States With Temporary Budget Surpluses Should Invest In People March 13, 2022 States With Temporary Budget Surpluses Should Invest In People2022-03-132022-03-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220313.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Ron Starner. Not Enact Permanent Tax Cuts. Policymakers in at least 14 states are using temporary budget surpluses to call for costly and permanent tax cuts targeted more to wealthy people and profitable corporations than to those who need help. That’s a bad choice. States should be careful to protect their long-term ability to provide funding for high-quality schools, access to affordable health care, and other public services, which these tax cuts would badly erode. Instead of permanent tax […]
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After nine weeks on strike, workers at four Kellogg plants have rejected a temporary agreement that doesn’t meet their demands. They’ll continue to fight the bosses — and need the entire U.S. labor movement to join their struggle. The strike that began at four Kellogg Company plants on October 5 will continue. This morning, the 1,400 striking workers rejected a temporary agreement (TA) that had been negotiated by their union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, and Grain Milling Workers International Union. The strike had encompassed workers at plants in Omaha, Nebraska, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Memphis, Tennessee, and the company’s flagship facility in Battle Creek, Michigan. […]
Heavenly Pettigrew, left, and her parents Stephanie and Robert outside their two-bedroom rental apartment in Milwaukee. Without assistance from the nonprofit Community Advocates, the family likely would have faced eviction after the pandemic forced Robert and Heavenly out of their steady jobs. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch hide caption toggle caption Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch Heavenly Pettigrew, left, and her parents Stephanie and Robert outside their two-bedroom rental apartment in Milwaukee. Without assistance from the nonprofit Community Advocates, the family likely would have faced eviction after the pandemic forced Robert and Heavenly out of their steady jobs. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch In August, Robert Pettigrew […]
A sign promoting the 2020 census stands in a planter in Roswell, N.M., in August. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue holding off on wrapping up the census for now. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images A sign promoting the 2020 census stands in a planter in Roswell, N.M., in August. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue holding off on wrapping up the census for now. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images The winding down of the 2020 census must […]
A volunteer in Los Angeles holds a computer tablet displaying the online questionnaire for the 2020 census in August. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images A volunteer in Los Angeles holds a computer tablet displaying the online questionnaire for the 2020 census in August. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Trump administration must, for now, stop winding down in-person counting efforts for the 2020 census, a federal judge in California ordered Saturday, while a legal fight over the shortened schedule for the national head count continues. The temporary restraining order […]
A longtime subforum dedicated to fans and supporters of US President Donald Trump has been removed from Reddit, adding to the growing list of social media violations recently attributed to the US president and his supporters. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a Monday content policy update that in addition to increased forum moderation and more explicit rules regarding “hate based on identity or vulnerability,” some 2,000 active and inactive subreddits have been banned from the website, including “r/The_Donald.” “All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith. We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, […]
The reported measures come as a federal lawsuit against former security adviser John Bolton were not effective in getting him to cancel the release of his book “The Room Where It Happened”, scheduled for 23 June. The US Department of Justice requested a federal judge issue a temporary restraining order to block the publication of a forthcoming memoir by Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, who is thought by the White House to be revealing classified information in his book. “To be clear: Defendant’s manuscript still contains classified information, as confirmed by some of the Government’s most senior national-security and […]
www.complianceteaminc.com Health Editor’s Note: Especially now, during this pandemic, there is no time for false treatments that eat up dollars and time and give no prevention or cure of COVID-19. Xephyr LLC (N-Ergetics) claim that colloidal silver products will cure, prevent, alter, treat COVID-19 as well as cholera, diabetes, AIDS, and cancer is not medically or scientifically proven to do what it claims. Enough with the snake oil…..Carol Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Federal judge enters temporary injunction against Xephyr LLC doing business as N-Ergetics, preventing sale of Colloidal Silver Products for COVID-19 FDA News Release A federal court has entered a temporary […]