Kentucky teachers to skip work after ‘bait and switch’ on pension reform Several Kentucky teachers won’t be going to work Friday after the state legislature approved changes to their pension on Thursday. Educators, who are furious over the pension issue, called out of work in protest. At least nine counties have canceled school, the Kentucky […]
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Ok Teachers Fighting Inequality
Oklahoma Teachers Just Got a $6,100 Pay Raise. They’re Going to Strike Anyway Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill Thursday giving teachers a $6,100 raise on average, but educators in the state — who rank among the worst paid in the country — are still planning to strike on Monday, demanding higher raises and more education […]
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CFPB Under Attack
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Under Attack in Congress Since republicans have taken over Congress they have made slow but steady progress in dismantling all of President Obama landmark legislation. The next item on their list is repealing PayDay Lender rules that protect ordinary citizens from juice loan tactics for poor borrowers. Below is further proof […]
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Record Unemployment II
What Record-Low Unemployment Really Is Marietta, Georgia: Casting a Wider Net Lanre Bakare, a 36-year-old Nigerian immigrant, was homeless and had little marketable work experience when he was accepted into a training program run by CobbWorks Inc., a federally funded nonprofit that matches workers and businesses in the construction, logistics, information technology, and health-care fields. […]
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Record Unemployment
This Is What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America Portland, Maine: Making Do With Fewer Workers From polished sea-salt caramel balls to truffles packaged with hand-tied bows, the treats on sale at Wilbur’s of Maine Chocolate Confections in Freeport exude artisanal charm. While that’s a source of pride for owner Andrew Wilbur, whose parents started […]
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Legally Robbing Prisoners
Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750,000 Meant To Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House They say justice is blind but in the Jim Crow South where slavery was born and still rises its ugly head after 153 years, laws are still on the state’s ledger that allow injustice to prevail. Each day we find those little known […]
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Russia Hacks Into U
Russia Hacks Into U.S. Power Plants According to an alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team yesterday, Russia has hacked into many of our government entities and domestic companies in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors – essentially most of what makes our country go. This is not […]
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CyberWarfare Is Real – Trump Absent
Evidence of Hacking In Plain Sight “But Our Executive Government Administration Doesn’t Care” “Where do we sit while major security breaches take place that affect our nation. The Trump administration budget for national defense is approaching 1 trillion dollars a year for airplanes and tanks when our enemy is not on the ground but in […]
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Trump quietly vindicating Obama regulations
Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations President Donald Trump’s administration has been on a deregulatory bender, particularly when it comes to environmental regulations. As of January, the New York Times counted 67 environmental rules on the chopping block under Trump. This is not one of Trump’s idiosyncrasies, though. His administration is more […]
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Idaho’s brazen plan to unravel Obamacare
Idaho’s brazen plan to unravel Obamacare Republicans in Congress failed to repeal Obamacare, but Republicans in Idaho are trying to do it themselves — law of the land be damned. The state has rolled out the most audacious anti-Obamacare proposal yet, one that openly defies the fact that the Affordable Care Act is still in […]