DETROIT, MI – General Motors is partnering with Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, to advance the industrialization of Nel’s PEM electrolyser platform.

The goal of the agreement is to make “clean” hydrogen sources more competitive with other hydrogen sources – primarily hydrogen produced from fossil fuels.

Nel has an excellent reputation and track record in the field of hydrogen technology. It was, for example, the first company to establish an automated production line for alkaline electrolysers. The joint venture with GM is intended to produce Nel’s proton-exchange membrane electrolyser on a larger scale.

“The addition of Nel as a strategic collaborator is an important step in helping us commercialize fuel cell technology. Electrolysis is key to creating consistent, clean sources of hydrogen to power fuel cells,” said Charles Freese, GM executive director, Global HYDROTEC.

“Nel has some of the most promising electrolyser technologies to help develop clean hydrogen infrastructure, and we believe our HYDROTEC fuel cell IP can help bring them closer to scale.”

Uncle Sam and Europe want hydrogen

The timing is no accident. The US government, in the Cut Inflation Act signed into law in August, is allocating $8 billion to establish hydrogen centers in strategic locations across the country. The purpose of this provision is to accelerate the conversion of North America’s heavy-duty truck fleet from diesel to hydrogen, as well as the advancement of stationary hydrogen for commercial buildings and residential developments.

According to the Department of Energy’s website, eligible projects include those that “demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage and end use of clean hydrogen.”

Both companies are seeking government support to achieve this goal. A coalition of seven Midwestern states (IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, OH and WI), dubbed the Midwest Hydrogen Coalition (M-H2), has announced plans to secure a share of funding to advance four hubs of hydrogen that would reside somewhere in the states of the group. New Mexico has joined Colorado, Utah and Wyoming in a similar coalition effort.

Most of the hydrogen produced today is a byproduct of the production of fossil fuels, primarily natural gas. Electricity – from the grid or from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal or biomass – is also used to produce hydrogen, but not on a desirable scale.

Hydrogen demand is estimated at 10 million tons per year in the United States, of which approximately 55% is used in oil and gas refining processes and an additional 35% in the production of ammonia and methanol. Ammonia and methanol plants are a logical first wave of conversion to green hydrogen generated from wind, solar and geothermal sources.

“Increased hydrogen use will no doubt come in part from electricity powered by fossil fuels, but the goal must be to ‘green’ as much electricity as possible from renewables… otherwise we might as well burn fossil fuels to power electricity rather than using it to produce more hydrogen,” says Paul Eremenko, co-founder and CEO of Universal Hydrogen. The company is based in New Mexico and is developing a hydrogen-powered turboprop passenger aircraft.

New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado represent a seemingly ideal location for a hub. New Mexico has an average of 310 sunny days; Utah 226; Colorado 300; and Wyoming 208 days.

Hydrogen Bulls

Of all the automakers, GM has been the most optimistic about hydrogen, not just as a mobility fuel, but also for powering commercial buildings and residential homes. As early as the 1990s, GM envisioned hydrogen trucks and stationery generators that could carry the GM brand.

GM develops and markets both Ultium batteries and HYDROTECH hydrogen fuel cell systems. The development and commercialization of these technologies opens up potential new business for GM as the US and European hydrogen economy begins to develop in aerospace, trucking, locomotives and power generation.

The idea behind the alliance with Nel is to take GM’s fuel cell technology and develop it on Nel’s PEM platform to position itself as the leader in green hydrogen generation among automakers. The automaker has fuel cell development sites in Michigan, New York, California, Washington, DC, Hawaii and Germany.

GM sees an opportunity to do for hydrogen what Tesla did for BEVs. Tesla established a power generation and storage company in 2015, launching a line of home batteries, which could be charged using solar power, providing backup to the main grid. Additionally, Tesla has developed a series of solar panels and an all-solar roof.

It is believed that with the advancement of BEV light-duty vehicles and hydrogen-powered heavy-duty trucks, there will be less revenue in the future from parts and service. Charting a future in energy generation and storage for multiple industries can more than offset the loss of commercial revenue from internal combustion mobility.

(Bloomberg) – Democrats have taken a risky strategy in a handful of House races, targeting opponents for backing Donald Trump’s bogus 2020 voter fraud claims instead of safer, poll-tested issues like the right to abortion or the economy. And two-thirds of the time, it worked, shrinking the GOP majority for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term.

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In the final weeks of the midterm cycle, Democratic campaigns and outside groups focused on nine candidates with ads showing images of the Jan. 6 uprising on the U.S. Capitol and attacking them for supporting outright one way or another Donald Trump’s baseless claims about the 2020 election.

Six of those candidates lost, limiting the margin of the new Republican majority to 218 to 210 Democrats, with half a dozen races still up in the air.

The little-noticed strategy built on larger efforts to criticize election deniers running for governor and secretary of state. Biden raised democracy protection as an issue in a speech days before Election Day.

At the time, Democratic strategists criticized the speech as ineffective when voters cited inflation and the economy as a major issue.

But the attacks seem to have worked. Overall, candidates who have expressed skepticism about the 2020 presidential results have been squarely beaten from New York to Arizona in Senate, House and state races, even when anti-Republicans -Trump won.

The losing House candidates who were targeted included Representatives Yvette Herrell in New Mexico and Mayra Flores in Texas, as well as challengers April Becker in Nevada, Bo Hines in North Carolina, Allan Fung in Rhode Island and Yesli Vega in Virginia. All were in races rated “toss-up” by the Cook Political Report.

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A similar ad campaign helped Democrats maintain control of the Senate. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto aired several ads in the final weeks of the campaign targeting Republican candidate Adam Laxalt for his efforts to try to undo Trump’s loss in Nevada, helping him secure a narrow victory in the state which gave the Democrats their 50th seat, securing control.

Sarah Longwell, a Republican political consultant who ran anti-election ads through the Republican Accountability Project, said they were effective because swing voters were put off by extreme candidates.

In focus groups over the past year, Longwell said swing voters cited issues like inflation, crime or the coronavirus pandemic as their top concerns, but when asked why they didn’t like certain republican candidates, they often mentioned the right to abortion and the attacks of January 6 among their reasons.

Similar ads also ran in districts that leaned toward Republicans or Democrats, including several ads against Derrick Van Orden, a House candidate in Wisconsin who was outside the Capitol on Jan. still won his seat.

Along with losses of gubernatorial candidates refusing elections in the critical 2024 states of Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and of candidates for Secretary of State in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada , Minnesota and New Mexico House races lent added weight to Republicans’ concerns about Donald Trump’s streak on the party as he launched his third presidential run on Tuesday.

The nine targeted Republican candidates faced ads featuring footage of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as well as comments in which the candidates said the rioters were ‘persecuted’, claimed the 2020 election had been “rigged and stolen” or spread conspiracy theories.

Many drew on tropes more typical of Republican campaign ads that lash out at opponents as soft on crime.

An ad, from Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, featured Republican Police Chief Chris Jenkins of Culpeper criticizing Vega for calling the FBI ‘corrupt’ and ‘disgusting’ in a fundraising email and saying in a candidates’ forum that the January 6 rioters were “persecuted” and “shameful.”

“That’s just wrong,” he said.

Other advertisements stated that Hines “sided with the rioters against the police” and Flores “even blamed the police for the attack on the Capitol that left five police officers dead”.

Ads were just a fraction of overall spending by pro-democracy groups, which focused mostly on issues like abortion, especially when the candidate favored bans without exceptions on rape, incest or the life of the mother. The expenses also pale in comparison to the $46 million spent attacking Holocaust deniers who run for secretary of state, which is often the position responsible for administering voting and counting.

Longwell said the election denial was not just an isolated issue. The types of candidates who used it to win Trump’s approval or pass a Republican primary also tended to hold other views that swing voters found problematic, she said.

“There was a high degree of overlap between people who denied the 2020 election and also said a lot of other crazy things,” she said.

Hines, for example, came under heavy criticism when he said victims of rape and incest should only have abortions if they were approved through a “community-level review process”, while that Vega gained national attention for suggesting that it’s harder for women to get pregnant after rape. . Advertisements often associated these positions on abortion with election denial that the candidates were too “extreme”.

The ads did not necessarily target the most extreme Holocaust deniers. Fung, the former mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, presented himself as a New England moderate, but ads called him an extremist for failing to condemn Trump. Herrell was attacked for voting with other Republicans against a decision to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of committee assignments for her call for the execution of top Democrats.

Three of the Republican candidates targeted by the ads still won: George Santos and Brandon Williams in New York and Jen Kiggans in Virginia.

Santos, who was at Trump’s rally on the Ellipse that preceded the attack on the Capitol, was filmed saying he ‘wrote a nice check’ to a law firm to get the insurgents out of jail. Williams repeatedly refused to blame Trump for the Jan. 6 attack until the Nov. 3 debate. Kiggans raised doubts about electoral systems, backed an election audit in Virginia and declined to say whether Biden won fairly.

