Across the United States, the share of lowest-wage workers with access to paid sick time nearly doubled between 2010 and 2023, from 20% to 39%. While this marks progress, it still means 61% of the lowest-wage workers do not have access to paid sick time....
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer last week, claiming the pharmaceutical giant "deceived the public" by "unlawfully misrepresenting" the effectiveness of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sought to silence critics....
I take it the Texas tax payers would be footing the bill? If so then there is no risk (ha!) to Paxton to pursue this. Only political gain even if Texas loses.
Strange headline. This is a justice department and foreign relations problem that really doesn’t rise to the level of a president problem.
A telling few lines:
Insider: I’m not sure Biden is personally hellbent on revenge. If Biden were to do what you wanted, he’d get hell from a large group of people who he has to work with every day.
Shipton: I’m convinced that the constituency that is against his prosecution is much larger.
I suspect this is all part of Trump’s goal to rile up his base. He’ll cancel and then claim the “deep state” somehow made him. His idiotic base will eat it up without questioning.
Anybody from the “law and order” party want to defend this shit head?
"charges Trump, De Oliveira and Nauta with two new obstruction counts based on allegations that they instructed an unnamed, fourth worker to delete surveillance video footage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last summer “to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury.” "
The “FedNow” service, which has been in the works since 2019, will seek to eliminate the several-day lag it commonly takes cash transfers to settle, bringing the U.S. in line with countries including the United Kingdom, India, Brazil, as well as the European Union, where similar services have existed for years....
Not really. ACH is more of a protocol for non-realtime payments. This is for realtime. While there is a fed ACH the largest ACH provider in the US is The Clearing House LLC. Which, as the name suggests, is a private company.
"We shouldn’t make workers choose between going to work sick or going without pay:" Lack of paid sick days is still a real problem for many workers in the US - [November 2023] ( www.epi.org )
Across the United States, the share of lowest-wage workers with access to paid sick time nearly doubled between 2010 and 2023, from 20% to 39%. While this marks progress, it still means 61% of the lowest-wage workers do not have access to paid sick time....
"Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer ( sh.itjust.works )
Source: Oxfam
Trump Will Be a Dictator on Day One and Every Day Thereafter ( newrepublic.com )
Nevada GOP ‘fake electors’ indicted for falsely claiming Trump won state’s 2020 election ( thenevadaindependent.com )
Texas sues Pfizer with COVID anti-vax argument that is pure stupid ( arstechnica.com )
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Pfizer last week, claiming the pharmaceutical giant "deceived the public" by "unlawfully misrepresenting" the effectiveness of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and sought to silence critics....
Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year ( www.texastribune.org )
Trump melts down on Truth Social after judge says his denial "rings hollow and untrue" ( www.salon.com )
Why Joe Biden is facing a Julian Assange problem ( web.archive.org )
[News] Supreme Court rejects Alabama's defiance in voting case ( www.npr.org )
In June, the court ruled that Alabama's Republican-drawn congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act.
Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S. ( www.msnbc.com )
Trump’s Lawyers Tell Him to Cancel Press Conference ( ground.news )
Trump charged with additional counts in Mar-a-Lago documents case (NPR) ( www.npr.org )
lol. lmao
US Federal Reserve launches "FedNow" - the long-awaited instant payments service, modernizing the US banking system ( www.reuters.com )
The “FedNow” service, which has been in the works since 2019, will seek to eliminate the several-day lag it commonly takes cash transfers to settle, bringing the U.S. in line with countries including the United Kingdom, India, Brazil, as well as the European Union, where similar services have existed for years....