Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms

Feb 7, 2021 by

Jeffrey A. Tucker

When lockdowns first happened, my initial thought was geeky, and only later did I begin to realize the implications for human rights and liberties.

My thought was: this is going to be devastating for future capital investment. The basis of my fear was the knowledge that in almost all poor countries, property rights are insecure, particularly for capital goods. These are goods that are produced to make other goods (the “produced means of production,” in the classic formulation by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk). Their existence and protection is a key to prosperity. They enable more complex economic structures – the extended order, in F.A. Hayek’s phrase. It’s the basis of hiring and investment, and the foundation of wealth production.

In the normal course of economic life, capital structures are constantly adapting to changed conditions. Changes in available technology, consumer demand, labor pools, and other conditions require entrepreneurs to stay constantly on the move. They need the freedom to act based on the expectation that their decisions matter within a market framework in which there is a test for success or failure. Without this ability, writes Ludwig Lachmann, “a civilized economy could not survive at all.”

When governments attack capital by making it less secure, denying its own volition over how it is deployed, or it comes to be depleted through some other shock like a natural disaster, capital cannot do the work of creating wealth. This is a major reason for poverty. Start a business, make some money, employ some people, and a powerful person or agency comes along and steals it all. People get demoralized and give up. Society can’t progress under such conditions. Take it far enough and people end up living hand to mouth.

Lockdowns seem focused on expenditures and consumption but fundamentally they attack capital. The restaurant, the theater, the stadium, the school, the means of transport, all are forced into idleness. They cannot return a profit to the owners. It’s a form of theft. All that you have done to save and work and invest is voided.

That investors and entrepreneurs would lose faith in the rule of law – and thereby the security of their rights – was my main worry about lockdowns. Before lockdowns, life was functioning normally for so very long, decades and decades. Restaurants and hotels stayed up, operating according to their owners’ wishes. People could make plans and invest across state and national boundaries, never thinking that they could be prevented from traveling. A new theater could open and rent out space for concerts or other performances. A band could form and travel here and there and arrange bookings. Large conferences could be put on in cities all over the country, and there was nary a thought of the possibility that some politician would just decide to shut it down.

Starting March 8, 2020, all that changed. The mayor of Austin, Texas, shut down South by Southwest, forcibly cancelling 100,000 contracts for flights, hotels, and conference participation. It seemed unbelievable to me at the time. Surely there would be a flurry of lawsuits and the courts would intervene to call the mayor’s actions despotic. The lesson would be learned and such a thing would not happen again in America for a very long time, if ever. We do have a Fifth Amendment that rules out such “takings” without due process, and as a general principle we believe in the right to run enterprises.

To my shock, this was just the beginning. Travel ceased. Schools shut down. Businesses were forcibly closed and events we had taken for granted just weeks before were deemed illegal. The churches were padlocked. Courts closed. You know the rest. By March 16, the buzzing, happy, progressing world of enterprise and creativity was shut down by governments. The politicians locked us down. People were panicked too but once rationality struggled to make a return, the law stood in the way of normalcy.

All of this amounts to an attack on economic networks and capital infrastructure. Investment plunged during the great suppression. These days, private investment in the United States is back to 2018 levels but I wonder about the long-term economic effects. Do we expect “snap lockdowns” in the future such as that experienced by Perth, Australia, last week? A writer for the Washington Post thinks they are just fantastic:

It may seem strange to act so aggressively for a single case, but we Australians complied. There were no complaints of infringing on freedoms. No marches against masks. My city of Perth came to a standstill. The roads were quiet, and our beaches were deserted. A trip to the supermarket for essential groceries saw everyone wearing a mask — for the first time. Other states restricted travel of West Australians, desperate to keep the virus out.

The subsequent two days didn’t bring a rush of cases that we feared; instead, for the first two days of lockdown, no new cases of covid-19 were detected. Residents of other countries might think this was overkill; in truth, that’s how a proper pandemic response should look.

Under these conditions, how is planning possible? You have dinner reservations, a party planned, a wedding with contracts, a business meeting, a concert, a delivery scheduled, or anything at all, and everything can be closed for an indefinite period of time. This could happen any time day or night, all on the authority of government officials and all because of a positive PCR test. Australia is widely celebrated as a success but is it success when any state within Australia can fall to totalitarian control at the drop of a hat, in a country that has locked its citizens within its borders and locked visitors out, thus smashing the whole of the tourist industry?