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Maya Durvasula, T’18, and a current Ph.D. student at Stanford University, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “And it’s hard to grow up there without having a very clear idea of ​​what it looks like when politics aren’t working for people,” she notes.

After graduating from high school with an interest in politics, she decided to take a year off and bounced around organizations in New Mexico, working for the state legislature, political campaigns and even a thinking group. Looking back, she says, “Having a time block where you have time is super helpful.” One thing she learned was that she didn’t really want to be in politics. “People were making policies, but the debates were heavy on sentiment and politics and light on facts.”

A high school mentor suggested she might get along better with economists than politicians, so once she got to Duke, she took that to heart.

In freshman year, she said, she knew she wanted to be exposed to a lot of things and she knew she wanted to do research, but she didn’t really know what “research” meant for a freshman. At first, she cold emailed many people and received multiple rejections.

After the rejection, however, something finally clicked, and for Durvasula, what clicked were three major research projects she undertook while at Duke.

The instinct is always to start where you want to end up and then go back, but you don’t know where you’re going to end up.”

Maya Durvasula, T’18

His first experience in a research group was a joint venture between an academic team in China and at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their group studied behavioral interventions to increase adoption of health technologies, with a particular focus on sexual health. Usually, as a country industrializes, the rates of sexually transmitted infections fall, but in China, the rates of HIV and syphilis continued to rise as the economy grew. Durvasula and the team looked at different interventions that could make HIV testing more attractive to patients, such as alternative testing locations, different advertising design, and compensation.

She has also done a project with Duke Professor Bob Korstad in the History Department and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, examining the history of housing in Durham. Finally, she worked with her main advisor, economics professor Duke Duncan Thomas, in her joint lab with Elizabeth Frankenberg of UNC, on projects related to household decision-making in Indonesia.

A notable part of his undergraduate education at Duke was winning the Truman Scholarship. What was most valuable to her about the Truman was the people she met. “Most people I’ve met are defined by the fact that they choose something they care about and do a lot of it,” she says. And it’s inspiring to be around people who love what they do and totally immerse themselves in it.

Durvasula is a Duke graduate with many experiences and accolades under her belt. But from there, how did she find a way to do a doctorate? at the intersection of law, technology and economics? As she describes it, the interaction between economics and law is inextricable. Economic incentives and legal institutions affect the pace and direction of innovation, which in turn affects how quickly technology is developed and, ultimately, the products that end up in our hands. A question at the heart of his research is how to ensure that the value of this technology is fairly distributed in society.

So, in five to ten years, where will we see Durvasula? She sees herself staying in academia, although at some point she wants to work in the civil service. “I love learning new things and want to enjoy being in a space where people are always willing to teach you things.”

And in that vein, his advice to a curious Duke student is to explore everything. “The instinct is always to start where you want to end up and then go back, but you don’t know where you’re going to end up,” she said.

Pursue the questions you find exciting and let them point you in the right direction – clearly, Durvasula is proof that this process will take you far.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Household money is at record highs in the United States, and consumers are using it to pack restaurants and planes and buy new cars. The jobs are there for the taking. Net worth is 30% higher than before the pandemic, more so for those in the bottom half.

And people soured on President Joe Biden despite all of this.

Tuesday’s midterm elections could cripple the Democratic president with a Republican-controlled Congress, and opinion polls and public opinion polls suggest a gloomy mood around economic issues is pushing voters into this direction.

It is a fact of American politics that the party in the White House struggles in congressional races held every two years between presidential elections.

It’s a fact right now that there’s a real-time roaring dissonance between the president’s 40% approval rating and broader economic conditions that are mixed at worst – with high inflation leading the way for many. but also one of the strongest job markets in decades and an unemployment rate of 3.7%. Overall, the economy is expected to grow in 2022, albeit slowly, after fears earlier in the year that it had started to contract.

Yet 56% of respondents in a recent Morning Consult poll gave the economy a failing grade, and a consumer confidence index ‘has been lower in recent weeks than it was during lockdown of COVID-19 in 2020″.

A CNN poll said a strong majority believed the country was in a recession, although that was not the case at almost every level.

It’s a frustrating time for Democrats, who have won several marquee battles that have brought economic relief to people, including a recent student debt relief package, as well as broader investments in infrastructure and education. regional industry.

“The American people are starting to see the benefits of an economy that works for them,” Biden said in a speech in New Mexico last week, trying to balance perceptions about the current situation.

He was speaking at a time, however, when anxiety about what lies ahead seems tangible due to inflation so high it has offset wage gains for many of the Federal Reserve’s ever-tighter monetary policies, the losses in the stock and real estate markets and a real risk, according to many economists, this recession will set in next year.

WHO TO BLAM?

Republicans have made the economy their No. 1 problem and accuse Biden and Democrats of stoking inflation with big spending programs and then ignoring the economic plight of American families facing soaring housing prices. energy and food.

“President Biden is desperate to change the subject of inflation, crime and open borders,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell tweeted last week after Biden devoted a speech to the threats to American democracy if some Republican candidates refuse to accept electoral losses. . “Ask how the past two years have affected your family, then get out there and vote!”

There is more than a little debate as to why prices are rising so rapidly, over 8% per year in September. Between former President Donald Trump and Biden, an estimated $5 trillion in pandemic aid has flowed into the US economy since March 2020 – one of the reasons bank accounts are still empty.

While that money is still fueling demand, economists generally attribute much of the recent price spike to external supply shocks.

The causes of inflation, however, may not matter much to voters who have consistently punished politicians for price increases of basic necessities, especially food and gasoline. Food prices were rising at an 11% annual rate starting in September, the fastest monthly pace since February 1979, when Jimmy Carter was in the White House. After hitting $5 a gallon last summer, the average price of unleaded petrol in the country fell to $3.70 last week – but is still significantly higher than the $2.53 paid by motorists the week before Biden’s inauguration in January 2021.

Yet key parts of the economy are doing as well as they ever have.

The unemployment rate has averaged 3.6% since March – better than before the 2018 midterm elections under Trump, and truly unmatched since the 1966 midterm elections. Until recently, wages of the lowest-paid workers were rising faster than inflation, and if anything, Biden’s presidency was a period of perhaps unparalleled worker influence, characterized by job jumps and well-rounded openings. greater than the number of job seekers.

BEHAVIOR DIFFERENTLY? NOT YET

What it has also been is turbulent, reflecting the complicated US response to the pandemic and a host of other dilemmas – a “polycrisis”, as some scholars call it, which includes the outbreak of war in Europe. and China’s still ongoing “zero COVID” lockdown crisis.

Biden’s approval rating was high at the start of his term, with stimulus checks still running, and child tax credits and unemployment benefits helping many families.

It’s from the past.

Small businesses, for example, have been among the biggest beneficiaries of government spending during the pandemic, but now favor Republican control of Congress, even though only a third identify as party members, according to a recent poll by the Alignable small business group. his members.

Among their top concerns, more than half cited the rising cost of credit, pushed higher by the U.S. central bank in a dynamic also reminiscent of Carter’s presidency, an incumbent battling inflation that lost its re-election under a regime in which interest rates rose sharply.

According to a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll, people are not yet changing their daily lifestyle much in response to inflation or the Fed, which raised rates by 3.75 percentage points this year. One of the benefits of the large pool of money retained from the pandemic is that people can continue to spend despite higher prices.

When presented with a list of behavioral changes in response to inflation, ranging from lowering savings rates to canceling vacations or buying cheaper brands, 80% of respondents to this poll responded “none of the above”.

But a third of Democrats and Republicans said they’ve delayed a “home, office or other purchase” because of higher rates – decisions that can sting as families plan for years to come. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage recently hit 7% for the first time in 20 years, a shock to young first-time buyers in particular.

“FLASHING RED”

Perhaps as important for politics, there is serious uncertainty about the future, which appears to be behind the fall in surveys assessing consumer confidence.

Confidence has fallen despite the general increase in wealth.

Since the start of the pandemic, including Trump’s last year in office and Biden’s first two, households have added $32 trillion to their wealth, an increase of about 30%, according to Fed data. . The holdings of the bottom 50% more than doubled.

But for the past year, growth has stalled, and with Tuesday’s election approaching, there appears to be little optimism left.

In the Reuters-Ipsos poll, a strong majority including 70% of Democrats and 77% of Republicans said they were neither better nor worse financially than a year ago.

The gap between public attitudes about the economy and the facts on the ground “is very wide,” said John Leer, chief economist at Morning Consult. But “there’s also a big disconnect in the underlying data. We’re getting strong job growth. GDP growth. But everything is flashing red.”

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President Biden, campaigning for a Democratic congressman from embattled Southern California, argued that Tuesday’s election will have generational ramifications for the nation’s future.

“This is going to shape our country for decades to come,” Biden told a few hundred supporters at a community college gymnasium in Oceanside. He acknowledged that politicians often see elections as the most important of their lives, but this year is truly different.

