The value of those developments drops really fast in the first 10 years. You buy a "brand new" house for $500k, you won't ever sell it for that, if you're lucky, you get 50-70% of that when you sell it again. As such properties will circulate back to the 'middle class'.
There are also plenty of developments that do apartments, especially in and around larger cities, again, initially you'll pay $1500 in rent for those "luxury apartments" but over time their value drops.
$34,000 from $20,000 is only a 70% increase, not a 300% increase. In those 10 years, the value of $20,000 went up to $27,600, so it's really only a 25% increase.
A 25% increase in student loans during a recession is pretty well within expected range.
I fail to see where that is a problem. Your evil landlord would not rent out the place at the higher cost which is a huge cost. There is great incentive to list lower in the hope to attract more bidders.
Says you. There are many places to find rentals, doesn't mean that a new place can't add value, the real answer will be when or whether it is used. There have been other sites that attempted this business model (e.g. AirBNB and a host of clones). You could say the same of Tesla or any new business - there are already enough car makers, restaurants, building contractors we don't need anything new.
That's what zoning laws are for. Residential neighborhoods don't just get industrial buildings. Don't like the zoning (cheap mixed residential/light industrial land), don't buy the property.
In other states, the government has regulated the market so hard that you can't get rid of bad renters. "Those evil landlord" complaints are easy to avoid: buy your own freaking house or move.
On the other hand we have government forcing truly poor people to stay with bad landlords (via Section 8 and DSS).
Government involvement in a free market is counterintuitive.
If the people are living in the street there is just one cause: not enough supply (no housing available). The solution is to build more housing and the rents have to drop due to the supply being too large.
Landlords aren't going to leave their houses empty for months on end to get an extra $50/month.
The problem is that chains like McD or Wal-Mart have no problem fronting up huge amounts of labor cost, their profit margins are high enough to absorb those costs. Mom and pop stores are the hardest hits because their margins are already small, any fluctuation in energy, supply or labor cost hits them harder and faster. So they still have business, just have to have less employees where possible to do it with.
That entirely depends on the child itself, how engaging the movie is and the parents' upbringing.
I brought a 1.5 and 4.5 year old to see Star Wars 7 - the kids loved it, sat still through the entire movie, because we know what engages them and how they behave at home with a movie like that. Give them some popcorn and they're happy campers.
We don't bring them to every movie, even things like Rogue One probably wouldn't engage them too much. We also wouldn't bring them when they're tired or have been cooped up and need to run around.
Technically, a judge should be able to do their job without annotations. It's just much more efficient and congruent to be able to see what others in similar situations have done.
A small team of engineers worth their salt could devise a workable, cheap, open system in a matter of months for both voice and data systems, probably even pluggable into existing systems with a bit more work. The problem is indeed, as you point out, a closed, proprietary system that has no significant market will remain very expensive, giving the contract to AT&T will not change the status quo.
People had the same complaints about Wal-Mart a decade ago. Over the last 2 decades, I've seen more and more retail stores and small online businesses popping up catering to sometimes very niche groups and the quality butcher/baker shops are still there.
Whilst that is true that the FCC can regulate communications across state lines (such as the coordination of the radio spectrum), I think the courts would have to review whether or not the FCC has the right to regulate local business arrangements - if you allow the FCC to regulate a contract between an ISP and a customer on a State level you have to ask where it ends, can the FCC regulate away the right for States to collect sales or income taxes for ISP products or their employees? Do they no longer have to adhere to state regulations regarding electrical code or right-of-ways? After all, if the FCC has a broad right to regulate communications, this could equally apply to the post office then?
Giving the federal government more powers than allowed, even for initially 'humanitarian' reasons, leads to a slippery slope. I'm all for giving people free access to the Internet but forcing States to accept a business that has been banned from doing business in the State is a dangerous precedent to set. Again, it's not like the States are refusing all applications, only a very small percentage of businesses do not qualify for whatever reason.
Minimum wage around here is over $11 and going up to $15 next year. Even McD is offering $15 for an entry level employee already, $20-25/h for a full time manager with the only prerequisite to be able to pee in a cup once in a while. You can purchase houses here for $40-65k, "high" rent is ~$800/month.
If you can't survive on minimum wage in the US, where you will still be eligible for food, health and housing assistance until your family makes 150% of that, you've screwed up.
