intend to change laws---change this policy stance----and make sure these new immigrants lose all that home-equity.

THIS PROPERTY SCAM HAS OPERATED THESE FEW DECADES----MOVING FORWARD THE GOAL HAS THIS SAME SCAM TARGETING FOREIGN MIDDLE-CLASS PROFESSIONALS COMING TO US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES------ALL OF WHOM WILL LOSE THEIR WEALTH.

Where the target these few decades was the fleecing of working class immigrants----global banking 1% players are now focused on those foreign white collar professional immigrants ready to sack and loot them.


And it will be ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT FAKE civil rights groups telling these immigrants this is GOOD POLICY.

Illegal status no bar to immigrants buying homes
REAL ESTATE


Renters no more


More undocumented immigrants are able to buy homes



OLIVIA BLANCO MULLINS, Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle


Published 5:30 am CDT, Friday, August 4, 2006


Although they are undocumented immigrants, Mexican couple Jorge and Maribel were able to purchase their Houston home.Despite being in the U.S. illegally, undocumented immigrants can legally buy a house.
Certain lenders don't ask for immigration papers. And buyers using a special tax ID often don't need a lengthy credit history.



That has allowed many undocumented workers to realize the American Dream, experts said, while contributing to an upturn in the real estate market.



For Jorge and Maribel, a couple from Mexico who have lived illegally in Houston since 1996, an Individual Tax Identification Number, known as an ITIN, and a Texas driver's license were enough to secure their mortgage, allowing them to purchase a home in 2002.


"I was really surprised when I found out that it could be done," said Jorge, who bought his home through Gloria Castrejón's realty firm, La Palma.


Like Maribel, Jorge asked to be identified by only his first name.
The fact is, it can be easier for many undocumented immigrants to buy houses than to get jobs.
To complete the purchase, they don't need a Social Security number.



An ITIN, their last two yearly tax returns, an official ID such as a consular registration card and a few credit references, such as electricity and telephone bills, are enough to apply for a mortgage and buy a home, according to experts.


"Residency has never been a condition to purchase a home," said Frances Martinez Myers, president of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, which is based in Washington, D.C.
"Being in the country legally or not is not an issue when you are buying a house."



If a buyer does provide a Social Security number, real estate agencies and lenders may request proof of legal status, according to Myers. But that is usually not the case with an ITIN.


"It is not illegal for an undocumented immigrant to buy a house. What is illegal is to do so using a false Social Security number," Houston immigration lawyer José Vega warned.


Although real estate deals involving non-U.S. residents have been going on for a while, Myers said that banks have only recently begun processing mortgages with ITIN numbers.


The Internal Revenue Service started issuing ITIN numbers in 1996 to enable people without Social Security numbers, including nonresident investors and illegal immigrants, to pay U.S. taxes, according to agency spokesperson Irma Trevino. The IRS has issued 9 million ITIN numbers.



Several real estate experts, including Wendy Buitron of the Texas Department of Banking, which oversees the state's financial system, confirmed that using an ITIN to obtain a mortgage is legal.


Real risks

For illegal immigrants, however, buying a home can carry risks.The biggest, said Houston real estate consultant Óscar González, of González Group, is deportation. If homeowners are forced to leave the country, they might be unable to afford payments and, therefore, could lose their home, Myers said.

We would suggest to our 99% of new immigrant citizens that the above GONZALES GROUP are 5% global banking players only interested in fleecing you through mortgage loan frauds.


Fraud is another risk. Paco Felici, spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's Office, said a Dallas operation that was selling homes to Hispanics without giving them property titles was busted in June.

We would suggest to our 99% of immigrants that a PACO FELICI as TX ATTORNEY being a global banking 5% player is killing our 99% of immigrants while pretending to care.


Another caveat for undocumented buyers: Financial institutions tend to charge illegal immigrants higher interest rates — sometimes several points higher — than other borrowers.


As for banks and lending institutions that grant ITIN loans, the risk is low, experts said. For example, Banco Popular limits ITIN loans to a maximum of $150,000, spokesman Juan Carlos Cruz said.


Banks approach such mortgages differently.
Banco Popular, which has been issuing ITIN mortgages since 1997, does not believe it is the bank's responsibility to determine the immigration status of a person, Cruz said.

BANCO POPULAR thinks just as all global banking -----whether targeting black, white, or brown citizens.  The problem is having banks which are not REALLY local, community banks.



Checking the papers


That view is not shared by Julie Davis , spokeswoman for Bank of America, who said it is her bank's policy to verify the immigration papers of a borrower when it processes ITIN mortgages."We do not loan money to people who are in the country illegally," said Davis, adding that customers can open a checking account with Bank of America by using a consular registration document as identification.


According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 48 percent of the more than 40 million Hispanics in this country were homeowners in 2002, the last year for which such figures are available.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA STOPPED FEDERAL OVERSIGHT DATA OPENING THE DOOR TO NOTHING BUT FAKE DATA----HERE WE SEE 2002.


Although some anti-immigration groups claim that those in the country illegally pose an economic burden, a study by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals said that home purchases by undocumented workers could result in $60 billion in mortgages over the next few years.


The total value of mortgages granted for home purchases in 2005 was $1.5 trillion, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association in Washington, D.C.

Estimates on the number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. vary.
The U.S. Census Bureau puts the figure at 11 million.
The Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, puts it at 12 million.


The Hispanic real estate group's study estimates more than 150,000 illegal immigrants who rent housing could afford a $98,000 home.


