Jaisal Noor is a senior producer at the Real News Network. He previously worked at Democracy Now!, and graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. His mother was a public school teacher in Baltimore City for over two decades.
Press freedom and civil liberties groups warn that loosening media consolidation rules would further erode independent news, local coverage, and democratic accountability.
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.