James O'Connell

Washington DC consultant. Compliance leader. Recovering economist. Former @USSenate staff.

[James michael🇮🇪🇺🇲🇮🇪🇺🇲⚡⚡ @Jamesyankee]

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RIP Willie Mays #24. One of the all-time greats. Saw him play at the Polo Grounds as a New York Giant. Baseball fans everywhere remember “The Catch” 1954 World Series.

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Babe Ruth’s Catholic Conversion Story & The Little-Known Sacramental He Took to His Grave https://t.co/VXVbOgpg0V

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

Over a 7 season stretch (1950-1956) Yogi Berra captured 3 AL MVP, finished 2nd twice, and had two other top 5 finishes

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

June 6 1944,Sadly the Number of Men who survived D-Day is Dwindling,but They and the Ones who have passed will never be forgotten.#DDay #WWII #1940s #NeverForget #USA #OTD

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

RT our soldiers who fought in Christmas 1944 so we could have Christmas in 2021

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

RT for the last surviving officer D-DAY first wave, turns 99

[Tom’s Old Days @sigg20]

“Old Days”From Bill Dickey to Yogi Berra to Eston Howard to Thurman Munson,few Teams could match the Yankees catching greatness from the 1930's Thru the 1970's.#MLB #Yankees #NYC #1970s

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Amazon Web Services @awscloud to help 29 million people globally upskill for cloud-computing, digital and other technical skills. Pandemic has exposed huge and growing skills gap. Companies can help close this gap.

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@mollykbuck Raking is existential; no right or wrong. It just is. Like the leaves themselves.

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U.S. Labor Department final rule increases salary threshold for time-and-a-half overtime pay from $23,660 a year/$455 a week to $35,568/$684, making 1.2 million more workers eligible for overtime. New rule takes effect Jan 1, 2020.

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Employer-provided family health coverage average annual premium cost hits $20,000 milestone, says @KFF, with employers picking up 71% and employees paying on average $6,015 annually in premiums. Rising cost of care is main cost driver.

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Federal budget deficit hits $1 trillion for first 11 months of FY 2019, says U.S. Treasury, with economy at full employment. Whatever happened to fiscal "policy"?

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U.S. House of Representatives July 17 voted 419-6 to repeal #ACA 40% excise tax on high-value employer-sponsored health benefits now due to take effect in 2022. U.S Senate outlook uncertain as repeal of "Cadillac Tax" would cost Treasury $193 billion through 2029.

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Every company a university: @amazon, America's second largest private employer, will invest $700 million over 6 years to "upskill" 100,000 employees, one-third of its U.S workforce.

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Raising federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would boost wages of 17 million workers but could cause between 1.3 and 3.7 million workers to lose their jobs, says @USCBO.

[PayrollOrg (fmr American Payroll Assoc. & GPMI) @PayrollOrg]

Congratulations to Kristine Willson, CPP-our 2019 Payroll Woman of the Year! Kristine has spent more than 2 decades giving back to the #payroll profession on the national and local levels! #paycon @KristineWillson

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CMS says #ACA exchange enrollments stabilize at 11.4 million as premiums inch down for enrollees eligible for subsidies. Nine years in, Obamacare is here to stay. https://t.co/ri2ilZLeJg