Is Social Security going bust?

According to our guest this week economist and author Allison Schrager, no.

Listen to her entire explanation on this week’s episode of What Could Go Right? with hosts TPN founder Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷: link.chtbl.com/5J6ba4xN?sid=t…

'My gut rejects this notion that Americans should ever have their privacy violated without a search warrant,' writes TPN member Isaac Saul.

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📚More people in the world over the age of 15 can read than ever before!

📕In 1820, the World Economic Forum estimates that just 12% of the world’s adults could read and write.

📗By 2022, that number has risen to 87%!

via Matthew Kendrick for GZERO Media

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Does the US economy make you feel gloomy?

This week, TPN founder Zachary Karabell and TPN exec. director Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 spoke with economist and author Allison Schrager, about why that is and why she sees things differently.

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🌉The amount of bridges in the US rated 'poor' has been cut in half since 2000!

👍In 2000, 15.2% were rated poor and by 2023 that percent fell to 6.8.

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👏Seven countries generated 99.7% or more of their electricity using renewable energy in 2022, says a new report compiling data from International Energy Agency and IRENA.

Source:independent.co.uk/tech/renewable…

'If policymakers want low-carbon, reliable electricity systems, they will need to plan for them, and they will need to invest public resources in something other than intermittent renewable energy to get there,' writes TPN member Ted Nordhaus.

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🤢Things people never want to do: clean up gore from a violent crime.

👏Now the good people of Philadelphia don't have to.

🧹This month a program has begun that triggers a call to professional cleaners if there is biological waste at any crime scene.
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We love good news stories and Andrew Craig often discusses the enormous benefit of curating a healthy, positive set of news sources for overall happiness. This The Progress Network piece by Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 discusses the staggering decline in worldwide mortality

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'On the issue of race in particular, I think that the problem is if you’re seen to be saying that progress has been made, you can also be construed as saying that the issue is over,' says our guest author Coleman Hughes on What Could Go Right?

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☀️The US government is celebrating #EarthDay by announcing a $7 billion investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities.

💼Solar projects funded by the program will also create 200,000 jobs, says the administration.
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The US may get its first true high-speed rail service with Brightline West. A completed line in 2028 could cut travel time between Las Vegas and LA by half compared to driving.

Here is why Brightline may succeed despite delays on other US HSR projects.
newscientist.com/article/242764…

'Every problem we have levied on young people can be addressed,' writes TPN member Scott Galloway.

'We have the hard part figured out: how to grow the economy at a sustained rate to pay for programs that might turn things around.'

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🐟Greece has become the first country in Europe to ban trawling in marine protected areas!

🐠They're starting with banning the practice in Greece’s three national marine parks by 2026 and then the rest of the protected areas by 2030.

euronews.com/green/2024/04/…

Researchers develop first-ever functional graphene semiconductor
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