Do we really want to live in this world? And also a relevant question: what does this do to the ability to plan and invest in the future? There is the thing called “time preference” which refers to the willingness of individuals to put off current consumption for the future. A low time preference is essential for building a progressing economy and social order and it is contingent on a stable and predictable regime that doesn’t randomly invade people’s rights. When arbitrary power comes along to pillage people’s property, inhibit their freedom of movement, and restrict their associations, the effect is to make planning for the future less possible and hence disincentivize it. In effect, you encourage people to live for the moment rather than planning for the future. Hope is replaced by nihilism.

Lockdowns also attacked other forms of capital: professional, educational, and social. About one third of workers in America started working from home. For many, the word working should be in quotes. Life changed dramatically. Forget the commutes, the traffic, the office environment, the waits for the elevator, the lunch hour, the after-hours cocktails with friends. Instead work became about laptops, houseshoes, all-day snacks, afternoon drinking, and binging Netflix in the background. Laziness became too easy.

Maybe this was viable for a few weeks. But after several months, it became obvious that people’s personal capital was under attack. Some people could continue to receive a paycheck while staring at a screen while others have to hustle, go to work, cut the meat and stock the shelves, check out the customers, slog around the hospital, paint the houses and do the yardwork, serve people where dining was allowed, and so on. Still others were forcibly put out of work (movie theaters, the arts, conference venues, and so on). Whether you could deploy your labors to your benefit depended entirely on the exigencies of the planning elites.

All this terrible disruption has shattered people’s confidence in the system and rattled people’s sense of their own value. Lockdowns have taken their toll on our confidence in the law and our optimism that we live in a world in which our persons and property are safe from invasion by political elites.

A very practical example of a form of investment concerns the decision to have children. Kids have been locked out of their schools for a year, depleting educational capital. One million mothers have left the workforce to care for kids, depleting professional capital. Three quarters of families have said they feel intense stress. Early on after the lockdowns began, people were predicting a new baby boom.

Not so much anymore. Now there is growing wonder whether people will decide not to have children because of the burden, the lack of educational security, the possibility that this whole nightmare could happen again and leave parents with impossible circumstances yet again. Then there is the deeper question of whether we really want to bring children into a world in which they could be so brutalized as they were in 2020. Perhaps this accounts for why births in Italy alone plunged 22% since lockdowns.

The same fear is expressed by many capitalists. Why open a restaurant if it can be shut down? Why build a hotel if travel restrictions can leave it empty for months and even years? If you don’t have confidence in a stable legal regime for the future, what can one say about whether investing in anything physical or that depends on customers coming and going is really a good idea? Do we really want to open a factory that can be closed any time by decree?

Outside of a major war, it is hard to recall a time when government policies have so seriously roiled business practices, economic structures, and personal lives as much as lockdowns have, not only in the US but all over the world. The consequences will be felt for many years in the future.

What we need today more than anything is a guarantee, an ironclad guarantee from our leaders that nothing like this can ever happen again. To make that promise credible we also need a flurry of frank admissions that they made terrible mistakes this time, detailing what they were, and give us proof that there are legal means to stop the next guy in that office from locking people down yet again. We need the rule of law to once again protect essential rights. If we do not get that, we will continue to see people lose hope and confidence in the future, and that could have a devastating long-term effect on prosperity and social peace.

Source: Lockdowns Have Depleted Capital in All Forms – AIER

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Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft Suspended From Twitter After Posting Shocking Voter Fraud Footage

Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft Suspended From Twitter After Posting Shocking Voter Fraud Footage

Feb 7, 2021 by

Twitter has banned The Gateway Pundit and its founder, Jim Hoft, from the platform

The official Twitter account of Gateway Pundit, run by its founder, Jim Hoft, has been suspended from Twitter. It is unclear whether the suspension is permanent, or what may have provoked Twitter to take such an action against one of the country’s leading conservative news publications.

Cassandra Fairbanks, a reporter at Gateway Pundit, previously revealed that she had been temporarily suspended from the platform, and informed her followers that, as she returned, Hoft received a temporary suspension.

It is unclear whether Hoft’s suspension remains temporary, as Twitter now provides language about Gateway Pundit’s Twitter ban that is identical to the language used when Twitter permanently bans an account.

Fairbanks seems to have suggested the ban is permanent.

A shocking report from OAN on how a legitimate win by Joe Biden couldn’t have occurred in a million years.

