Ty Stehlik, who works the front desk at a hotel in Milwaukee, pleaded for a raise all through the pandemic — and finally got an extra $1 an hour in the fall to make $15.But higher prices for rent and food have completely negated that 7 percent bump.Stehlik, who identifies as nonbinary, says they’re still…
Carhartt faces boycott after keeping COVID vaccine mandate for employees: ‘Boycott Carhartt until they break’ – TheBlaze
Clothing brand Carhartt, known for producing apparel for blue-collar workers, is facing a tidal wave of backlash after the company vowed to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its employees.One day after the Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden’s employer COVID vaccine mandate, CEO Mark Valade emailed every Carhartt employee informing them the ruling…
Opinion: Vaccines are a tool, not a silver bullet. If we’d allowed more scientific debate, we would have realized this earlier
Norman Doidge, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of The Brain That Changes Itself .He is executive director of Health and the Greater Good.Just before Christmas, without much fanfare, Ontario became the first province to approve fluvoxamine – a decades-old drug few had heard of – for the early treatment of COVID-19.The December 20…
Opinion: Vaccines are a tool, not a silver bullet. If we’d allowed more scientific debate, we would have realized this earlier – The Globe and Mail
Norman Doidge, MD, is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author of The Brain That Changes Itself .He is executive director of Health and the Greater Good.Just before Christmas, without much fanfare, Ontario became the first province to approve fluvoxamine – a decades-old drug few had heard of – for the early treatment of COVID-19.The December 20…
Why pay TV operators are dropping Trump-loving cable networks
Before One America News Network host Dan Ball finished an interview with guest Jim Jordan this past week, he asked the Ohio Republican congressman for a favor. “Please put some pressure on AT&T and DirecTV for us,” said Ball, whose nightly program “Real America” airs nightly on the right-wing cable channel.“OAN would love to continue…
Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans
Ty Stehlik, who works the front desk at a hotel in Milwaukee, pleaded for a raise all through the pandemic – and finally got an extra $1-an-hour in the fall to make $15. But higher prices for rent and food have completely negated that 7% bump.Stehlik, who identifies as nonbinary, says they’re still relying on…
Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: The labor shortage’s wage gains are great
Democrats and Republicans both see the wage boom as a positive development from the labor shortage.Record-high quits and slow hiring forced businesses to raise wages at the fastest pace in decades.While members of both parties back the gains, some have concerns around inflation and productivity.Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your…
Plastic gold: How Lego is attracting the eyes, and wallets, of collectors
FOLLOW ON Advertisement Various Lego mini figures sit for sale, Nov.29, 2021, inside It’s A Block Party in Indianapolis.(Mykal McEldowney / The Indianapolis Star via AP) For decades, Lego has captured the minds and imaginations of children and adults alike from around the world. And as new research has shown , there may be some…
The Supreme Court supported compulsory vaccinations in 1905. What changed in 2022?
When reports first trickled out that Justice Neil Gorsuch refused to wear a mask in the courtroom, and that as a result his fellow Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor needed to work through Zoom as a result, the backlash was swift and unsurprising.No doubt with an eye toward protecting its reputation as an august body…
Mortgage rate spike startles borrowers, who blame inflation
All the big unknowns surrounding the rapid jump in inflation – including how high consumer prices will go and how quickly the Fed will raise interest rates – have put the mortgage market on high alert in early 2022.”Rates have gone up rather quickly and there’s still a little upward movement going on,” said Keith…