skip to main content
skip to newscasts

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Public News Service Logo
facebook instagram linkedin reddit youtube twitter
view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

view newscast page
play newscast audioPlay

Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

What Would You Do with a Trillion Dollars? Suggestions from Miami Students

play audio
Play

Thursday, April 12, 2012   

MIAMI - The thought of $1 trillion is hard for most people to fathom, but a group of students from Miami's Edison Senior High School has attempted to put it into perspective.

The students produced a short film called, "If I Had a Trillion Dollars," which was chosen to be featured at a film festival of the same name to be held Saturday through Monday in Washington, D.C.

Senior Ashton Perry helped produce the entry for the school's art club.

"You can't really picture. It's so much money and just to know it's just being spent every day on the war, it's just crazy to me."

Perry's film featured student ideas on what they'd do with the money, which included funding education programs and eliminating child prostitution.

The annual competition, sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the National Priorities Project, aims to shed light on the amount of money spent on wars and tax breaks for the wealthy.

Grasping the large amount of money spent on the U.S. military has given her and her classmates plenty to consider, Perry says. She's interested in doing more filmmaking as a result of the competition, and hopes their points resonate with viewers.

"I wish they would consider spending it on children's education, 'cause the children are the future - they're the future of America."

Perry and her classmates held a variety of fundraisers to pay for their trip to the nation's capital, and received complimentary airline tickets from JetBlue.

Perry's film is online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDacdf8-3s&feature=youtu.be. All entries in the contest are at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC28E204D2178F0EF&feature=plcp.


get more stories like this via email

more stories
Iowa families can apply for up to $7,600 a year for private school costs. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

An ethics committee in the Republican-led Iowa House has dismissed a complaint filed by a group of community activists against a state lawmaker for hi…


play sound

Each spring, hundreds of thousands of California high school seniors have to figure out if they can afford to go to college in the fall - and two new …

Health and Wellness

play sound

A health care workforce shortage in New Hampshire is leaving Alzheimer's patients and their families with few options for treatment. Patients facing …


South Dakota ranks 49th in the country for its contribution to indigent legal defense costs, according to a 2023 report from the Indigent Legal Services Task Force. (Adobe Stock)

Social Issues

play sound

South Dakota is creating an Office of Indigent Legal Services after House Bill 1057 passed the Legislature with nearly unanimous support this month…

Environment

play sound

A Knoxville-based environmental group is voicing concerns over what it sees as an increasing financial strain imposed on taxpayers by nuclear weapons …

Environment

play sound

A bipartisan law set to take effect this summer prohibits foreign adversaries from buying Hoosier farmland. The signature of Gov. Eric Holcomb was …

Environment

play sound

Traffic deaths are trending higher in Minnesota this year after a decline the previous year. Groups pushing for safer roads are convinced a small …

 

Phone: 303.448.9105 Toll Free: 888.891.9416 Fax: 208.247.1830 Your trusted member- and audience-supported news source since 1996 Copyright © 2021