The ban comes one day after The Gateway Pundit published never-before-seen footage that appeared to show election officials in Michigan receiving truckloads of ballots long past the deadline. The footage coincides perfectly with the late night surges that pushed Joe Biden over the top after most Americans went to bed on November 3, believing President Donald Trump had been reelected.

On her Twitter account, Fairbanks notes that the timing is extremely conspicuous, and suggested it may relate to the late night “vote dumps” that made Joe Biden the election winner.

Launched by Hoft in 2004, The Gateway Pundit is now read by “over 2.5 million unique readers every day visit TGP,” and “The Gateway Pundit is ranked as one of the top 150 websites in America, based on Alexa rankings,” per the website’s About section.

Source: Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft Suspended From Twitter After Posting Shocking Voter Fraud Footage

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‘The fight has been turned inward,’ laments San Francisco school superintendent

‘The fight has been turned inward,’ laments San Francisco school superintendent

Feb 7, 2021 by

Supt. Vincent Matthews, in EdSource’s podcast, says city attorney in San Francisco should have given him a heads-up before filing suit against the district.

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San Francisco Unified Superintendent Vincent Matthews in a pre-pandemic classroom in what now seem like Halcyon days

Insisting that his district does have a plan to reopen some of its schools, San Francisco Unified Superintendent Vincent Matthews says that the lawsuit filed by the city against the district to force it bring students back to school will only serve to divert energy that should be going to make that happen.

A far better strategy, he said, would have been if city attorney Dennis Herrera, who filed the suit, had walked the two blocks from City Hall to district headquarters, or even picked up the phone, and expressed his concerns.

In fact, he said, he has never met Herrera. “My office is literally a hundred yards from his office. I come to work every day. He could have walked a hundred yards. We could have masked up, and sat six feet apart. And he could have said, ‘these are the issues that we have with your plan.’ He did none of those things.”

Matthews said he was not given a heads up on the lawsuit until he read about it in the San Francisco Chronicle, just hours before the suit was filed in nearby Superior Court.

“The way adults solve problems is they sit down with each other, and work through problems,” Matthews said in an interview on EdSource’s podcast This Week in California Education. “If you are trying to solve a complex problem, you get together and say ‘these are the issues I have;’ if you’re trying to get headlines, you file a lawsuit.”

To listen to the podcast, which includes an interview with CTA President E. Toby Boyd, go here.

Now, he said, “we’re going to spend time working on this as opposed to actually working on delivering high quality distance learning, as well as implementing plans to bring students back.”

“One of the things that we need to recognize is that this is a fight against a pandemic for all of us,” he said. “We’re trying to defeat a pandemic and, in most cases, people will circle the wagons.”

In San Francisco, the wagons have been circled, but not in a constructive way, he said. “Instead of aiming out at the pandemic, the fight has turned inward and a lawsuit has been filed against us.”

Herrera said that “going to court was not our preferred course of action. We did not take this action lightly.”

However, he rejected the notion that there was anything to discuss with Matthews before going to court. “The school board and the district had 10 months to put together a viable plan as they are required to do under state law,” he said. “They still haven’t done so. A meeting wasn’t necessary to tell them what they’ve known for months that they need to under the law.”

As a “homegrown” superintendent, Matthews has San Francisco in his blood. He was born and raised in the city, attended its public schools, and graduated from McAteer High School. He began his 30-year career in education as a teacher and principal in the district. He has been superintendent in some of the most challenged districts in the state, including Oakland Unified and Inglewood Unified, when they were under state trusteeship. He also served as superintendent of San Jose Unified. He returned San Francisco 3 1/2 years ago to the district’s top job.

He is diplomatic about his relations with the teachers union, which some critics accuse of creating unnecessary obstacles in the way of in-person learning. Indirectly drawing a contrast to the fractured relationship with the city leadership, he described Susan Solomon, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, representing teachers and other school employees, as a “partner in this work.”

“You have to think of it first as a partnership, and together do whatever it takes to knock down the barriers to delivering a high-quality education and eventually return our students and families back to safe environments,” he said.

Asked what the biggest obstacle in the way of opening schools in San Francisco has been, Matthews summed it up in a word: the pandemic. That has thwarted the district’s efforts to open the schools, including a plan to bring some students back by January 25. On that date, the county was “at the highest level of the surge” and in “deep purple” on the state’s color-coded chart, which meant schools couldn’t reopen under state regulations. Vaccines were also becoming available, with the prospect of vaccinating teachers on the horizon, further complicating matters. “We are reassessing, and want to make sure that when we do open doors, the conditions are right for both our students and the adults,” he said.