“This is going to determine the direction of the country for at least a decade or more,” he said. “Everyone is talking about a referendum. It is not a referendum. It’s a choice, a choice between two fundamentally different versions of America.

Biden plugged Rep. Karen Bass’ mayoral campaign in Los Angeles as he took the stage for Rep. Mike Levin, whose district straddles Orange and San Diego counties. The congressman and environmental lawyer is in one of the nation’s tightest competitions as Democrats battle predictions that they will lose control of the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections. .

“This guy delivers,” Biden said of Levin. “It cuts costs for families, takes care of our veterans, protects the environment. It’s a big deal; rebuilding efforts, protecting Social Security and Medicare — and it’s fight to protect democracy. Listen, we need to re-elect Mike.”

The congressman, along with Governor Gavin Newsom, Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego), San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and members of the military greeted Biden on the tarmac at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar before the president traveled to MiraCosta College in Oceanside to rally voters less than a week before the election.

Levin praised the administration’s work on COVID-19 relief, reducing insulin costs for seniors and improving services for veterans. But he argued that it was imperative for Democrats to not only go to the polls, but also get other voters out to vote so he and others in his party could work on inflation, control firearms and the protection of women’s reproductive rights.

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“I need everyone for the next five days to do more than just yell at the TV. I need you to knock on doors. I need you to make phone calls. I need you to get out this vote,” Levin said.

“Democracy is not automatic, like gravity or the sunrise. Democracy only exists when people like all of you in this room make it happen. We have to get there. Our democracy and our life as we know it in this country is on the ballot. This is what we are fighting for. »

Biden’s appearance with Levin shows the importance of holding California’s 49th district as Democrats try to keep control of the House. And it made more sense for Biden to appear alongside Levin than Democratic candidates in other parts of the state, like the Central Valley, where there are two districts rated by Cook’s nonpartisan policy report, Rose said. Kapolczynski, a longtime adviser. to former Senator Barbara Boxer.

“A lot more of your audience in the Central Valley will be more moderate Republicans or Democrats, and you really don’t want to go somewhere and push the Republican base forward,” she said.

As voters grapple with the high cost of gas and groceries — key issues for many voters in the busy Levin district — Biden’s approval ratings remain low, at 40%, according to a recent Reuters-Ipsos poll.

“The other dynamic is that Levin is a starter and a priority to protect,” Kapolczynski said.

The race between Levin and Republican Brian Maryott, a former Wells Fargo executive and former mayor of San Juan Capistrano, is also considered a draw by Cook.

Biden won the 49th district by more than 11 points in 2020, but Democrats have a slim 2.9 percentage point advantage among registered voters in the remapped district.

Biden’s campaign swing comes as he and other top politicians, including former Presidents Trump and Obama, fan out across the country to energize supporters in the most competitive and critical races.

On Saturday, Biden, Trump and Obama are all due to campaign in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where there is a close race to replace a Democratic nominee governor and where progressive Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman is battling Republican Mehmet. Oz, endorsed by Trump. for an open seat in the Senate, crucial for control of the chamber. Biden, Trump and Obama have also campaigned in recent days in Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, among other states.

Biden touched on foreign affairs during his appearance in North San Diego County. A member of the crowd shouted the name of Brittney Griner, the WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist detained in Russia since February and sentenced to nine years in prison for having a small amount of cannabis oil in her luggage .

“I’m trying to bring her home,” Biden said. “I have spoken with Brittney’s wife and have been in constant contact. We are not giving up.”

When women in the crowd held up smartphones that read “Free Iran,” Biden told them, “Don’t worry, we’re going to free Iran.

Iran is in the midst of popular unrest sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police. Biden continued, “They’re going to be released very soon.”

Before heading to California on Thursday, Biden campaigned in New Mexico for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who narrowly edged out her GOP challenger.

In remarks at a Democratic rally and an Albuquerque community college, Biden sought to remind voters of his administration’s accomplishments, including the nomination of the first black woman to the United States Supreme Court, the pardons for those convicted of federal marijuana possession and the forgiveness of certain federal student loan debts.

Biden has said he would ban assault weapons and pass legislation to protect access to abortion nationwide if voters help expand Democratic majorities in Congress.

Biden sought to allay concerns about a potential economic slowdown, touting low jobless numbers and high export numbers. But voters’ outlook on the economy has darkened. In a late October poll by the Wall Street Journal, 71% of respondents said the US economy was headed in the wrong direction, while 54% believed Biden’s policies were having a negative effect on the economy.

The Federal Reserve needs to make substantial progress in tackling inflation, central bank chairman Jerome Powell said this week, leaving investors worried that a recession is looming.

Economic anxiety has given Republicans an edge in many congressional races, polls show. GOP candidates have called Biden ill-equipped to steer the country out of a recession and dismissed his bullish view of the economy.

“Biden wants to brag about the economy but families know best,” tweeted Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee. “57% of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse – that’s nothing to brag about.”

Biden touted the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year and warned voters against supporting Republican congressional candidates, saying the GOP is campaigning to undermine longstanding backstop programs, including social Security.

Biden was careful to highlight his student debt cancellation plan. In August, it announced it would waive up to $10,000 for certain borrowers and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. During remarks at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque, Biden said about 26 million borrowers have already applied to the Department of Education for debt relief.

Republicans criticized Biden’s debt cancellation plan on the campaign trail, telling voters it would increase the national debt and exacerbate inflation. At community college, Biden said Republican outrage over the plan was “wrong” and “hypocritical,” noting that many GOP lawmakers had millions of dollars in pandemic-era loans canceled by the government. federal.

Mehta reported from Los Angeles and Logan from Oceanside and Albuquerque.

This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Inflation rates are at their highest in decades, and wages haven’t always been unable to keep up with rising costs in New Mexico. Between gasoline, food and housing, there are still many people struggling. So, with the midterm elections just a week away, which gubernatorial candidate has the best fiscal plan for the state?

Janie Chermak, an economics professor at the University of New Mexico, joins the podcast this week and weighs the pros and cons of how to use state oil and gas revenues. Chermak also shares his views on where the state’s economy might go.

How does politics play a role in fuel prices? What’s the biggest pressure on your wallet right now?

These questions and answers are covered in this week’s full discussion on the New Mexico News podcast.

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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 26, 2022–

Today, Thumbtack, the modern home management platform, announced the results of its 2022 Small Business Usability Survey, in which small business owners rated federal, state, and local government support for small businesses. businesses. Surveying more than 2,800 small business owners, the survey found a sharp drop in optimism around the economy from previous years, with nearly half (49%) of all service professionals anticipating worsening commercial conditions over the next three months. After an initial increase in government support to help ease the economic impact of the pandemic, small business owners now report feeling like the government is failing them, with 21 states receiving a failing grade when rated on small business friendliness, regulations, taxes, training opportunities, and more.

While small businesses are uncertain about the future, consumer desire to support small businesses remains strong. Information gathered from more than 1,000 consumers in a gen-pop survey found that more than a third (37%) of Americans are spending more on small businesses than a year ago and that the average consumer is willing to pay a 10% price increase. to support a small business rather than a national retailer. Supporting small businesses remains a priority for consumers, with 80% of Americans considering at least using local small businesses in their day-to-day spending and of those 80%, around 50% say it’s their top or strongest consideration. .

“Current economic conditions and waning government support following the pandemic have small businesses worried about what the future holds,” said Marco Zappacosta, co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. “As inflation continues to impact the majority of industries, it is crucial that government organizations at all levels come together to support small businesses.”

“Business has been good over the past year, and being based in Delaware has given us the opportunity to grow as a company.” said Daniel Turcios, Thumbtack pro and owner of Prime Painting and Drywall. “There’s plenty of opportunity and support here for small businesses like ours, and with the increased demand we’ve seen over the past year, we hope to grow our business later this year.”

State, Federal and Municipal Rankings

Small business owners rated government small business friendliness at the city, state, and federal levels, with overall ratings dropping in all areas from previous years. The federal government received an “F” grade this year, down from a “C+” grade last year, a sign of the general decline in opinion of small businesses.

This year, the majority of states received below average ratings. Delaware received the highest rating of an “A+” and was the only state to receive an A rating, followed by Idaho with a “B+” and Arkansas with a “B-” . Florida and Mississippi received “C+” grades; Hawaii, Maine, and Oklahoma received “C” grades; and Colorado, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Utah received “C-” grades from local service professionals. The number of states that have received an “F” rating has quadrupled this year, with fourteen states receiving the lowest grade.

The city’s results mirror the state’s results, with 70% of areas receiving failing grades. Only three cities received above-average ratings this year: Boise, ID (“A-”), Orlando, FL (“B+”), and Providence, RI (“B”). Of 20 cities, eight received an “F,” including Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Oakland, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, OR; San Francisco, California; and Washington, DC.

