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'The Jan Brady of generations': Expert warns of chaos for coming wave of retirees
The Raw Story· 21 hours agoGeneration X — those born between 1965 and 1980 — are the first generation where a majority work in...
From labor strikes to demolition, here’s the history of Kansas City’s Buck O’Neil Bridge
The Kansas City Star· 1 day agoWhat's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions the history, people, places and culture that make Kansas City unique ...
Juneteenth 2024: Here's what will be open and closed on the holiday
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoProclamation. The executive order outlawed slavery in Confederate states beginning Jan. 1, 1863, the midpoint of the Civil War. The holiday rose to prominence in 2020 amid ...
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Quartz· 1 day agoQuartz analyzed the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Thursday (Jan. 11) and compiled a list of yays and nays for Americans’ grocery lists ...
The origins of Juneteenth: History, celebrations and more
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe proclamation, issued as a military measure..., the Union sought to stop the expansion of slavery...
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Quartz· 1 day agoThe Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows young workers to be paid below minimum wage—also known as a “subminimum wage” or “youth opportunity wage”—on...pay young workers ...
Opinion | The Starbucks Decision Shows Labor Law Won’t Rescue Fired Workers
New York Times· 4 days agoJaz Brisack is a co-founder of Starbucks Workers United and is currently in residence at the...
Is Juneteenth a holiday in Florida? What is closed on Juneteenth 2024?
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoBut it was left up to slaveowners to tell their enslaved people about their new freedom, and many of them simply ignored it...and rights of property, between former masters and slaves and the ...
Supreme Court Sides With Starbucks in Challenge to Labor Board
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoThe Supreme Court on Thursday backed Starbucks in a battle with the National Labor Relations Board,...
Consumers tapping out amid sticky inflation and slowing job market
TheStreet.com· 2 hours agoThe U.S. economy relies on a healthy consumer for the bulk of its growth, but spending is starting to slow into the summer months. The U.S. economy is starting to see weakness in its most important ...
