Robert Reich7.52 for eggs? That’s higher than the min wage!
Enough with corporations profiting while workers get squeezed. It’s disgusting.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1617925041395748864
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If Republicans actually gave a crap about controlling the debt, they’d repeal the Trump tax cuts or pass taxes on the rich. But we all know this isn’t about that. This is a backdoor ploy to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare. We cannot let them get away with this.
Let’s be clear: If we allow a former president to completely avoid accountability for inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government, we will be inviting it to happen all over again.
Prosecute Donald Trump.
Judd LegumThe Washington Post is laying off journalists, supposedly out of economic necessity
Consider that, in 2021, Bezos paid twice as much to build a new yacht ($500 million) as he paid for the Washington Post
The boat costs $50 million per year to maintain
NEW: Walmart is raising its minimum pay from $12 to $14 to better attract workers. Its average wage will rise to $17.50/hr.
The median Walmart associate now makes $24,960. CEO Doug McMillion made $25.7M, creating an astronomical CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 1029 to 1.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1617924985456328705
More Perfect Union on Twitter
“NEW: Walmart is raising its minimum pay from $12 to $14 to better attract workers. Its average wage will rise to $17.50/hr. The median Walmart associate now makes $24,960. CEO Doug McMillion made $25.7M, creating an astronomical CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 1029 to 1.”
Mass shootings in the US:
2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
In the first three weeks of 2023: 39
We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.
Egg prices are up 138%. We're calling BS on the excuses:
Avian flu? Avg flock size dropped 6% but no substantial drop in production.
Inflation? Cal-Maine's production costs were just 22% higher than in 2021.
Cal-Maine had a 10x increase in gross profits. This is price gouging.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FarmActionUS/status/1617599327798702080
Farm Action on Twitter
“Egg prices are up 138%. We're calling BS on the excuses: Avian flu? Avg flock size dropped 6% but no substantial drop in production. Inflation? Cal-Maine's production costs were just 22% higher than in 2021. Cal-Maine had a 10x increase in gross profits. This is price gouging.”
Federal minimum wage in:
2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25
The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in *1968*.
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them:
— Gun laws in other countries have stopped mass shootings
— More guns don't make us safer
— The vast majority of Americans want gun control
Inaction is a policy choice.
LaffyGraphic account in article:
New Brett #Kavanaugh #SexualAssault Allegations in Secret Sundance Doc ‘Justice’
“Most damning of all, it features never-heard-before audio recording made by one of Kavanaugh’s Yale colleagues—Partnership for Public Service pres & CEO Max Stier—that not only corroborates Ramirez’s charges, but suggests that Kavanaugh violated another unnamed woman as well.”
