Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi probably won’t be fond of the legislation that Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is cooking up.
GOP Senator Announces ‘PELOSI’ Act and While It Doesn’t Mention Nancy, It’ll Surely Infuriate Her
Tag: economic profits
Mississippi company singled out as soaring egg prices prompt demands for price-gouging probe
With egg prices more than doubling in the past year, calls are coming for an investigation into possible price gouging.
Mississippi company singled out as soaring egg prices prompt demands for price-gouging probe
There Are No Innocent Americans
If the logic that “there are no innocent Russians” because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. Even more so, really, since their government is vastly more warlike than Moscow.
There Are No Innocent Americans
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
Right now, well-funded lobbyists from big health insurance companies are leading a campaign on Capitol Hill to get Members of Congress and Senators of both parties to sign on to a letter designed to put them on the record “expressing strong support” for the scam that is Medicare Advantage.
Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
The US claims to honour his memory, even as it defiles his dreams.
MLK Day Special: Class Struggle and Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
BMW Further Embraces Making Basic Features A Costly Subscription Service
from the sorry-seatbelts-are-extra dept
Wed, Jan 11th 2023 05:22am – Karl BodeLast year BMW took ample heat for its plans to turn heated seats into a costly $18 per month subscription in numerous countries. As we noted at the time, BMW is already including the hardware in new cars and adjusting the sale price accordingly. So it’s effectively charging users a new, recurring fee to enable technology that already exists in the car and consumers already paid for.
BMW Further Embraces Making Basic Features A Costly Subscription Service
The Federal Reserve is poised to punish workers even as paychecks have been shrinking
The big jump in hourly pay in November isn’t inflationary. Working families’ real earnings are no higher than they were before the pandemic.
The Federal Reserve is poised to punish workers even as paychecks have been shrinking
The Powell Memo Revisited
Until corporate monoliths are disassembled and defanged, justice will be hard to find.
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is profit’s prophet and the corporate media are his cultish devotees, joining hands to sacrifice working people. In this cult, profit is sacrosanct.
Media Prescribe More ‘Pain’ for Workers as Inflation’s Only Cure
Forget cannabis. Here are 2 banking provisions that did make the NDAA.
Forget cannabis. Here are 2 banking provisions that did make the NDAA.
Some banks have instituted policies making it easier for second-chance workers to get hired. JPMorgan Chase years ago removed all questions about criminal backgrounds from job applications and established a policy center to help former criminals find jobs.
It expanded its effort to help ex-offenders return to the workforce last year, partnering with nonprofits to connect people with arrest or conviction histories to in-demand jobs. CEO Jamie Dimon also agreed to co-chair the Second Chance Business Coalition encompassing 29 member companies.
The bank hired 4,300 people with criminal records last year, Nan Gibson, executive director for public policy and corporate responsibility at the JPMorgan Chase Policy Center, told American Banker. That’s more than double the bank’s 2,100 second-chance hires from 2020.
H/ T: Judge Napolitano
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