Economic uncertainty fuels investment problems

Asked about worries about an impending recession, small business owners cited slowing work (37%) as their biggest concern, followed by fear of not being able to support themselves (34%). With continued economic uncertainty, small businesses need to take action to stay afloat. 72% of small businesses charge higher prices than a year ago. This is the result of rising prices for materials and supplies and energy/gas.

Current economic conditions are also impacting how small business owners view the future of their business, both from a retirement perspective and potential expansion. The majority (64%) of small business owners considering retirement options have delayed their retirement due to financial issues. Another 20% want to retire, but have no one to sell or leave their business to.

On the other hand, nearly two-thirds (61%) of respondents said they wanted to grow their business. 29% plan to do so in the next year, while 15% say they are waiting for economic conditions to improve.

Although there is a clear desire to invest in their businesses, hiring has remained an issue for small business owners over the past year. 69% of respondents had encountered at least one hiring barrier in the past year and more than half of respondents who hired employees in the past year (52%) said it was difficult to do.

Looking for government intervention

Only 25% of small business owners believe that the federal government supports qualified professionals like them, which increases slightly to 30% for state government and 32% for local government, showing that there is room for improvement. According to small businesses, the main ways governments can support local professionals include:

• At the federal level: Reduced (48%) and simplified (46%) taxes.
• At the state level: Reduced and streamlined regulatory and licensing requirements (49%) and expanded access/improved training and education programs (43%).
• At local level : Investments in local transport and infrastructure (43%) and expanded access to training programs or improved training and education programs (43%).

In the survey, now in its 11th year, 43 states received grades ranging from “A+” to “F” on overall small business friendliness as well as regulations, taxes, training opportunities, and more. . For the full results, please visit our survey page or check out our blog.

2022 Small Business Usability Survey Methodology

In a survey of bedbug professionals in the home maintenance, home construction, and home systems industries (34%), as well as events, education, health, and welfare being, pets and business services, more than 2,800 responses were collected nationwide as of August 3. 2022 to September 22, 2022 with a margin of error of +/- 2%. A sufficient sample size was collected to rank 43 states and 20 metropolitan areas. The eight graduated measures assess overall government support, ease of starting a business, ease of hiring employees, labor regulations, tax regulations, licensing regulations, and availability and usefulness. training and networking programs. Thumbtack’s Small Business Friendliness Survey represents the largest ongoing study in the United States of the perceptions of small businesses in the local service industry on government policy.

2022 Consumer Gen-pop Survey Methodology

This sample of 1,000 U.S. adults (ages 18-65) was surveyed September 27-28, 2022. Sampling was weighted to achieve gender and generational representativeness, aligned with U.S. Census demographics. DKC Analytics conducted and analyzed this survey with a sample obtained using the Pollfish survey delivery platform, which offers online surveys worldwide via mobile apps and the mobile web as well as the web Office. No post-stratification was applied to the results.

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United States unemployment the rate fell to 3.5% in September, a pre-pandemic level initially reached in July before climbing to 3.7% in August. Compared to September 2021, the unemployment rate is 1.2 percentage points lower, with some states faring better than others, based on the recently released Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report.

September’s unemployment rate was lower in 11 states, higher in nine and remained stable in 30 states from the previous month. Twenty-five states now have unemployment rates below the national rate, led by Minnesota at 2%.

With inflation at its highest level in 40 years, the economy is increasingly becoming a major issue in the upcoming midterm elections, despite a seemingly strong job market. Out of 10 States Playing a Significant Role in the Midterms, five have unemployment rates above the national average: Arizona at 3.7%, Nevada at 4.4%, North Carolina at 3.6%, Pennsylvania at 4.1% and Ohio at 4%. (Here are the States where jobs are disappearing right now.)

While the labor market, including the unemployment rate, is an important aspect for those looking for a job, other factors play a role. To determine the best states to find a job, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the marketing agency Tops report Best States to Find a Job 2022. Using 51 measures, TOP compared the 50 states on five dimensions: state economy, compensation and benefits, labor market, quality of life, and business friendliness.

Indeed, the top five states also rank in the top 10 in the labor market dimension of TOP. Ranked #1, Utah also ranks in the top 10 for business friendliness and state economy. The #2 ranked state, Massachusetts, has the highest pay of any state and ranks #2 in business friendliness.

We’ve supplemented TOP’s rankings with other metrics, including median household income, September 2022 unemployment rate, and year-over-year change in unemployment rate, venture capital per capita, and startup density. .

It is interesting to note that the relationship between the amount of venture capital (money that is invested in the creation of new businesses) and the unemployment rate are not always correlated.

For example, California has the second highest amount of venture capital per capita at $3,957, while Florida’s venture capital is the 22nd highest at just $252 per person. Yet California’s unemployment rate is much higher than Florida’s, at 3.9% versus 2.5%.

Nevertheless, venture capital plays an important role in the creation of new businesses and jobs. States with the highest amount of venture capital funding tend to have higher start-up densities. Mississippi and West Virginia rank near the bottom of the startup list and also have some of the lowest VCs per capita in the country. (These are cities that will create the most jobs by 2060 according to economists.)

Here are the best states to find a job.

Click here to read our detailed methodology.

Help is on the way for millions of New Mexicans stuck in student debt.

On Monday, President Joe Biden (D) announced the launch of the Student Loan Forgiveness Program, the latest phase of his plan to provide debt relief for borrowers.

“This will make it easier for many of these borrowers, many of whom are younger and just starting out in their careers,” said Reilly White, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico.

The new opportunity could forgive up to $10,000 in student loan debt for people earning less than $125,000 a year or married couples earning less than $250,000 a year.

Up to $20,000 could also be awarded to eligible borrowers who were also Pell Grant recipients.

White said the program could be the perfect time for many, especially those going through tough times with the current state of the US economy.

“A lot less stress for a lot of New Mexicans looking, especially in this time of rising inflation and issues involving their ability to afford things like housing and food,” he said.

However, not everyone praises the new initiative.

Tyler Hall, who lives in Roswell, said it wasn’t fair to those who had already paid off their student loans.

Like his wife.

“We’re not going to get anything out of this, even though I worked 80 hours a week to pay off his loans and paid them off before it happened,” Hall said.

Although Hall offered several solutions to end overall student debt, he said it ultimately comes down to interest rates.

“I think the first thing would be to end interest on all loans and start charging people the principal,” Hall said. “I could see that something like that would be very helpful for a lot of people, because it’s the interest that really draws you in.”

Hall also pointed to another problem with student debt: Colleges and universities are raising tuition fees.

He said if people stopped attending these colleges, officials might start charging students less.

“These colleges are increasing tuition year after year because people are willing to take on so much debt. If people stopped enrolling for $100,000 a month or a semester, then the college should start charging less. As long as people pay this amount, then [colleges] will continue to raise their [tuition]”Hall said.

Borrowers interested in applying for the relief program are encouraged to visit the federal website here.

Interested persons have until December 31, 2023 to apply.

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has formed a regional hydrogen hub with the governors of Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin as states continue to jockey in the race for federal funds and national eminence .

Doug Bourgum, Governor of North Dakota Noted:

By bringing together our expertise in agriculture and power generation, we can create a world-class hydrogen hub and do even more as states to feed and power the nation and the world.

The Heartland Hydrogen Hub was formed Oct. 5 through a three-page memorandum of understanding among the four states to use their combined strengths to create a regional clean hydrogen hub to help meet the needs of the United States. United in clean energy, transport and agriculture.

The MOU said the group of states is a bipartisan effort whose member states already have several clean hydrogen projects planned “that competitively promote the region’s leadership in the hydrogen economy, including plans to develop new clean hydrogen projects as well as some of the largest brownfield conversion assets with the goal of being the largest in the country.”

The Heartland Hydrogen Hub will compete for a $7 billion tranche that the U.S. Department of Energy has allocated to establish six to 10 regional hydrogen hubs across the United States. Hydrogen centers are considered federally as part of achieving a net-zero energy economy by 2050, as envisioned by President Joe Biden.

Regional hydrogen centers across the country must submit concept papers by Nov. 7 outlining why they should be among a select handful. Full applications are due April 7.

The DOE argues that the characteristics of hydrogen “make it a strong option for decarbonizing energy-intensive heavy industry and supporting heavy transportation.” Hydrogen can be produced from clean, diverse, domestic energy resources (wind, solar, and nuclear) or by using methane while capturing the resulting carbon to reduce emissions.

According to Burgum’s office, North Dakota will take on the effort through its Center for Energy and Environmental Research at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. The EERC (which operates the National Hydrogen Technology Center) will develop the app in collaboration with industry partners and state coordinators from the four states.

“North Dakota is pleased to help lead these efforts as part of our overall energy strategy and our focus on innovation rather than regulation to meet our nation’s changing energy needs,” Burgum said.

“We are grateful to these states and their governors for their participation, collaboration, and shared interest in American energy production, American energy security, job creation, economic development, and environmental stewardship. .”

