Tag: Housing
Migrant farm work has boomed in Michigan. The feds just cut workers’ pay
The decision comes after years of outcry from some farmers that the cost of labor, transportation and housing for H-2A workers was making it impossible to break even.
Van Makers Want to Slash the Electric Van Market. Europe Can Boost It Instead.
Industry’s wishlist risks stalling progress on zero-emission vans. ACEA is calling for a weaker van CO2 target in 2030 and 5-year averaging for the period 2025–29 and 2030–34, among many other flexibilities. This would spell disaster for the zero-emission van market. What’s more, many challenges to electrification used as pretexts to call for … [continued]
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Owen Sound mayor sees potential city benefits in federal budget
Owen Sound’s mayor likes the sound of more money for infrastructure in Tuesday’s federal budget proposals. It’s too early to pass final judgment, said Ian Boddy on Wednesday, but efforts to help build more housing and related infrastructure, and to assist hospital and colleges could benefit the city and the county. The budget comes up […]
Federal budget export help welcomed by wood manufacturing cluster CEO
‘They’re helping us develop an export development program where we’re going to Saudia Arabia,’ wood cluster CEO Mike Baker said of a federal initiative in Tuesday’s budget.
Community Foundation Grey Bruce grants exceed record $1 million
‘That’s a tough job to make some calls on what is emerging as a priority and how to dispense the money equitably and with the greatest impact for community with those decisions.’ — Stuart Reid, executive director