González is convinced that Hispanics, including illegal immigrants, are revitalizing the U.S. housing market.
"The real estate companies are focusing on the nontraditional buyers. Things are slowing down, and the focus has shifted to the Hispanic home buyer because of their numbers," he said.


Castrejón, Jorge and Maribel's agent, said one in five of her clients are undocumented immigrants. Castrejón said she sells 30 to 40 properties a year.
"This is much better than renting," Maribel said.
"We're not throwing our money away anymore."

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The public policies we discussed this week regarding LANDLORD/TENANT -----and how the goals of global banking to use these policies installed by a BALTIMORE CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT JACK YOUNG---et al of city council and MAYOR PUGH----are to fleece today's US middle-income and merely rich through real estate investments as well as push our renters into more PERSONAL DEBT with RENTER'S DEBT.

THIS GOES DOUBLY FOR OUR NEW TO US CITY IMMIGRANTS BOTH 99% IMMIGRANTS AND GLOBAL 1% AND THEIR 2% OF IMMIGRANTS.

It's true those global 1% and their 2% have the money for lawyers to fight these real estate frauds-----while our 99% of new immigrants will not.

So, what does all this next phase of complete criminality and corruption of our US city economics surrounding real estate and property rights mean to our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE?

The next phase of MOVING FORWARD seeks to remove all property ownership and rights from our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE while building global corporate campuses.  Today we are seeing only the global corporate FOOTPRINTS-----as we say UNDERARMOUR campus------AMAZON campus------JOHNS HOPKINS campus.  Until global banking 1% are ready to drop a global campus on our communities----they will keep our 99% property-owners caught in this cycle of BUYING AND BEING BUSTED.

Here we see what AUSTRALIA is doing to those global 1% and their 2% daring to invest in US real estate especially having been encouraged to be those US LANDLORDS.  Same will happen in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES MOVING FORWARD.

Any US citizen thinking scamming new immigrants will make our US 99% winners----not even our global banking 5% freemason/Greek players will be winners---they will be under the bus MOVING FORWARD.

Our US 5% freemason/Greek players have been these few decades those real estate players selling all this mortgage loan fraud----selling corrupt real estate planning-----but MOVING FORWARD will have our US 5% players in real estate OUT OF THE MARKET.



Foreign landlords imminent as Government waters down foreign home buyer ban

• 19/06/2018

Tova O'BrienBanning foreign home buyers was one of the major promises of Labour's election campaign, but the Government has now watered down its ban. Credits: Getty
Banning foreign home buyers was one of the major promises of Labour's election campaign, but the Government has now watered down its ban.
Now, foreigners can buy apartments or in some case buildings off the plans and keep them. Initially, they were going to have to sell them once they were built.
The move means foreign developers can build residential properties of 20 dwellings and rent them out, meaning there will now be the possibility for foreign landlords.
The ban doesn't apply to people from within Australia or Singapore.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says the move is a "smartening up of the foreign buyers legislation" - but National MP Gerry Brownlee says the Bill "now has so many carve-outs in it that some of its original purpose is almost lost".
Around March last year, 7.8 percent of homes in central Auckland were bought by foreign buyers. At the same time this year that had more than doubled to 18 percent.
But overall in New Zealand, foreign ownership isn't rising - steady at around just 3 percent.
Trade Minister David Parker says while key trading partners like China might try to copy Singapore and get an exemption for their citizens as well, they won't get one.
And New Zealand's about to enter into a free-trade deal with the EU and the UK.
The Government's back down does help mitigate criticism it's stymying investment, but the foreign buyers ban can't really be called a ban any longer.
Newshub.


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Again, we pick on JOSH simply because he has been imported from Chicago to Baltimore to be the farm team global banking 5% freemason/Greek player trying to be pol.  JOSH as all GLOBAL GREEN CORPORATION PARTY candidates PRETEND to be 99% populist------they shout AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFFORDABLE HOUSING all while pushing every global banking 1% FAKE housing policy having goals of KILLING 99% WE THE PEOPLE of Baltimore and our new to Baltimore immigrant citizens.

GLOBAL GREEN CORPORATION PARTY-----JUST AS 'OUR REVOLUTION' FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% BERNIE SANDERS RUNNING AS DEMOCRATS ----ARE ALL ONE WORLD FAR-RIGHT WING, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY LIBERTARIAN MARXISTS.

When our US 99% allow FAR-RIGHT WING whether CLINTON/OBAMA-----now JILL STEIN/BERNIE SANDERS------be our POPULIST LEADERS----the only CIVIL RIGHTS these global banking 5% freemason/Greek players are working for---is the LIBERTARIAN civil right of the rich to accumulate wealth anyway they can----ergo, NO RULE OF LAW.....NO RIGHTS FOR CITIZENS.

My FB friend around the nation have these same global banking PLAYER CANDIDATES in all political parties pretending THEY are the populist revolution---let's come together as a 99% vs global banking 1% ----

The only SHAKE-UP to US city hall's these farm team global banking 1% candidates and pols will be doing----it MOVING FORWARD filling our US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES with global 1% and their 2% representing only global foreign corporations. HARRIS promotes every real estate/landlord/tenant policy global banking writes PRETENDING it helps our Baltimore 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.


WE ARE OUR OWN LEADERS----BE REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES.

If a civil rights NGO claiming to be populist have not been shouting against these LANDLORD/TENANT policies we discussed this week-----and we don't hear any shouting----THESE ARE FAR-RIGHT WING GLOBAL BANKING FAKE LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE groups.



