Month: May 2023

Through the debt ceiling negotiations, Biden has agreed to “codify” the end of Student Debt Repayments in order to help finance Trump's corporate giveaways. From the article “Even where there's agreement, the spin can be vertigo-inducing: The GOP boasts that the deal “restart[s] student loan repayments,” but the White House contextualizes that it simply “codifies an end to the pause — which the administration had planned to end on September 1″.” This matters. Biden has the authority to pause, modify, and, (as SCOTUS is deciding now) even forgive student loans. He's about to cede this authority to congress and white christian nationalists. Take a moment to email both your senators and your congressman, especially if you live in a swing state. Tell them this is bullshit. I did this and it took 5 minutes.

Short, neutral summary Popular initiative 181 entitled “For the creation of social and ecological jobs and the reduction of working hours (1000 jobs initiative)” proposes : – on the one hand, the creation by the State of 1,000 jobs per year in the health, social, care and ecological transition fields, in cantonal and municipal public authorities, subsidised establishments and non-profit institutions pursuing goals of public interest, as long as the unemployment rate remains high, and, – secondly, to encourage a reduction in working hours without any reduction in pay from 41 to 32 hours a week by 2030. The majority of the Grand Council rejected this initiative without putting forward a counter-proposal.

Three workers are voicing health and other safety concerns at the landmark 2,500-year-old Tequesta site