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Downtrodden. The Party of Unionism and fare and equal work rights for all hard working Americans.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03902635837718845461noreply@blogger.comBlogger4878125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8055241728824992104.post-72855334590507614902016-02-01T22:11:00.000-06:002016-02-01T22:11:10.993-06:00FEEL THE BERN!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) may be the oldest candidate in the 2016 presidential field, but that isn’t hurting him among the youngest demographic of voters.<br />
A new <a href="http://mediacenter.chegg.com/2015/09/15/ben-carson-overtakes-donald-trump-among-college-students-hillary-still-expected-to-win-presidency-even-as-sanders-emerges-as-college-students-favorite/" target="_blank">poll</a> released by Chegg Media Center on Tuesday finds Sanders the overwhelming favorite on college campuses, drawing 59 percent of the student vote.<br />
Former first lady Hillary Clinton, considered the Democratic favorite going into the election, draws just 18 percent support from the coveted college bloc, while Vice President Biden — who is yet to commit to a presidential run — sits at 14 percent support among university students.<br />
The poll also shows that Clinton and Biden are deadlocked at 29 percent for students’ second choice in the Democratic primary.<br />
Sanders has the highest favorability rating among Democrats at 62 percent, while Clinton is seen as the most unfavorable, with 47 percent of students expressing disapproval of the former secretary of State.<br />
The same poll conducted in late June, about a month after Sanders announced his White House bid, found that students preferred Clinton by a 40 to 26 percent margin.<br />
However, the junior senator from Vermont has steadily increased his lead among university-goers.<br />
In an early August iteration of the poll, Sanders took the lead from Clinton by a 40 to 31 percent margin, and in a poll later that month, he was up 48 to 20 percent, while Clinton has been dogged by an FBI investigation into her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State.<br />
Only 6 percent of students identify as socialists, but that has not stopped them from supporting the avowed Democratic socialist.<br />
Students also overwhelmingly say they prefer a “Newcomer/Outsider” candidate, as opposed to a “Washington Insider,” by a 53 to 24 percent margin, suggesting that Sanders, despite serving in Congress for 24 years, has positioned himself as the anti-establishment candidate.<br />
Chegg surveyed 333 college students at two- and four-year universities nationwide from Sept. 7 to Sept. 11. The margin of error is 5 percent.<br />
The Washington Examiner <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hillarys-support-plummets-among-college-students/article/2572115" target="_blank">first reported</a> the poll</div>
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After last night's big Trumpalooza in Dallas, I'm betting these folks were able to make some progress toward their goal of seeing <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/texas-nationalist-movement-gop-primary">Texas recognized as an independent nation</a>.<br />
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The Texas Nationalist Movement is seeking signatures for a <a href="http://www.thetnm.org/petition">petition</a> to get a non-binding vote onto the Republican primary ballot in March to see if "the state of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation," according to a Tuesday <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/2015/09/15/texas-nationalist-movement-wants-texas-secede/">report</a> from the Texas Tribune.<br />
The group, according to the San Antonio television station KSAT, has been around in some form for 20 years. The GOP primary ballot move is the most recent stunt by the fringe group to spark secession. In 2013, the Texas Nationalist Movement <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_PISvbPAgA">staged a rally</a> at the capitol in Austin to make "a stand for liberation."<br />
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The Texas Nationalist Movement wants to obtain 75,000 signatures from registered voters by Dec. 1, the group said when the petition was announced in July.<br />
“The end game for us is to have a binding referendum on Texas independence, much like the people of Scotland had in November of last year,” Patrick Miller, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, told the Tribune.</blockquote>
I'm sure they had some sympathetic partners cheering for the idiocy in Dallas last night, so maybe they'll get their signatures after all!</div>
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This belief goes hand in hand with wide support for a reality show star turned Republican Presidential Candidate. While bluster and breaking the “rules” of politics play a role, conservatives also believe wealthy people are morally superior to people who are not. Therefore when Donald Trump says he’s rich and therefore the best presidential candidate, people buy it.</div>
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According to a <a href="http://www.shrm.org/research/surveyfindings/articles/pages/creditbackgroundchecks.aspx">2012 survey</a>, by the Society of Human Resources Management, 53% of employers said they don’t do background checks on job candidates, while a whopping 87% said they do check the credit histories of job candidates.</div>