Joshua Harris, the Baltimore Green Party's first mayoral candidate, pledges to shake up City Hall

Yvonne WengerContact Reporter

The Baltimore Sun  Oct 20, 2016


Joshua Harris, the Green Party candidate in Baltimore's mayoral race, has a 21-page plan to revolutionize the city. He wants citizens to vote on budget decisions, a new public bank in which to invest tax dollars and a thriving medical marijuana industry.


But sharing that vision with voters across the city's 92 square miles is a dilemma. With few paid staff and about $1,000 in his campaign account, a billboard propped up in the back of Harris' burgundy pickup truck is perhaps the most visible sign he is in the race.



Harris, a former journalist who works in communications, said he is prepared to take on the city's behemoth Democratic Party, which has controlled City Hall for a half century. He faces Democrat Catherine E. Pugh, Republican Alan Walden and write-in candidates including former Mayor Sheila Dixon in the Nov. 8 election.


"People tell me they want their streets to be fixed. They want their schools to be better. They don't care if the letter next to the person's name is a 'D,' 'R' or a 'G,'" Harris, 30, said. "It's about who is going to get the job done and who is bringing solutions to the table.


"They don't want the same old, same old."


Jill Gordon and her 10-year-old daughter, Sage Sissoko, popped up from their seats at a recent youth film festival to introduce themselves to Harris. He had just finished telling a couple of dozen people about his candidacy. Harris called himself — a 6-foot-4, former semi-professional basketball player — the "little, big guy" in the race.

"I like that he's young and fresh and has new ideas," said Gordon of Remington. "He's relatable."
But Gordon, 37, said she wasn't sure if she'll vote for Harris. She's not convinced he can be competitive.




"That's what makes me sad," she said. "I'm pulling for him."
Harris is the city Green Party's first mayoral candidate, according to Andy Ellis, co-chairman of the Baltimore Greens. The party has about 1,200 active registered voters in Baltimore, compared to more than 300,000 Democrats and 32,000 Republicans.




Ellis said the party's candidates have outperformed voter registration numbers at the ballot box in the past. Across the country, candidates from the Green Party — founded in 1984 — have been elected to a variety of offices, including mayor and state lawmaker.

Given the campaign Harris has waged over the past year — he has several banners around the city, has knocked on 6,000 doors, has participated in phone banks, maintains active social media accounts and attended numerous community meetings, festivals and forums — he will be a force on Election Day, Ellis said.



"His economic development platform looks at keeping Baltimore's money inside Baltimore and returns the decision-making power to the people in neighborhoods through participatory budgeting," Ellis said. "His plans fuse together for economic and racial justice.


OH, REALLY ELLIS? GREENS ARE INDEED MOVING FORWARD.



"He puts real ideas and a real vision forward."



Political scientist


ToddEberlyof St. Mary's College of Maryland said Harris faces long odds against winning. "You can think up a scenario, but there is no real history of electoral wins for Greens in Baltimore," Eberly said. "There is no real machine to turn out the votes. Those are very difficult things to overcome."



But Harris' campaign will help to show disillusioned voters that they have alternatives, Eberly said. "We'll wait and see how many votes he can get, but it could send a significant message to the Democratic Party power bosses."


Aimee Pohl, 40, of Govans, said she switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Green after this year's primary. Pohl said she was frustrated with national party politics. She was intrigued by Harris' campaign flier and decided to volunteer for him. Pohl called Harris an "incredibly kind and smart and authentic person."




"Josh is the only person who has actual real ideas for true change in the city," she said. "It feels very much to me that Catherine Pugh is going to continue with Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's stance on things with a couple of tweaks here and there."


Harris, who lives in Hollins Market and is engaged to be married, moved to Baltimore about five years ago to take a job working in communications for Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate African-American fraternity.


A Chicago native, he was raised by a single mother who worked multiple jobs. He spent a lot of time with his grandmother, a former union president who worked with President Barack Obama when he was a community organizer. Harris said his father is an ex-offender who went on to own and operate three bookstores.



In his youth, the candidate found basketball an outlet. "If It wasn't for a recreation center that was open and funded, who knows what trouble I would have gotten into or where I would be today." He went on to play high school, college and semi-pro basketball. He lived and played overseas for about a year.



After graduating from Augsburg College in Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in communication, Harris worked in media.




He also has worked as a legislative aide to Del. Charles E. Sydnor III, a Baltimore County Democrat, who called Harris "an honorable person" who has strong beliefs and is a hard worker.



While he worked in Annapolis, Harris helped draft legislation to update the state's wire tap law, setting the groundwork to authorize police body cameras.



The Hollins Market resident helped start a group that uses the arts to restore the neighborhood, and he has volunteered extensively with various organizations, including serving on the board for the Southwest Partnership.


When Harris announced his campaign for mayor last November, he had planned to run as a Democrat in a crowded field. He switched to the Green Party early this year after he said members of the party contacted him.


"The Green Party is a party that I have always known to align more with my values and views," Harris said. "It is a party that has been focused on social justice, racial justice, economic justice and environmental justice."

 ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY GRID-------THIS IS JUSTICE FOR 99% WE THE PEOPLE-----REALLY????  YOU ARE CALLING DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE--------POLICIES LEADING TO JUSTICE.



At the heart of Harris' plan is his proposal to set up a public bank that would hold and leverage the city's property taxes, fees, fines and other revenue — modeled after the Bank of North Dakota. The city could benefit from interest earned on the account and grant loans to businesses and new homeowners at low rates, he said.