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers also signed the agreement.

Waltz The Governor of Minnesota said:

Minnesota is working to grow our clean energy economy and meet the changing needs of our state’s industries with innovative solutions.

“I look forward to working with these states to secure critical investment in clean energy and create a world-class hydrogen hub.”

Part of the MOU notes that all states have agreed to identify opportunities for collaboration with tribal nations. The winning hydrogen hubs will be those that “include substantial engagement from local and regional stakeholders, as well as tribes, to ensure they generate local, regional, and national benefits,” the DOE funding notice states.

The DOE’s $7 billion funding opportunity, announced Sept. 22, noted that each hydrogen hub will include multiple partners who bring together various hydrogen technologies to produce and use large amounts of hydrogen in different ways.

Tony EversGovernor of Wisconsin, said:

Clean hydrogen has the potential to play a key role in our clean energy efforts here in Wisconsin and across the country, and I’m proud to work with this bipartisan group of governors to do the right thing. for the future of our States.

“This agreement is another positive step towards developing a strong network for producers and consumers of clean hydrogen, and it will contribute to our essential work to expand economic opportunity, create jobs, reduce emissions and reduce carbon emissions. long-term costs as we work to achieve the goals of our clean energy plan.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are also partners in the Midwestern Hydrogen Coalition, formed Sept. 19 with the governors of Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana.

The Minnesota Department of Commerce will be the lead state agency for the Heartland Hydrogen Hub and the Midwestern Hydrogen Coalition.

Other hydrogen centers formed around the country include a New York-led group (along with Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island), the Western Inter-States Hydrogen Hub (Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming), HALO Hydrogen Hub (Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma) and the West Virginia Hydrogen Hub Task Force.

LILY the latest news shaping the hydrogen market at Hydrogen Central

North Dakota to spearhead four-state hydrogen hub, Oct. 13, 2022

HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) – From your morning avocado toast to guac served at a local restaurant, avocados have become a staple in the Texas diet, putting the state at the top of the list for consumers Mexican avocados.

California and Texas are the two main markets for Mexican avocado consumption.

Consumers in both markets are also the savviest about picking, handling and preparing them, said Ron Campbell, executive director of the Mexican Association of Hass Avocado Importers.

Simply put, Texans know all about lawyers.

Houston-based celebrity chef and restaurateur Sylvia Casares prefers Mexican avocados for their creaminess and smoothness.

“They’re creamier, more buttery and yes, they’re just perfect,” she said. “And I have a cooking school and I talk about Mexican avocados in my cooking classes and I just tell them they’re native to Mexico. They’re grown in California…and that’s an imitation.

“The soil, the temperature, the rain are critical to how we get these amazing avocados.”

So why do Mexican avocados taste so good?

The oil content is what makes an avocado good, Campbell said. Oil content is based on dry matter content. If the dry matter content is not 23% or more, Mexico will not ship.

“This is the level where taste and quality are at their peak,” he said.

This emphasis on taste and quality is important for producers wishing to maintain their dominance in the American market, where the appetite for aguacate demanded that more than 2.3 billion pounds of avocados be imported from Mexico this year alone.

A growing appetite for avocados from Mexico

Over the past 15 years, imports of avocados have increased by 15% each year. Campbell attributes this to consumers moving towards healthier diets and understanding the health benefits of avocados.

The United States has the largest volume of avocado imports in the world, and industry promotion group Avocados from Mexico said eight out of 10 avocados consumed in the United States come from Mexico. The gap is filled mainly by avocados from California, Peru and Chile. In 2020, avocados from Mexico led the market, followed by California and Peru, according to a report by the Avocado Institute of Mexico.

According to the report, the growth in the volume of Mexican imports is accompanied by a broadening of the seasonal pattern of Mexican imports to near constant availability throughout the year. Avocado imports, especially from Mexico, tend to peak in winter and spring, when California avocados are out of season, the report said.

Campbell said California benefits from Mexican avocado imports with more than $887 million in value added to their state economy and more than 7,900 jobs.

In Texas, there is over $380 million in value added to the state’s economy through imports of Mexican avocados. Hass attorneys also account for nearly 4,000 jobs in the state.

Figures for fiscal year 2021/22 show that the total economic output of Mexican Hass avocado imports into Texas is over $714 million.

Events such as the Super Bowl also tend to create shipping spikes.

Imports from Peru peak in the summer, while imports from Chile bolster the domestic supply in the winter. An influx of lawyers from the Dominican Republic and New Zealand is also common.

California is the only US state to produce Hass avocados and accounts for less than 10% of the avocados consumed in the country, Campbell said. California produces about 250 million pounds a year.

Mexico accounts for 80% of avocados consumed in the United States, and another 10% comes from foreign origins, Campbell said.

Michoacan and Jalisco are the only two states that grow avocados in Mexico. Michoacan is by far the largest avocado producer in the world, Campbell said, along with Jalisco, which just entered the US market this year.

The Avocado’s Contribution to the American Economy

According to a study conducted by Texas A&M, US imports of Mexican Hass avocados contribute to the US economy as trade moves through the food supply chain and drives various market activities.

According to a 2022 economic report on avocados from Mexico, imports of avocados from Mexico contribute $6 billion to US GDP and generate $11.2 billion in economic output in the United States.

Importing avocados has also created more than 58,299 jobs in the United States.

From the moment an avocado is picked from the tree, a ripple effect occurs, creating revenue for the picker, packer, driver, importer, distributor, and others in between. There are a wide variety of industries associated with moving this avocado from the tree to the consumer’s table.

“It really shows that this business is working,” Campbell said of the impact of importing avocados on the economy. “It helps many different industries throughout the supply chain. Not just growers, packers and importers. … There are many other people in between in a supply chain who profit from importing avocados from Mexico.

From farm to table in days

According to Avocados from Mexico, Mexican farmers only ship fruit when it’s ready to pick, which isn’t possible for growers further afield overseas. Foreign fruits from other countries must be shipped according to a ship’s schedule.

However, truckers can quickly transport Mexican avocados to the United States, giving them the luxury of shipping them when the oil content is optimal, Campbell said.

“I think it comes down to consumer preference for avocados from Mexico,” he said, “because of the freshness and quality of the product. It can go from farm to table in about four days.

That sentiment seems to be shared by Casares, owner of Sylvia’s Enchilada Kitchen in Houston.

In his restaurants, Casares uses avocados to make tomato guacamole; pica-mole, which is like pico de gallo with avocado cubes; and Border guacamole, which is guacamole with a bunch of cilantro, a bunch of onions, a bunch of tomatoes, and a bunch of jalapeños. Additionally, she uses avocados in a few of her signature sauces.

Since 1995, the Texas chef has sourced her avocados from Houston Avocado, which helps time the ripening process and provides fair prices, she said.

“It’s in front of my customers’ eyes and I don’t want to serve anything that isn’t of the best quality,” Casares said. “That’s how I got my name, how I developed my brand.”

There is a short period during the year when Mexican avocados are not readily available for her businesses, she said.

“Once in a while we have to buy avocados from Chile…and they’re not that good,” Casares said. “You notice it, the flavor. They don’t hold. They darken very quickly, but we have no choice. So for a short time we have to, but my preference is for avocados from Mexico. »

For the first time, Hispanics are the largest demographic group in Texas, and a Texas A&M University professor says now more than ever it’s time for state leaders to develop programs and set aside funds to address socio-economic disparities.

According to new racial/ethnic data released by the US Census Bureau last month, Hispanics are estimated to make up 40.2% of Texas’ population, compared to 39.4% for whites. Whites are defined in the data as people who identify as white and not as Hispanic. Hispanics are people who identify as Hispanic and can be of any race.

State leaders “must realize that Hispanics are the future — indeed the destiny — of Texas,” said Dudley L. Poston, professor emeritus of sociology at Texas A&M and an internationally renowned demographics expert. “If we want Texas and the Texas economy and society to continue to grow and prosper in the years to come, our Republican leaders must provide the programs and funding necessary to improve the human capital of Hispanic Texans.”

Poston said Hispanics will likely comprise more than half of Texas’ population several decades from now; Hispanic children in Texas already make up half of all children in the state today.

But Hispanics in Texas lag far behind whites educationally and economically, he said, citing a Texas Tribune analysis of American Community Service (ACS) data from 2021 that shows Hispanic Texans are disproportionately poorer than white Texans. Hispanics are twice as likely as whites to live at or below the poverty line. Additionally, new data from the ACS shows a significant difference in median household incomes for whites compared to Hispanics. White households in Texas have a median income of $81,384, compared to a median Hispanic household income of $54,857.

There are also significant differences between the two groups when it comes to education, with ACS data showing that 95% of white Texans have completed at least four years of high school, compared to just 70% of Hispanic Texans. And 42% of white Texans have a college degree compared to just 18% of Hispanics.

