Wisconsin is a case in point. Wisconsin teachers fare slightly worse than the national average with starting salaries of $32,642 and a maximum with a masterâs degree of $60,036. The Tax Foundation says its tax burden is the fourth worst in the U.S. and its QualityCounts rating was a C+, about average.
It puts total Chinese investment in the U.S. at $1.61 trillion as of June 30, 2010.[1] This is not entirely accurate, but it is far better than the figures in the unrevised monthly Treasury reports used by Congress and the media.
In 2009, China invested $34.6 billion in clean energy (or 0.39 per cent of its GDP), while the United States only put in $18.6 billion (or 0.13 per cent of its GDP). Bottom line: China is way more vulnerable to climate change than the U.S. is, and is already massively feeling the effects.