Michael OlsonPresident Obama is expected to release this week a long-awaited rule governing overtime that could affect 5 million people as soon as next year, a source familiar with the plans confirmed to NPR. Read more →
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Since the turn of the century, economists say workers’ share of all income generated has declined significantly. In the four decades after WWII, the “labor share” averaged around 64 percent. But since 2000, it’s been accelerating on a downward trajectory, and in recent years it hovered around 58 percent. Read more →
Supreme Court says same-sex couples have right to marry in all 50 states. Read more →
he majority opinion cited the law’s “more than a few examples of inartful drafting,” but added, “the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase.”
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MPR News StaffA proposed rule published this spring by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission attempts to strike a balance between employers who want to use incentives to drive worker participation and consumer advocates who see penalties as de facto coercion. The plan drew about 300 comments from employers and consumer groups by a June 19 deadline, with plenty of criticism.
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“While changing the name of a lake will not, in itself, bring an end to injustice,” Minneapolis blogger and activist Mike Spangenberg wrote on change.org, “it can and should be an important step in an ongoing effort to confront our nation’s past and to end systemic racism and oppression today.” Read more →
America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance, and the evidence is all around us. Read more →
Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard them the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing. Read more →
Last year 29 people drowned in area lakes, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Read more →
The two are leading in the polls and appear to have outraised their primary opponents so far. Read more →