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The survey tells us that the companies that sell credit history information successfully pushed the myth that one’s credit history provides more insight into their character than a background check does.</div>
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Bad credit can happen to anyone for a variety of reason that are beyond their control, Certainly pre-Obamacare, a family member’s illness also meant economic collapse for people who weren’t born with multi-million dollar trust funds. The same holds true, when a family’s primary bread winner dies, or a marriage fails.</div>
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During the last Republican manufactured recession, millions of Americans went from middle class earners who saw their jobs and the economic stability that went with them disappear. Even if one makes all the “right” choices and works hard, expenses can exceed available financial resources.</div>
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When there is a major loss of income or reduction in income, too often, it means people fall behind in paying their bills and that can have a negative effect on their credit scores.</div>
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As Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Steve Cohen point out in an <a href="http://time.com/money/4034052/stop-employer-credit-checks/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_money">op-ed for Time</a>, credit reporting companies pushed the narrative that there is a nexus between credit history and a person’s character.</div>
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Credit reporting companies that sell Americans’ personal data to potential employers have pushed the narrative that a credit history somehow provides insight into someone’s character. But, as even a representative from the TransUnion credit bureau admitted, they “don’t have any research to show any statistical correlation between what’s in somebody’s credit report and their job performance.” In fact, research has shown that an individual’s credit has little to no correlation with his or her ability to succeed in the workplace. Credit reports are not a way to screen out bad potential employees; they are just a way to discriminate against people who have fallen on hard times.”</div>
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Despite facts, pushing this narrative isn’t hard to do when corporate America is already predisposed to believing that financial status and character go hand in hand.</div>
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As if that wasn’t enough, credit score information can be inaccurate and the companies who create that information then sell it to employers are notoriously slow to correct inaccuracies.</div>
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In 2013, the Federal Trade Commission reported that as many as <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2013/02/ftc-study-five-percent-consumers-had-errors-their-credit-reports">1 in 5 consumers</a> identified at least one error in their credit reports.</div>
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The result is discrimination based on a myth and inaccurate information, that effectively shuts people out of the job market. As Senator Warren and Rep. Cohen pointed out in their op-ed, this practice which affects millions of Americans is fundamentally unfair.</div>
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For hardworking people struggling to make ends meet, the only way to get back on their feet is to find a good job and earn a paycheck. But even when they are able to sell their homes—often at a loss—or after they are forced to close their business’ doors or find temporary work, that bad credit history continues to haunt them.</div>
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And despite the often-desperate effort to find a job, many employers are unfairly shutting the door on applicants with less-than-stellar credit. We should call this what it is: discrimination.</div>
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Taken in a broader context, the practice of using credit histories as a factor in hiring further rigs the system against people at the bottom.</div>
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It’s a cruel and vicious cycle that Senator Warren and Rep. Cohen want to stop with a law called the Equal Employment for All Act. Make no mistake, this practice further rigs an already unfair system against hardworking and honest Americans who need a job, more than they need an Ayn Rand-style lecture on the culture of work.</div>
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<span>In the story of the</span><a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/7/8744011/mckinney-texas-police-officer" sl-processed="1" target="_blank"> Texas pool party, where a police officer was caught on tape manhandling and pointing a gun at young black teenagers</a><span>, there's a lot to be concerned and outraged about. But there's also one tiny thing to celebrate: the actions of two white kids.</span><br />
<span>Just 14 and 15 years old, they wasted no time speaking on the record about the racist comments made by adults that they said set off the incident, and recording the discriminatory treatment they said they witnessed.</span><br />