Describing himself as a “terminal optimist,” he said that he believed schools would reopen for in-person instruction. But he also declined to put a date on when that might happen, only saying that he hoped it would be “before the end of the year.”

As for the district’s reopening plan — which the city alleges in its lawsuit that the district lacks — Matthews said it has been on the district’s website since December.  The plan, however, has not been agreed to by the union, which Friday spelled out its conditions for returning to school, saying “the majority” of them had been met.  Without giving a timeline, it said teachers would be willing to return when the county is in the “red” tier, but only if teachers are vaccinated, and in the “orange” tier without vaccinations.

Given the uncertainties, if not chaos, around the vaccine rollout, those conditions could still postpone reopening, perhaps for months.  That’s because the current “adjusted new case rate” in San Francisco (12.5), while still lower than all but seven of California’s 58 counties, is still three times higher than it should be to put the district into the “orange” tier level (under 4) set by the state.

Herrera is hoping his lawsuit will accelerate the timetable. “Just going with the status quo and hoping the district comes up with an effective plan isn’t working,” he said. “Hopefully, the prospect of court scrutiny will focus the district’s attention like nothing would have and get this problem addressed once and for all.”

Other communities are looking closely at what happens next in San Francisco.  Within a day of Herrera’s suit, a councilmember in Los Angeles had announced that he’ll file a motion at the council’s meeting next week urging it to file a similar suit against Los Angeles Unified, the state’s largest school district.

Like Matthews, LA Unified Austin Beutner weighed in quickly against that possibility. “Grandstanding political stunts like this are precisely why schools in Los Angeles remain closed,” he said said. “Elected leaders from Sacramento to Los Angeles City Hall need to put deeds behind their words and take the steps necessary to actually put schools and the children they serve first.”

Source: ‘The fight has been turned inward,’ laments San Francisco school superintendent | EdSource

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The Trans Dilemma – How To Proceed

The Trans Dilemma – How To Proceed

Feb 5, 2021 by

“The Trans Dilemma – How To Proceed”

By Donna Garner

2.5.21

Below are credible articles to lead us through the “trans” dilemma.  I have excerpted a few selected quotes from each to encourage people to read the entire articles:

2.4.21 – “TALCOTT: The Transgender Athlete Debate Forces Us To Make A Choice. Both Are Unfair” — By Shelby Talcott – Daily Caller

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/04/shelby-talcott-transgender-athlete-debate-choice-unfair/

“Male athletes are stronger. They’re faster. Their bodies are made differently than ours, and there is simply not enough proof to indicate taking hormones erases these natural advantages.“

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2.1.21 – “Female athlete speaks out against new Biden executive order on gender identity” – by Nikolas Lanum –  Fox Newshttps://www.foxnews.com/sports/idaho-athlete-runner-biden-executive-order-gender-identity

Idaho State University runner Madison Kenyon spoke out against President Biden’s new gender identity executive order Monday, citing her experience competing against transgender athletes as the reason for signing onto a recent lawsuit against the administration.

…her past competitions against “biological males” were both “frustrating and “unmotivating.”

Holcomb explained that Biden’s executive order sends a message to her client and other female athletes that they “don’t matter to this administration.”

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1.25.21 – “The End of Women’s Sports” – by Gary Bauer — Campaign for Working Families/the-end-of-womens-sports/

All the polling data show that young women voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden.  And his response to those young women was to issue an executive order that may well eliminate women’s sports as a place for young women to excel. 


 
The reason schools didn’t just tell young women to try out for the men’s baseball team is that science shows us that there are significant physical differences between men and women.  That’s just a fact of life.


 
…In states like Connecticut, liberal Democrats decided that men with all the body parts of men could claim that they were instead women.  And in the name of equity and non-discrimination, they were given a right to compete in women’s sports.  The results have been predictable. 


 
Multiple high school female athletes lost the chance to win college scholarships.  Their hopes and dreams
were shattered because they had to unfairly compete against men.

But here comes “Mr. Nice Guy,” [Joe Biden] who we’re told is a moderate.  He issued an executive order last week, which, if it stands, will potentially destroy women’s sports over the next decade, denying your daughters and granddaughters of the opportunities that Title IX has provided for the past 49 years.


 
So, the president who is in office largely because he won the women’s vote has just created a regime where your 17-year-old daughter may have to compete against a 17-year-old boy in track and other sports.  When she loses the competition, she may have to take a shower with him when it’s all over.

