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The Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy hosted Edafe Okporo and E. Tendayi Achiume, who spoke on the lack of support and inclusion migrants face in the United States.
As Ithaca’s homeless population rapidly expands, the “Jungle,” a stretch of homeless encampments located less than two miles away from Cornell’s Ithaca campus, creates controversies among Ithaca residents and leaders about approaches to aid the population.
Students express varying sentiments regarding the University’s updated COVID-19 policies for the spring 2022 semester.
Taking her oath of office on Tuesday, Leslie Schill will serve as a Tompkins County legislator, hoping to improve housing security and vaccine distribution.
Seth Harris ’83 is set to join the ranks of the Biden administration, after serving on the Biden-Harris transition team alongside 19 other Cornellians.
On Nov. 19, 2020, Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., cosponsored by Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Md., and Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced the Justice for Black Farmers Act. This ambituous legislation aims to “address the history of discrimination against Black farmers” and to “prevent future discrimination” within the United States Department of Agriculture, among other objectives. The act has since been endorsed by over 100 organizations, including the National Farmers Union, a century-old union of over 200,000 family farms, and Soul Fire Farm Inc., a New York farm at the focal point of the food sovereignty and justice movement.
The legislation has five distinct titles, arguing for broad civil rights reform within the USDA, the establishment of a land grant program, increased funding for historically Black colleges and universities, sweeping credit assistance and land retention programs and systemic agricultural reforms that prioritize socially disadvantaged farmers. Title II, Section 203 of the Justice for Black Farmers Act has perhaps the most immediate implications for not just Black farmers, but any eligible Black individual across the country.
“A great majority of the provisions in the USMCA are quite similar or identical to those in NAFTA … and I would call it a rebranding of NAFTA,” Lee said.
There is no other institution but the people. We are the ones who have to guarantee that things work. Passing a good law is just the beginning. The people being asked to implement that law are often the same people who are against these laws anyway.
The Employee Assembly debated a proposed revision to the University’s Funeral Leave Policy.
The Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy — a seven-year-old program that tackles the ins and outs of infrastructure — just got a big boost with a $1.5 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. This program focuses on “improving the delivery, maintenance, and operation of physical infrastructure,” according to its website. Based in the College of Human Ecology, the program funds research about infrastructure, hosts events to discuss important issues in the field and maintains an advisory board of experts in both public and private industries to help carry out the goals of the organization. According to Prof. Rick Geddes, policy analysis and management, the founding director of CPIP, these goals are to “further research, teaching, public engagement, and outreach in the area of infrastructure policy.”
One of the goals of the program will be “to research technology and infrastructure,” specifically the adoption and implementation of these programs in cities and counties, according to Geddes. Geddes pointed out the immense technological advancements that infrastructure is currently undergoing.