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New VGCC Scholarship pays tribute to former Vance County Schools superintendent
December 14, 2021 | by VGCC Public Information
Kay Currin (VGCC Foundation), Dr. Rachel Desmarais (VGCC President), Susan Adcock, Eddie Ferguson (VGCC Foundation Director)
The family of the late J. Wayne Adcock, an educator who served as superintendent of Vance County Schools for six-and-a-half years, has established a new scholarship in his memory at Vance-Granville Community College. Adcock passed away on November 1, 2020, at the age of 73.
In awarding the Jerry Wayne Adcock Memorial Scholarship, preference will be given to VGCC students who are Vance County residents. Except for his college days, Adcock was a lifelong resident of the county and was devoted to his community.
His widow, Susan Adcock, and their son, John, wrote that "Wayne Adcock knew first-hand the value of a good education. He grew up in the back of a country store and attended Aycock School for twelve years, graduating in 1965. His path to college owed a lot to winning a scholarship dedicated to children of military veterans."
Adcock attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a bachelor's degree before returning to Henderson to teach. He later also earned a master's degree in Education and an Educational Specialist degree from East Carolina University.
During his long career with the Vance County Schools from 1969 through his retirement in December of 2002, Adcock was a teacher, assistant principal and principal at all grade levels, capping off his career as the superintendent.
"He always enjoyed talking with students about their future and encouraging them to further their education," Susan and John Adcock added. "Nothing pleased him more than to see a former student and find out that they had made good choices and gotten an education. He would be so pleased about this scholarship. Wayne knew that financial aid can determine for many students if they are able to continue their education. Helping one person further their education can change a life, and even a family, and Wayne would be pleased to contribute to that effort."
Adcock was an active member at Carey Baptist Church in Henderson and was actively involved with the Henderson Family YMCA. After his retirement, he served on the boards of the Vance County Public School Foundation and the Vance County Department of Social Services.
VGCC Foundation Executive Director Eddie Ferguson thanked the Adcock family for their generosity, saying, "Wayne Adcock loved his community and the students of Vance County, and we are honored that his loved ones have established a scholarship which will help students for years to come. Empowering students to continue their education is an ideal way to remember a great educator like Wayne."
"This new scholarship will carry on Wayne Adcock's legacy of servant leadership, inspiration and caring for students," said Dr. Rachel Desmarais, VGCC's president. "We extend our appreciation to the Adcock family for supporting Vance-Granville's current and future students."
The VGCC Foundation (formerly known as the Endowment Fund) has enabled more than 9,700 scholarships to be awarded to students since 1982. Scholarships have been endowed by numerous individuals, industries, businesses, civic groups, churches and the college's faculty and staff. Tax-deductible donations to the VGCC Foundation have often been used to honor or remember a person, group, business or industry with a lasting gift to education. For more information, call (252) 738-3409.


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MEXICO CITY - Hardly had the ink dried on President Enrique Pena Nieto's contentious $14-billion tax plan when big business - especially the powerful maquiladora industry on Mexico's border with the U.S. - raised a loud voice of protest, vowing to fight a package that opponents say will cripple industry.
MEXICO CITY � Hardly had the ink dried on President Enrique Pena Nieto�s contentious $14-billion tax plan when big business � especially the powerful maquiladora industry on Mexico�s border with the U.S. � raised a loud voice of protest, vowing to fight a package that opponents say will cripple industry.
Major business groups, after weeks of unsuccessful lobbying, said Friday they would mount legal challenges to block the plan, which won final congressional approval Thursday and would raise taxes on border enterprises including the thriving maquiladoras, as the export-centered assembly plants near the border are known.
Finance Minister Luis Videgaray said he was confident the government would prevail over the challenges. �We are ready for them,� he said in a radio interview Friday.
He accused many businesses of a form of tax evasion and said the new regulations would close numerous loopholes. Mexico has one of the lowest tax-collection rates in the developed world.
Until now, border-area businesses � including the maquiladoras, which produce goods including electronics and cheap clothing, most of which are exported to the U.S. � received considerable tax breaks. For example, the sales tax in border states is 11 percent, compared with 16 percent in the rest of Mexico. Under the new law, everyone will pay 16 percent.
Jorge Davila, president of an umbrella group of Mexican Chambers of Commerce, said the changes could cut the region�s sales by up to 6 percent, cost thousands of jobs, drive away investment and hurt Mexican businesses� ability to compete with U.S. companies.
�The most important thing (to note) is that in the frontier zone, we must compete not with Mexican companies that operate in the interior of the country but with businesses on the other side of the border,� Davila said.
Another national group, the Coordinating Business Council, said the increases could erode economic growth in border states by more than 2 percent. That would be a significant pinch because the northern region is considered the economic engine of the country � the maquiladora industry is particularly productive.
Already, Mexico�s economy is faltering, and once-optimistic predictions of booming growth have been slashed significantly, to as low as 1.2 percent of the gross domestic product.
In the run-up to this week�s congressional approval, Videgaray said, he entertained the complaints of the business community in a long series of �intense� discussions, but, with some exceptions, entrepreneurs and the government agreed to disagree.
�I think we have a fiscal reform that is progressive, that really attempts to eliminate opportunities for tax evasion, eliminates holes and protects the middle class,� he said.
Videgaray said �genuine maquiladoras,� for example, would pay sales tax on the materials they import for assembly but recoup the money when they export. The businesses, however, will have to be certified by the government as �genuine.�
�There are many companies that pretend to be maquiladoras, that import without paying sales tax and then sell their products domestically, which does enormous damage to the national industry,� Videgaray said.
The fiscal reform package includes other new taxes, but it falls $5 billion short overall of what the government initially proposed.
For the first time, foreign mining companies will have to pay royalties. In a bid to fight Mexico�s rampant obesity problem, the price of sugary drinks was raised about 8 cents per liter. A tax was also put on junk food, defined as products with 275 calories or more per 100 grams.
Businesses launched a massive publicity campaign against the taxes. Bottling companies, big food producers, convenience store conglomerates and scores of other businesses took out full-page ads to discourage congressional approval.
Opposition was so fierce on the border � where ordinary citizens are also concerned that a worsening economy will bring back higher levels of drug gang violence that have only recently ebbed � that one newspaper headline in Tijuana referred to �fiscal terrorism.� Members of Congress from the border region who voted in favor of the package were branded �traitors� on social media networks.
A group calling itself the Republic of Baja California announced it would hold a �Caravan of Repudiation� against the federal government this month.
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The tax package was approved unanimously by lawmakers from Pena Nieto�s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), with part of the left brought on board after the government dropped plans to slap sales taxes on all food and medicines. The conservative National Action Party (PAN), particularly close to business interests, overwhelmingly opposed the increases.
�They will put taxes all over the place,� complained PAN Congressman Juan Bueno Torio. �It is a badly designed plan that will hurt economic growth.�
With opposition getting especially noisy, Pena Nieto found himself forced to defend the package, again, on Friday. He invited critics to study and understand the �spirit of the reforms.� They are not �merely a whim,� he said.
(News assistant Cecilia Sanchez of the Los Angeles Times� Mexico City bureau contributed to this report.)
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There's A 'Very, Very, Very Good' Chance That Brock Lesnar Returns To UFC
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Rumors of Brock Lesnar making a return to mixed martial arts were inevitably going to come up with his WWE contract set to expire later this year, and UFC President Dana White isn't doing anything to quiet them down.
After posting a photo with Lesnar from Las Vegas, Nevada on his social media accounts on Sunday, White appeared on "Happy Hours" with Kevin Harvick on SiriusXM Tuesday night and was very optimistic about Lesnar potentially returning to the UFC.