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<span>Sadly, when it comes to public opinion about the event, it's likely that these accounts have more weight coming from the white kids than from the black kids who have offered similar stories, but </span><a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8709207/media-racial-bias-study" sl-processed="1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.65;" target="_blank">whom many media consumers might see as potential criminals </a><span>and untrustworthy reporters of what happened.</span><br />
Their stories shaped the early media narrative of the event, and their sense of responsibility to memorialize what happened should be seen as an example. Many American adults could learn something from their brave decisions to acknowledge rather than avoid or explain away the injustice they saw, but also to make sure the rest of us understood.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/texas-police-officer-suspended-after-pulling-weapon-on-teens#.ec5XJGxKp" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">BuzzFeed News's David Mack's report on the incident</a>, Grace Stone, a white 14-year-old, said when she and her friends responded to white adults' comments that the black pool party guests should return to "Section 8 [public housing]," the older women became violent.<br />
The police were called, and Brandon Brooks, a white 15-year-old, took out his cellphone to record what happened next — creating a record of the event that he later posted to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R46-XTqXkzE&feature=youtu.be" sl-processed="1">YouTube</a>, along with this commentary: "So the cops just started putting everyone on the ground and in handcuffs for no reason. This kind of force is uncalled for especially on children and innocent bystanders."<br />
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"I think a bunch of white parents were angry that a bunch of black kids who don't live in the neighborhood were in the pool," he told BuzzFeed. He made it clear that he felt he was spared because of his race, saying, "Everyone who was getting put on the ground was black, Mexican, Arabic. [The cop] didn't even look at me. It was kind of like I was invisible."<br />
"You can see in part of the video where he tells us to sit down, and he kinda like skips over me and tells all my African-American friends to go sit down," he said in<a href="http://cw33.com/2015/06/08/15-year-old-who-shot-mckinney-pool-party-video-speaks-out/" sl-processed="1" target="_blank"> a Monday interview with CW33.</a><br />
They weren't alone. Images from protests in McKinney show demonstrators including a white teen holding a sign that read "White silence = white consent."<br />
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<span>Stone's choice to speak about the racist comments she witnessed, and Brooks's decision to post his recording and analysis on YouTube and give an interview about what he observed, represents an unusual commitment to honesty about racism and discrimination — topics many white adults don't see through the same lens.</span><br />
For example, a <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/26/ferguson-highlights-deep-divisions-between-blacks-and-whites-in-america/" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">November 2014 Pew </a>poll revealed that nearly half of white Americans thought race got too much attention in the discussion surrounding <a href="http://www.vox.com/cards/mike-brown-protests-ferguson-missouri" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">18-year-old Michael Brown's death</a> at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. When asked about confidence in police to not use excessive force on suspects, 36 percent of white respondents expressed a great deal of confidence, compared with 18 percent of black respondents.<br />
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<span>When you consider the well-documented social, economic, and political injustices against black people that have been committed both with and without the backing of the legal system, this looks like willful ignorance, and it can be infuriating. </span><br />
<span>That's why when </span><a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/4/8/8368197/walter-scott-police-shooting" sl-processed="1" target="_blank">Walter Scott</a><span>, a 50-year-old unarmed black man, was shot in the back and killed by Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/timjwise/posts/10152647092840670" sl-processed="1" style="font-size: 14.99px; line-height: 1.65;" target="_blank">Tim Wise</a> (a white author who focuses on anti-racism) wrote this on his public Facebook page in response to those who insisted race had nothing to do with the tragedy:<br />
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I know there are some well-meaning (as well as not well meaning) white folks who say how awful the killing of Walter Scott was "regardless of the racial element," but please... When we as white folks strip away the social context within which these things happen, or refuse to acknowledge the generations-long soul wound imposed by racism upon peoples of color, we speak as if history didn't happen, as if historical memory doesn't matter, as if every day is disconnected from the last, and patterns are irrelevant. We speak, in other words, as persons with the privilege of ignoring the backbeat of white supremacy, as persons who enjoy the luxury of viewing life as a collection of random experiences, and ourselves are mere individuals floating through that life. How nice. People of color have not the luxury of such a conceit ...</blockquote>
