By the tip of 2020, the full further COVID-19 compensation Amazon and Walmart can have supplied their frontline staff represents solely a small fraction of the businesses’ extraordinary earnings, and a good smaller proportion of the beautiful, pandemic-fueled wealth created for his or her richest shareholders. Inventory costs for Amazon and Walmart have soared 70% and 36%, respectively, because the begin of the pandemic. In the meantime, employee wages can have grown solely 7% and 6% by the tip of the 12 months, even after the brand new December bonuses that the 2 firms introduced earlier this month.
Since March, the fortune of Amazon founderJeff Bezos(the richest individual on the planet) has elevated by $75.6 billion—42 occasions the price of all pandemic hazard pay that Amazon can have given its roughly 1 million staff by means of the tip of this 12 months. The wealth ofAlice,Jim, andRob Walton(billionaire heirs to the Walmart fortune and the nation’s richest household) has grown by $40.7 billion because the begin of the pandemic—26 occasions the full quantity of pandemic hazard pay Walmart can have supplied its greater than 1.5 million associates by the tip of 2020. […]
Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years, by Anna V. Smith. From authorized choices to on-the-ground insurance policies, Indigenous legal professionals describe the administration’s ways as an “onslaught” eradicating federal protections of land and wildlife.
Reeling From Trump-Era Chaos, Watchdogs Seek Greater Protections, by Carrie Johnson. The federal authorities’s 75 inspectors basic, as they’re recognized, are reeling from chaos within the Trump period, together with firings and stress campaigns from the White Home and its allies. In response, the Council of the Inspectors Common on Integrity and Effectivity is asking lawmakers for higher job protections within the 12 months forward.
“It takes the typical American 4 years of medical doctors’ visits to spend as a lot time with their doctor as they spend with their telephone in a single day.” ~~Emmanuel Fombu,The Way forward for Healthcare: People and Machines Partnering for Higher Outcomes, 2018
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At Day by day Kos on this date in 2010—Why did Congressional Black Caucus invite Scott and West?
This previous election day, two new Republicans who occur to be black had been elected to serve within the 112th Congress: Allen West from Florida’s 22nd district and Tim Scott from South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Each West and Scott’s districts are overwhelmingly white, with West’s district coming in at simply 3.8 p.c black and Scott’s district coming in a way more respectable 21.1 p.c black. Each males had been endorsed by Sarah Palin and quite a few different nationwide and native conservatives, however not the Congressional Black Caucus. Nevertheless, each males had been invited to join the CBC, though Scott has declined membership. Evidently, in accordance with exit polls neither man acquired any important share of the black vote of their respective districts.
In the meantime, as I identified earlier this year, Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis has nonetheless acquired no invite from the CBC, regardless that he represents a district that’s 60 p.c black and the place he routinely receives the lion’s share of the black vote even when he has black main challengers. Though he was endorsed by Obama. Though he was endorsed by the Congressional Black Caucus!