In March of this year, Texas A&M announced its designation as an eligible institution by the United States Department of Education to be a Hispanic-serving institution. For HSI designation, at least 25% of an institution’s undergraduate enrollment must be of Hispanic identification.

How does Texas compare to the nation as a whole?

The United States is overwhelmingly white – at 58.1%, white people are the largest racial/ethnic group in the country and constitute the majority. But Texas is a “majority-minority” state, which means that no group constitutes the majority.

Texas is currently one of seven US states where whites do not constitute the majority. Besides Texas, Hispanics outnumber whites in California (40.2% vs. 34.3%) and New Mexico (50.1% vs. 34.9%). In Hawaii, Asians outnumber whites, and in the District of Columbia, blacks outnumber whites. In Maryland and Nevada, whites make up a larger share of the population than any other group, but they don’t hold a majority. There are seven other states (Georgia, Florida, Arizona, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi, and Louisiana) where whites make up more than 50% but less than 60% of the population. The states that lose their white majority over the next few decades will come from this group, Poston said.

Why has the size of the Hispanic population increased while the white population has decreased?

Poston said white women had fewer babies than Hispanic women. White women today have an average of 1.5 babies each in their lifetime, while Hispanics have an average of 1.9. But as recently as 1990, the Hispanic-white fertility difference was larger, white women at 1.9 babies each, compared to Hispanic women at 3.0.

There are also big differences in the age structure, Poston said. As recently as 2019, the median age for whites in the United States was 43.7, compared to 29.8 for Hispanics. Far more Hispanics are of childbearing age than white women. Hispanics also have lower death rates than whites.

Immigration is also a factor as far more Hispanics immigrate to the United States than whites. Of the more than 44.9 million people living in the United States in 2018 who were born in a foreign country, 50% were from Latin America, 28% from South and East Asia and only 13% from Europe and Canada. “Hispanics have increased their representation in Texas and the United States via immigration at a significantly higher rate than the white population,” Poston said. “Globally, an aging white population, alongside a younger Hispanic population, is primarily responsible for the growing number of Hispanics in Texas and the United States, and the decreasing number of whites.”

How is this data collected?

The ACS is a survey sent annually to approximately 3.5 million housing units in all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. It provides up-to-date information each year to states, local areas and communities needed for programs, economic development, emergency management and other local issues and conditions. Because the ACS is a survey, it is not a complete count of the population, so the ACS data shown above are estimates of actual population counts. The decennial census, carried out every 10 years (last in 2020), is a complete count of the population. The census counts all people living in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the five US territories. It is an official population count and contains far fewer questions than the ACS.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Dina Titus is touting her success in establishing economic assistance and transportation projects in southern Nevada in her re-election race against GOP challenger Mark Robertson, a retired US colonel. U.S. military wants to return fiscal responsibility to Congress.

Libertarian candidate Ken Cavanaugh said less government would provide more freedom and personal liberty.

All three candidates are on the ballot for the Nov. 8 general election in the new Congressional District 1, which includes Las Vegas, parts of Henderson and Boulder City.

Voters will have distinct choices in the race with an outcome that could determine which party controls the US House of Representatives.

Titus, 72, is seeking a seventh term in Congress. Prior to Congress, she served 20 years in the Nevada State Senate.

She is chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee and a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. She drafted pandemic relief and infrastructure legislation that garnered Republican support for highway, airport, railroad and water projects that will pour millions into Nevada.

In his role as House leader, Titus was instrumental in changing federal funding formulas to include a state’s unemployment rate, which brought an additional $1 billion to Nevada in economic aid during a pandemic that has killed 1 million Americans, including more than 11,000 people in Nevada. .

“We were the hardest hit region with the highest unemployment rate in the country. And now we recover the fastest,” Titus said, citing the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

She said federal funding through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, the bipartisan Infrastructure and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act has helped Nevada businesses, workers and families with loans, unemployment benefits, vaccines and equipment and training for first responders.

“We need to continue in this vein to fully have a sustainable recovery,” Titus said.

Fight expenses

His opponents, Robertson and Cavanaugh, called recent federal spending wasteful and said it had led to record inflation.

Robertson, 63, said he’s spoken to thousands of Southern Nevadans, and the No. 1 issue is the economy and inflation.

“And what got us into inflation was trillion-dollar overspending and unnecessary government spending — and then shutting down our economy, shutting down factories and stores,” Robertson told the Review- Log.

Robertson, a veteran and former senior adviser to the Department of Defense, draws on his background as a businessman and financial planner. He quit his business to run for Congress.

“You stop excessive and unnecessary government spending and you stop paying people not to work. They go back to work in our factories and the business owners can find people to hire and produce the goods and services,” said Robertson, who taught business at UNLV.

He rejects the argument that the Russian war in Ukraine, and its impact on energy supplies, is the cause of soaring inflation. Robertson said the inflation rate in the United States was 7.8% before the war.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Robertson said the government shut down the economy and then sent money to bail out state and local governments, which now have budget surpluses. The money, he said, was also given unnecessarily to businesses and workers, some without need.

Stimulus checks sent to government employees, who have never been unemployed, are an example of wasteful spending, according to Robertson.

“There was not a single federal government employee who lost their job or missed a paycheck during the government shutdown, but every single one of them received a stimulus check,” Robertson said.

Libertarian view

Cavanaugh, 66, a retired telecommunications worker, also said reversing inflation was needed to support the economy. He agreed that this is the most important issue in the race.

And the only way to reverse inflation, Cavanaugh told the Review-Journal, “is to withdraw the money that has been pumped into the economy.”

To do that, he says, “you have to do something that (former President) Bill Clinton did in the early 90s. You have to collect taxes and stop spending them, in this case. In fact, you have to burn the money.

“So that’s $5 trillion, $6 trillion that the feds have to collect in taxes and then do nothing with it and destroy it,” Cavanaugh said.

Cavanaugh first ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2000 as a Pennsylvania libertarian. Since then he has been involved in the Libertarian Party in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada.

Abortion

The three candidates differ significantly on abortion and the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade who made it a constitutional right.

Robertson said Nevada codified a woman’s right to an abortion in 1990 with a referendum passed overwhelmingly by voters in the state. “It’s a well-established law,” he said.

But Titus and other congressional Democrats have warned that Republicans, with oversight from Congress, could pass a federal ban that would override laws in states like Nevada.

Although some GOP lawmakers have called for the passage of a federal ban, he would still face legislative hurdles such as a filibuster in the Senate and a presidential veto.

“I support the overturning of Roe v. Wade, not just because I’m pro-life, and I am, but because it was the right legal decision,” Robertson said.

The High Court ruling rightly sent the decision on abortion back to the United States, Robertson said. Democratic positions on the issue, Robertson said, were aimed at deflecting the party’s dismal economic record.

Titus called the Supreme Court decision “an assault on all women, but especially those who live in minority, underserved and impoverished communities.”

“They will be forced to take drastic and dangerous measures to self-manage abortions or carry unwanted pregnancies to term,” she said.

Titus said abortion rights are human rights and the ruling “energized women voters.”

“A lot of young women are signing up now and mostly because they’ve realized that something they took for granted before is now in jeopardy,” Titus said.

“People think they’re protected here with (state law),” Titus said. “The problem is, we’re protected now, but if the Republicans take over and pass a national law, this could all go away.”

Titus, a former UNLV history professor, also said that Roe v. Wade was grounded in the right to privacy and that the recent Supreme Court ruling calls into question protections on contraceptives, gay and interracial marriage.

Cavanaugh falls into the libertarian camp that abortion is a matter of personal conscience and that the government should not violate human rights.

Personally, Cavanaugh said, he is “a pro-life Christian.”

Still, Cavanaugh said the Supreme Court made the right decision in deciding to overturn Roe v. Wade. “The word abortion does not exist in the Constitution; it’s not in the Bill of Rights.

“As a libertarian, first of all, I believe you do what you want to do as a person, which basically amounts to if you want to abort your fetus, abort your fetus,” Cavanaugh said, later adding , “I don’t think I’m going to invite you to play bridge with me, but there you go.

Money race

Titus holds a huge fundraising advantage in the race to retain his seat. She has raised $1.7 million and has $1.6 million in cash, according to documents filed by the Federal Election Commission in June.

Robertson raised $720,533 and had $201,112 left after a competitive Republican primary, records show. Cavanaugh did not raise or spend funds for his run.

Contact Gary Martin at [email protected] Follow @garymartindc on Twitter.

It’s been a tough few weeks in the energy market. As potential investors in energy companies, we are not sorry to see last week’s return in particular. It’s the understatement of the year. Almost every negative sentiment – recession, Fed tightening, dollar strength, Chinese demand, inventory build-up, or what amounts to the entire Oil Price Closet of Anxieties, happened this week. Oil-WTI fell below $80 for the first time since Jan. 11 this year, closing Friday below its 200-day mark moving average of $89.00. The move brings WTI closer to an important psychological level in the lower $70s, beyond which producers will drastically cut capital expenditures to raise prices.

