Subminimum Wages Were Always Deplorable. Inflation Is Making Them Worse.
It’s called the luck of being located. If you are lucky enough to be able to live in Alaska or California, Minnesota, Montana Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, or any other state, and you work in a job that relies on tips, you should be paid your state’s full minimum wageFor every hour that you work. […]
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Nearly All Senators Vote Against Sanders’s Amendments to Inflation Reduction Act
During the Senate’s 16-hour amendment marathon for the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) over the weekend, nearly all senators united against several amendments that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) introduced to expand the bill, which is a mixed bag for the climate crisis and prescription drug prices. During Saturday and Sunday’s so-called vote a-rama, legislators proposed dozens […]
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Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill 44, Including 15 Children. Will Ceasefire Hold?
At least 44 Palestinians have been killed in three days of Israeli military bombardment of Gaza. 15 children are among them. At least 350 Palestinians sustained injuries in the bombardment. The bombing stopped on Sunday after Israel and Islamic Jihad, a militant group in the Islamic Jihad, reached a ceasefire. Border crossings were reopened on […]
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Pharma Complains of “Tragic Loss” as Dems Take Modest Action to Curb Drug Prices
Big Pharma and its army of employees 1,500With their endless supply of resources and registered lobbyists, Capitol Hill is rarely without them. So the powerful industry didn’t take it well when the U.S. Senate — a chamber awash with pharma cash — passed legislation Sunday that would require Medicare to negotiate the prices of a […]
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COVID Hasn’t Been Defeated, But Effective Public Health Measures Have Been
Early carnivals supplied political energy a security worth. For just a few days a 12 months, wealthy and poor switched positions. The poor ran society (if in ritual solely), besides, when issues have been going badly within the on a regular basis, the reversal all of a sudden become open rebel from under. Within the […]
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COVID Hasn’t Been Defeated, But Effective Public Health Measures Have Been
Early carnivals offered political power a safety value. For a few days a year, rich and poor switched positions. The poor ran society (if in ritual only), except, when things were going badly in the everyday, the reversal suddenly turned into open rebellion from below. In the present pandemic, it’s the powerful who are running […]
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98 Million Skipped Treatment or Cut Back on Spending to Pay for Care This Year
As inflation hit a 40-year excessive this yr, practically 100 million Individuals skipped care or in the reduction of on requirements to cowl the rising value of medical remedy in a nation notorious for its for-profit system, according to polling outcomes launched this week. Inflation rose to 9.1% in June — and healthcare inflation was […]
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Growth of Borderland Policing Is Deadly for Migrants
The June 2022 deaths 53 people, victims of heat strokeA tractor-trailer carries the warning signs of illegally crossing the U.S. Southern border. All of the dead came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — the three most common origin countries of migrants encountered by the Border Patrol in 2021 so far in 2022. These fatalities are […]
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Growth of Borderland Policing Is Deadly for Migrants
The June 2022 deaths of 53 people, victims of heat stroke, in the back of a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, show the dangers of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization. All of the dead came from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — the three most common origin countries of migrants encountered by the Border […]
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Confusion Over COVID Vaccine Safety Led to Many Avoidable Stillbirths
Late one afternoon final October, Dr. Shelley Odronic sat in her workplace and, simply as she had 1000’s of instances earlier than, slid an oblong glass slide onto her microscope. A pathologist who works in rural Ohio, Odronic leaned ahead to look at tissue from the placenta of a lady who had just lately given […]
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