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The D'Addario Foundation, a nonprofit solely funded by the world's largest maker of instrument strings, will continue its rich tradition of funding music education at one of its 250 partner programs around the globe by giving a young student a scholarship to attend the prestigious Crown of The Continent Guitar Workshop & Festival in Bigfork, Montana from August 30th- September 6th.
The student selected, sixteen-year-old Lily McAndrew, comes from the Rock to the Future MusiCore program in Philadelphia. The Rock to the Future program is a 501(c)3 organization that provides music education to local underserved youth at no cost to them or their families. Using music, their programs ignite passion and creativity while supporting academic achievement and improving self-esteem in their students. Rock to the Future's mission is to inspire youth to not only be creative and learn music, but also to build positive skills that transfer into academic performance and social life.
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The blog has been little quiet, as has unfortunately been the way this winter. So, what have I been up to?
On the tours we spend the nights at huts but being out in the wild gives a good excuse to sleep outside and this week I decided to sleep in a quinzee as the night was expected to be a cold one. (The record low for this winter was recorded at Taivalkoski at the same week, -38,2C.) I was a little hasty building the quinzee and made the pile little too small and decided to go without the sticks to mark the wall thickness. The end product was livable but little too short with too big doorway and I had to patch one hole in a wall. But it still added apparently quite a lot of warmth as I managed to sleep most of the night comfortably in my sleeping bag rated to -18C (Tlim) and only woke up chilled a few times after 6.00 a.m. The cabin doesn't have a thermometer but it's in a cold place on low-lands next to big marsh so the temperature was likely colder than at the village of Taivalkoski… Snow shelters make sense! And there is still time to make some so don't miss the chance!
The little free time I've had, I've used for arranging the guided ski tours. The last week I was guiding a group in Sarek (along the route mapped on Social Hiking, though the distance listed there is little optimistic). We also made snow shelters in Sarek as a training and they were not bad choise as the night was cold. Snow caves are especially nice shelters if you happen to find pile enough pile of hard snow. It was an awesome tour with good group and well worth sitting in the car for 21 hours – each way.
Sarek. There's a feeling of real wilderness. And beatiful mountains as well!
I'll write a separate post about the tour in Sarek later as this post is about northern lights! As the winter has been unusually cloudy there hasn't been much auroras to be seen at Taivalkoski. I saw a good show here on early December, little faint lights every now and then here and at lake Inari and nice but little grey light show at Sarek. But this evening was different. After several cold and cold nights without a trace of the northern lights the lights at the sky were on a big time! Here are some photos of the showon Sunday evening. Hope you enjoy the photos in case you missed the show!
On the weekend we also had the pre-expedition meeting with the Vantajökull 2013 expedition and I can't wait to get on the ice for with the group as it's likely to be a great little expedition… But before that I still have some weeks of husky safari guiding to be done, including two nice longer tours. I'll try to get some nice photos to share from the tours.
Like the northern lights photos too!
It is fun, and useful skill and technique for winter outdoor safety and travel.
Spectacular aurora photos. So glad I found this blog. The quenzhee is very interesting. Hope it is ok to reblog?


USDINR April expiry future last closed at 60.64 with 21 paisa gain. In Intraday MCX-SX Dollar-rupee future hit high at 60.65 while low was 60.37. Total 28-paisa intraday range and closed with gain. For tomorrow, US dollar future may see follow up buying up to 60.95. EURINR April future last closed at 83.76 with gain of 1 paisa. In Intraday MCX-SX Euro-rupee future hit high at 83.79 while low was 83.36. Total almost 35-paisa intraday range and closed with gain. For tomorrow, euro future above 83.5 will remain buy. GBPINR April expiry future last closed at 101.85 with gain of 31 paisa. In intraday MCX-SX Pound-rupee, future hit high at 101.9 while low was at 101.34. Total 56-paisa intraday range and closed with gain. Pound had given short term bullish breakout and expects 103-104 targets here. JPYINR April expiry future last closed at 59.11 with 8 paisa loss. In intraday MCX-SX Yen-rupee, future hit high at 59.12 while low was at 58.84. Total 28-paisa intraday range and closed with loss. For tomorrow yen, future may continue this recovery up to 59.5.


steady state, assuring us that there is no need for advanced autonomous control system.
A key objective of the affordable strategy is that the nuclear components can be fabricated to the exacting tolerances demanded by the designers. This includes not only the physical dimensions, but also density and crystalline phase of the alloys. The materials' characteristics determine thermal and mechanical performance of the core, which in turn affects its nuclear performance. After several joint efforts, an exact replica of the kiloPower core was fabricated at Y- 12 with depleted uranium. This provided needed experience and data on casting, machining and material characteristics of the reactor core.
The second phase involved engineering demonstrations where the DU core is assembled together with the rest of the system (including the heat pipes and Stirling engines) in the configuration needed for a flight space reactor. Finely controlled resistance heaters were used to closely mimic the nuclear heat profile that is expected in the nuclear core during regular operation. These tests were performed in a vacuum chamber to simulate the environment in outer space.
Data collected during these tests confirmed the predictions of computer simulations of the reactor. The data showed a well-characterized thermal response of the system including demonstrating that the Stirling engines could meet the required electrical output. Other data, like the thermal expansion of the reactor core, were measured as input to computer simulations of the nuclear kinetics and system dynamics. These data were then used to help complete the design for the nuclear demonstration experiment that is planned for later in 2017.
Figure 2. Simulations, as confirmed by feasibility test, show that sudden loss of t wo of the eight Stirling engines can be easily handled by self-regulation – an inherent design feature. Full-scale nuclear experiments scheduled for 2017 will validate the design. Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory.


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Coronado Irasema
Irasema Coronado
Membre associée, Observatoire de géopolitique
Politique comparée États-Unis/Mexique
Frontière mexicaine-américaine
Frontières et environnement
Relations et collaborations transfrontières
Communauté hispano-américaine et politique
Femmes et frontières
Irasema.Coronado@asu.edu
Irasema Coronado received her bachelor's degree in political science and a certificate of Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida. She has an M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Arizona. Her area of specialization is comparative politics. She is the Director of the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Previously, she was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where she held the Kruszewski Family Endowed Professorship.
She was also a contributing faculty member of the Environmental Science and Engineering Ph.D. program at UTEP. She is co-author of the book titled "Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border" and"Styles, Strategies, and Issues of Women Leaders at the Border" Eds. Mattingly, Doreen and Hansen Women and change at the U.S.-Mexico Border Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press.
She has co-edited "Digame! Policy and Politics on the Texas Border" and the book "Juntos Pero No Revueltos: Estudios sobre la frontera Texas-Chihuahua". She also coauthored "Latinas in Local Government, Políticas: Latina Public Officials in Texas" in 2008. She was the recipient of a Fulbright to Germany in 2002, and a Border Fulbright in 2004 at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez.
Irasema Coronado has had a variety of academic and administrative positions at the University of Texas El Paso. She served as graduate Advisor in the Department of Political Science September 2006- January 2008; Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso September 1, 2005-September 1, 2006 and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts 2007-2008, and Associate Provost from 2008-2012. Irasema Coronado is past president of the Association for Borderland Studies 2005-2006. She served as a member of the Environmental Protection Agency Good Neighbor Environmental Board from 1999-2002 and co-chair of the Coalition Against Violence Toward Women and Children on the Border. She was also part of the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2003-2006. President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation in North America in 2010. Irasema Coronado served as the executive director of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America 2012-2016. Currently, she is also a member of the academic advisory board for Ms. Magazine, and serves on the Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) and the Department of Human Health Services, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences- National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.