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Outside of the context of American racism, what the kids did wouldn't really be a big deal: they saw that other kids their age were being wronged, and they told the truth about what happened. But against the backdrop of a society in which many adults both perpetuate racism and go to great lengths to deny it, their reactions stood out.<br />
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Agrochemical giant Monsanto—known for its power over food systems world-wide—recently suggested a name-change as part of a proposed corporate merger, in what critics say is a bald attempt to bury the poor human rights and environmental reputation associated with the company's brand.<br />
Founded in St. Louis, Monsanto recently revealed that it would like to move its headquarters from the United States to the United Kingdom as part of a proposed merger with Swiss rival Syngenta.<br />
A June 6 <a href="http://www.syngenta.com/global/corporate/SiteCollectionDocuments/pdf/media-releases/en/monsanto-letters-2015.pdf">letter</a> from Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, made public by Syngenta, reveals that, as part of the deal, the U.S. company would "also propose a new name for the combined company to reflect its unique global nature."<br />
Gary Ruskin of the consumer organization U.S. Right to Know put the name change differently: "Monsanto wants to escape its ugly history by ditching its name," he said in a press statement. "This shows how desperate Monsanto is to escape criticism: of its products, which raise environmental and health concerns, as well as concerns about corporate control of agriculture and our food system."<br />
<em>Market Watch,</em> not known as a corporate watchdog publication, <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/syngenta-rejects-latest-monsanto-offer-2015-06-08-154855939">reiterated this point</a>: "Branding experts said a name change could help Monsanto shed some baggage associated with its past, such as its Vietnam War-era manufacturing of the herbicide Agent Orange, used by the U.S. government in the war and since linked to chronic health problems in humans."<br />
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The company continues to face <a href="http://www.viacampesina.org/downloads/pdf/en/Monsanto-Publication-EN-Final-Version.pdf">global protests</a> for its push of genetically modified crops, pesticides, and agro-industrial models at the expense of workers' rights, food and environmental health, and indigenous sovereignty.<br />
A <a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/2015%20RQ%20Media%20Release%20Report_020415.pdf">February Harris Poll</a> found that Monsanto has one of the poorest reputations of "the 100 most visible companies" in the United States. Moreover, the corporation was numbered among eight companies that "show the largest declines in reputation" over the past five years—alongside Walmart, McDonald's, and others.<br />
Monsanto does not appear to be winning any popularity contests. While the company has sought to buy Syngenta for over a year, it keeps getting turned down, <a href="http://www.syngenta.com/global/corporate/en/news-center/news-releases/Pages/150608.aspx">including with this latest proposal</a>.<br />
Joe Satran <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/monsanto-syngenta_n_7539864.html">wrote</a> of the rejection in <em>The Huffington Post</em>: "You know you're unpopular when not even a company notorious for selling chemicals banned in Europe for harming defenseless invertebrates wants anything to do with you."<br />
<span dir="ltr" id=":1tu">Despite Syngenta's latest rejection, critics of the company say the proposed name-change is telling, especially given the history of such moves. </span>When notorious tobacco corporation Philip Morris changed its name to Altria Group in 2003, many charged that this was simply an attempt to avoid bad publicity, and ultimately, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447789/">protect its bottom line</a>.<br />
"The merger process is still ongoing, and it's clear that Monsanto will keep making offers," Ruskin told <em>Common Dreams</em>. "It's so telling that Monsanto wants to ditch its own name. It speaks to how strong rejection of the company is in the United States and around the world."</div>
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The Obama administration is on the verge of possibly doubling the salary levels that would require employers to pay overtime in the most ambitious government intervention on wages in a decade. And it doesn’t need Congress’s permission.<br />
As early as this week, the Labor Department could propose a rule that would raise the current overtime threshold — $23,660 – to as much as $52,000, extending time and a half overtime pay to millions of American workers. The rule has already come under fire from business and Republican opponents who say it will kill jobs and force employers to cut hours for salaried employees.<br />
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“The minimum wage they can’t do,” said Bill Samuel, director of legislative affairs for the AFL-CIO. “This is probably the most significant step they can take to raise wages for millions of workers.”</div>