Harris said he would fight for stronger community benefits agreements tied to public financing, high-speed municipal Wi-Fi and living wages. He wants to foster a new industry around retail cannabis and clean energy manufacturing. He also calls for more community schools and additional de-escalation and cultural competence training for police.

ALL OF THESE ARE GLOBAL BANKING 1% POLICIES--------NOT A REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE POLICY FOR OUR 99% WE THE PEOPLE IN SIGHT.


"The root cause of crime is unequivocally poverty," Harris said. "Baltimore is a blue-collar town that has been without blue-collar work since Bethlehem Steel and General Motors left. My vision is to transition our city from a blue-collar town into a green-collar town."

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We READ constantly the public policy stances of all groups calling themselves CIVIL RIGHTS---POPULIST------and here are those LATINO civil rights groups which have not SHOUTED against any of these public policies they KNOW are staging our 99% of new immigrants whether documented or illegal for LOSING ALL THEIR WEALTH.

This is why the STRUGGLE for our 99% of black citizens-----the STRUGGLE for our 99% of US labor union members----the STRUGGLE for our new 99% of immigrants started early 1900s having been successful for several decades has these few decades DISAPPEARED.

THESE GROUPS BELOW ARE BEING LED BY GLOBAL BANKING 5% FREEMASON/GREEK PLAYERS WHO BRING OUR 99% WE THE PEOPLE OUT TO MARCH FOR PUBLIC POLICY KILLING OUR FUTURE---ESPECIALLY IN HOUSING.

We out continuously our US labor union 5% players as leaders since our US corporations went global.  These US labor unions went from being REAL left social progressive supporting workers----to killing our US and immigrant workers by pushing global banking policies as discussed this week.

WE ARE SHOUTING TO OUR NEW TO AMERICA 99% OF IMMIGRANTS---PLEASE TAKE TIME TO EDUCATE ON REAL US HISTORY ---NOT TODAY'S REVISED HISTORY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT MADE AMERICA FIRST WORLD, DEVELOPED, STRONGEST ECONOMY WITH BEST QUALITY OF LIFE IN WORLD HISTORY.


Since most of these global banking labor players are men-----we will use a phrase from our US military -------GROW A PAIR NANCIES---------STAND UP AND BE US CITIZENS.

MOST RESPECTED? By whom???


The Nation’s Most Respected Latino Civil Rights Organizations LCLAA, LULAC, NCLR, and Hispanic Federation, Join the 47th Anniversary of the Reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery March


March 7, 2012
Contact: Paloma Zuleta, pzuleta@lulac.org
(202) 812-4477 (M)
202-833-6130 ext.103 (O)




Washington, D.C. – Today, in front of the AFL-CIO headquarters, a delegation of Latino leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders boarded a bus routed to Selma, Alabama in order to participate in the reenactment of the historic civil rights marches of 1965. The Latino delegation will march alongside civil rights leaders in Selma and demand for the repeal of Alabama’s anti-Latino legislation, HB 56.

The event known as “Bloody Sunday” was a historic event when 600 protesters were forced back by state troopers and local police with tear gas and clubs as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River into Montgomery. Due to the police force brutality, over 50 people were hospitalized on March 7, 1965. Since that fateful day, thousands convene to retrace the steps of history by marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to remember the day that a group of unarmed men and women bravely stood their ground against blatant discrimination. Unfortunately, 47 years after “Bloody Sunday” we are still experiencing civil rights violations.

“In 1965, the Selma to Montgomery March made history and changed America; it marked the peak of the civil rights movement. Today many states have launched an all-out coordinated assault on democracy by attacking workers’ rights, voting rights, public education and by promoting anti-immigrant legislation. Almost 50 years after the civil rights movement secured major gains immigrants are still fighting for basic rights and dignity. We will not permit any more policies that marginalize Latinos and their children and drive them out of jobs and communities,” stated Hector Sanchez, LCLAA’s Executive Director.

“Today, 47 years after the passing of monumental legislation, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, immigrant men, women and children are degraded in our laws, and in our minds,” said LULAC National President Margaret Moran. “We can blame ourselves for the dehumanization of the undocumented community because we have allowed terms like “illegal alien” to identify their class. We march with our sister organizations and the African American community to make clear that although the Hispanic community is diverse and disagreements over comprehensive immigration reform and the Dream Act exist, we will not turn our backs and ignore the plight of the undocumented.”

THE DREAM ACT IS A FAR-RIGHT WING IMMIGRATION POLICY ---NOT A REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE IMMIGRATION POLICY.

“In an extraordinary show of support from the African-American community, immigration is one of the key focal points of this year’s commemoration of the historic Selma to Montgomery march. The African-American community knows as we do that anti-immigrant laws and voter ID laws are really an all-out assault on civil rights. We are deeply proud to be marching with our African-American brothers and sisters and NCLR is very appreciative of the strong commitment from our sister Latino organizations to this important event,” stated Janet Murguia, NCLR President and CEO.

“Today, as we set off to recreate this historic event and march for civil rights, we remember the thousands of individuals who have sacrificed everything to gain the right to vote. It is our solemn responsibility to protect this hard-fought right and ensure that every American citizen - regardless of race, ethnicity and income - is able to vote unimpeded and fully participate in our democracy,” stated Jose Calderon, Interim President of the Hispanic Federation.

The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is the leading national organization for Latino(a) workers , that educates, empowers and increases opportunities for this diverse, dynamic and growing community.

OH, REALLY??????