Her present research include the impact of the deportation process on families and children, environmental cooperation, and U.S.-Mexico border politics.
Políticas: Latina Trailblazers in the Texas Political Arena. 2008. Sonia, Garcia, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon Navarro, and Patricia Jaramillo, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Austin Press.
Juntos Pero No Revueltos: Estudios sobre la Frontera Texas-Chihuahua. 2006. Coronado, Irasema and Hector Padilla, Eds. Jalapa, Veracruz: Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez.
Dígame! Public Policy on the Texas Border. 2003. Christine Brenner, Irasema Coronado and Dennis Soden, Eds. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt .
Fronteras No Más: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.-Mexico Border. 2002. with Kathleen Staudt, New York: Palgrave.
Chapitres d'ouvrages collectifs
"Towards the Wall between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora" in Borders, Fences and Walls. 2014. Elisabeth Vallet, Ed. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, Border Regions Series, Chpt 15, 247-266.
"Migration and Discrimination: Contradictory Discourse regarding Repatriations in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico" With Hector Padilla in Lusk, Mark, Kathleen Staudt and Eva Moya Social Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. 2012. Springer Press, Netherlands.
"Para la Comunidad: For the Community" in Grace and Gumption in El Paso. in Daudistel, Marcia Ed. Dallas, Texas: TCU Press 2011
"Cultural Poetics of Environmental Justice" in Gateways Northeastern Mexico and South Tejas, One Region, One Culture:
An Anthology of Essays, with Kamala Platt. Edited by Pedro Rodriguez; Assistant Editor, John Castro.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, 2009: 120-133.
"Be Realistic Demand the Impossible: Public Policy Changes on the U.S.-Mexico Border," in Transformation of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border. 2008. Raquel Márquez, and Harriett Romo, Eds. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
"Acción Cívica Binacional en pro de la rendición de cuentas: Organización contra la violencia en Ciudad Juárez-El Paso," with Kathleen Staudt in Reforma de la Administracion de la Justicia en México. 2008. Arturo Alvarado, Ed. Colegio de Mexico.
"Civic Action for Accountability: Anti-Violence Organizing in Ciudad Juárez-El Paso," with Kathleen Staudt in Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico. 2007. Wayne Cornelius and David Shirk, Eds. Notre Dame Press Chapter 15, pages 349-368.
"Mujeres y trabajo: la participación de la mujer en la fuerza laboral de la frontera Texas-México," with Christine Brenner, in Juntos Pero No Revueltos: Estudios sobre la Frontera Texas-Chihuahua. 2006. Irasema Coronado and Héctor Padilla Eds. Jalapa, Veracruz: Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez.
"Styles, Strategies, and Issues of Women Leaders at the Border," in Women and change at the U.S.-Mexico Border. 2006. Doreen Mattingly, and Ellen Hansen, Eds. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press.
"Resistance on the Global Frontlines: Gender Wars at the U.S.-Mexico Border," with Kathleen Staudt in Critical Theories, World Politics and the Anti-Globalisation Movement. 2005. Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguasscha, Eds. London: Routledge.
"Cross-Border Cooperation: The Case of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso," with Hector Padilla in Digame! Public Policy on the Texas Border. 2003. Christine Brenner, Irasema Coronado, Dennis Soden, Eds. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt.
"Sustainability of Development in a Border Context: The Case of Ambos Nogales," with Francisco Lara Valencia in Sustainable Development in the 21st Century Americas: Alternative Visions of Progress: Conference Proceedings, B.A. Suderman, J.C. Jacob and M. Brinherhoff, Eds. Division of International Development, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 1995, p. 104-115.
Articles avec comité de lecture
"El Paso Del Norte Vita de Frontiera" Italian Review of Geopolitics Number 8, 2016 p.171-177
"Whither the Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations on Multiple Regions of the US-Mexico Border?" December 2014 Journal of Borderland Studies Volume 29 Issue 4 pages 449-464.
"La Vida en las Colonias de la Frontera/Life in Colonias on the Border," Latino Studies Journal. 2003: 193-197.
"Universities as Sites of Citizenship and Civic Responsibility: A Report on the Pilot Phase of the Research," with Virginia Chanley, and Ashley Woodiwiss in The Political Psychologist Newsletter. American Political Science Association Vol. 7, No. 1 Spring 2002: 2-18.
"Water Conflict in the Borderlands," with George Kourous in Borderlines. Vol. 7, No. 6 Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 1999.
"Conflictos Ambientales Internacionales e Internacionales," in II Simposio de Estudios Fronterizos, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Piedras Negras, Coahuila: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, December 1996.
"Legal Solutions vs. Environmental Realities: The Case of the United States-Mexico Border Region," in University of Connecticut Journal of International Law. Vol. 10, No. 2 Spring 1995, p. 281-300.
"Relaciones Sociales y Cooperacion Transfronteriza en la Region Sonora-Arizona," with Francisco Lara Valencia, Estudios Sociales Vol. V. No. 10 December 1995, p. 171-196.
"The Hardening of the United States-Mexico Borderlands: Causes and Consequences," with Edward J Williams Boundary and Security Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 4, University of Durham, England January 1994.
"Effectiveness of The American Community of the U.S. Census in a Borderlands Colonia Setting," with Duncan Earle, U.S. Census Publication Technical Report 2002. (78 pages).
"Barriers to Enumeration in Colonias on the U.S.-Mexico Border,"with Duncan Earle, U.S. Census Publication Technical Report, 2001. (39 pages)
Contributor, Report prepared by Udall Center to Ford Foundation "U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Resources Management: Bilateral Issues, Policies and Strategies in the Nogales Region," 1995.
Notices d'encyclopédie
Contributor, Mexico and the United States, Ed. Stacy, Lee. New York: Marshall Cavendish: 2003 (Six Encyclopedia Entries).
Contributor, The Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States Oxford University Press 2006 (Eight Encyclopedia Entries).
Sheppard, Randal A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism and Politics in Mexico since 1968 in Choice vol. 54 no. 5 January 2017
Nancy, Cohen Breakthrough: The Making of America's First Woman President in Choice vol.54 no. 4 December 2016
McCormick Gladys I. The Logic of Comprise in Mexico: How the Countryside was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism in Choice vol. 54 no. 2 October 2016
Sampaio, Anna Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants: Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security in Choice vol. 53 no. 10 June 2016
Squire, Vicki Post/Humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the U.S.: People, Places and Things in Choice vol. 53 no. 7 March 2016
Baber, Walter F and Robert V. Bartlett Consensus and Global Environment Governance: Deliberative Democracy in Nature's Regime in Choice vol. 53 no. 5 January 2016
Navarro, Armando Mexicano and Latino Politics and the Quest for Self-Determination: What needs to be Done in Choice vol. 53 no. 2 October 2015
Simmons, William Paul and Carol Mueller Binational Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience in Choice vol. 52 no. 9 May 2015
Marquez, Benjamin Democratizing Texas politics: race, identity, and Mexican American empowerment, 1945-2002. in Choice vol. 52 no. 2 October 2014
Camp, Roderic A. Politics in Mexico: democratic consolidation or decline? 6th ed. In Choice vol. 51 no.10 June 2014
O'Neil, Shannon K. Two nations indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the road ahead in Choice vol. 51 no. 9 May 2014
Thames, Frank C. and Margaret S. Williams Contagious representation: women's political representation in democracies around the world. in Choice vol.51 no. 5 January 2014.
The C3 of Conservation: A Literary Perspective on the Influence of Cool, Convenience, and Cash on Residential Household Energy Conservation. Energy Policy, Energy Policy, 2013.
