All posts tagged "Économie"

Milwaukee (AFP) - As criminal charges against Donald Trump mount, his rival for the White House President Joe Biden is determined to avoid commenting on the Republican's legal troubles.  A day after Trump was indicted for the fourth time, for alleged racketeering and election interference in Georgia, Biden delivered a public speech in another key swing state, Wisconsin, focused on wind power and job creation. In a factory busy with new orders for wind turbines, the Democrat boasted of new jobs and investments linked, in his view, to the major energy and infrastructure policies he has enacted d......

Washington (AFP) - If he had it to do over, he would probably choose another name: A year on, Joe Biden is struggling to sell Americans on the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. The hugely ambitious project is aimed at speeding America's transition to clean energy, rebuilding its industrial might and increasing social justice. On August 16, 2022, when the US president signed the $750 billion plan into law, the country was in the midst of a dramatic surge in prices that was battering the Democratic leader's popularity.  So "the Inflation Reduction Act" seemed a logical name, even though t......

Washington (AFP) - If the US Supreme Court had not overruled President Joe Biden's program to cancel billions of dollars in student debt, Satra D. Taylor, who borrowed $40,000 to complete her studies, could have seen that amount reduced by half. Now the 27-year-old -- who used the loan to study at the University of Michigan, supplementing a scholarship and other financial aid -- is back on the hook for the whole sum. "We created this unjust, inequitable, expensive, higher education system and so we need to redress it," she told AFP, standing before the high court. Biden's forgiveness program w......

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden slammed Republicans' debt ceiling plan Tuesday, saying it would result in "huge cuts" to important government programs on which millions of Americans depend. Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the US House of Representatives, officially unveiled specifics of the plan earlier in the day, urging members of his party to act in concert as they go head to head with the president. The United States hit its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit in January, prompting the Treasury to take "extraordinary measures" that allow it to continue financing the government's......

Jacksonville (AFP) - Sitting outside her modest home in Jacksonville, Florida, on a street lined with nondescript buildings in faded shades of blue, a weary Brenda Jenkins expresses a simple wish: to be able to buy fresh fruit and produce in her own neighborhood. It sounds simple enough. But for people like her, one of the 39 million Americans living in "food deserts" -- most of them low-income urban dwellers, and predominantly people of color -- fresh food is practically inaccessible. In a country with often poor mass transit and persistent pockets of poverty, getting to grocery stores that s......

Arlington (United States) (AFP) - The used car market in the United States is seeing an unprecedented phenomenon: owners selling vehicles for as much or more than they paid for them. The strange twist comes as a global shortage of computer chips amid the Covid-19 pandemic has stalled auto manufacturing, fueling a price increase for used vehicles, which in turn helped drive record US inflation last year. It "100 percent is a new trend," which is unlikely to end soon, said Aurelien Guillaud, owner of Arlington Auto Group (AAG), a car dealership based in Arlington, Virginia, just outside the nati......