3 results for author: John Krizek
WHAT IS AFFORDABILITY
Every morning, millions of Americans wake up and face the same quiet arithmetic: Will this paycheck cover the rent? Can we afford the copay? What do we cut from the grocery cart this week? These are not abstract policy questions. They are the lived reality of working families across this country — Democratic, Independent, and Republican alike.
Affordability is not a partisan issue. It is the issue of our time. According to the PEW Research Center, America’s five core affordability pressures are: housing; health care; food; child care, and energy
For too long, our political debate has been consumed by culture wars and partisan combat ...
Gold Dome Bridge to Nowhere
The “Star Wars Dome” Proposal Prioritizes Illusion Over Fiscal Reality
While national defense is vital, the proposed continental missile shield—dubbed a “Star Wars Dome”—ignores practical and economic realities. Israel’s Iron Dome system protects a nation smaller than New Jersey (8,469 square miles), while scaling such technology to cover the continental U.S. (3.8 million square miles) would require staggering investments in infrastructure, maintenance, and iterative upgrades. Even if technically feasible, the system would likely be obsolete by deployment due to rapid advancements in hypersonic missiles, drone swarms, and subterranean ...
U.S. IMMIGRATION
Under the U.S.Immigration and Nationality Act (USINA) of 1980 a refugee is a [person] who, generally, has experienced past persecution or has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. Individuals who met this definition were considered for refugee status. That definition also applied to those who were already in the United States. Since the passage of the Refugee Act the United States has admitted more than 3.1 million refugees.
Prior to USINA refugee admissions in 1945 hundreds of thousands of refugees who suffered from Nazi persecution ...