Smith, Peter H. and Andrew Selee L. Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership in Choice vol. 51 no. 2 October 2013
Arnold, Kathleen American Immigration after 1996: The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion, in Choice vol. 49 no. 12 in August 2012
Bender, Steven W. Run for the border : vice and virtue in U.S.- Mexico border crossings in Choice vol. 50 no. 3, November 2012
International Center for Research on Women. http://www.icrw.org/, in Choice vol. 49 no. 1 September 2011.
Staudt, Kathleen, Cesar M. Fuentes, Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso, Eds. Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border: the Paso del Norte metropolitan region, in Choice vol. 48 no 10, June 2011.
Boesten, Jelke. Intersecting inequalities: women and social policy in Peru, 1990-2000. in Choice vol. 48 no.7, March 2011.
Weintraub, Sidney Unequal partners: the United States and Mexico in Choice vol. 48 no 3, November 2010
Grayson, George Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? in Choice vol. 47 no. 10, June 2010
Jaquette, Jane S. Ed. Feminist agendas and democracy in Latin America in Choice vol. 47 no.8, April 2010.
Edmonds-Poli, Emily and David A. Shirk Contemporary Mexican Politics in Choice vol. 47 no. 4 December 2009
Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in New Mexico Historical Society Journal 2009.
Segura, Denise and Patricia Zavella Women and Migration in the U.S. –Mexico Borderlands: a Reader in Choice vol. 45 no 7 March 2008
Oscar, Martinez Troublesome Border, in Development in Practice vol. 18 no. 2 pp: 303-304, April 2008.
Turshen, Meredeth. Women's health movement: a global force for change in Choice vol. 45 no. 12 August 2008.
Beer, Caroline Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico in Choice vol. 41 no. 8, April 2004
Ard, Michael J. An Eternal Struggle: How the National Action Party Transformed Mexican Politics in Choice vol. 41 no. 10, June 2004
Huesos en el Desierto, in La Prensa, Riverside, California 4-10 April 2003.
Tulchin, Joseph S. and Andrew Selee Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition, in Choice vol. 40 no. 10, June 2003.
Messer-Davidow, Ellen Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse, in Choice vol. 39 no. 11, July 2002.
Suad, Joseph Women and Gender in the Middle East, in Choice vol. 39 no. 1, September 2001.
"Strategies for Disseminating Academic Research into the Public Arena" National Women's Studies Association Meeting Montreal, Quebec, Canada November 10-13, 2016
Panelist, "Las Elecciones en Estados Unidos: Implicaciones para la Frontera" Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez October 11, 2016
"Las Elecciones en los EUA: Participacion de los Latinos" Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF), Tijuana, Baja California, September 26-28, 2016
"Barreras y Obstaculos para la Participacion Politica de los Latinos" El Voto Latino en las Elecciones de Estados Unidos de 2016. Implicaciones para México" Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, August 15-16, 2016
"The Best Interests of the Child? Deportations at Borders" International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland July 23-28, 2016
"Children against the Wall" Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing" Universite du Quebec a Montreal, June 2-3, 2016
with Kathleen Staudt "Biopolitics and family politics in these neoliberal times: Borders, governmentality, and intrusion into private bodies and family lives" Borders, Walls and Violence: Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing" Universite du Quebec a Montreal, June 2-3, 2016
"Family Politics at the Border: Security Policies That Separate Refugee and Asylum-seeking Parents" Association of Borderland Studies, Reno, Nevada April 13-16, 2016
"Whither Environmental Activism on the U.S.-Mexico Border" Earthday Fest University of Texas Rio Grande Valley April 20-22, 2016
"Conducting Binational Research on the U.S.-Mexico Border" Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) March 7th, 2016
"Laudato Si: los temas ambientales a debate" Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez January 26-27, 2016
"Environmental Protection at Border Regions" with Hector Padilla, International Political Science Association, 23rd IPSA World Congress, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, July 20-24, 2014.
*With Hector Padilla, International Political Science Assocation, 22nd IPSA World Congress, Madrid, Spain
"Crossing Over to the Dark Side: The Administrator Option" Panelist, with Liane Kosaki & Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Mini-Conference for Women of Color in Political Science (MCWOC) Organizing Committee, American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 27-28, 2013.
"Regionalization and Collaboration in the U.S.-Mexico Border," 50th Annual Convention, International Studies Association, New York City, New York, February 15- 18-2009.
Featured Author and Moderator, "Politicas: Latina Public Officials in Texas" 2008 Texas Book Festival, Austin Texas, November 1, 2008.
"Politicas-Latina Public Officials in Texas," American Association of University Women, El Paso Texas November 8, 2008.
"Politicas-Latina Public Officials in Texas," Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, October 1, 2008.
61a Jornada Informativa del IME Género y Migración, Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior, August 24-27, 2008.
Presenter, "Communications across Borders" Michigan State University, July 6-9 2008
MS Magazine Cruise, "Mexican Elections and Women" February 18-25, 2007 Mexico, Guatemala, Florida, Belize.
US-Mexico Binational Center for Environmental Sciences and Toxicology, Global Environmental Health Workshop, "Social Justice at the Border" Wed. March 14, 2007 Tucson, Arizona.
4th Annual Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Undergraduate
Student Conference, Michigan State University "The Left in Mexico" March 28, 2007.
BRIT VIII Border Regions in Transition. Lublin, Poland and Lviv, Ukraine. September 20-25, 2006. Paper: El Voto: Absensentee Voting in the 2006 Mexican Elections.
American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 30-September 3, 2006. A Short Course on Borders.
Coloquio Internacional Migraciones y Fronteras. Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas. Noviembre 14-17, 2006. Paper: Niños Migrantes: Cruzando Fronteras
With Tony Payan "Who Governs? Agency and Interets in Cross- border Governance" Presented in Jerusalem, Israel at the BRIT VII Conference January 2005.
With John Bretting "Mobilizing Grassroots Democracy-American Indians, Anglos, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans," APSA Conference 2005.
"Casinos in the Borderlands" Association of Borderland Studies 2005.
"Violence against Women on the Border," Presented at Incarnate Word 2/25/05, Southwest Texas State 2/25/05.
"Quien Gobierna en la Frontera" Fulbright Scholars Annual Meeting Mexico City, Mexico, 3/2/05.
Keynote speaker for the Joan B. Kroc Peace & Justice Distinguished Lectura, University of San Diego May 05, 2004.
"Undocumented and Unaccompanied Children on the Border" Violencia e Impunidad en la Frontera Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez /University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, Texas Nov. 25, 2003.
"Women's Issues on the Border," Young Democrats Convention, San Antonio, Texas Nov. 23, 2003.
"Civic Action for Political Accountability: Anti-Violence Organizing in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso" Primer Encuentro Sobre Estudios de la Mujer En la Region Paso Del Norte Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua November 13-14, 2003.
"The Numbers Game and the Social Construction of Women Victims in Ciudad Juárez" University of California Los Angeles, October 31-Nov 2, 2003.
"A Real Life Perspective: The Roles of Mentors in Higher Education," American Political Science Association-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 26-30, 2003.
"Fronteras No Más: Toward Social Justice at the U.S.- Mexico Border," Center for U.S.- Mexico Studies, University of California- San Diego, April 23, 2003.
"Successful Cross-Border Cooperation Efforts on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Thirteenth Annual International Conference on the Quality of Life on the United States-Mexico Border, El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas April 9, 2003.
Panelist, "No Accuser, Nor Crime, But You're Guilty" University of Arizona, April 24, 2003.
"Cross-Border Migration and its Impact on El Paso-Ciudad Juárez," Border Institute for Executive Directors of Nonprofit Organizations for the El Paso Community Foundation El Paso, Texas, March 14, 2003.