Dress codes do indeed have little personal benefit if you're sitting at a desk in an office all day. However it's also been proven that dressing professional makes people act more professional. And often people have to interact with clients, even if you're just sitting at a desk, clients may come in for meetings, they expect a certain decorum.
Nuclear power in and off itself is cleaner and cheaper than any of them, as the article said, it's very profitable once you have them.
The problem is that it took Westinghouse over 25 years to construct a handful of reactors because of various lawsuits and regulatory changes. When you have to halt a lawsuit every time a NIMBY organization is resurrected, you're not going to get very far.
You don't have to be lucky to have a job, just willing.
There are about 6M job openings primarily in transportation, food and professional services, a number that has grown for a few years now and roughly the same number as people currently unemployed, a number greatly exceeding the number of people unemployed for over 6 months. Additionally the rate of people quitting their jobs across the US has increased.
You think with the availability of unemployment income, placement help, free schooling and tax funded on-the-job training, those numbers would have equalized by now. The problem I find, as I know many owners in these businesses starving for workers, is that they are competing with government benefits or their applicants can't even be bothered to show up to work not high or drunk.
I grew up in a very poor household where such programs weren't available. I still managed to become a productive member of society. As a matter of fact, I'm still "poor" and I still don't qualify for various handouts and still managing to survive.
The title of the story makes it sound like they're cutting off funding.
They're only suspending the legal defense of the previous administration's lawsuits on the issue of state sovereignty. Apparently the FCC approved some applications from Internet providers even though the State they were going to be operating in didn't approve them (yet) and was going to make the Federal Government force the sovereign State to accept their application anyways.
CA is a two-party consent state so it has never been legal in CA to record surreptitiously where the other party expects the conversation to be private.
The exceptions may be federal employees on duty at the time of recording under federal jurisdiction but this doesn't apply here, PP is a private organization and the employees are private entities.
If you buy a kit, the entire kit needs an FCC license unless parts of it are specifically exempt. It's not the end-user but the end-seller (eg. Amazon) that needs it. DJI is pushing for a similar set of FAA rules so you can't sell drones without FCC and FAA certificates (which FCC alone is already very expensive).
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The value of those developments drops really fast in the first 10 years. You buy a "brand new" house for $500k, you won't ever sell it for that, if you're lucky, you get 50-70% of that when you sell it again. As such properties will circulate back to the 'middle class'.
There are also plenty of developments that do apartments, especially in and around larger cities, again, initially you'll pay $1500 in rent for those "luxury apartments" but over time their value drops.
You failed math.
$34,000 from $20,000 is only a 70% increase, not a 300% increase. In those 10 years, the value of $20,000 went up to $27,600, so it's really only a 25% increase.
A 25% increase in student loans during a recession is pretty well within expected range.
I fail to see where that is a problem. Your evil landlord would not rent out the place at the higher cost which is a huge cost. There is great incentive to list lower in the hope to attract more bidders.
Says you. There are many places to find rentals, doesn't mean that a new place can't add value, the real answer will be when or whether it is used. There have been other sites that attempted this business model (e.g. AirBNB and a host of clones). You could say the same of Tesla or any new business - there are already enough car makers, restaurants, building contractors we don't need anything new.
That's what zoning laws are for. Residential neighborhoods don't just get industrial buildings. Don't like the zoning (cheap mixed residential/light industrial land), don't buy the property.
In other states, the government has regulated the market so hard that you can't get rid of bad renters. "Those evil landlord" complaints are easy to avoid: buy your own freaking house or move.
On the other hand we have government forcing truly poor people to stay with bad landlords (via Section 8 and DSS).
Government involvement in a free market is counterintuitive.
If the people are living in the street there is just one cause: not enough supply (no housing available). The solution is to build more housing and the rents have to drop due to the supply being too large.
Landlords aren't going to leave their houses empty for months on end to get an extra $50/month.
For most companies, outsourcing is already not viable due to the immense loss of patent, copyright, contract and competitor protection.
The problem is that chains like McD or Wal-Mart have no problem fronting up huge amounts of labor cost, their profit margins are high enough to absorb those costs. Mom and pop stores are the hardest hits because their margins are already small, any fluctuation in energy, supply or labor cost hits them harder and faster. So they still have business, just have to have less employees where possible to do it with.
That entirely depends on the child itself, how engaging the movie is and the parents' upbringing.
I brought a 1.5 and 4.5 year old to see Star Wars 7 - the kids loved it, sat still through the entire movie, because we know what engages them and how they behave at home with a movie like that. Give them some popcorn and they're happy campers.