In this article, I will argue that the sell is overstated and overlooks a fundamental truth about the oil market. It is undersupplied and it was only the SPR releases that masked this fact. We are on the brink of an energetic calamity that will begin to manifest in the months to come. As the global economy begins to pick up speed in 2023, the era of energy insecurity will begin. The important point to remember is that there is nothing you can do to stop this “train from hurtling into the station”. A recent NY Times the article summed it up succinctly-

“That’s because there’s just no extra supply out there today. There is very little additional supply that the Saudis and Emiratis can bring to market. And that’s about it. We have used the strategic petroleum reserve, and that will end in the next few months. There is simply no additional cushion in the oil market right now.

How did we come here?

The short answer is that for the period since 2014, producers have been discouraged from exploring or sanctioning the mega-project that was the mainstay of the 2000-2013 era.

The graph above tells us that for many reasons – low oil prices for much of the period, government preferences shifting towards alternative energy and discouraging the production of “fossil fuels”, and the restriction of capital by producers around the world in which we have underinvested upstream supply by the hundreds of billions.

Longer term, we are confident that oil prices will rebound, likely towards the end of the year, as the SPR releases that put excess oil on the market come to a halt. The graph above, compiled from global MS and Worldometer tells a fascinating story. Every year around 80mm new people join the roughly 7.9 billion people already here, all of whom need (but not always) the energy to power their lives. In six years, from 2014 to 2020, spending on new upstream sources fell by 55%, while the world’s population grew by about 8%. The calculation does not work.

The oil market is undersupplied as shown in the EIA chart below. Since March, when the government announced the SPR press releases to lower domestic gas prices, inventories increased by about 15 mm barrels. If you remove the 172mm barrels removed from the SPR during this time, stocks would have decreased to ~248mm bbls. That might sound like a lot, but in reality with our usual ~19mm BOD, it’s a ~13 day supply. Less than 2 weeks!

Not only are stocks artificially inflated by SPR releases, but the productivity of new wells as reported in the EIA-Drilling Productivity Report is on the decline. This is an admittedly simplistic measure, as it only takes active rigs at any given time and splits into new well production, as reported by various sources, usually state regulators. . The fact that the stallion is done in 4e note arithmetic without sophisticated modeling, doesn’t mean it’s not instructive. It reveals an undeniable trend in the production of new wells. In all key basins except the North Dakota and New Mexico basins, there is a steep decline despite steady growth in rig counts for most of this year.

Reading it carefully, it can be said that the shrinkage in the number of drilled but uncompleted wells-DUC, which occurred from mid-2021 to January of this year, was largely responsible for the production gains recorded so far. now this year. There is certainly an observable trend that well performance in shale basins began to decline as CIDs decreased.

This is true regardless of the underlying reason I have postulated in the past could be due to the depletion of premium drilling inventory. This has been documented several times recently in widely read publications, including the Wall Street Journal. here and here.

The DPR data is confirmed by information compiled from the monthly EIA 914 report. Only in North Dakota and Gulf of Mexico-GoM do we see a gain from May to June. In the case of GoM Murphy Oil, (NYSE:MUR), Kings Quay production contributed approximately 80,000 BOPDs, and BP’s Herschel provided an additional 20,000 BOEPDs, compared to the 179,000 BOEPDs reported for the month.

Higher drilling costs are also starting to impact profitability, as noted in an even more recent study. WSJ article. This means that maintaining or increasing production will shift into a sharper focus as margins squeeze and operator balance sheet priorities come into play. Almost without exception, shale drillers told us that their priorities were to return capital to shareholders through special dividends and share buybacks, to pay down debt and to keep production at low single digit growth. If oil prices hover in the $70s at any time, expect operating budget cuts to show up in rig counts soon.

The takeaway from this section is that US production will increase to 12.6mm BOEPD in 2023, as the EIA suggests in this month’s edition of STEO, is not very high. Current trends are going the other way, and the catalysts for a reversal are simply not there. The current low oil prices are pushing producers to sharpen their fiscal knives. Inflation eats away at already tight budgets, and nature itself can step in with lower quality rock than was available in the past.

Does help come from OPEC?

OPEC and its occasional collaborator when interests align, Russia failed to produce until full quota levels per a significant amount. Some reports have this deficit at over 3 mm BOPD at present. In fact, the CEO of Aramco made a widely read statement earlier this month that the world was on the brink of an energy shock of massive proportions.

“But when the global economy recovers, we can expect demand to rebound further, wiping out the little spare oil production capacity. And by the time the world realizes these blind spots, it may be too late to change course. »

The Dallas Fed also released a report documenting OPEC’s shortfall that points to the main source of underperformance at the feet of none other than Saudi Arabia. It only lasts until February this year, but clearly shows that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is producing around 1.2mm of BOPD below the quota.

To end this discussion of the Kingdom’s ability to dig deep and produce more oil when the world needs it, we have comment of the de facto Saudi leader himself, Prince Mohammed bin Salmon, also known as MbS-

“The kingdom will do its part in this regard, as it has announced an increase in its production capacity to 13 million barrels per day, after which the kingdom will have no additional capacity to increase production,” he said. he declared in a broad speech. .”

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In his address, the Prince noted that he would not be able to reach BOPD’s 13mm capability level until 2027. This should overturn any notion that OPEC or its main member, Saudi Arabia , can turn a valve and add significantly to world oil. supplies soon.

Your takeaway meals

Nobody can predict what the oil market will do in the short term over the next few months. There are so many factors, many of which have been noted in the opening paragraphs of this article, that it is impossible to say when this selling pressure will be relieved. My best guess this will happen with a massive drawdown of stocks when SPR releases finally cease.

Maybe that could be a Fed pivot. These interest rate hikes are crushing consumers and driving up variable rate mortgages and HELOC payments every month. At some point, the Fed will take a break if history is to judge. A stock market that has fallen by 50% in a few months, hundreds of thousands of unemployed, double-digit inflation… everyone will demand it. This will trigger an intense rally in oil prices in my view.

Or it could be something else entirely within the scope of the things I highlighted or an outlier I missed. What I can say with confidence is that when market sentiment changes, we expect oil prices to rise sharply. It will be driven by overwhelming global demand for oil and gas, the steady supply of which is increasingly uncertain.

By David Messler for Oilprice.com

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The Oklahoma Board of Education has voted to give teachers a $5,000 pay raise as part of its proposed $3.5 billion education budget for 2024.

| MORE | Hofmeister says Oklahoma teachers should get $5,000 pay raise to stay competitive

Board members voted unanimously and agreed that more needs to be done for teachers. But lawmakers are the ones who have the final say on wage increases.

“We need to invest in people so that our children have what they need to learn and can grow our economy,” said State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister. “So it’s about a healthy, educated workforce, and it starts with teachers.”

Hofmeister and the Oklahoma State Department of Education argue that the increase is necessary to retain and attract teachers to Oklahoma. The average salary in the state earlier is lower than the average salary in the states in the region – Colorado, Texas and New Mexico.

“We have to keep pace with the market, and this is an important step in that regard. And it’s not a fact,” Hofmeister said.

State Senator Adam Pugh, who is the chair of the Education Committee, told KOCO 5 that the Senate is constantly looking for ways to improve education outcomes.

“During the interim, Pro Tem (Greg) Treat, his team members, and I have met regularly with teachers and administrators across the state to listen to their concerns and find ways the legislature can help them. achieve these goals,” said Pugh, R-Edmond. “We will review OSDE’s request, and it will go through the budgeting process, as it always does.”

| MORE | Oklahoma State Department of Education to offer $5,000 pay raise for teachers

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office did not weigh in on that specific pay raise, but said it supports paying teachers more.

“Governor Stitt has been a tireless advocate for Oklahoma’s teachers to be the highest paid in the region and looks forward to continuing that effort with the state’s next superintendent,” said Carly Atchison, director of communications for the Stitt’s office, to KOCO 5 in a statement. earlier in the week.

Lawmakers won’t meet for the next regular session until February.

PARIS — SpinLaunch, a company developing a launch system that uses a centrifuge as its first stage, has raised $71 million to continue working on that system and a line of satellites.

SpinLaunch, based in Long Beach, Calif., announced on September 20 that it had raised funding in a Series B round led by ATW Partners, with participation from several other funds and individuals. The cycle is a mix of debt and equity, but the company did not disclose the split between the two.

The company has raised $150 million to date to fund work on a unique launch system that uses a centrifuge to accelerate vehicles to hypersonic speeds. Vehicles will then use rocket engines, as on conventional upper stages, to place payloads into orbit. SpinLaunch argues that this approach can allow for a much higher rate of flight than conventional rockets while being more environmentally friendly.

“We share the company’s goal of realizing the full potential of the space economy by developing a breakthrough space launch system that is both ultra-low cost and environmentally sustainable,” said Wen Hsieh, General Partner of Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm that participated in the funding round, in a statement.

