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So I haven’t been participating much, primarily because I have been under a great deal of stress as I don’t know where I’m going to land on this. For those who read my last post, you remember that I got fired from my job out of the blue 3 weeks ago...
by MargaretPOA
on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 01:54 PM PST
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The majority of this piece will consider the issue of inclusion of disabled people; however, in order to understand the problem of inclusion for disabled people we need to understand what disability is. It is not the opposite of being abled bodied,...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 03:00 PM PST
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Recent external polls cited here on this site have currently declared that a race between Trump and Biden is either a dead heat or that Trump would prevail. These selfsame pollsters attribute this to “independents” who they claim are blaming inflation...
by Anakai
on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 02:35 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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Ending the pandemic emergency increases burdens for people with long COVID-19.
By� Larry Buhl �for Capital & Main
With the official ...
by Capital and Main
on Wed Jun 07, 2023 at 08:20 AM PDT
with 65 Recommends
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On Monday, the Washington Post’s Editorial Board published an opinion piece titled “Veterans deserve support. But one benefit program deserves scrutiny.” The piece begins with two lines about how “Americans must keep faith” in our veterans, and also...
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Apr 05, 2023 at 09:28 AM PDT
with 136 Recommends
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On a general level, we have a Tory government that because of a 5 year Parliamentary rule is clinging onto power; because they know if there were a general election they would lose and lose badly. Neither the Truss government or the Sunak government...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Dec 18, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
with 17 Recommends
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There are so many places to start a conversation about the debt ceiling, but perhaps the best for our purposes is to talk about what it actually is. The term “debt ceiling” feels murky and abstract (at least to me, it does) and I think that’s a fair...
by Marissa Higgins
on Tue Dec 13, 2022 at 03:30 PM PST
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Universities depend on graduate student workers’ labor but won’t provide adequate pay without the pressure of collective bargaining efforts.
by Sravya Tadepalli
This article was originally ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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The combination of right-wing ideology, arrogance and stupidity is a dreadful combination for a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alas, the same holds for a Prime Minister, but it may be worse as she also seems to be delusional and completely incapable of...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Oct 16, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 194 Recommends
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The fact is that unions give people a ticket to the middle class. Big businesses dominate the economy. For example, the top four domestic airlines collected 41 percent of the industry’s revenue 10 years ago; today they collect 65 percent. It’s the same...
by Dem
on Wed Sep 21, 2022 at 06:16 PM PDT
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DeckerPitter Actually, Trump has taken all bona fide patriots, all responsible and accountable democracy advocates, and all blindly believing people-blinkers running after people-blinkers hostage intellectually and emotionally by forcing all persons in...
by DeckerPitter
on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 04:13 PM PDT
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Since the Supreme Court gutted Roe. v. Wade two weeks ago, Daily Kos has done a number of stories on how the future might play out, from examining how ectopic pregnancies will be treated, the effect of limited access to clinics, the increased violence...
by Aysha Qamar
on Wed Jul 06, 2022 at 11:45 AM PDT
with 40 Recommends
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I have been wishing that, somehow, I could clone myself; then I start thinking of the Simpson’s Episode where Homer uses Dr Frink’s time machine to save time because he is too lazy to get up and just get a beer for example. The result was that Homer...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Jun 12, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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On Thursday, March 3, 2022, the United States House of Representatives passed HR 3967, the Honoring our PACT Act of 2021. The bill was only expected to pass in the House because the Democratic Party holds the majority of seats. This is exactly how it...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Mar 03, 2022 at 03:40 PM PST
with 102 Recommends
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[post co-written by Colleen Shaddox]
At every book talk we give someone will ask, “And how did you two start working together?”
People are curious because we have an obvious rapport but are ...
by JGoldblum
on Fri Aug 06, 2021 at 11:02 AM PDT
with 0 Recommends
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Maryland follows Indiana in stopping its governor from ending federal pandemic unemployment benefits early. Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill’s ruling arrived at 10am this morning. The decision implements a temporary restraining order against Governor Hogan...
by Munchausen
on Sat Jul 03, 2021 at 07:45 AM PDT
with 106 Recommends
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Joe Manchin has now forced the Senate to gut Unemployment benefits, stalling talks on the Relief bill to the point where its passage risks overlapping with the expiring of UI benefits on March 14th. President Biden’s original plan was $400/wk through...
by Munchausen
on Fri Mar 05, 2021 at 04:42 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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As the novel coronavirus continues to spread nationwide, unemployment records face an all-time high. More than 24 million Americans have filed for unemployment insurance since mid-March with over 3 million Americans filing for benefits within one week....
by Aysha Qamar
on Mon Apr 27, 2020 at 12:34 PM PDT
with 85 Recommends
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If this goes on for a longer term, millions of people without income is simply not an option. The problem is any long-term relief program will be budget busting. There needs to be revenue offsets or the dollar will become strained and we risk a...
by pootietat
on Sat Apr 11, 2020 at 02:06 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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I recently spoke at a gun club. I’m a gun owner and Eagle Scout, from a working class background; but because I’m a Democrat, most of the people in the room looked at me with suspicion. There were probably 70 people there; some even wearing MAGA hats....
by NateMcMurray
on Sun Feb 23, 2020 at 02:38 PM PST
with 194 Recommends
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