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Congressional Republicans are gearing up for a major battle against raising the overtime threshold. The House Education and the Workforce subcommittee will devote much of a <a href="http://edworkforce.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=398974" target="_blank">scheduled June 10 hearing</a> on federal wage and hour standards to the overtime rule, even if it isn’t yet released. Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, said the rule—sight unseen—“seems engineered to make it as unappealing as possible to be an employer creating jobs in this country.”</div>
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The business lobby, which is currently battling in two court venues what it calls the National Labor Relations Board’s “ambush elections rule” streamlining union elections, is likely to devote at least as many resources to fight the overtime rule. Randel Johnson, senior vice president for labor at the Chamber of Commerce, warned Labor Secretary Tom Perez in a<a href="https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/chamber_letter_to_secretary_perez.pdf" target="_blank"> Feb. 11 letter</a> that any changes to existing overtime rules “threaten to upend years of settled law, create tremendous confusion, and have a significantly disruptive effect on millions of workplaces.”</div>
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By law, any salaried worker who earns below a threshold set by the Labor Department must receive overtime. The current threshold of $23,660 lies below the poverty line for a family four. The proposed rule is expected to raise that to somewhere between $45,000 and $52,000—closer to the median household income—greatly expanding the pool of Americans who qualify for overtime pay.</div>
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The overtime threshold is not indexed to inflation and has been updated only once since 1975. It covers 12 percent of salaried workers. Boosting the threshold to $50,440 would bring it back in line with the 1975 threshold, after inflation. By<a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/inflation-adjusted-salary-test-bring-needed/" target="_blank"> one estimate</a> that would give somewhere between five to ten million workers a raise.</div>
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Some workers above the salary threshold also qualify for overtime pay under current law. But the historic shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service economy has reduced their number because white collar workers—defined quite expansively—are exempt. The forthcoming overtime rule is expected to tighten up that definition.</div>
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Under the current rules, the white collar exemption excludes “executive, administrative and professional” employees from receiving overtime pay, which means, for example, that a secretary will sometimes be ineligible for overtime pay. Employers routinely avoid paying overtime to lower-wage workers such as store managers or fast food shift supervisors, and even to some non-supervisory workers by giving them discrete, only nominally supervisory responsibilities.</div>
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“It’s hard to believe that somebody making $30,000 is a supervisor,” said Daniel Hamermesh, an economist at the University of Texas at Austin, who has done extensive research on overtime. “At this point, I don’t think even our regulations are in line with the original intent of the law.” Hamermesh said raising the threshold was “an absolute no brainer.”</div>
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One key concern about expanding overtime is that it could prompt employers to reduce the number of hours that individual employees work to avoid paying time-and-a-half. McDonald’s, reportedly, already uses its computer system to record the hours worked by individual fast-food workers, and sends alerts telling franchisees to send this or that worker home when he or she is about to exceed 40 hours. In many instances reducing employees’ hours worked may endanger their eligibility for benefits.</div>
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Business groups carry that reasoning further, saying the rule will reduce employment. Aloysius Hogan, a senior fellow at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, said it will have a “job killing effect.” Hogan said businesses will be incentivized to lay off higher-paid executives and replace them with lower-paid workers. The National Retail Federation, a likely leader in the battle against expanded overtime, last month issued a <a href="https://nrf.com/sites/default/files/Documents/Rethinking_Overtime.pdf" target="_blank">study </a>that came to a similar conclusion. On its release NRF senior vice president for Governor Relations David French said the rule would “hollow out middle-management careers and middle-class opportunities for millions of workers.”</div>
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But Hamermesh said that to whatever extent employers reduced hours to avoid overtime the result would be more job creation, not less, since someone else must hired to perform that work. Jared Bernstein, an economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden during President Barack Obama’s first term, added that for many workers reduced hours would be a plus: “Their salary is the same but they have more time with their families.”</div>
