Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Tag: paid sick leave

Putting ‘profits over people’, Senate rejects paid sick leave for rail...

Forty-two Republicans—and serial Democratic obstructionist Joe Manchin of West Virginia—voted down Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) proposal to include seven paid sick days in the tentative contract.

Why America needs a national program of paid sick and family...

America remains the only major industrialized country without a universal paid leave program.

Koch Brothers-backed group tries to stand in the way as states...

The National Federation of Independent Business, a Koch Brothers-backed lobbying group, leads the way in campaigning against paid sick leave throughout the U.S

Workers In This State Will Soon Be Guaranteed A Paid Day...

Five states in the country will now guarantee paid sick leave for their workers.

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Iran’s 10-point plan is still a workable basis for negotiations

There is a simple way to avoid one of the most destructive elements in recent failed negotiations with Iran

Just desserts: MAGA suicide pact climaxes its cult of destruction

The more bizarre the MAGA fable,/ The more desperate to finagle. Can hypocrites throttling the Bible/ Not make its movement suicidal?

3D-printed homes, an abandoned $590,000 deposit, the FBI: What really happened in this small...

Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished.

EWG sues EPA for inaction on glyphosate petition; violates federal law, puts children at...

In the suit, EWG requests a reduction in the glyphosate tolerance level for oats from 30 ppm to 0.1 ppm and a ban on its use as a pre-harvest desiccant.

The Iran war as a threshold

The old structures are not simply failing; they are being surpassed by a deeper aspiration emerging from people themselves.