LCLAA was born in 1972 out of the need to inform Latinos about workers’ rights, raise national awareness regarding the issues that affect their well-being and increase their influence in the political process. LCLAA advocates and mobilizes our 52 chapters across the U.S. and Puerto Rico to strive for justice, economic equality, social dignity and a higher quality of life for Latinos and all working families.

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is a volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans and builds strong Latino communities.

OH, REALLY?????


Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 900 councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of today and the future. For more information, visit www.lulac.org.

NCLR—the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States—works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans. For more information on NCLR, please visit www.nclr.org or follow along on Facebook and Twitter.

The mission of the Hispanic Federation is to empower and advance the Hispanic community. The Hispanic Federation provides grants and services to a broad network of Latino non-profit agencies serving the most vulnerable members of the Hispanic community and advocates nationally with respect to the vital issues of education, health, immigration, economic empowerment, civic engagement and the environment.

As we come to the end of this week's discussion of LANDLORD/RENTER public policy MOVING FORWARD in US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----- making clear that all these policies, contracts, deals, appointments to development boards et al--------done by what all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens KNOW are criminal, corrupt, self-enrichment politicians in office through US election rigging and fraud-------can be VOIDED ----EASY PEASY.

When we hear EMPIRE ALICE 5% freemason/Greek players saying MOVING FORWARD is too far along---that there is no way to STOP MOVING FORWARD----that all those laws passed makes it impossible to reverse and rebuild our US 20th century sovereignty------



WE SHOUT---------WHEN POLITICIANS DECIDE TO BECOME CRIMINALS THEY NO LONGER HAVE POWER TO LEGISLATE----THEY NO LONGER HAVE POWER TO CONDUCT CIVIL CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS---THEY CANNOT APPOINT PEOPLE TO ANY PUBLIC AGENCY.



So, all these global banking 1% corporations and rich coming into our US cities made FAILED STATES from all these criminal activities of pols still in office---with farm team pols coming in and doing the same------KNOW that all business done by a Baltimore City Council and mayor----KNOW all business done by a Maryland Assembly and governor ----



CAN AT ANY POINT BE VOIDED REGARDLESS OF SIGNED CONTRACTS-----REGARDLESS OF PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION. ANYONE DOING BUSINESS WITH CRIMINAL AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS WILL BE GREAT BIG LOSERS.



Any building in US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will end in hands of our US 99% WE THE CITIZENS OF BALTIMORE -----as too in US cities in your neck of woods.


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official misconduct

n. improper and/or illegal acts by a public official which violate his/her duty to follow the law and act on behalf of the public good. Often such conduct is under the guise or "color" of official authority. (See: official)



official misconduct

noun criminal conduct by a public official, criminal conduct by an administration's member, dereliction of performance in office, deviation from rectitude, dishonest management, failing to uphold a sworn oath of office, failure in office, guilty act while a public official, illegal act, illegality by a public official, improper conduct by a public official, impropriety by a public official, maladministration by a public servant, malfeasance by a public servant, mis-administration by a public servant, misconduct by a public official, misdeeds by a public official, misfeasance by a public official, misgovernment, misguidance by a public official, mismanagement by an office holder, misprision by an office holder, non-feasance by an office holder, offenses while in office, transgressions by an office holder, turpitude by an office holder, wrongdoing, by a public official


By Michael J. Hutter


PROSECUTING PUBLIC OFFICIALS/FIGURES
FOR CORRUPTION: THE APPROACH IN
THE UNITED STATES





I. INTRODUCTION
A. Overview
1)
Public corruption in any form is the misuse of a public or government office for private gain. Its existence is an indication that something has gone wrong in the
management of the government office, whether it be federal, state, or local.

In that regard, it is a basic tenet that government is not to be used for personal enrichment and the extending of benefits to the corrupt.


2)
The prevention of corruption is essential not only to make government work for its intended purpose, e.g., ensure that public officials are using their office to
further the public interest and not to enrich themselves or others, but also to preserve public confidence in the democratic process.


As to the latter, the United States Supreme Court has observed:

“[A]
democracy is effective only if the people have faith in those who govern, and that faith is bound to be shattered when high officials and their appointees engage in activities which arouse suspicions of malfeasance and corruption.”

(United States v. Miss. Valley Generating Co., 364 U.S. 520, 562 [1961]).

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We want to remind our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE of our 300 year COMMON LAW and Federal court rulings surrounding LANDLORD/TENET laws that benefit both a LANDLORD and a TENET.

When we allow the designation US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE to exist-----we are negating all local sovereign laws-----all state sovereign laws---all Federal sovereign laws regarding GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUSES especially when they and/or the land is owned by foreign entities----like global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

We shared these few days the global banking 1% goals of using dismantlement of all US safety net programs especially around HOUSING and the dismantlement of TAX UNIFORMITY laws allowing selective taxation that is illegal.  Our US 99% of landlords will be killed if these policies MOVE FORWARD AND our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE being FORCED to be renters because of attacks on our wealth.

Below we see the current laws protecting LANDLORDS that will disappear with RENTER CREDIT----and the power of LEASE AGREEMENTS protecting our TENETS as renters disappear as well.

'FAILURE TO PAY RENT
Generally


The court action is called a “suit for rent due” and the eviction procedure for nonpayment of rent is called "summary ejectment". If a tenant fails to pay rent when it is due, the landlord has the right to repossess the premises by filing a complaint under oath in District Court (sometimes called “Rent Court”) asking for repossession of the premises, the amount of rent due, and costs of the suit.
The action for non-payment of rent is only available for a written or oral lease or rental agreement that is more than 3 months.


