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  1. 11 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

    These fucking people have lost their fucking minds.  And the fact it's not receiving universal condemnation is telling.

    All these "protesters" should have their ass kicked (maybe by a cop?) from DC to Kenosha.

    The suburbanites will simply abandon the urban cores of many American cities and retreat to the new entertainment districts already being developed and built in the suburbs.  The restaurants and bars and other downtown businesses will follow the money to the suburbs leaving the urban poor even further removed from jobs and opportunity.  At least gentrification should no longer be a concern after the work and entertainment crowds largely abandon urban cores.

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  2. 1 minute ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    The survey found that low-wage workers in Los Angeles regularly experience violations of basic laws that mandate a minimum wage and overtime pay and are frequently forced to work off the clock or during their breaks. Other violations documented in the survey include lack of required payroll documentation, being paid late, tip stealing, and employer retaliation. In nearly every case, the violation rates are higher in Los Angeles than in New York and Chicago

     

    surely the readily available under the table employee has no influence on this situation. California has a lot of competition for their citizen’s low wage jobs through no fault of their own.  As an employee, why would you speak out when you are so easily replaceable?

    California is also without question the most lucrative state in the country for wage and hour class actions which are keeping many lawyers on both sides very busy and wealthy.

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  3. 28 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    For whom?

    Reposting the study.

    Key Findings:

    • In the 10 most populous states in the country, each year 2.4 million workers covered by state or federal minimum wage laws report being paid less than the applicable minimum wage in their state—approximately 17 percent of the eligible low-wage workforce.
    • The total underpayment of wages to these workers amounts to over $8 billion annually. If the findings for these states are representative for the rest of the country, they suggest that the total wages stolen from workers due to minimum wage violations exceeds $15 billion each year.
    • Workers suffering minimum wage violations are underpaid an average of $64 per week, nearly one-quarter of their weekly earnings. This means that a victim who works year-round is losing, on average, $3,300 per year and receiving only $10,500 in annual wages.
    • Young workers, women, people of color, and immigrant workers are more likely than other workers to report being paid less than the minimum wage, but this is primarily because they are also more likely than other workers to be in low-wage jobs. In general, low-wage workers experience minimum wage violations at high rates across demographic categories. In fact, the majority of workers with reported wages below the minimum wage are over 25 and are native-born U.S. citizens, nearly half are white, more than a quarter have children, and just over half work full time.
    • In the 10 most populous states, workers are most likely to be paid less than the minimum wage in Florida (7.3 percent), Ohio (5.5 percent), and New York (5.0 percent). However, the severity of underpayment is the worst in Pennsylvania and Texas, where the average victim of a minimum wage violation is cheated out of over 30 percent of earned pay.
    • The poverty rate among workers paid less than the minimum wage in these 10 states is over 21 percent—three times the poverty rate for minimum-wage-eligible workers overall. Assuming no change in work hours, if these workers were paid the full wages to which they are entitled, less than 15 percent would be in poverty.

    The EPI works backwards from their desired conclusion.  It's like a Heritage Foundation study regarding voter fraud.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Druggist said:

    That is a great Playing in the Band and it sounds even better on vinyl!  The show from the night before is great too.  One of my favorite Other Ones, Cumberland, Bird Song, He’s Gone>Trucking.  That must have been a long night/day making it from a show in Wichita,  Kansas down to Houston by the next evening.

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    That Playing is evil.  One of the few times Phil is too prominent in the mix though.

  5. 35 minutes ago, HoffaJimmy said:

    I don't get the hate. I don't worship the guy but enjoy some of his shows. He isn't a know it all, admits when he doesn't know something, challenges guests when they make a stupid argument and interviews people from all fucking sections of politics, fame, and industries. 

    Do I disagree with him on stuff? Are some of his interviews too long? Boring? Sure, but holy hell to people love to just hate. Who the fuck cares where he is moving? 

    Rogan withstood the attempts to cancel him based on his opposition to trans women competing against biological women in athletic endeavors (particularly fighting and weightlifting).   

    No deviation from the correct opinion will be tolerated.  Accordingly, he must be sent to the camps.  

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    44 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

    No, it's more akin to Mexico/Cartel violence and organization.

    I think a solution that is not being put on the table is to have leadership/law meet with South Side Chicago gangland leaders and negotiate some sort of truce or peace. It won't happen because that would be like admitting South Side Chicago is in a state of failure and too far gone, which we can't do for ego purposes, but it would sure help to save lives in the short term until holistic change can be affected.

    The Chicago gangs are much less centralized and leaderless than in the 80s and 90s.  A truce is not viable.

    There are no short-term solutions to the problem.  The most violent areas are simply too impoverished and devoid of the culture required to turn things around within a generation.  Massive investment in education, infrastructure and opportunity "might" produce some incremental improvements but the ROI would be so pathetic that the efforts will be deemed a failure before given the chance to take root.  It is at least a 50 year process to reverse 150 years of neglect and abuse.  The bottom line is that anyone today who lives in the most violent and impoverished portions of the American ghetto are basically doomed and trapped in this cycle.  

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