"US-Mexico Border Environment," UTEP Professor Roberto Villarreal's Doctoral Seminar March 11, 2002.
"Resistance on the Global Frontlines: Gender Wars at the U.S.-Mexico Border" with Kathleen Staudt International Studies Association, February 26-March 1, 2003 Portland, Oregon, February 26-March 1, 2003.
"Status of Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border," United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 47th Annual Meeting, New York, New York, March 5-14, 2003.
"Testimonios: Celebrating our Stories," Women's History Month, University of Texas - San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, March 24, 2003.
"Innovative Ideas for Teaching Border Classes in a University Setting," Association for Borderland Studies, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 9-12, 2003.
"Teaching Tolerance and Respect in a Democracy," The Arab World: Insights into Islam; Relations Between Jews, Christians and Muslims, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, March 24, 2002.
"Environmental Issues on the U.S.-Mexico Border" Water in the Desert Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 8-9, 2002.
"Barriers to Census Enumeration in Colonias: The Loss of the Female Voice?" Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, La. March 27-30, 2002.
Participant, Roundtable Discussion Paso Del Norte Women in the Environmental Field USEPA March 13, 2002 El Paso, Texas
"Cross-Border Environmental Issues," State Department International Visitors Bureau, El Paso, Texas March 27, 2002.
"Women in the Environmental Arena," Bureau of Reclamation El Paso, Texas March 25, 2002.
Commentator, II Foro Fronterizo (No) Violencia y Relaciones de Género en la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua March 10, 2002.
"Cross-Border Cooperation: Challenges and Successes," Center for Inter-American and Border Studies Brown Bag Series April 25, 2002.
"Transnational Citizenship Across Fortified Borders: Implications for Latino Politics in a Changing World,"American Political Science Association, Boston , Mass. August 28-31, 2002.
"Fronteras No Más" Border Cities/Border Cultures Conference, University of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 15-16, 2002.
"International Migration: The U.S. Perspective," El Paso Community Foundation January 11, 2002.
"Capacity Building for Environmental Health in the Paso del Norte Region: The Case of El Paso/ Juárez," United States Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Conference and Training, San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 2001.
"Cross-Border Cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico Border," Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. September 6, 2001.
"Universities as Sites of Democracy: Community - University Relations," American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, California, September 2, 2001.
"U.S. México Border Environmental Issues," Consorcio Educativo para la Protección Ambiental, San Juan, Puerto Rico April 22-25, 2001.
"American Community Survey: Data Gathering in Colonias," with Duncan Earle Association of Borderland Scholars, Reno, Nevada, April 19-20, 2001.
"Methodological Issues in Census Research in Colonias," with Duncan Earle, Census Workshop Conference, University of Texas-El Paso April 17, 2001.
"Environmental Justice Issues on the US-Mexico Border," President's Peace Commission Program St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas, Thursday March 22, 2001.
"Environmental Issues on the US-Mexico Border," December 11, 2000, University of Ohio Students.
"Border Counts: Barriers to Enumeration in Colonias," with Duncan Earle, American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Francisco, California, Nov. 15-18, 2000.
"The Good Neighbor Environmental Board," USEPA Border Office Guest Speaker Series El Paso Public Library August 9, 2000.
"Women on the Border: The Case of the Mixtecas in Nogales, Sonora," June 20, 2000, Wake Forest University Students.
"Women of the Middle East," Southwest Women's Association Studies Conference, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas March 17, 2000.
"US-Mexico Border Environmental Issues," International Visitor's Bureau, February 2, 2000.
"Perceptions of Colonia Residents of the US Census," Statistical Research Division Colloquium, Washington, D.C., September 26, 2000.
El Patronato Cultural Hispanoamericano, San Antonio, Texas, "Indigenous Women on the Border," February 21, 2000.
"PRI Primary: Election Results in Ciudad Juárez," Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Oct. 1999.
"Cultural Poetics of Environmental Justice on the U.S.-México Border," with Kamala Platt, American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 1999.
"Cultural Poetics of Environmental Justice on the U.S.-México Border," Gateways Fellows, Zuazua, Nuevo Leon, Mexico February 1999.
"Research Methods in a Border Context: The Case of the Mixtecas in Nogales, Sonora," National Association of Chicano Scholars, San Antonio, Texas, April 1999.
"Environmental Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Gateway Fellows, University of Texas-San Antonio March 1999.
"Women in the Field of Political Science," National Women's Week, University of Texas-San Antonio, March 1998.
"Towards the Next Millenium: Latinos in the United States," San Juan, Texas, October 1997.
"Political Participation of Latinas," Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas November 1997.
"Mexican Migration to the United States," Bilingual Education Student Organization, University of Texas-San Antonio, Texas, September 1996.
"Bilingual Education and the North American Free Trade Agreement," San Antonio Area Association for Bilingual Education, University of Texas-San Antonio, March 29, 1996.
"NAFTA and Bilingual Education," San Antonio Association for Bilingual Education, San Antonio, Texas, January 1996.
"Who Governs in a Binational Context? The Role of Transnational Political Elite," Latin American Studies Association XIX Congress, Washington, D.C., September 28-30, 1995.
"Women on the Border: The Case of the Mixtecas," Association of Borderland Scholars, Oakland, California, April 19-21, 1995.
"The Role of Women in Addressing Environmental Issues in the United States-Mexico Border Region," United States Environmental Protection Agency: Women and the Environment Conference, Oakland, California, November 1994.
"Sustainable Development in the United States-Mexico Border Region: The Case of Water Resources in Ambos Nogales", with Francisco Lara Valencia, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, March 1994.
"Environmental Equity in the United States-Mexico Border Region," Western Political Science Association Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 1994
"Towards the Development of an Inclusive, Interdisciplinary, and Interagency Research Design to Ensure Environmental Justice," Symposium on Health Research Needs to Ensure Environmental Justice, Washington, D.C., February 1994
"Women and Education on the Mexico-United States Border," The Way Up Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1993.
"Hacia La Reforma Electoral: Cultura Política, Sociedad Civil y Partidos Políticos," Comisión Estatal Electoral, Hermosillo, Sonora, August, 1993.
"Updating Environment Issues and NAFTA," American Friends Service Committee, Tucson, Arizona, June 1993.
"NAFTA and the Environment," Nogales Lion Club, Nogales, Arizona, June 1993.
"Militarization of the Border: Implications for Democracy," with Edward J. Williams, Violence on the Border Conference, University of Texas at El Paso, May 1993.
"Militarization of the Border: Multiorganizational Policy Analysis," with Edward J. Williams, Inventando las Fronteras Conference, COLEF/Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, April 1993.
"Images and Perspectives of Transboundary Relations in Ambos Nogales," with Francisco Lara, Association of Borderlands Scholars, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 1993.
"Mujer que no se Organiza Sigue Planchando Camisa," COLEF/CETIS International Day of the Woman, Nogales, Sonora, March 1993.
"Women and Politics in Mexico: A Call for Research," Whither Mexico? Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March 1993.
"Ambos Nogales Water Study," Tucson Nature Club, Tucson, Arizona, January 1993.
"U.S. Mexico Border Environmental Issues," Soroptomist Club, Phoenix, Arizona, May 1992.
"Politics of Cultural Diversity," University of Arizona, 4H Extension Program, Tucson, Arizona, February 1992.
"Border Environmental Plan: Citizen Participation and Public Policy Development in a Binational Context," Ford Foundation Meeting on Setting a Binational Research Agenda, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, October 1991.
"Hispanic Education in the United States," Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, September, 1990.