Read the law: Baltimore City Code of Public Local Laws, Article 4, § 9-1, 9-2 and 9-5  (link is external)'

Since the goals of MOVING FORWARD are to build only residential housing being located on global corporate campuses with those global corporations tying their employees to living on those campuses having power to hire anyone they want rather than abiding by EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESS-----a person will lose their rights to rent that apartment along with losing a job---changing a job.

YOU DON'T WORK HERE ---YOU DON'T LIVE HERE.



'During the Term of the Lease
The warranty of habitability is a continuing warranty and the tenant may pursue legal action for breach of this warranty at any time during the tenancy if the dwelling becomes unfit for human habitation. The tenant may also use breach of this warranty as a defense in an action of summary ejectment or distress for rent'.

We discuss from time to time the inability of a Baltimore City citizen to get a response to complaints against derelict landlords---no agency is providing oversight and accountability ----renter's court can end in awards for renters  who then cannot find a pathway to collect awards.  Now, global investment firms as a city's residential development could care less what US LANDLORD/TENET laws say-----they do whatever they want.





Rental and housing laws in Baltimore City: city laws


WRITTEN LEASES


Landlord Must Provide Tenant with a Copy of the Lease



At the time of the lease signing, the landlord must give the tenant a copy of the lease signed by both the tenant and landlord. The lease must include the following contact information:



1.      The name of the property owner and either their residence address and telephone number or their business address and telephone number; or

2.      The name of the person who has been designated by the property owner to be their agent or managing operator of the property, and either their residence address and telephone number or their business address and telephone number.


Any owner who is not customarily present in an office in the metropolitan Baltimore area must include the information of a managing agent in a lease.

The property owner must notify the tenant of any contact information changes by first class mail within 10 days.


Compliance, Enforcement and Penalties


The property owner is primarily responsibility for compliance with this law. Because of that, a tenant has to right to ask a court to prevent or stop a property owner’s violation of the law. A property owner who violates a provision of this law is guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to a fine of up to $100 for each violation.



Exemptions


None of these provisions apply to:



1.      Rental units in hotels, motels, inns, tourist homes, and rooming and boarding houses that are rented primarily to transient guests for less than 14 days;



2.      Rental units in a hospital, convent, monastery, extended medical care facility, asylum, non-profit home for the aged, or dormitory owned and operated by an institution of higher education;



3.      Individual rental units that a government agency owns, operates or manages; and



4.      Rental units within the premises occupied by the owner as his or her residence.



Read the law: Baltimore City Code, Housing sand Urban Renewal, Article 13, § 7  (link is external)



WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR HUMAN HABITATION

When a Tenant Takes Occupancy



In any written or oral residential lease, the landlord is presumed to promise (or “warrant”) that the rented dwelling is "fit for human habitation". This means that the premises must not have any conditions that endanger the life, health and safety of the tenants, including, but not limited to vermin or rodent infestation, lack of sanitation, lack of heat, lack of running water, or lack of electricity. The provisions of this law cannot be waived by any written or oral lease.



If the dwelling is not fit for human habitation upon occupancy, the tenant must first notify the landlord of the dangerous condition. The notice must be by one of the following methods:


1.      A violation notice from the Department of Housing and Community Development or other government agency;



2.      A letter sent by certified mail to the landlord; or



3.      Actual notice of the defect or condition.

After notifying the landlord, the tenant may exercise the following remedies within the first 30 days of occupancy:



1.      Tenant may bring an action against the landlord for breach of contract, which may include a request for actual damages suffered by tenant; and/or


2.      Tenant may bring an action to rescind (cancel) the lease and request a return of all deposits and money paid toward rent during the period of the breach of warranty.



The tenant may also use any other remedies available under law, such as rent escrow.



If the tenant, a member of his or her family, the tenant’s agent or the tenant’s guest acts in bad faith and refuses entry to the landlord or the landlord’s agent who are trying to repairing the condition, the court will order the tenant to pay landlord's court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. The court will also require the tenant to pay for the repairs if the dangerous condition was caused by the tenant, a member of the tenant’s family, the tenant’s agent or the tenant’s guest.



Read the law: Baltimore City Code of Public Local Laws, Article 4, § 9-14.1  (link is external)



During the Term of the Lease


The warranty of habitability is a continuing warranty and the tenant may pursue legal action for breach of this warranty at any time during the tenancy if the dwelling becomes unfit for human habitation. The tenant may also use breach of this warranty as a defense in an action of summary ejectment or distress for rent.



"Fit for human habitation" means the premises shall not have any conditions which endanger the life, health and safety of the tenants involving vermin or rodent infestation in two or more units, lack of sanitation, lack of heat, lack of running water, or lack of electricity, except where:



1.      The tenant is responsible for payment of the water and electric charges; and


2.      The lack of water or electricity is the direct result of the tenant’s failure to pay the water and electric charges.


The tenant will be required to pay for the repairs (collected as rent) if the dangerous condition was caused by the tenant, a member of his or her family, or visitors.


If the dwelling becomes unfit for human habitation, the tenant must first notify the landlord of the dangerous condition before tenant sues the landlord for breach of warranty. The notice must be by one of the following methods:



1.      A violation notice from the Department of Housing and Community Development or other government agency;


2.      A letter sent by certified mail to the landlord; or



3.      Actual notice of the defect or condition.



The landlord has a “reasonable time” after notification to repair the defect or damage alleged by the tenant (repairs must be made with “diligence and without culpable delay” and more than 30 days is presumed unreasonable). Once the landlord finished the repairs, they must notify the tenant or the Department of Housing and Community Development in writing.