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1.30.21 – “Texas Republicans want to keep transgender women out of women’s school sports teams” — By Kate McGee and Aliyya Swaby  — Texas Tribune

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/30/texas-republicans-transgender-students-sports/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Newsletters&utm_campaign=7c077ceaae-trib-newsletters-top-story-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-7c077ceaae-102179957&mc_cid=7c077ceaae&mc_eid=0a4ed7a887

…Lawmakers have filed legislation that would ban transgender girls and women who attend public K-12 schools, colleges and universities from playing on single-sex sports teams designated for girls and women.

The University Interscholastic League of Texas, which governs high school athletics and extracurricular activities, relies on students’ birth certificates to determine whether they participate in men’s or women’s athletics.

[The bill] would also allow students to take legal action against a school or the UIL if they felt they were deprived an opportunity to play on a sports team due to violations of this bill, or if they’re retaliated against for reporting a school for violations under this law.

A Senate bill… would prevent transgender girls in public schools and charters from playing on a girls sports team. The bill defines “biological sex” as the one assigned at the student’s birth and “correctly stated on the student’s official birth certificate.”

…transgender girls…could have an unfair advantage in strength and ability. “This is purely 100% devoted to the preservation of Title IX and allowing women to compete against women in their peer groups in that biological category, so they know they can have an equal and fighting chance based on ability and not over some political narrative of the day that undermines fairness…”

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2.2.21 — “…Separate Bill To Ban ‘Transgender Males in Girls’ Sports Passes House, Goes on to Senate” – Mass Resistance — https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen4/21a/Montana-State-House-battle-over-trans-bills/index.html

The most ghoulish assault from the LGBT movement is their push to irreparably harm children through “sex-change” treatments. These “treatments” include deranged psychological counseling and chemical interventions (puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones), and often progress to disfiguring and irreversible surgeries. These experimental procedures leave children sterile and stunt their physical and psychological growth. They bring ugly facial hair and lowered voices to girls, and turn boys into eerie imitations of females.

…Rep. Fuller also introduced HB 112 which would ban “transgender” males from competing in girls’ sports – similar to the bill passed in Idaho last year

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2.4.21 –  “‘Black Lives Matter at School’ Teaches Young Children to Be Transgender and Queer ‘Affirming’” — By Dr. Susan Berry – Breitbarthttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/04/black-lives-matter-at-school-teaches-young-children-to-be-transgender-and-queer-affirming/

Some government schools are celebrating “Black Lives Matter at School Week” using lesson plan “resources” from Black Lives Matter (BLM) that teach children as young as kindergarten age the culture of white, heterosexual people from traditional families led by a father and mother, must be overturned.

Teachers are…told to read this statement to their young students:

{If our doctor and our parents assign us a gender and it matches what we feel inside, then we can say we are cisgender. However, we may look like what society says a girl or boy should look like, but inside, we feel something different than just boy or just girl, we are somewhere in between, we can say that we are gender-expansive or transgender.}

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1.20.21 – “Navigating the Transgender Landscape – School Resource Guide” – by Child and Parental Right Campaign  — https://childparentrights.org/school-resource-guide/?mc_cid=a3e9db6f74&mc_eid=4fc81ff87c

Children are declaring that they no longer identity as their own sex, but as the opposite sex, a new made-up “gender,” or no sex at all, creating serious challenges for K-12 schools. Until now, school leaders trying to implement policies to address this phenomenon have only had one-sided resources with the agenda of affirming a child’s belief that he or she was “born in the wrong body.”  These ideologically driven materials omit important scientifically accurate information about the serious mental health and medical concerns raised by this phenomenon and fail to address the rights of all students and of parents.

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Award-Winning Entrepreneur Jason Kulpa Outlines 5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Keep Learning

Award-Winning Entrepreneur Jason Kulpa Outlines 5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Keep Learning

Feb 5, 2021 by

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Constant self-improvement is part of being a responsible and successful entrepreneur. New technologies are being developed every day, and utilizing these technologies and systems may give you an edge over the competition. Knowing a bit more than everyone else can easily be the difference between making a successful startup and going back to the drawing board. Below, Jason Kulpa outlines five ways to keep your brain and knowledge on point:

1. Follow the Right Blogs

Just about anyone can put up a blog, and if you take a quick look at the Internet, you may think that everyone has. That is a good development, as a whole. Knowledge can be shared by more people, from more walks of life, than ever before. However, that does not mean that all knowledge online is relevant to you or even accurate.

