The White House Announces New Initiative To Bring Solar Energy To Low-, Middle-Income Communities

The White House has announced new measures that will bring solar energy, one of the fastest growing sources of renewable energy, to low-income and middle-income communities, including to those who rent. One piece of the initiative is the “community solar” project which will use one solar facility to provide a number of homes with power. “It also includes a pledge to install a total of 300 megawatts of solar and other renewables in federally subsidized housing developments by the year 2020 (each megawatt represents roughly enough solar to power 164 homes),” reports The Washington Post.

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A Cup O’ Joe Will Cost You More Dough! Starbucks Hikes Its Prices

Starbucks lovers will have to shell out more cash as the popular coffee hot spot is charging 5 to 20 cents more…according to USA Today. A large coffee at Starbucks will now cost you $2.45 in most U.S. stores …Despite the backlash from the public, this marks the third year in a row that Starbucks has hiked its prices. In June 2014, Starbucks jacked up the price tag due to the rising costs of raw coffee. But Arabica coffee bean prices have decreased by 27 percent since then, so what’s Starbucks’ excuse now? According to USA Today, the Seattle-based company is combating rent, marketing, and labor costs.

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Tef Poe Rips Hillary Clinton On New Politically Charged Record

Tef Poe, one of the many unsung heroes from the Ferguson protests, is back in the microphone booth stirring up controversial with the lead single for his upcoming War Machine 3 project. If the album is to be considered a war, then color Hillary Clinton the primary target as the track “Hillary” takes aim at the leading Democratic choice for President of the United States in 2016. “I hope y’all hear me now, because we don’t want no more Bill Clinton hand-me-downs…Hillary Clinton and [President] Obama still telling lies/Overseas, killing Africans/And it’s never televised,” the St. Louis MC coldly spat on the Trifecta-produced instrumental.

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