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The Obama administration’s interest in updating overtime rules can be traced to November 2013, when Bernstein, by then a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, presented a <a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/inflation-adjusted-salary-test-bring-needed/" target="_blank">paper</a> on the subject to the Labor Department. The following March President Obama issued a <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe-press-office%2F2014%2F03%2F13%2Fpresidential-memorandum-updating-and-modernizing-overtime-regulations&ei=bcdxVa-QCpO_sQSklYP4Dg&usg=AFQjCNGOusItCT9JIeLRiABBSy7m1zV68A&sig2=YDqgARXXZh6RlaIsaOtwCw&bvm=bv.95039771,d.cWc" target="_blank">memorandum </a>noting that overtime regulations “have not kept up with our modern economy” and instructing the Labor department to draft revisions.</div>
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Both Eisenbrey and Bernstein voiced optimism that the administration will have time to review public comments on the proposed rule and issue a final rule before the president leaves office. But that’s not likely to happen without a fight. When Obama issued his memorandum last year, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline and subcommittee chairman Tim Walberg issued a<a href="http://www.edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=372838" target="_blank"> statemen</a>t saying “executive memos and unilateral actions cannot provide the income security our struggling families need.” Republicans, they said, had long recognized the need to update the Fair Labor Standards Act, but they warned the rule should not be “just another political distraction from the president’s failed policies.” If the response to the “ambush elections” rule is any guide, there will be litigation against the overtime rule and at least one attempt by the Republican Congress to block its implementation.</div>
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The fight is already spilling over into the 2016 presidential contest. In announcing his candidacy May 30 former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley <a href="https://martinomalley.com/the-latest/announcement-speech/" target="_blank">called for</a> “overtime pay for overtime work.” Sen. Bernie Sanders did the same in his May 26 <a href="https://berniesanders.com/remarks-by-sen-bernie-sanders-waterfront-park-burlington-vermont/" target="_blank">kick-off speech </a>in Burlington, Vt., calling it a “ scandal” that “millions of American employees, often earning less than $30,000 a year, work 50 or 60 hours a week— and earn no overtime.”</div>
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Thus far the Republican field is somewhat dismissive of the overtime issue. When asked to comment on the forthcoming rule Rick Tyler, Sen. Ted Cruz’s national spokesperson, replied in an e-mail, “Overtime? [Who’s] working overtime anymore since Obamacare? People are not even getting full time.” Stuart Stevens, a top strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, echoed that sentiment. “It’s just not a solution to a larger problem [of] the economy,” he said. “I think the fact that so few people can get full time jobs is a lot more pressing than overtime.”</div>
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<span>CHICAGO) – On January 24th, the Progressive Action Project, the Citizen Action/IL state PAC convened in Chicago to make endorsements in the 2015 City of Chicago</span><span> </span><span>Municipal Elections. The following candidates were endorsed:</span><br />
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<span>(CHICAGO) – William McNary, Co-director of Citizen Action/Illinois said regarding yesterday’s election, “T</span><span>his is a new direction for the city of Chicago. This is about two competing visions: Are we going to have a city that works for the wealthy few, or are we going to have a Chicago that's going to work for all of us? The everyday working families who live, work, and go to school in the neighborhoods of Chicago spoke out yesterday. The momentum is growing for change. On April 7th every neighborhood will count, and every vote will count.”</span></div>
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<em>New blog from Citizen Action/Illinois Co-director Lynda DeLaforgue on Governor Rauner's crusade to crush organized labor and the middle class in Illinois </em><br />
As newly elected Governor Rauner continues what will most likely be a four year crusade to crush organized labor in Illinois, it is important to realize that he is not working alone. Rauner’s tactics are right out of the Koch Brothers –ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) playbook. ALEC has launched a new initiative called ACCE (American City County Exchange) whose purpose is to target policymakers at the local village, town, city and county level. The Governor’s targeting of local communities in his first three months in office fits right into ALEC’s agenda.<br />
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Not surprising is that one of the largest recipients of Rauner’s generosity is the Donors Trust. The Donors Trust is a pet project of the Koch Brothers. Mr. Rauner contributed a total of $700,000 to the Donors Trust in 2011 and 2013. During the two years that he gave directly to the Donors Trust, the Trust gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to right wing advocacy organizations such as the Heartland Institute, Freedom Works, and Americans for Prosperity. The very same groups that Bruce Rauner himself also funded directly through his family foundation.</div>