"Infusing Race, Class, and Gender into American Government Courses," Western Political Science Association Meeting, Newport Beach, California, March 1990.
"Issues of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education," National Conference on the Training of Teaching Assistants, Austin, Texas, November 1991.
"Multiculturalizing the Curriculum in Higher Education: Project IMPACT," National Association of Bilingual Education, Tucson, Arizona, April 1990.
A Holistic Approach to Environmental and Water Challenges in the Mexico City Metropolitan Region: A Study Abroad Opportunity for Non-traditional Minority Students submitted to Partners of the Americas-100,000 Strong in the Americas." Received Award $25,000.00 October 2016- December 2017
"Library Grant for Informational Literacy $3,000.00 For Women, Power and Politics Class" awarded in 2016 to be implemented in 2017
El Paso Community Foundation "Mexico 2012 Elections Project" $2,000, 2012.
"Civic Capacity, Leadership, and Service Learning for Housing and Economic Development in El Paso," summer support.
Co-PI Kauffman Foundation Grant "Hispanic Entrepeneurship" $2 million, 2008- 2010
Border Fulbright, "Border Politics Project," Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez 2004-2005.
Fulbright Scholar, German Studies Seminar, "International Migration and National Identities" Summer 2002.
"Sector Agua, Saneamiento y Salud Publica" with Fundación Mexicana para la Ciencia Border, Border Pact Grant $12,000, 2001-2002.
"Women on the Border Conference" Ford Foundation through Center for Inter-American and Border Studies, University of Texas- El Paso, $1,700, 2000.
"Cultural Poetics of Environmental Justice" with Kamala Platt, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas, $10,000, 1997-1998.
"Content Analysis of Border Newspapers Project" Faculty Development Grant with Laura Hendrickson, University of the Incarnate Word, $2,000, 1997.
"Mexico Border Web Site Data Base Faculty Development Grant" University of the Incarnate Word, $2,000, 1996.
"U.S.- Mexico Border Research Project" Faculty Development Grant University of the Incarnate Word $500, 1995.
"Women in the Informal Economy" Ford Foundation: Programa de Estudios Micro Sociales Aplicados. $7,000, 1993.
"The Arizona Politics Project" Pima Community College: Minority Education Development Fund. $2,500.00 grant for, 1993.
"Women's Educational Needs Assessment" Southern Arizona Women's Fund $2,350, 1993.
Top 100 Influential Hispanics in the United States October 2010 Hispanic Business Magazine
Appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America 2010-present
Woman of the Year, Latinas Unidas Harvard University 2004.
REACH Award, Education Category, YWCA El Paso, Texas 2002.
Adaljiza Sosa Riddell Undergraduate Mentor Award, American Political Science Association, Committee on the Status of Latinos and Chicanos in the Profession 2002.
Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002.
Participant, "Infusing Asian Studies into the Curriculum Study Tour" University of Hawaii and Manila, Philippines, June 1999.
Recipient, Medalla de Merito Civico, Club de Mujeres Profesionistas y de Negocios de Sonora, A.C. February 1995.
Recipient, Environmental Award, November 1994, Prescott College.
Professor, University of Texas at El Paso- Department of Political Science 2011- Present
Associate Provost, University of Texas at El Paso July 1, 2008-January 16, 2012
Graduate Advisor Department of Political Science September 2006- January 2008.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso 2004-2011
Assistant Professor, Academic Advisor Center for Inter-American and Border Studies August 1999-2003.
Contributing Faculty Environmental Science and Engineering, Ph.D. program August 1999 to present
Professor, Border Exchange Program, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez, January- May 1999.
Assistant Professor, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas, July 1997- August 1999.
Visiting Professor, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas January 1995- July 1997.
Adjunct Professor, University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas Summer 1998. & 1999.
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, Guadalajara Summer School, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Summer 1997 & 2001.


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Is the CIA inside your phone? Inside your TV? ...Are women staying out of work today? ...Ben Carson's weird immigration analogy and other awkward moments ...SERIAL: Craziest Elections in US history (2 of 4) ...Ranking the best countries in the world ...Who in the world is more influential than America?
Biden's 'DAY ONE' executive orders: Paris accord, Keystone pipeline, mask mandates & more
The incoming Biden administration plans to waste no time in overturning much of the progress achieved by President Donald Trump.
On his radio program Monday, Glenn Beck ran through 10 executive orders President Joe Biden plans to announce on "day one" of his time in office — including rejoining the Paris climate accord, canceling the Keystone pipeline, mask mandates on federal land and during interstate travel, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $15 an hour.
WATCH: This is why Eric Weinstein is FINALLY talking to Glenn Beck
Eric Weinstein, managing director of investment firm Thiel Capital and host of "The Portal" podcast, is not a conservative, but he says conservative and center-right-affiliated media are the only ones who will still allow oppositional voices.
On "The Glenn Beck Podcast" this week, Eric told Glenn that the center-left media, which "controls the official version of events for the country," once welcomed him, but that all changed about eight years ago when they started avoiding any kind of criticism by branding those who disagree with them as "alt-right, far-right, neo-Nazi, etc.," even if they are coming from the left side of the aisle. But their efforts to discredit critical opinions don't stop there. According to Eric, there is a strategy being employed to destroy our national culture and make sure Americans with opposing views do not come together.
"We're trifling with the disillusionment of our national culture. And our national culture is what animates the country. If we lose the culture, the documents will not save us," Eric said. "I have a very strongly strategic perspective, which is that you save things up for an emergency. Well, we're there now."
In the clip below, Eric explains why, after many requests over the last few years, he finally agreed to this podcast.
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Harry Bloch
Author's Name: Harry Bloch
Professor Harry Bloch
Harry Bloch is currently John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus at Curtin University. He was previously Professor of Economics (1997 to 2012) and Dean for Research and Development (2012) in the Curtin Business School as well as founding director of Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Economics (2006 to 2009). He previously held academic positions at the University of Tasmania, University of Denver (USA), University of Manitoba (Canada) and University of British Columbia (Canada). He has a BA from the University of Michigan and MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He has been editor of the Economic Record (2002 to 2006); a member of the Australian Research Council, College of Experts, Social, Behavioural and Economics panel (2008-2010) and Laureates Selection Advisory Committee (2013). He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and an Honorary Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia.
Industrial organisation, international trade, development economics and the history of economic thought.
http://business.curtin.edu.au/contact/staff_directory/index.cfm/Harry.Bloch
Australia has a small open economy with limited influence on world prices. The main channel through which fiscal and monetary policy in Australia influence prices of imports and goods that compete with imports is through the foreign exchange rate. The RBA could influence the foreign exchange rate through changing interest rates compared to corresponding foreign rates, but it has generally avoided doing this to avoid destabilising the foreign exchange rate and financial markets. The goal of stabilising the currency has taken precedence over other economic goals, which is appropriate given the RBA is best positioned to handle this particular economic goal. Prices of services, as opposed to goods, are less dependent on world prices, instead being most influenced by domestic wage rates. Wage rates in turn are influenced by labour market conditions including unemployment, bargaining strength of unions and government wage setting policies. While there has been talk of the need to increase wage growth, over the past five years governments at all levels have generally worked to suppress wage growth especially through limiting wage increases to their own employees. Inflation will eventually increase in Australia due to increases in world inflation pushing up prices of imports. The rising cost of living will increase pressure on governments to end suppression of wages of their own workers and to support improvements in the bargaining power of private-sector workers, leading to further inflation through increased prices for services. The rate of unemployment will play only a minor role role in this process as has been the case for the past two decades at least.
