Caribbean organization offers
free tutoring for STEM, college
entry examinations
By Alexandra Simon
The Caribbean American Center of
New York (CACNY) is returning with
its tutoring and exam training program
next week. The orientation for the free
initiative begins at the center’s office in
Brooklyn Heights on Feb. 9, and classes
will commence on Feb. 11.
The Youth Tutoring, Mentoring STEM,
and Training Program offers high school
aged students with an opportunity to
receive guidance and advice from experts
in these educational fields about. Along
with mentorship, students learn preparative
tips to employ for college application.
They will also get tutoring for test-taking
for the Regents and Suite of Assessments
(SAT) exams.
Students between 15 and 17 years old
with a perfect attendance and class participation
records, will be entered into a
raffle on orientation day. Prizes will be
given at the end of the program.
The program, which will end in mid-
June, is designed to also provide students
with information about scholarships,
summer youth jobs, internships, financial
aid, and international educational
programs.
Youth Tutoring, Mentoring STEM,
and Training Program at the Caribbean
American Center of New York 195 Cadman
Plaza W. at War Memorial Building
in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 625-1515,
www.cacnyus.org. Orientation Feb. 9;
9:30-11 am; Classes Feb. 11 at 4 pm. Free
with limited space.
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the monetary authorities who resorted
to unconventional policies, especially
‘quantitative easing’ (QE). However, the
global economic recovery since then has
remained tepid and easily reversible.
Additional liquidity, made available
by QE, has largely been used to buy
financial assets and for speculation,
amplifying the financial vulnerability
of emerging market economies, which
have experienced increased volatility.
Governments also failed to take
advantage of historically low, even negative
real interest rates to borrow and
invest to boost productive capacity in
the longer term.
By mainly benefiting financial asset
holders, QE has exacerbated wealth concentration.
Meanwhile, cuts in public
services and social spending have worsened
social polarization, as tax cuts for
the rich have failed to generate promised
additional investments and jobs growth.
The failure to achieve a robust recovery
has not only worsened the debt
situation, but also made lives harder for
ordinary people. Growing polarization
has also worsened resentments, eroding
trust, undermining solidarity and progressive
alternatives.
Ethno-populist jingoism
undermines cooperation
But lack of preparedness can hardly
be due to ignorance as there have
been many such predictions recently,
certainly more than in 2007-2008,
before the GFC.
The cooperation that enabled coordinated
actions to prevent the Great
Recession from becoming a depression
has not only waned, but major
countries are now at loggerheads,
preventing collective action.
National political environments are
also more hostile. In Europe, the rise
of ethno-populist nationalism is making
it harder to pursue EU-level policies
and to act together to prevent and
mitigate the next financial crisis and
downturn.
The “new sovereigntists” and false
prophets of American exceptionalism
are undermining multilateral cooperation
when needed most. Thus, a
recession in 2019 may well elevate
geo-political tensions, exacerbating
the negative feedback loop for a ‘perfect
storm’.
Anis Chowdhury, adjunct Professor
at Western Sydney University and the
University of New South Wales (Australia),
held senior United Nations
positions in New York and Bangkok.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former
economics professor, was United
Nations Assistant Secretary-General
for Economic Development, and
received the Wassily Leontief Prize for
Advancing the Frontiers of Economic
Thought in 2007.
Founder of the Caribbean American
Center of New York (CACNY), Jean
Alexander. Photo by Elizabeth Graham
/www.cacnyus.org
/www.cacnyus.org
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