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Let’s be clear, this is a dangerous path that our Governor is embarking upon and it will directly impact the lives many middle class families in Illinois if he succeeds. </div>
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Citizen Action/Illinois is proud to be an ally of labor and we have appreciated the support they have given to our working family agenda over the past two decades. When we needed support for payday loan reform it was the leadership of the Illinois AFL-CIO who stepped up to help. The rank and file members of the UAW lobbied in Springfield for payday reform. SEIU and AFSCME have played leadership roles in our goal to provide affordable, quality healthcare for all. The Amalgamated Transit Workers have partnered with us to secure good public transportation initiatives. The United Food and Commercial Workers don’t just fight for their members to have paid sick days, but for all workers. The list could go on.</div>
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We hope the Governor will wake up and smell the coffee. Labor Unions don’t just fight for their own members, they fight for a strong economy and opportunity for ALL families. We call upon Governor Rauner to abandon this vitriolic campaign against working families, realizing that as long as he puts his money where his mouth is, this may not happen. Rest assured Citizen Action/Illinois will fight to the bitter end to protect the rights of workers to organize in Illinois because without a strong organized labor workforce we all lose. That’s why we are launching an Illinois Rights at Work Campaign. We hope you will take the first step toward joining and sign our petition. <span> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1AmoGpG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1AmoGpG</a></div>
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<span>While the Illinois’s budget shortfall is well known where these dollars are going has been unexamined, until now.</span><span><br /><br /><span>Today, State Senator Heather Steans (D-7), Ralph Martire of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability (CTBA), William McNary of Citizen Action/Illinois and Dan Lesser of the Sargent Shriver National Center for Poverty Law held a news conference in the State Capitol press room to release a new CTBA analysis of state tax return data. </span></span><br />
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<span>“We’ve given a massive windfall to those needing it the least while defunding public services to those who need them the most” said William McNary, Co-director Citizen Action/Illinois. “We need a fair, responsible budget with adequate revenues and no more cuts in the vital services that have already been severely slashed repeatedly in recent years.”<br /></span></div>
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<span>Since the expiration of 2014 income tax rates, the top 3% of the state's wealthiest earners -- those with incomes over $200,000 -- are getting almost 33% of the benefit (more than $1.2 billion).</span><span><br /><br /><span>Tax benefits are going disproportionately to the wealthy few -- NOT working and middle-class taxpayers.</span><br /><br /><span>Millionaires are getting an average annual tax cut of nearly $37,000.</span></span></div>
<span>·<span> </span></span><span>That's 70 times the $526 average going to tax filers with incomes of $35,000 to $50,000;</span><br />
<span>·<span> </span></span><span>That's 99 times the $372 going to filers with incomes of $25,000 to $35,000;</span><br />
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<span>In contrast, the bottom 50% of all earners get just 8% of the benefit ($300 million).</span><span><br /><br /><span>The tax breaks will fail to stimulate the state economy, because most go to people likely to save the money rather than spend it; relatively scant benefit goes to people with stagnant or falling incomes, who have material needs and would circulate the money in their local economies.</span></span></div>
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Citizen Action/Illinois is proud to announce that Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers will receive our highest award, the Egan-Evans Award for Distinguished Service. Ms. Weingarten is an accomplished teacher and lawyer, and a strong advocate for public education.<br />
This event attracts elected officials and progressive leaders for an evening of celebration and unity.<br />
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CHICAGO, IL (August 10, 2011) – Today Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of President Obama’s 18-member Fiscal Commission, announced she will introduce the Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act, a cost-effective plan to put over 2 million people to work for two years.<br /><br /> The time has come for Congress to focus like a laser on the most pressing crisis facing our country – the jobs crisis. With extended unemployment benefits scheduled to expire at the end of this year, 13.9 million people remain out of work. The average worker who is unemployed has been searching for a job for more than nine months and recent reports reveal that private sector employers largely refuse to hire those currently jobless. An additional 8.4 million are working part time because they cannot find a full-time job. In June 2007, 63 percent of adults were employed, now the percentage is 58.2 percent. Despite reports of a Congress immobilized and unable to address the jobs crisis– Congress can and must do something today.<br />