SpinLaunch built a smaller version of its centrifuge at Spaceport America in New Mexico, 33 meters in diameter, for suborbital testing. The system launched its first vehicle in October 2021 and has completed nine tests so far, although it has released few details on the speed and maximum altitude of those tests.

“SpinLaunch’s mission is to bring the world sustainable, low-cost access to space. We have taken a big step in this direction with the completion of our 33-meter Suborbital Mass Accelerator,” said Jonathan Yaney, CEO of SpinLaunch, “removing technical risk as we prepare the way for the construction of our full size. Orbital launch system.

The company plans to begin orbital launches with a much larger accelerator, 100 meters in diameter, as early as 2026, but has not announced where that accelerator will be based. It won’t be at Spaceport America because of hover issues, said Randy Villahermosa, vice president of space products and systems at SpinLaunch, during a Sept. 14 presentation at the Small Payload Ride Share Association’s annual symposium.

While the orbital centrifuge won’t be ready until 2026, Villahermosa mentioned in his speech that the company is planning “an interim service around 2024 that will use some of our satellite and launch technology.” He didn’t give details about the service, but said the company would release additional details in the coming months.

SpinLaunch, in addition to the launch system, is working on satellites optimized for this. They include a 12U cubesat bus and a 200 kilogram satellite, the latter equal to the payload capacity of the orbiting system. A prototype 12U cubesat will launch as early as January, he said, but revealed the launch vendor.

The company is developing the satellites in part to meet anticipated demand for launch services that could exceed what current satellite manufacturers could meet. The orbital system is designed for a maximum of 10 launches per day and 2,000 per year. “We expect there won’t be enough of an industrial base to support our launch system, but there’s a lot of demand,” he said.

The satellites are also designed specifically for the orbital system, where the centrifuge accelerates payloads to 10,000g. SpinLaunch has also tested satellite components and found that many can handle the launch environment despite these accelerations, in part because the acceleration takes place in a vacuum and therefore there are no random vibrations from acoustics.

“We get asked a lot of questions about gs,” he said. “It’s a very soft 10,000g.”

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN

(CNN) – Reservoirs above the Colorado River basin may not have enough water to keep Lake Powell above a critical level indefinitely, federal officials have warned in recent weeks, as the mega- ongoing drought in the west is sapping water for the entire west.

The Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Green River, which is releasing a huge amount of water downstream this year to help Lake Powell, may only have enough water left for two more similar emergency releases, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials told CNN, though they have yet to fully model the situation.

Federal authorities took emergency action in May to use water from reservoirs upstream to raise the level of Lake Powell and give surrounding communities more time to plan for the likelihood that the reservoir would soon drop too low for the Glen Canyon Dam generates hydroelectricity.

The dam is a key power source in the region, generating power for as many as 5.8 million homes and businesses in seven states, and is at high risk of being forced offline if lake levels rise. drops below 3,490 feet above sea level.

Lake Powell’s water level was around 3,529 feet Thursday, or 24% full.

Water managers worked hard to keep Powell from falling below its critical threshold. Their first step was to release more water from reservoirs upstream in the Colorado River Basin, such as Flaming Gorge. The second was to retain the water in Lake Powell itself instead of sending it downstream to Lake Mead, which is the largest reservoir in the country.

But using Flaming Gorge water to keep Lake Powell afloat was just a “buffer,” according to Jim Prairie, head of the agency’s Upper Colorado Basin Research and Modeling Group, and couldn’t not be a long term solution. Prairie noted in August, based on its water level at the time, Flaming Gorge would only be able to handle two more similar emergency releases.

“What is that [process] what we’re doing is just protecting ourselves for a year, and we’ll probably get to do it maybe twice more, and then there’s no more capacity,” Prairie said. “So something else will have to fill those 500,000 acre-feet, another mechanism.”

Water deliveries from Flaming Gorge to Lake Powell are being made in varying amounts each month to reach a total of 500,000 acre-feet by the end of April 2023, according to the bureau. Due to the release, the level of Flaming Gorge is expected to drop about 9 feet, although this will help raise the elevation of Lake Powell by about 16 feet.

Prairie said the biggest challenge is finding long-term solutions to the basin crisis.

“And that’s really the challenge for all [Colorado River] basin states,” he added. “How can we collaborate and work together to find these ways to be able to meet the additional needs of these reservoirs if we want to maintain them?

Eric Kuhn, a retired former director of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, told CNN that was no surprise at all.

“There’s really only one reservoir upstream — Flaming Gorge — that has any significant capacity,” Kuhn said. “And they used it two years in a row to about 700,000 acre feet.”

Notably, Prairie’s forecast for Flaming Gorge does not take into account future weather conditions in the West. For example, a wetter-than-average winter this year, which would top off all reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin, could negate the need for emergency releases.

But Kuhn said that wouldn’t be good news for Lake Powell.

“Filling those tanks that have been drained comes first, that’s where the water goes first,” Kuhn said. “If you rob Peter to pay Paul, the next time we have decent runoff, a lot of the water will go to recovery storage in those reservoirs upstream, which will reduce the inflow to Powell, so that reduces the recovery rate. from Powell in a slightly above average and wetter year.”

Justin Mankin, co-lead of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Drought Task Force, previously told CNN that water management in the Colorado River Basin across all of its reservoirs is “much like the central bank of an economy, pulling money from local banks to sort of keep the economy afloat.”

“Lake Powell is the central bank of the Colorado River Basin,” Mankin said. “Maybe it’s doable for a little while, but just like a household, the more debt it has, the harder it is. And it’s really the same with these tanks.”

Without the emergency measures it took this year, including the Flaming Gorge releases, the bureau estimated there was about a 25% chance that the Glen Canyon Dam would have stopped generating hydroelectricity. by January.

“Everyone relies on collective watershed storage,” Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University, told CNN. “The main problem is the total storage in the whole related system.”

For the remainder of the year, water releases from the Flaming Gorge and Blue Mesa reservoirs are expected to continue through October; meanwhile, Lake Navajo, on the Colorado-New Mexico border, will ramp up its outflows in November and December. As a result of these emergency releases, every tank will experience a major drop: four feet at Flaming Gorge; eight feet to Blue Mesa; and two feet into Navajo Lake.

Schmidt said it’s important to remember that all tanks are connected. The total capacity of all federal reservoirs in the Colorado River Basin is approximately 58 million acre-feet, 50 million of which is Lake Powell and Lake Mead combined.

“If you add all the water from all the tanks, the system is now at 34% capacity,” Schmidt said.

Decisions made for Lake Powell will always affect its downstream neighbor, Lake Mead. Due to the low level of Lake Mead, the federal government announced in August additional water cuts for the southwest, which will begin in January 2023.

The Colorado River Basin provides water and electricity to more than 40 million people living in seven western states and Mexico, including households, farms, ranches and indigenous communities.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story contained a photo caption indicating an incorrect location for the Flaming Gorge Dam. It’s on the Green River.

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Doña Ana Community College Press Release

Doña Ana Community College (DACC) and Union Pacific announce a new workforce training academy in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

The Union Pacific Industrial Career Academy, at DACC Sunland Park Center, 3365 McNutt Road, is designed to help residents of Sunland Park and Santa Teresa obtain the training and skills sought by area employers. The Union Pacific Industrial Careers Academy offers accelerated training in logistics, warehousing, transportation, manufacturing and more. The academy is made possible by a contribution of $350,000 from Union Pacific, which also includes scholarship funding.

“DACC’s partnership with Union Pacific will provide technical training and certification programs that can be completed between six months and a year, accelerating each student’s ability to secure a well-paying job in our own backyard,” said the President of DACC, Mónica Torres. “We will also become a resource for established trade professionals who want to maintain their industry credentials or advance their careers, which is important to employers.

The academy offers the following courses, with two courses starting in October:

• Certified Logistics Technician
• CDL training
• Certified Supply Chain Automation Technician
• Certified Production Technician 4.0
• Digital Foundations/IC3 Certification
• Accelerated Welding Certificate
• OSHA 10 training
• OSHA forklift training

The academy offers classroom activities as well as job shadowing, job shadowing and company tours, and internship opportunities. Additionally, DACC will simultaneously support students needing help with basic math and literacy skills or learning English.

“Union Pacific’s Santa Teresa Intermodal Terminal is attracting new businesses that fuel New Mexico’s economy, and our investment in DACC will help our neighbors participate in the region’s growth and prosperity through careers that enhance their financial future,” said Raquel Espinoza, Union Pacific’s senior director – public affairs. “We are proud to support DACC’s efforts to build a strong, skilled workforce that meets the needs of current and future employers in Santa Teresa and southern New Mexico.”

For more information about the academy and to register, go to https://go.asapconnected.com/?org=5073#CourseGroupID=58328, call 575-527-7776 or email at [email protected]