Valin Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Bloomberg Previous administrations haven’t made race scholarship such a clear priority. Lananh Nguyen, Jennifer Epstein November 15, 2020 When it comes to economic policy, President-elect Joe Biden is putting racial disparities high on the agenda as he assembles his administration. The incoming president tapped Mehrsa Baradaran, whose book “The Color of Money” is a key reference on the racial wealth gap, to prepare the Treasury Department for the transition. She’s joined by Lisa Cook, an economist at Michigan State University, on the “landing team” for the Federal Reserve and banking and securities regulators. They are among more than 500 experts who will focus on race as they shape Biden’s policies on issues like housing, health and small-business lending. Baradaran declined to comment, and Cook referred questions to the Biden team. Observers say they’ve never seen expertise about race figure so prominently in economic roles. (Snip) _____________________________________________________________________________________ H/T DU Quote Indykatie (2,371 posts) 2. I Expected Biden To Assemble an Excellent Administration and He's Not Disappointing Me For Sure Quote pandr32 (6,552 posts) 5. This is great news! Awwwww...I love the sound of Republicans gasping with horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Report: Joe Biden Considering Teachers’ Union Leaders for Education Secretary Joe Biden is reportedly considering leaders of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions to replace current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, should the former vice president be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. According to a report at the New York Times Friday, the short list of contenders for the education cabinet post includes Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, recent past president of the National Education Association (NEA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 4 hours ago, Geee said: Report: Joe Biden Considering Teachers’ Union Leaders for Education Secretary Joe Biden is reportedly considering leaders of the nation’s largest teachers’ unions to replace current Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, should the former vice president be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. According to a report at the New York Times Friday, the short list of contenders for the education cabinet post includes Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, recent past president of the National Education Association (NEA). I suspect the Biden administration will be the best Money Can Buy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 One Of Biden’s First Admin Hires Helped Push Through China Trade Bill That Caused ‘Sharp Drop’ In US Jobs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Look Who Biden Is Asking For Advice On How To Create Jobs If the business executives Joe Biden met with Monday are an indication of the kind of advice he’s seeking out on the economy, the country is in for trouble. At Monday’s briefing, Biden was practically giddy about a meeting he’d had earlier in the day with CEOs at four big companies – Microsoft, The Gap, Target, and General Motors – along with five union bosses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Biden to Continue Obama Tradition of Packing White House with Corporate Lobbyists A central component of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was his pledge to rid the executive branch of corporate lobbyists. Obama didn't exactly follow through on that pledge, and his White House was crawling with lobbyists from day one. Not that it mattered. The media were not very interested in following up. They just took Obama's word for it, and by 2012 they were writing stories about how lobbyists were poised to make a comeback if Mitt Romney became president. With Joe Biden poised to take office in 2021, reports suggest he plans to follow in Obama's footsteps by hiring a bunch of corporate lobbyists in senior roles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 FLASHBACK: Biden campaign manager called for mandatory gun seizures National Democratic Party official suggests re-education for Trump supporters: 'How do you deprogram 75 million people?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Biden to bring Obama personnel back to the White House President-elect Joe Biden is surrounding himself with familiar faces as he appoints more pivotal administration staff. Biden named Louisa Terrell on Friday as his incoming White House Office of Legislative Affairs director. Terrell was a legislative affairs special assistant to former President Barack Obama. Terrell, who was Biden's deputy chief of staff when he was Delaware's 36-year senator before she joined New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker as his top aide, will be responsible for helping Biden pass his agenda through a divided Congress. Democrats will have a narrower majority in the House and will only control the Senate if their candidates win both Georgia runoffs on Jan. 5. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will then break any ties. Picking Terrell, though, rankled Democrats hoping Biden wouldn't tap staff with deep ties to corporations or with lobbyist backgrounds. Terrell was Facebook's policy director. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 An Obama Tradition Continues: Biden Taps Facebook Lobbyist for Top Admin Post President-elect Joe Biden on Friday announced the selection of Louisa Terrell as his legislative affairs director. Like most of the people Biden has tapped for senior roles in his administration, Terrell formerly worked in lobbying shops for controversial corporations such as Facebook, Yahoo, and McKinsey & Company. The decision is in keeping with former president Barack Obama's proud tradition of hiring corporate lobbyists—despite explicitly campaigning against the influence of such lobbyists in Washington. Terrell is merely the latest former lobbyist to earn a senior role in the Biden administration. Biden's incoming chief of staff, Ron Klain, previously lobbied on behalf of U.S. Airways, AOL Time Warner, Fannie Mae, and ImClone, a pharmaceutical company whose CEO was convicted of fraud. His deputy chief of staff, Jen O'Malley Dillon, cofounded an "integrated strategy and marketing agency" that was recently hired to represent private equity firms. The incoming counselor to the president, Steve Ricchetti, previously lobbied for AT&T, Eli Lily, and the American Bankers Association. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Report: Biden to Name Russia Hoaxer, CNN Analyst Tony Blinken Secretary of State Former Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly set to announce this week that Tony Blinken, who supported the idea of “Russia collusion,” would be his Secretary of State. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 John Kerry to Return in Biden Administration as ‘Climate Czar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Biden to nominate Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary: report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Avril Haines, deputy of John Brennan and Susan Rice, named Biden’s future spy chief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Joe Biden Picks Pro-Migration Swamper for Top DHS Slot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Biden's Secretary of State Pick Slammed Trump's 'America First' Foreign Policy as Nationalistic 'Xenophobia' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 OK Boys, Girls....Whatever. Time to play Spot The Problem! From Scientific American ‘Inspired Choice’: Biden Appoints Sociologist Alondra Nelson to Top Science Post Scientists praise US president’s selection of the bioethics and social inequality specialist to help lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged that his administration would address inequality and racism. Now that he’s been sworn in as US president, his appointment of a prominent sociologist to the nation’s top science office is raising hopes that the changes will extend to the scientific community. Alondra Nelson, who has studied the societal impacts of emerging technology, as well as racism in science and medicine, will help lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) as deputy director for science and society, Biden announced on January 15. She has spoken and written about divisive and controversial subjects in bioethics, such as gene editing and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. (Snip) Nelson’s appointment to the OSTP comes as the United States and its scientific institutions are grappling with their record on equity and inclusion. Although Hispanic and African Americans make up 27.5% of the US population over the age of 21, these groups constitute only 13% of the US science and engineering workforce. In the past several months, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed nearly three times as many Black Americans as white ones, and it has highlighted gaps in how health care is administered to people of different races and ethnicities. (Snip) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ She is also the author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome. Just looking at the title I Know (or strongly suspect) what's its conclusions are. 2 words Systemic Racism H/T Bill Whittle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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