“It begins with this simple idea: If we want to create jobs, then create jobs. I’m not talking about “incentivizing” companies in the hopes they’ll hire someone, or cutting taxes for the so-called job creators who have done nothing of the sort. My plan creates actual new jobs,” said Rep. Schakowsky. “The worst deficit this country faces, isn’t the budget deficit. It’s the jobs deficit. We need to get our people and our economy moving again.”<br />
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Approximately 200 supporters attended the announcement to support the Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act. <br /><br /><br /> If enacted, the legislation would create 2.2 million jobs that will meet critical needs to improve and strengthen communities:<br /><br />• The School Improvement Corps would create 400,000 construction and 250,000 maintenance jobs by funding positions created by public school districts to do needed school rehabilitation improvements. <br />• The Park Improvement Corps would create 100,000 jobs for youth between the ages of 16 and 25 through new funding to the Department of the Interior and the USDA Forest Service’s Public Lands Corps Act. Young people would work on conservation projects on public lands include restoration and rehabilitation of natural, cultural, and historic resources. <br />• The Student Jobs Corps would creates 250,000 more part-time, work study jobs for eligible college students through new funding for the Federal Work Study Program. <br />• The Neighborhood Heroes Corps would hire 300,000 teachers, 40,000 new police officers, and 12,000 firefighters. <br />• The Health Corps would hire at least 40,000 health care providers, including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and health care workers to expand access in underserved rural and urban areas. <br />• The Child Care Corps would create 100,000 jobs in early childhood care and education through additional funding for Early Head Start. <br />• The Community Corps would hire 750,000 individuals to do needed work in our communities, including housing rehab, weatherization, recycling, and rural conservation. <br /><br />“Although we are continuing to see signs of economic recovery, it’s difficult for the average person to see because jobs remain at a premium,” said Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Director Warren Ribley. “This bill would help leverage the work Illinois is doing through the Workforce Investment Act to expand the pipeline of skilled workers who could quickly take advantage of these new job opportunities.”<br /><br />
“The Jobs Corps as proposed by Congresswoman Schakowsky will give the local governments the opportunity to put our residents back to work on greatly needed projects meaningful to our communities, such as public safety (police, fire, health, public works, and mental health),” said Mayor George Van Dusen of Skokie. “Fulfilling these critical needs will make our communities safer, give a critical lift to the economy, and provide residents with much needed employment opportunities."<br />
<br /> The legislation gives the unemployed priority for jobs, particularly those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits (the “99ers”), and veterans. The bill allocates a fair distribution of funding and jobs among states, with targeting based on high unemployment and need. The bill also ensures that jobs do not undercut the rights of other workers, lower wages, displace current workers or take business from small/local businesses.<br />
<br /> The $227 billion cost of the bill ($113.5 billion over each of two years) can be fully paid for through separate legislation and by creating higher tax brackets for millionaires and billionaires, and eliminating subsidies for Big Oil and tax loop holes for corporations that send American jobs overseas.<br /> <br />
For more, follow the link below:<br /><br /><a href="http://skokie.suntimes.com/6994358-417/schakowsky-proposes-227-billion-jobs-program.html"><strong>http://skokie.suntimes.com/6994358-417/schakowsky-proposes-227-billion-jobs-program.html</strong></a></div>
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<span>Over the past few weeks, Governor Bruce Rauner has taken major steps to begin dismantling labor unions and the middle-class that the labor movement has built. Bruce Rauner's scheme to strip the rights of workers and weaken their unions by executve order is a blatantly illegal abuse of power. And we won't take it sitting down!</span><br />
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<span>The goal of Governor Rauner is clear. His concern for balancing the state budget is a paper-thin excuse that can't hide his real agenda: Silencing working people and their unions that stand up for the middle class.</span></div>
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<b><i><span>"The labor movmement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members of one another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America- and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated."</span></i></b><span></span></div>
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A Multiple Sclerosis Prayer</h1>
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