An economy-wide carbon price (either via a cap-and-trade scheme or an emissions tax)
Australians will not only benefit from reducing environmental harm from global warming, but from participating in the development of new technologies that have substantial potential to generate income and create jobs (e.g. green hydrogen, energy storage and home energy conversation). A broadly applicable policy, such as having a price on carbon, offers the widest possible incentive for developing new technologies that may not have yet been conceived.
National advertising campaigns;Cash incentives for vaccination;Mandatory vaccination for higher risk occupations;Lotteries with cash or prizes for the vaccinated;Vaccine passports for higher-risk settings (eg. flights, restaurants, major events)
All of the listed options can help in persuading at least some people to get vaccinated, but the effects of each are likely to be small. Consistent messaging from governments concerning the public and private benefits from vaccination and from following public health advice on complying with public health orders would be even more useful. Of course, access to vaccines is the most important and making vaccination convenient and easy once the vaccines are available would help much more than buckets of cash and coercion.
Maintaining high government spending in order to boost aggregate demand;Reforming industrial relatio
Subsidise only the purchase of non-luxury all-electric cars, Subsidise public charging points for electric cars
Electric cars are the future. The sooner Australia gets up to scale with distribution and even production of electric cars, the fewer dinosaurs will be left on the road in twenty years time. If the market for electric cars gets large enough quickly enough, there is a potential for domestic production as the scale requirements for competitive production cost is still low relative to petrol or diesel vehicles. Subsidies are preferable to mandates given the technological uncertainties.
Do people who are unemployed have lower needs than those who are receiving the aged pension? Justifying a low rate of Job Seeker by claiming that higher benefits are a disincentive to work ignores the absence of sufficient demand for labour to achieve full employment. Current policy is akin to maintaining a reserve army of unemployed in order to prevent wages from rising, a very odd policy for a government that claims to be trying to lift the rate of increase in wages.
Acceptance of the need for deficit spending to keep the economy from slipping into depression is good, but the jobs impact is diminished by the choice of tax cuts and investment incentives over expenditure that would lead more directly to employment , such as social housing and enhanced access to child care. With the economy operating well below capacity, any increase in investment may be biased towards saving on costs rather than increasing output capacity. The largest cost for most businesses is labour, so incentives for increasing investment can have the unintended side effect of decreasing employment. There is also the longer term problem that tax cuts financed by large deficits mean more saving by wealthy individuals, further aggravating inequality in wealth and income going forward.
Wage subsidies or hiring bonuses (beyond JobKeeper), Permanently boosting JobSeeker (Newstart) beyond December 31, 2020, Funding higher quality aged care, Increasing subsidies for child care
Stimulating consumer demand should be the highest priority, especially the demand for services that has fallen off dramatically during the pandemic. This can be achieved by increasing the income flow to unemployed and low-wage workers, who have high propensities to spend their extra income. Attempts to boost investment spending through investment incentives or cutting corporate taxes, are less likely to be effective when there is ample excess capacity in the economy. Cash handouts and personal tax cuts may be largely saved unless very carefully targeted to groups who are most likely to spend.
The 12% super contribution rate is designed to provide an adequate retirement income for the average wage earner employed over an average working life. Anything less exposes the majority of the working population to a lower standard of living or depending on whatever standard of living is provided to future generations through an old-age pension. Further, the larger the proportion of the population who can't provide from themselves in retirement, the more difficultly future governments will have in financing the old-age pension at a reasonable level. Sound public policy is best served by ensuring most of the population can provide for themselves in retirement.
Inadequate aggregate demand leads to reduced output and unemployment, with adverse consequences for individuals and society as a whole.
Based on the experience to date of countries across the globe, some form of social-distancing measures appear necessary to avoid overwhelming health systems. Some countries, such as Australia, have acted before their health systems are challenged, while others have waited until infections are out of control. The economic pain as well as the number of infections and deaths appear higher with acting later on social distancing (compare the experience of Australia and the US). Extrapolating from this experience, a second wave of infections would be more costly in terms of the economy and health than keeping new infections under control, which roughly equates to keeping R<1 most of the time. With low numbers of new cases, R is likely to occasionally exceed 1, but R>1 for a sustained period would inevitably lead to the reintroduction of strict controls on social and business activity as well as increased deaths and compromised health systems.
Waste Policy - August 2018
"There are clear net benefits for Australians from (further) increasing the diversion of waste from Australian landfills."
There is a standard market failure argument that householders and at least some businesses don't pay the incremental pecuniary costs of the waste they have picked up from their premises, much less any of the substantial environmental costs. Even where waste removal charges are separately indicated on council rate notices, the charge is compulsory (no opt-out provision) and is independent of the quantity of waste picked up from the premise.
Saying "no" impact is a bit strong, but whatever impact occurs would be too small to be measurable by standard methods. Multinational firms have shown themselves very adept at avoiding profit taxes or at least transferring them to low-profit jurisdictions, whether Google or Apple take their profits in Ireland or the US will have little impact on their activities in Australia.
1 - Strongly disagree
1 - Australia has among the lowest ratios of national government debt to GDP of all developed countries, which is unusual given the relatively high rate of population growth here. High population growth requires extra infrastructure. Just as a young and growing family generally relies on mortgage debt to provide housing, rapidly growing countries generally incur government debt to provide infrastructure. Growing populations provide growing output and government revenue, which can be used to pay off debt. Having the current population pay for the infrastructure needs of the future is like having parents buy houses for their offspring, not unheard of but not normal.
2 - The most immediate need for government revenues is to provide funding for expensive new programs, including the NDIS and the Gonski reforms to education funding, without stripping funding from other important programs, such as Medicare. Eventually, bracket creep will raise Commonwealth revenues as a share of GDP to a level sufficient to provide proper funding of all these programs and there will be an opportunity for cuts to personal income tax to compensate for bracket creep.
The lack of government protections to remuneration and working conditions in the gig economy is likely to lead to continued erratic and substandard incomes for many of the workers who are being treated as independent contractors. This may very well spill over into downward pressure on wages and working conditions for workers who are treated as employees under current regulations, although many of these workers are already receiving close to minimum legal rates of pay and working under insecure arrangements with variable hours of work. Effective action to ensure the gig economy doesn't undermine community standards regarding the conditions of work requires much more research on current practices and conditions to determine the full extent of the threat and devise regulatory regimes to ensure all workers in Australia have a fair go.
Same sex marriage - November 2017
"Assuming that the law will be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry in Australia, this will generate net economic benefits for the nation as a whole over the next 10 years."
A - Strongly disagree
Borrowing to provide infrastructure is justifiable whether interest rates are high or low given that future generations are the primary beneficiaries of improved infrastructure. Moreover, the same argument applies to spending on education and research. The more important issue is whether the infrastructure is worthy in terms of those future benefits versus the current costs in terms of foregone opportunities.
A major advantage of the mandatory certificate scheme is that it is likely to encourage investment in renewable energy generation. Both retailers and energy suppliers will have incentives to enter into long-term contracts for the supply of renewable energy sufficient to meet the mandatory certificate requirements. If the terms on offer for renewable energy and more favourable than those available for non-renewable energy, retailers have the option to contract for more than the mandated requirements. Uncertainty about the future price of electricity under possible emissions taxes or cap and trade schemes are contributing to the current negative investment climate for energy production from both renewable and non-renewable sources. This adds to the negative impact on investment from the political impasse regarding the adoption of a sustainable policy for emissions control.
This is a strong statement on an issue that has, unfortunately, not been subject to systematic evaluation. Governments have too readily relied on ideological suppositions and hidden behind commercial-in-confidence rather than subjecting private provision of education and health services to critical evaluation. There is substantial anecdotal evidence of poor outcomes for clients and high costs to government to weigh against contrary examples. In the absence of systematic evaluation, we are left to choose among anecdotes or rely on more general understanding of the efficiency and efficacy of public and private enterprise.
