Talk It Over: Ask Public Agenda
'I Was Wondering.." Questions about PublicAgenda.org
By Scott Bittle on July 12, 2008
Government Agency Reports Greenhouse Emissions Up Last Year
Greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. were up by 1.4 percent in 2007, after a decline the previous year, according to newly released figures in a report from the Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Energy Department.
Priced Out Of Prosperity?
The picture was grim this week as the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report predicting that a college education could soon become unaffordable for most Americans. In the past 25 years, the cost of college has increased by 439 percent. [The New York Times notes that this figure is not adjusted for inflation.]
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The site looks much fresher and more inviting. It's a bit like a newspaper: I feel I can go to whatever interests me most first, and then browse through other items later.
I find the site useful and easy to follow. I immediately emailed a colleague your findings on the public school system. Thanks for making the changes!
Vivienne
The visual changes to PublicAgenda.org or good, but what truly impressed me is the content of the recent editorial and feature on "Can we afford our entitlement promises? How far away is the cliff?"
Sometimes opinion polls are useful, but far more important are serious discussions about solutions to the staggering problems the U.S. faces and concrete proposals.
Participants in the discussion indicated again and again that the public is more ready to engage in realistic address to the problems, whereas Congress remains locked into futile partisan harangues.
Moreover - and this should be a high priority for a future PA initiative, our lawmaking system is an unbelievably haphazard, lottery-like process without serious vetting and impact testing of proposed legislation. Senator Bingaman in a recent artlcle in ISSUES magazine expressed doubt that any meaningful legislation on energy policy could be expected under present conditions.
It's not a partisan issue - regarding the 500 bills no in the 110th Congress with serious-sounding names including ENERGY, a legislative assistant admitted to me that more than 3/4 are "not serious", and won't even come up on committee calendars.
Keep up the good work!
Frank T. Manheim, Fairfax VA
Across your site, its difficult to identify which types of content things are. What if, whenever you listed a piece of content -- on the tag pages -- with a little icon to indicate whether it was a graph, a report, etc.
Stop the excess training.
Kick out the unruly kids.
Teachers only need to know book being taught.
Use the voucher method.
It's Also Unpatriotic to ask for a tax cut while troops are serving and dieing for their country, crying about taxes right now is a disgrace to our troops, should they have to pay for the war themselves when they return.
the war is a disgrace...bring them home and it will help both sides...It is unpatriotic for corporate america to not pay its fair share of taxes while john q. public is barely able to make ends meet...making john q. public feel guilty for taxes for a war(s) they did not and still do not want...is mind control...don't fall for it...
corporatye america pays plenty...and if you think it doesn't get passed on down to middle america, think again. How about a flat tax? 15% or whatever across the board, everyone pays, period.
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