The whole point of a minimum wage is to set the lowest pay someone can earn and still afford a basic standard of living. If a full-time worker can’t cover essentials like rent and food, then the minimum wage has failed at the very job it was created to do.
Today, our partners at @SEPTAPHILLY announced the reopening of the underground concourse linking the 15th Street Market-Frankford Line / City Hall and Walnut-Locust stops on the Broad Street Line.
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Isn’t it hypocritical to take a few Bible verses on sexuality and demand they be legislated over an entire country, while reducing over 2000 verses about wealth, care for the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable, and refugees to a private personal choice?
As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
105 years ago today — May 31, 1921 — horror came to Tulsa.
A thriving, self-made Black community known as "Black Wall Street" was brutally attacked by white mobs in one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in American history.
They burned it to the ground. Hundreds of Black-owned homes and businesses — symbols of pride, prosperity, and hard-won success — were looted and reduced to rubble. At least 36 Black residents were murdered, over 800 were injured, and thousands more were left homeless, their dreams and life's work destroyed in a single night of terror.
A community that had risen against all odds was violently crushed. We remember Greenwood. We remember the lives stolen. We remember the pain that still echoes.
Luxuries we forget that are luxuries:
1. Your mom still around
2. Hot water
3. Feeling healthy
4. Peace of mind & heart
5. Perfect weather days
6. Good food
7. Bills paid
8. Reliable transportation
Mali Hightower, a handyman from Georgia, turned creativity into survival. He built a motorized Barbie toy car from a discarded engine to save money on gas. As prices continue rising across America, many families are being forced to rethink how they travel, work, and simply get through the week. Transportation is a necessity.