To use blogs properly, you need to find the right ones. First, look for blogs that cover topics relevant to your industry. Next, take a look at their authors and check whether they have the credentials to write accurate and well-considered articles. Optionally, you can try to find out if they have any sponsors or corporate support, which may influence the kind of articles and opinions the blog puts out.

2. Online Learning Courses

If you want to learn something new, the best way to do so is to be trained in the topic. Fortunately, many online learning platforms can help you become an authority on practically any subject you consider. The best part is that you get to move at your pace, allowing you to customize the experience to make them more useful. All you need to do is to look for the best ones.

Coursera, for example, is virtually free – though you have to pay if you want to be graded and earn certification for what you have learned. eDX is a free option that many turn to as well. Do your research, and you will find numerous options available.

3. Official Company Documentation

Most reputable companies will make it easy for their users to learn about their products. They will pump out articles and manuals that will educate their consumer base to smooth out the user experience and establish their authority and trustworthiness. That information is available to anyone who wants it.

Don’t just look at materials for products and services you use. Look at anything related to your industry. See how the competition talks to their audience. Every little bit of information you get can be used to your benefit somehow, so gather as much as you can.

4. Books and Other Printed Materials

When in doubt, entrepreneurs can always go to the classics. Books and magazines can provide you with a lot of information you would not find online. Books remain one of the best ways to get high-level lessons and data. They may not be as up-to-date as a website would be, but since books are much hard to print and sell, you at least know there is more research and effort behind any printed info you find.

If you want the best of both worlds, you can elect to go for digital versions of printed material. Those are easier to access, depending on your preferences, and easier to process.

5. Internet Conferences

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, more and more businesses and entities have taken operations online. Among those operations include events and conferences, both of which you can join, often at a minimal cost. The good news is those events are usually high-quality, with thoroughly vetted and famous speakers, which means you will get your money’s worth.

Putting time and energy into learning might seem like a low priority, especially considering how much you have on your plate as an entrepreneur. Still, each point of information and knowledge you learn directly impacts your performance. The benefits of knowledge may not be immediately impactful, but they will add up, and eventually, you will realize how much that knowledge has made you a better entrepreneur.

About Jason Kulpa:

Jason Kulpa is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of UE.co, San Diego’s Fastest Growing Business multi-year award winner, and a Certified Great Place to Work multi-year winner. Mr. Kulpa is a San Diego’s two-time winner of the Most Admired CEO Award of the San Diego Business Journal and also a semi-finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur award. Under Mr. Kulpa’s leadership, in 2018, his teams volunteered at over 24 events and worked side-by-side to improve the San Diego community. They hosted a gala dinner benefiting individuals with autism, cheered on Special Olympic athletes as they broke their records on the track, and brought school supplies and cold-weather gear to students impacted by homelessness. Jason’s mission is to bring awareness, support, and inclusion for special needs causes.

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    Great point about the online learning courses, I feel like that is especially applicable right now. Thank you for sharing!

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Miguel Cardona Pressed by Lawmakers on Tests, Reopening Schools, and Transgender Students

Miguel Cardona Pressed by Lawmakers on Tests, Reopening Schools, and Transgender Students

Feb 4, 2021 by

The nominee for secretary of education stressed the value of COVID-19 relief and that schools must be “free of harassment and discrimination.”
Education Secretary nominee Miguel Cardona testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee during his confirmation hearing Feb. 3, 2021.
Nominee for education secretary Miguel Cardona vowed at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday to help schools reopen safely and ensure educators and students have the support they need during the COVID-19 pandemic. But Cardona did not take a firm position on the role of standardized tests during the pandemic, and in general tried to stake out positions on controversial issues such as the rights of transgender students without seeming combative. President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education told members of the Senate education committee that future pandemic relief funding from Congress must focus on helping students recover from COVID-19 academically and in other ways. Cardona, currently the Connecticut commissioner of education, championed the importance of public schools schools without criticizing charter schools or private school choice. And in response to questions from several Republican senators who questioned the fairness of transgender female students competing in girls’ athletic contests, Cardona insisted that schools had an obligation to provide transgender students the chance to participate in activities like sports. “My passion is really to ensure quality schools, period,” Cardona said, highlighting his own experience working in public schools.”I’m a strong proponent of making sure all schools are quality schools. Most parents want to send their children to their neighborhood school.” He told lawmakers in Spanish, “In unity there is strength.” And he pledged to senators, “We will work to reopen schools safely.”
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