The fire chief might want to request a review of the ban on hiring the inmates they've trained to combat these fires, allowing her to acquire the necessary staffing after their release. Just a thought
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@realspitfire The fire chief might want to request a review of the ban on hiring the inmates they've trained to combat these fires, allowing her to acquire the necessary staffing after their release. Just a thought.
The House has voted to approve unconstitutional, warrantless searches of Americans' communications.
Now the Senate has too—late on Friday, after the media had gone home.
Only the President can stop it from becoming law, and he won't—because he's the one that asked for it. 🦅🇺🇸
Congress must ban Atrazine, one of the most widely used and toxic herbicides, to stop further contamination of our food & water supply. Atrazine “wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning 1 in 10 into females” according to studies. The EU has already banned it, now US must do the same. Call your reps.
https://t.co/TArZcBby7u
Minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019 $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
If wages had kept pace with productivity gains over the last 50 years, it would be $24/hour.
While Walmart refuses to raise its $11 minimum wage, Alice Walton had no problem purchasing a $500 million private art collection, buying a $25 million 2-floor Park Avenue condo with 52 windows and acquiring a $22 million 4,400-acre Texas ranch. Something is very wrong here.
A man died from COVID in a Houston jail cell last week because he couldn't afford the $100 bail. He died for the crime of being poor, awaiting trial for the alleged crime of stealing food.
His name was Preston Chaney.
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis.