17 states sue EEOC over rule giving employees abortion accommodations in Pregnant Workers act “Congress passed the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to protect mothers-to-be and promote healthy pregnancies, and the EEOC's attempt to rewrite that law into an abortion mandate is illegal,” ... 04/26/2024 - 2:37 am | View Link
Planned Parenthood plans 'unprecedented' $10M North Carolina campaign as abortion battles loom The abortion rights group Planned Parenthood announced Thursday that it plans to spend $10 million on North Carolina's election this year — double what the group spent in the 2022 election. 04/25/2024 - 9:17 am | View Link
Planned Parenthood announces $10 million voter campaign in North Carolina for 2024 election Planned Parenthood affiliated groups have announced a $10 million voter engagement campaign in North Carolina for the 2024 election. 04/25/2024 - 8:08 am | View Link
Judge strikes down North Carolina law on prosecuting ex-felons who voted before 2024 A federal judge has halted the enforcement of a North Carolina law that made it a serious crime for someone to vote while still on probation or parole for a felony conviction when they had simply viol ... 04/23/2024 - 9:13 am | View Link
Federal judge strikes down North Carolina law that allowed felons to face felony charges for mistakenly voting while ineligible A federal judge has issued a judgment about a North Carolina voting law that the plaintiffs and critics deemed discriminatory. On Monday, a federal court ruled that ... 04/23/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
I became reacquainted with Raffi in the spring of 2020, around my son’s first birthday. These were the early days of the pandemic: People had barely stopped hoarding toilet paper; we’d started going to the car wash for fun. It was on one of these drives that I first burst into tears to Raffi’s “All I Really Need.” Ostensibly, I was playing the track for my baby, who was babbling in his car seat behind me as I drove through eerily quiet San Francisco, trying to forget Trump had just suggested we all drink bleach.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2 percent tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise about $313 billion a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality, and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.
In a sign of growing international support for a levy on the super-rich, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, and Spain say a 2 percent tax would reduce inequality and raise much-needed public funds after the economic shocks of the pandemic, the climate crisis and military conflicts in Europe and the Middle East.
They are calling for more countries to join their campaign, saying the annual sum raised would be enough to cover the estimated cost of damage caused by all of last year’s extreme weather events.
“It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public goods,” the ministers say in a Guardian comment piece.
Trump was handed very sour lemons from New York's prosecutors and judges, forcing him to stay in New York for trial. Now he's making lemonade as working voters flock to him.