If tenant sues the landlord or defends him or herself in a case brought by the landlord and is successful, the amount of money s/he recovers will be computed as of the date of landlord's actual knowledge of the defect. The recovery will be the difference between the amount of rent the tenant paid or owed during the period of the breach and the reasonable rental value of the dwelling in its defective condition.



Read the law: Baltimore City Code of Public Local Laws, Article 4, § 9-14.2  (link is external)
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Every US state has 300 years of governing laws tied to LANDLORD/TENET laws whether statutes, local ordinances, COMMON LAW, and court decisions.  Our US Constitution and Federal laws tied to COMMON LAW place court precedence over immediate STATUTE.  Failure of any court or city/state attorney to ENFORCE these 300 years of US court precedence is PUBLIC MALFEASANCE. 

THAT IS THE #1 DUTY OF ANY US CITY ATTORNEY---US STATE ATTORNEY---TO PROTECT CITIZENS' RIGHTS WHETHER THEY BE LANDLORD OR TENET.

So, Baltimore City council cannot simply create a statute----or change a zoning or charter law if it fails to meet COMMON LAW history----which all of MOVING FORWARD policies do fail to meet.

DESIGNATION OF US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES CANNOT NEGATE ANY OF OUR US 300 YEARS OF COMMON LAW, US CONSTITUTIONAL AND FEDERAL LAW AND COURT RULINGS CREATING PRECEDENCE.


'Landlords and Tenants: Rights and Responsibilities

The rights and duties of landlords and tenants in Minnesota are spelled out in federal law, state statutes, local ordinances, safety and housing codes, common law, contract law, and a number of court decisions. These responsibilities can vary from place to place around the state'.

Now, here in Maryland we have a global banking 1% FAKE labor and justice organization MARYLAND PUBLIC JUSTICE always pretending to be left social progressive in civil rights while always pushing forward global corporate policy that will kill our 99% WE THE PEOPLE rights---just as they did the current LANDLORD/TENET policies discussed this week.  Our Maryland Attorney General FROSH only protects the global corporation never thinking about these 99% civil rights, COMMON LAW and US court history.  It is our Baltimore CITY ATTORNEY who would make all this TOP PRIORITY in taking to court Baltimore City Hall criminal and corrupt actions regarding these development policies.

This article is long and very boring----but please glance through to understand what GLOBAL BANKING 1% CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA have been ignoring these few decades and what our local US city global banking 5% freemason/Greek player pols and institutions have illegally pushed as public policy surrounding rights of LANDLORD/TENETS-----

What MOVING FORWARD has done is eliminate the entire premise of CO-TENANTS often including our PUBLIC LANDS/PUBLIC AGENCIES as one partner in transactions with a corporation/business.  When our city/county councils think of themselves as corporations --- not public servants---they think they can enter CORPORATE-CORPORATE land deals with COMMON LAW tied only to those transactions---when in fact they CANNOT---

THEY ARE A PUBLIC ENTITY REQUIRED TO OPERATE AS PUBLIC OPERATIVES UNDER COMMON LAWS.



SURVEY OF PRODUCING STATES’ COMMON LAW ON RIGHTS & LIABILITIES OF CO-TENANTS OF SEVERED MINERAL ESTATES


Natural Resources L aw Institute 2014


By Jeffrey M. Swann

PPGMR Law, PLLC
P.O. Box 251618
Little Rock, AR 72225-
1618
(501) 603.9000
jeff@ppgmrlaw.com


I.
Introduction


One of the well-established principles of property law is that land may be horizontally severed into surface and subsurface estates so that legal title vests in different owners.


1
The purpose of this memo is to survey producing states’ common law protections and liabilities afforded the mineral co-tenant relationship in the decision to develop the severed estate. Importantly, the subject of this article is not the relationship between mineral co-tenants and the surface owner or between co-tenants of a property that includes both the surface and mineral estates, as these relationships may be
treated differently by the courts in determining rights and liabilities of development.


This severance can occur via an express grant, reservation, or exception. Over time, as a severed mineral estate is devised, sold, gifted or otherwise transferred down the line, its title inevitably vests in more than one person or entity.


When it does, issues often arise amongst the co-owners of the mineral estate concerning its development. As these issues are asage-old as concept of subsurface estates themselves, courts in producing states have long-standing and predict able property laws which govern these relationships in severed estates.


2
This survey is not a recitation of every case from all producing jurisdiction; rather, its purpose is to highlight the preeminent cases of producing jurisdictions and the two prevailing approaches that courts have taken when faced with this issue under a variety of circumstances.


II.
Co-ownership of Severed Mineral Estates


There are three types of concurrent estates: tenancy in common, joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety.



While all three are heavily incorporated into modern
property law of the United States, the tenancy in common estate is most commonly encountered with respect to oil and gas ownership rights and disputes. As such, this article is limited to only the rights and liabilities of tenants in common, i.e. co-tenants.



A tenancy in common is characterized by co-owners holding the same property by separate and distinct titles, but having a unity of possession.


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Each co-tenant is entitled to possession and enjoyment of any part or all of the common property, as long as he or she does not exclude the co-tenant.


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III.


