Meaningless Republican Rhetoric and Phony Promises spew from their mouths....just as the Eddie Munster of the Republican Party can't stop with his irrational comments.....
Is this the kind of 'LEADERSHIP' that makes sense?
Immediately opposing OVERTIME PAY?
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Robert Reich | Advice for Bernie Supporters
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Many of you who support Bernie ask me what you should do at this point. Here are my suggestions."
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Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Facebook Page
Reich writes: "Many of you who support Bernie ask me what you should do at this point. Here are my suggestions."
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Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley | Power Loves the Dark, Police Nationwide Are Secretly Exploiting Intrusive Technologies With the Feds' Complicity
Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "With little public debate, often in almost total secrecy, increasing numbers of police departments are wielding technology to empower themselves rather than the communities they protect and serve."
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Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley, TomDispatch
Excerpt: "With little public debate, often in almost total secrecy, increasing numbers of police departments are wielding technology to empower themselves rather than the communities they protect and serve."
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DNC to Offer Sanders a Convention Concession
Abby Phillip and Anne Gearan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "In an attempt to head off an ugly conflict at its convention this summer, the Democratic National Committee plans to offer a concession to Sen. Bernie Sanders - seats on a key convention platform committee."
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Abby Phillip and Anne Gearan, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "In an attempt to head off an ugly conflict at its convention this summer, the Democratic National Committee plans to offer a concession to Sen. Bernie Sanders - seats on a key convention platform committee."
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Paul Ryan Commits to Fighting Rule That Extends Overtime Protection to Millions of Workers
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Hours after the White House announced a final rule that will change overtime protection so that it covers millions more Americans, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan vowed to fight it. But just months ago, Ryan was calling for the very sort of raises that the new rule will ensure."
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Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress
Covert writes: "Hours after the White House announced a final rule that will change overtime protection so that it covers millions more Americans, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan vowed to fight it. But just months ago, Ryan was calling for the very sort of raises that the new rule will ensure."
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
Paul Ryan Commits to Fighting Rule That Extends Overtime Protection to Millions of Workers
20 May 16
ours after the White House announced a final rule that will change overtime protection so that it covers millions more Americans, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) vowed to fight it. But just months ago, Ryan was calling for the very sort of raises that the new rule will ensure.
After Ryan was elected to the Speaker position in October last year, he gave a speech outlining the challenges he hopes to address in the role. First on the list was the financial struggles American workers face.
“Here’s the problem. They’re working hard. They’re paying a lot. They are trying to do right by their families. And they are going nowhere fast,” he said. “They never get a raise. They never get a break… They are working harder than ever to get ahead. Yet they are falling further behind.”
This is the very problem that the Obama administration has said it wants to address by updating the overtime rule. Because the threshold that currently stands at $23,660 — meaning anyone earning less than that it is owed time and a half for working more than 40 hours a week — hasn’t been updated since 1975, the number of salaried workers who were guaranteed extra pay for extra work has dropped from 12 million to 3.5 million.
The new rule, when it goes into effect in December, will increase that threshold to $47,476. The administration has estimated that 4.2 million workers will become newly eligible for extra pay, leading to a $12 billion increase in wages over the next decade. The other option employers have is to cut down the ever-expanding workweek back to 40 hours and give workers more time.
That doesn’t work for Ryan, however. In a statement he released on Wednesday, he argued that the overtime rule “hurts the very people it alleges to help” because employers will eliminate salaried jobs. “We are committed to fighting this rule and the many others that would be an absolute disaster for our economy,” he said.
The administration argues the opposite. In announcing the final change, Vice President Joe Biden explained, “More than four million workers are either going to get paid more or get their time back to raise their family, go to school like so many of them are, or retrain to get a better job.”
Research even indicates that the overtime rule can prod employers to add jobs, not eliminate them, so as to add extra help that can keep current employees’ hours below 40 a week. Both the Economic Policy Institute and Goldman Sachs have estimated it could lead to the addition of 120,000 jobs.
San Francisco Police Chief Resigns in Wake of Fatal Shootings and Scandals
Mario Sevilla, KRON
Sevilla writes: "Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Thursday resigned from his position hours after a deadly officer-involved shooting. It was the city's second such shooting this year."
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Mario Sevilla, KRON
Sevilla writes: "Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Thursday resigned from his position hours after a deadly officer-involved shooting. It was the city's second such shooting this year."
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Young Syrians Are Joining ISIS Due to Trauma and Lack of Employment Options
Rebecca Crozier, Newsweek
Crozier writes: "When discussing how to curb recruitment by militant groups such as Islamic State or Jabat Al Nusra, we often hear of the need to reduce their ideological appeal among young people in Syria and beyond. But more and more evidence shows that the young Syrian men who decide to join these groups do so not on the basis of religious motivation, but to fulfil far more basic needs."
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Rebecca Crozier, Newsweek
Crozier writes: "When discussing how to curb recruitment by militant groups such as Islamic State or Jabat Al Nusra, we often hear of the need to reduce their ideological appeal among young people in Syria and beyond. But more and more evidence shows that the young Syrian men who decide to join these groups do so not on the basis of religious motivation, but to fulfil far more basic needs."
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Over a Third of North American Bird Species in Danger: Scientists
Reuters
Excerpt: "More than a third of all North American bird species are at risk of becoming extinct unless significant action is taken, scientists who are part of a tri-nation initiative said on Wednesday, adding that ocean and tropical birds were in particular danger."
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Reuters
Excerpt: "More than a third of all North American bird species are at risk of becoming extinct unless significant action is taken, scientists who are part of a tri-nation initiative said on Wednesday, adding that ocean and tropical birds were in particular danger."
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