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Today I went to the Centro para Adultos Meyor in our Pueblo Magico town some 35 minutes drive from the big city (on a good day). My wife is beginning rehab there having had a hip replaced. I went along with her because the old geezers get together on...
by Adventurist
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on Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 09:48 AM PDT
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Veteran officer who stopped white officer from brutalizing Black suspect wins pension after 13 years In 2006, former Buffalo Police Officer Cariol Horne, a 19-year-veteran of the force at the time, came upon a scene that tested her mettle as a law enforcement officer. Former officer Gregory Kwiatkowski, a white officer, was beating a Black suspect who...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM PDT
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Donald J. Trump incited an attack on the Congress of the United States to stop them from counting ballots that showed he lost the last election. Trump put the safety of members of Congress and others at the Capitol building in serious danger. Trump...
by ScienceTeacher2021
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on Mon Feb 15, 2021 at 10:11 AM PST
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In 2006 Dubya signed a Republican bill, sponsored by Susan Collins, that forced the USPS to fund it's pension plan for the next 75 years. That fund now sits at $120 billion dollars. So now Lil’shenko and Louis DeJoy are currently dismantling the USPS....
by Raging Pencils
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on Sat Aug 22, 2020 at 12:16 PM PDT
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It was John Delaney who was worst about this, but the so-called “moderates” who oppose a Medicare for All plan, on grounds that it “outlaws” private insurance, are basically lying with numbers. Like the mythical Americans who “love” their private or...
by K S LaVida
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on Wed Jul 31, 2019 at 09:23 PM PDT
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Standing out among the bald pates and grey hairs crowding into a Congressional hearing room Thursday morning with “Protect our Pensions” stickers will be 26-year-old Ben Trusnik.
The son, grandson and great-grandson of labor union members, Ben will...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Wed Mar 06, 2019 at 10:34 AM PST
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The total number of workers at risk is 1.2 million. In my union, the United Steelworkers (USW), 100,000 are threatened. Daryl A. Bugbee of Olivet, Mich., is one of them. He wrote Congress’ Joint Select Committee on Multiemployer Pensions on Aug. 8:
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by Leo W Gerard
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on Wed Nov 28, 2018 at 12:26 PM PST
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been getting as much as he can out of Donald Trump. First he was able to secure the top transportation position in our government for his wife, Elaine Chao. Mrs. Chao is such a dumb dumb she publicly admitted...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed May 16, 2018 at 10:47 AM PDT
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More Kentucky public schools will by closed Monday, March 3 2018. Looks like the old "sewer flu" that started late last week will be going around again.
Teachers will be in Frankfort, demonstrating to support public education, which KY Governor Matt...
by owlseye
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on Sun Apr 01, 2018 at 06:37 AM PDT
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The Apprentice President continues flaunting the rule of law and bashing any official or institution that dares call him out on his lies, sins, ethical violations or unlawful deeds. Will Andrew McCabe lose his pension after decades of loyal service.
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by BilRichardson
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on Mon Mar 19, 2018 at 07:32 AM PDT
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If you have a “friend” who is planning on voting for Donald Trump I have a recommended response. ( I put the friend in quotes because if you are as scared of Trump as m any of us, then someone who plans on voting for this dirt bag is not really your...
by aPauledInNJ
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on Thu Sep 29, 2016 at 06:21 PM PDT
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Folks are gathering again in Zucotti Park, now renamed “Liberty Park”, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the national Occupy Wall Street movement. The events in New York City are being coordinated through various websites, including...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
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on Sat Sep 17, 2016 at 01:53 PM PDT
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Ruth Marcus made a contribution to the public debate about individual wealth and politics in a column published by the Washington Post on September 11, 2016. She generally discussed some methods that retired U.S. presidents have used to obtain a steady...
by silverhair
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on Thu Sep 15, 2016 at 09:56 AM PDT
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Goldman-Sachs and Northern Trust charged the Teamsters Union $41 million in fees for handling the beleaguered Central States Pension Fund. The same pension fund where 400,000 retirees are facing drastic cuts.
What did the fund managers do to...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Apr 22, 2016 at 12:39 PM PDT
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It’s one thing for the GOP to spend years working to take defined pension benefits away from workers still on the job, but at least those who have already retired should be safe. Only that's not the case.
Some 400,000 retirees who worked in the...
by Mark Sumner
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on Fri Apr 15, 2016 at 06:54 AM PDT
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Grandma skips meals. Her house is always cold. She barely skimps by, subsisting on just Social Security because of a bunch of pension-killing CEOs and self-dealing financial “advisers.”
The U.S. Labor Department offered some rules last week to...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Tue Apr 12, 2016 at 07:59 AM PDT
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter (Obama appointed last year) has sided with the GOP in their efforts to further harm the US Military by removing the pension of Service Members (SM).
The reason is sim
by DrillSgtK
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on Mon Feb 22, 2016 at 06:23 PM PST
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Zaid Jilani has an excellent new post out today at The Intercept titled
Taxpayers give big pensions to ex presidents precisely so they don’t have to sell out.
The post covers the history of
by TheJerry
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on Mon Feb 08, 2016 at 07:05 PM PST
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Pew Analysis Shows Access to Workplace Retirement Plans
Varies Widely Across States
Big differences among industries, incomes, ages, education, race and ethnicities
Wide differences in acc
by NH LABOR NEWS
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on Thu Jan 14, 2016 at 05:38 AM PST
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Dispatches from Pennsylvania. Audio and video of Senate Majority Leader admitting that ALEC and the Pew Foundation can be found HERE. Enjoy
Last month, when the Pennsylvania House Republica
by S Kitchen
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on Thu Jan 07, 2016 at 05:10 AM PST
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