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A review board split 4-4 and won't challenge a police finding that the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte in 2016.
"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency," Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency," Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
A giant inflatable chicken bearing the unmistakable hairstyle of the commander in chief transfixed tourists and television cameras in the nation's capital.
A giant inflatable chicken bearing the unmistakable hairstyle of the commander in chief transfixed tourists and television cameras in the nation's capital.
A giant inflatable chicken bearing the unmistakable hairstyle of the commander in chief transfixed tourists and television cameras in the nation's capital.
"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially right now it is an emergency," Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Preparing for the Future: What Working People Are Doing This Week
Welcome to our regular feature, a look at what the various AFL-CIO unions and other working family organizations are doing across the country and beyond. The labor movement is big and active—here's a look at the broad range of activities we're engaged in this week.
A. Philip Randolph Institute:
APRI youth addressing topics as such #BlackLivesMatter #blackcommunities #LGBTLeaders #StayWoke #APRINEC17 pic.twitter.com/sPTJBrOcFN
— APRI National (DC) (@APRI_National) August 4, 2017
Actors' Equity Association:
.@AEAPresident Kate Shindle: Why I’m Voting to Make #EquityStrong pic.twitter.com/uVEMLjt0aF
— Actors' Equity (@ActorsEquity) July 31, 2017
AFGE:
.@AFGELocal3911 wants you to tell them why you don’t want to see the EPA dismantled. #LL2EPA #1u https://t.co/17ClLTDAje pic.twitter.com/ieENOaC0uq
— AFGE (@AFGENational) August 8, 2017
AFSCME:
EPA Alumni Assoc. launches Job Center for current & former employees, esp. in light of anticip. cuts....
The Answer to Exploding Inequality: Working People Standing Together
New York Times
The New York Times published a chart this week that perfectly summarizes how the United States has gone from having the healthiest middle class in the world to a land of increasing economic inequality that shuts out far too many families from the American dream.
A well-known team of inequality researchers—Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman—has been getting some attention recently for a chart it produced. It shows the change in income between 1980 and 2014 for every point on the distribution, and it neatly summarizes the recent soaring of inequality.
The line on the chart (which we have recreated as the red line above) resembles a classic hockey-stick graph. It’s mostly flat and close to zero, before spiking upward at the end. That spike shows that the very affluent, and only the very affluent, have received significant raises in recent decades.
While instructive, this chart leaves one very important question unanswered: Why? When you dig a little deeper into the data, one striking fact simply can’t be ignored: The decline of union...
A third of men and a quarter of U.S. women use condoms when they have sex, a CDC survey finds.
