Given tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the ultrarich and corporations, it should come as no surprise that there was no significant change in the median US household's disposable incomebetween 2017 and 2018 (again, the most recent year with good data). Real median weekly earnings are just 2. 6% above their level when Trump took office. And these increases have not offset long periods of wage stagnation. For example, the median wage of a full-time male worker (and those with full-time jobs are the lucky ones) is still more than 3% below what it was 40 years ago. Nor has there been much progress on reducing racial disparities: in the third quarter of 2019, median weekly earnings for black men working full-time were less than three-quarters the level for white men. Making matters worse, the growth that has occurred is not environmentally sustainable – and even less so thanks to the Trump administration's gutting of regulations that have passed stringent cost-benefit analyses. The air will be less breathable, the water less drinkable, and the planet more subject to climate change.
It is also looking at cutting visas for skilled workers in specialty occupations and seasonal workers who work in industries that include landscaping, housekeeping and construction industries, they say. [Emphasis added] … Trump is still weighing even broader restrictions, though, that would bar all categories of guest workers except those who work on farms, according to a senior DHS official. But a White House official said all decisions, including immigration, are being viewed through the lens of reopening the country, making it extremely unlikely Trump take such a sweeping step and anger business leaders. [Emphasis added] As Breitbart News reported, 30 college student organizations recently sent a letter to Trump asking him to end the OPT program and halt H-1B visa admissions. The OPT program ensures that corporations like Amazon, Google, Deloitte, and Intel can continue to hire thousands of OPT foreign workers over American STEM graduates every year at a 15 percent discount. The program helps shift billions of dollars from heartland communities to metropolises in blue states with wealthy residents.
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He wrote that his colleagues should have retained jurisdiction and waited for results of negotiation. "How could continued negotiations violate any public policy? " Kilbride asked. "Unfortunately, today's decision may well adversely impact the enforceability of other labor agreements. "I do not advocate the indiscriminate destruction of police misconduct records. Nor do I minimize the seriousness of police misconduct. " He wrote that the city and the union could negotiate preservation of records necessary for implementation of reforms.
A proposal that cleared a legislative committee in Springfield this week aims to fully legalize the delivery and possession of any amount of marijuana — a move that would also allow for the automatic expungement of more serious pot offenses and set free those who are currently incarcerated for those crimes. State Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, said she introduced the bill to further address the toll of the drug war and its disproportionate impact on people of color. Pot firms are currently cashing in on the newly legalized drug and selling millions of dollars in weed each month. But Flowers noted that some Illinoisans are still languishing in prison for cannabis-related crimes, while others are dogged by their past records. "These are the people that showed the people that's walking around with their suit and ties in their board rooms … that there was a market for this, " said Flowers, who did not support the push to legalize marijuana for recreational use. "They showed them how to disseminate it, how to cut it out, how to distribute it and how much money there was out there. "
The bill would make possession or delivery of pot legal, but not the manufacture or production of cannabis. Convictions for those crimes dating back to 1970 would be erased. Flowers' bill is now being sent to the House floor after being narrowly approved by the body's Criminal Justice Committee. Jim Kaitschuk, the executive director of the Illinois Sheriffs Association, spoke out strongly against the proposal during the meeting and reiterated his concerns in an interview. Kaitschuk warned that the bill "essentially legalizes any amount of cannabis" and noted that "huge potential drug traffickers" would have their pot-related records cleared. "You could have a semitruck-load full of cannabis and now that's legal, " he said. What's more, Kaitschuk said the proposal would allow certain pot offenders to carry guns and could complicate the state's current expungement process. Under the legalization law, individuals arrested for possessing or selling up to 30 grams of cannabis — the amount that's now legal — can have their records expunged.
In response, the IMRF argued the law's reform measures pass constitutional muster, because they don't deny any benefits already earned to the county board members. Rather, it disallows the county board members from continuing to participate in the pension plan because they no longer meet the requirements, specifically, the rule requiring their county to certify they are still working at least 11 hours per week on county business. The IMRF argued to rule the law unconstitutional would create "absurd results" in which "an individual need only qualify for participation once and then be entitled to future participation for an indefinite amount of time. " Sign-up and get latest news about the courts, judges and latest complaints - right to your inbox. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from Cook County Record. You can unsubscribe at any time. Protected by Google ReCAPTCHA. A circuit judge disagreed, however. And on appeal, so did a unanimous Illinois Supreme Court.
Young seeks trial by jury, and damages of $1, 000-$5, 000 per violation, plus interest, attorney fees, court costs and other relief. She is represented by attorneys Brandon M. Wise and Paul Lesko of Pfeiffer Wolf, Carr & Kane APLC in St. Louis. Cook County Circuit Court case number 2019-CH-07729
The panel featuring Lightfoot will also include state Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), who spearheaded legalization efforts in Illinois, and Wanda James, who as founder and CEO of Simply Pure Dispensary in Denver was the first African American marijuana dispensary owner in the country. James has worked to bolster social equity in the weed industry and create opportunities for victims of the drug war, which are both key aims of the legislation Cassidy sponsored. The event will also feature panels and presentations discussing the city's regulation of the state's recreational marijuana law, as well as the expungement process the new law enabled to remove some marijuana-related convictions from criminal records. Anyone interested in attending can register here.
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