The statement is overly dogmatic in insisting that gender equality can "only" be achieved with government intervention, but government intervention would certainly be useful for achieving this highly desirable objective.
Australia is suffering the effects of poor planning in the energy sector, especially with regards to the approval of export LNG plants without assurance of sufficient supplies of natural gas. This leaves the country exposed to the ironic position of being a major exporter of gas even though domestic customers are faced with prices far exceeding those paid by customers in gas-importing countries. Requiring a substantial proportion of any new gas supply be provided to the domestic market is a second-best solution to this situation and could have some disincentive effect on developing new gas fields (although not if the domestic prices remains above the export price). The alternative of doing nothing would jeopardise the international competitiveness of domestic manufacturers who are heavy users of natural gas as a fuel source or feedstock.
My reason for agreeing with removal of capital gains tax concessions for housing investments is based on equity considerations rather than the nebulous idea that the housing market is "overstimulated". I'd be surprised if the capital gains concessions have much impact on the quantity of housing available, although perhaps some impact on its composition. There is an important concession available to all investors in capital assets through not having to declare any income until the asset is sold. That benefit and the use of negative gearing likely have much more impact on individual decisions to invest in housing than does the capital gains tax concession. Paying a bit more tax when the houses are eventually sold seems a modest contribution from investors to the public purse.
Australian exports to the US are exposed to the threat of protectionist policies promised by Trump to say nothing of the potential for unsettling world financial markets.
We need to better understand the drivers and complexities of individual behaviour.
Immigration - November 2016
'The total benefit of current levels* of migration to Australia will outweigh the total costs to Australia's economy'.
No clear difference between nudging and using taxes or subsidies to influence behaviour.
A target in terms of real economic growth would be a reasonable alternative to a target in terms of inflation for it is real economic growth that delivers the goods to support a improved standard of living. Of course, whether the RBA is able to exert more than a weak and indirect influence on either the inflation rate or real economic growth is open to serious doubt.
London's role as an international financial centre will almost surely decline. Whether there will be any offsetting gains from a cheaper pound remains to be seen.
In the intermediate run, the relative impact on growth of education spending and tax cuts depends on their respective impact on productivity. Education increases the ability of the future labour force to function effectively in the workplace and, critically, to imagine better ways of doing things (innovation). Tax cuts may stimulate more investment, which can expand production and increase the effectiveness of labour. Given that we have experienced a long period in which human ingenuity has apparently contributed more to economic growth than accumulation of machines, my bet is on a smarter population rather than more machines. The long run is not a particularly useful concept for policy analysis as by the time it arrives the world will be fundamentally different than what was expected. Hence, Keynes' famous comment that in the long run we are all dead.
The time to repair government budgets is when the private economy is growing strongly, not when it is stagnating. Now is the time for investing in the nation's future, particularly in education as a well educated population is central to both productivity and creativity. Infrastructure investment is also important, but this is mostly hidden from the budget bottom line.
There are already substantial service exports to China in the form of inbound tourism and Chinese students studying in Australia. There is little doubt that both export streams will continue to expand over the next few years. There are also opportunities in business, financial and legal services as China becomes more integrated into the global economy. However, Australia's comparative advantage in exporting these services is less clear than in the case of the resource exports.
The statement that "the incentives are likely to be inefficient" is purely ideological. The standard theory of the efficiency of the allocation of scarce resources among competing assumes market mechanisms that are well informed and competitive. Investments in technology and start-up businesses are plagued with fundamental uncertainty, asymmetric information, moral hazard and underdeveloped markets. Thus, the standard theory provides no scientific basis for assessing the efficiency of tax incentives for such investments.
As we approach the silly season, it is appropriate to have a silly question. Applying efficiency evaluation to gift giving demonstrates brilliantly the limits of the homo economics conception. Imposing restrictions on the recipient's use of purchasing power is inefficient in this conception. Human beings are more complex, they have emotions and emotional intelligence. Through choosing a gift, the giver demonstrates an understanding of the interests and needs of the recipient, thereby indicating regard, perhaps even love, for the recipient. A gift of purchasing power shows a low level of emotional engagement.
The question ignores the potential impacts elsewhere in the economy. Declining penalty rates reduce the income and expenditure of those already working on Sundays unless fully compensated by higher hours. Also, higher trading on Sundays may simply divert expenditures from other days, leading to employment losses on those days.


I stood on the sidelines, watching my teammates receive the first place trophy at the Ranger Challenge competition. I could not help but feel joy for their success. I knew they had earned it. Or, I should say, "we" had earned it. Even though I did not get to compete, I considered myself part of the team.
I am a cadet in the Army's Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) at Wheaton College. Ranger Challenge is the "competitive sport" of ROTC, culminating in a tough regional competition. Wheaton College sends two teams, the A team (varsity) and the B team (junior varsity) to compete against more than twenty colleges and universities in the Great Lakes region. The competition consists of a physical fitness test, a demanding land navigation course, various tests of military skills, and a six-mile run in full gear with a forty-pound backpack. It is quite demanding, both physically and mentally. The competition requires weeks of grueling preparation.
I tried out for the Ranger Challenge teams last year even though I did not have the time and natural physical gifts essential for success in Ranger Challenge. At the beginning, most cadets could do more push-ups, do more sit-ups, and run faster than me – the very criteria the Army uses to judge physical fitness. The others, mainly seniors and individuals with prior military service, had the technical knowledge and skills that I lacked. On top of this, I had the most difficult academic semester of my college career ahead of me with an above average class load consisting of difficult courses.
Nonetheless, I desperately wanted to compete on the team. I dragged myself out of bed every morning at five thirty and worked out hard for two hours before going straight into mental focus at class. I spent what little free time I had learning and refining my soldier skills for Ranger Challenge. As the amount of light in the mornings dwindled, so did the number people vying for a spot on the team. Some quit and others got cut. However, I stuck with it. I began to notice those who could once outdo me in the physical aspects of training now fell behind. The cadets who had taught me how to tie all the knots and disassemble a weapon now took more time than me to do such tasks.
A few weeks before the competition the instructors ranked the potential competitors. I ended up the tenth highest ranked person on the list, one spot away from making the A team, and statistically the top individual on the B team. Unlike prior years, the decision of who would make the two respective teams proved difficult, forcing minor differences to tip the scales. I saw these inconsequential differences and realized that the B team had a realistic chance of beating the A team at the competition if we put in extra work. I spent hours preparing an outline for my team of the infantryman's manual – the subject of the most important event at the competition. The diligence paid off since all members of the B team became infantry experts.
The final two weeks before competition I unified our team. Every morning I reminded my team that victory was attainable. We were now a finely-oiled machine. Nothing could break our cohesion, at least until the day before we left to compete. I'll never forget the sinking feeling when the Commandant of Cadets informed me I was being "bumped up" to the A team as an alternate. One member of the A team had tendonitis in his knee, and another had an upper respiratory infection. Chances were great that I would have to fill in.
As it turned out, the sick and injured cadets competed. I was only needed for one event and spent nearly the entire weekend as a cheerleader. At first I thought that all the training, all the pain, and all the lost sleep was for nothing. But I soon realized that wasn't the case. Life certainly isn't fair. I won't always be rewarded or even recognized for my hard work. Sometimes life calls me to sacrifice personal wants for a higher calling. As I watched the B Team receive the first place trophy, I knew in my heart that I was an integral part of the team's success. I had surpassed my own expectations and helped bring out the best in others. And that's reward enough.