Tag: policies

28 DEC

Under current policies, residential batteries increase emissions in most cases

A Tesla Powerwall 2. Another year, another reason to take the promises of residential home batteries with a grain of salt. This month, a group of researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) published a paper in Environmental Science and Technology reporting that there are very few cases in which operating a residential home battery […]

08 NOV

Google updates sexual harassment policies following protest

Google has faced quite a bit of criticism and pushback regarding how it has handled sexual harassment accusations in the past, and thousands of employees walked out of their offices in protest last week. Now, ahead of a company town hall meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has released new policies that will guide how the […]

27 OCT

Democrats are wrong to think Latinos will vote for them en masse just because of Trump’s immigration policies

David McNew/Getty Images According to analysis by media outlets, Democrats have “a Latino problem,” showing that Latino turnout may be low this November. Even if Latinos vote in large numbers, the so-called “Latino vote” might be deceiving.  As it turns out, there are a lot of factors — eligibility, geography, incorrect assumptions about preferance, and […]

17 AUG

Life-insurance policies with perks make it to America

PEOPLE only contact their insurers when things go wrong and they need to make a claim. This generally means losses for the insurer. It also means stress and hassle for the customer. In order to mitigate both problems, insurers increasingly offer extra services alongside their bog-standard policies. Aviva, a British insurer, for instance, installs sensors […]

08 AUG

How a Marvel exec and 2 other Mar-a-Lago cronies are secretly shaping the Trump administration’s VA policies

Charles Dharapak/AP Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment and a longtime acquaintance of President Donald Trump, is leading an informal council that is exerting sweeping influence on the Veterans Affairs Department from Mar-a-Lago. None of the informal council’s three members has ever served in the US military or government. They have remained hidden except to […]

30 JUN

Thousands of protesters marched against Trump’s border policies in more than 700 rallies across the US

Joshua Roberts/Reuters Protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy took place in over 700 cities across the country on Saturday. Demonstrators called upon the Trump administration to reunite the immigrant families it separated, and to stop trying to detain asylum-seeking families.  The marches came one day after hundreds of women were arrested after they occupied […]

26 JUN

Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why he spoke out about Trump’s immigration policies: ‘We have a lot of immigrants that work at Apple… I want to stand up for them” (AAPL)

Getty Speaking at the Fortune CEO Initiative in San Francisco Monday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained why he chose to speak publicly against President Trump’s immigration policies. Cook thinks CEOs should be cautious about commenting on issues where they don’t have “significant standing,” but urged CEOs to speak out when a public policy doesn’t […]

01 JUN

There is madness, but perhaps also method, in America’s trade policies

DIVINING meaning in the Trump administration’s trade announcements is a thankless task. No sooner does a policy seem settled than it is thrown up in the air once more. On May 23rd, days before a scheduled meeting with the European Union and Japan on a joint trade strategy and in the middle of talks to […]