Majority Versus Minority Approaches
to Development Rights/Liabilities


There are two general approaches among mineral-producing jurisdictions on the development of severed minerals by a co-tenant without the consent of the other co-tenant(s). Under both approaches, the law has struggled to balance the competing interests of the individual co-tenants while maintaining a policy to efficiently develop natural resources for the benefit of society.



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Majority View States.
The usual approach, adopted by the majority of producing jurisdictions, is to allow each co-tenant the right to develop without permission of the all other co-tenants, subject to a duty to account to other co-tenants for their share of minerals, less the reasonable cost of production.



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The developing co-tenant may not, however, prevent
other co-tenants from developing the minerals directly or through a lessee. And, a non-consenting co-tenant may be able to seek a partition, but usually cannot enjoin development absent some evidence of reckless injury to the property. This approach is fundamentally rooted in the principle of unity of possession in the entirety.



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Producing jurisdictions expressly or implicitly adopting the majority approach, or some facet thereof, include:

Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida,
Georgia,
Illinois,
Indiana,
Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana,
Missouri, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, and Wyoming.


Noticeably, this approached is not limited to a particular producing region, as it has been adopted by numerous states within the

Southeast

(Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky)
,
Northeast


(New York, Pennsylvania), Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri,Ohio), and

Northwest
(California, Montana, Wyoming)
.
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In the recent past-----global banking pols have mostly ignored all these COMMON LAW land ---landlord/tenant policies when MINING OR ENERGY interests want to WILDCAT their way into our communities----but now this is being expanded to ANY LAND DEAL for any REASON.

COMMON LAW is engendered here in US in founding documents to bring forward AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT I AM CITIZEN power from OLD WORLD EUROPE----but they do not supersede our US CONSTITUTIONAL rights.  The US Constitution compliments citizens' rights under COMMON LAW and expands them.  STATUTES do not supersede US Constitution or COMMON LAW----if they are written to violate these documents our 3 BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT have a duty to VOID.

The LANDLORD/TENANT policies we have discussed this week MOVING FORWARD in UK------AND MOVING FORWARD in Baltimore and all US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----completely ignore ALL of these US SOVEREIGN LAWS surrounding LAND OWNERSHIP/LANDLORD/TENANT LAWS.

We can ask any US LAW SCHOOL------whether University of Maryland Law School----or LOYOLA Law School---or University of Baltimore Law School----they all KNOW what our local US cities like Baltimore are MOVING FORWARD is ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, PUBLIC MALFEASANCE.

BUT global investment real estate development corporations do not have to abide by these US, state, and local sovereign laws say global banking 5% freemason/Greek player pols----OH, REALLY? Then they are not LEGALLY allowed to exist in our US cities and counties ARE THEY?


Real Estate Law


3 Differences Between Virginia Landlord and Tenant Common Law and Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (VRLTA)


September 13, 2013 Keithley Law, PLLC


If you’ve owned rental property or rented property in Virginia, you may have had to learn the differences between what is required by the VRLTA, also known as, the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and what is required under common law. 



In plain English, if you’re a renter, and your lease doesn’t refer to the VRLTA, your landlord isn’t required to do anything, unless you’re covered by the common law or the default rule. The obvious exceptions are federal housing laws and anti-discrimination regulations. 


Read our previous blogs regarding landlord and tenant laws in Virginia to find more information.


Title 55 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, is the statute that deals with property and conveyances. Almost everything pertaining to the legal disposition of real property and the transfer (buying/selling/renting) of real property can be found in this Chapter.

In general, the VRLTA is codified in Section 13.2, Title 55, of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended. However, the common law is covered by Section 13, Title 55, of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended. 

Here are 3 Differences Between Virginia Landlord and Tenant Act and the Common Law:

(note: there are many other differences, but this is a partial list)



1. Security Deposits


VRLTA: Landlord can’t collect more than two months of rent as security deposit. Need to keep in interest-bearing account if held longer than 13 months. Landlord must return within 45 days but provide itemized deductions from security deposit within 30 days.


Covered by Section 55-248.15:1 of the Virginia Code.  



Common Law: Silent. No cap, no requirement for interest-bearing account, no time limits to return, but in my experience, courts will require that landlords return security deposits within 45 days of move-out, even if your lease doesn’t incorporate the VRLTA.



2. No Signed Lease or Failure to Provide Lease


In other words, if you discover your tenant didn’t sign a written lease, you are better off, in most cases, if you incorporated this part of the VRLTA into your lease. 



VRLTA: An unsigned lease under the VRLTA treats the landlord more favorably than the common law does. According to the Virginia Code Section 55-248.8, an unsigned lease has the same effect as a signed lease if your tenant moved in, paid rent without reservation, for up to one-year. This means that even if you didn’t enter into a written lease agreement with your tenant, you can treat your tenant as a year-to-year tenant; not just a month-to-month tenant.



Common Law: Silent on this issue. Typically, without a signed lease agreement, the tenancy is only month-to-month.



3. What do Landlords Have to Disclose (Mandatory Disclosures)


This is an interesting one. Landlords subject to the VRLTA must disclose certain issues:



Disclosure of mold in dwelling units:  Landlords have to disclose it if there is known mold problems as part of the written move-in inspection report.

Required disclosures for properties located adjacent to a military air installation: This is a noise provision and statute enacted to warn prospective tenants of potential accidents. There is also a remedy for nondisclosure.Defective drywall disclosures: Mandatory and also a remedy for nondisclosure under Section 55-248.12:2 of the Virginia Code; remedy for nondisclosure. 


Common Law: Mold disclosure same as VRLTA and governed by Section 55-225.7.