We don't bring them to every movie, even things like Rogue One probably wouldn't engage them too much. We also wouldn't bring them when they're tired or have been cooped up and need to run around.
Technically, a judge should be able to do their job without annotations. It's just much more efficient and congruent to be able to see what others in similar situations have done.
A small team of engineers worth their salt could devise a workable, cheap, open system in a matter of months for both voice and data systems, probably even pluggable into existing systems with a bit more work. The problem is indeed, as you point out, a closed, proprietary system that has no significant market will remain very expensive, giving the contract to AT&T will not change the status quo.
People had the same complaints about Wal-Mart a decade ago. Over the last 2 decades, I've seen more and more retail stores and small online businesses popping up catering to sometimes very niche groups and the quality butcher/baker shops are still there.
Please add sarcasm tags to your post.
Whilst that is true that the FCC can regulate communications across state lines (such as the coordination of the radio spectrum), I think the courts would have to review whether or not the FCC has the right to regulate local business arrangements - if you allow the FCC to regulate a contract between an ISP and a customer on a State level you have to ask where it ends, can the FCC regulate away the right for States to collect sales or income taxes for ISP products or their employees? Do they no longer have to adhere to state regulations regarding electrical code or right-of-ways? After all, if the FCC has a broad right to regulate communications, this could equally apply to the post office then?
Giving the federal government more powers than allowed, even for initially 'humanitarian' reasons, leads to a slippery slope. I'm all for giving people free access to the Internet but forcing States to accept a business that has been banned from doing business in the State is a dangerous precedent to set. Again, it's not like the States are refusing all applications, only a very small percentage of businesses do not qualify for whatever reason.
Minimum wage around here is over $11 and going up to $15 next year. Even McD is offering $15 for an entry level employee already, $20-25/h for a full time manager with the only prerequisite to be able to pee in a cup once in a while. You can purchase houses here for $40-65k, "high" rent is ~$800/month.
If you can't survive on minimum wage in the US, where you will still be eligible for food, health and housing assistance until your family makes 150% of that, you've screwed up.
Dress codes do indeed have little personal benefit if you're sitting at a desk in an office all day. However it's also been proven that dressing professional makes people act more professional. And often people have to interact with clients, even if you're just sitting at a desk, clients may come in for meetings, they expect a certain decorum.
Nuclear power in and off itself is cleaner and cheaper than any of them, as the article said, it's very profitable once you have them.
The problem is that it took Westinghouse over 25 years to construct a handful of reactors because of various lawsuits and regulatory changes. When you have to halt a lawsuit every time a NIMBY organization is resurrected, you're not going to get very far.
You don't have to be lucky to have a job, just willing.
There are about 6M job openings primarily in transportation, food and professional services, a number that has grown for a few years now and roughly the same number as people currently unemployed, a number greatly exceeding the number of people unemployed for over 6 months. Additionally the rate of people quitting their jobs across the US has increased.
You think with the availability of unemployment income, placement help, free schooling and tax funded on-the-job training, those numbers would have equalized by now. The problem I find, as I know many owners in these businesses starving for workers, is that they are competing with government benefits or their applicants can't even be bothered to show up to work not high or drunk.
I grew up in a very poor household where such programs weren't available. I still managed to become a productive member of society. As a matter of fact, I'm still "poor" and I still don't qualify for various handouts and still managing to survive.
The title of the story makes it sound like they're cutting off funding.
They're only suspending the legal defense of the previous administration's lawsuits on the issue of state sovereignty. Apparently the FCC approved some applications from Internet providers even though the State they were going to be operating in didn't approve them (yet) and was going to make the Federal Government force the sovereign State to accept their application anyways.
The rest is just journalistic conjecture.
If you ever paid taxes or received a tax refund, you're now a 'government employee'!
CA is a two-party consent state so it has never been legal in CA to record surreptitiously where the other party expects the conversation to be private.
The exceptions may be federal employees on duty at the time of recording under federal jurisdiction but this doesn't apply here, PP is a private organization and the employees are private entities.
Physics has something to say about that latency though.
If you buy a kit, the entire kit needs an FCC license unless parts of it are specifically exempt. It's not the end-user but the end-seller (eg. Amazon) that needs it. DJI is pushing for a similar set of FAA rules so you can't sell drones without FCC and FAA certificates (which FCC alone is already very expensive).