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Cantor Proposes End To Overtime Pay As Obama Proposes Increase To Minimum Wage

House Majority Leade r Eric Cantor (R-Va.) speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo/via Wikimedia Commons) (MintPress) – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) proposed abolishing overtime pay for hourly employees, a federally-protected law established to provide fair compensation for work that goes beyond the standard 40-hour work week. The announcement was made […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

(MintPress) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) proposed abolishing overtime pay for hourly employees, a federally-protected law established to provide fair compensation for work that goes beyond the standard 40-hour work week. The announcement was made during a speech earlier this month at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington,

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Five Independent, Political Documentaries That Should Have Won An Oscar

This Oct. 11, 1988 publicity photo released by Sundance Selects shows Peter Staley in a scene from director, David Franceís documentary film, “How to Survive a Plague,” a Sundance Selects release. Staley triumphantly finishes hanging a banner over the entrance to the FDA main headquarters, during an HIV AIDS civil disobedience demonstration, in Rockville, Md. […]

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

(MintPress) - As Hollywood’s finest strutted down the red carpet Sunday night for the 85th Academy Awards — decked out in high-end fashion gowns and tuxes, topped off with designer jewels — many Americans took joy in thinking this would be one night where politics aside, we could all come together and celebrate the films created over the last

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One Year Since Trayvon Martin Murder: New Play ‘Outcry’ In His Memory

People attend a rally demanding justice for Trayvon Martin in Freedom Plaza on March 24, 2012, in Washington. Martin, an unarmed young black teen was fatally shot by a volunteer neighborhood watchman. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) NEW YORK –  (MintPress) – Trayvon Martin would have turned 18 this month. Instead, his family is mourning the […]

Lisa Barron
بواسطة Lisa Barron
People attend a rally demanding justice for Trayvon Martin in Freedom Plaza on March 24, 2012, in Washington. Martin, an unarmed young black teen was fatally shot by a volunteer neighborhood watchman. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

NEW YORK -  (MintPress) - Trayvon Martin would have turned 18 this month. Instead, his family is mourning the one-year anniversary of his fatal shooting in Miami. It is a fitting time for staging a play about the teen’s life and death. “Outcry,” written by 22-year-old playwright Thais Francis, is now showing at the newly-opened JACK theater and

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The Strange Death Of The Tea Party

The Tea Party as a “Potemkin village” — An older heritage facade having been saved while the building behind it is being demolished and redeveloped. It stands to be seen whether the effort will have been worth it, or whether it only creates a garish mixture of old and new. Seen on Pitt Street, Auckland […]

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
بواسطة Jeffrey Cavanaugh

They came by the hundreds. Or the tens. Possibly singly or in very small groups. It is hard to say exactly how many as scattered news reports have confused just how few people showed up to a series of right-wing rallies held across the nation this past Saturday. There were lots, though – several dozens, at least — just ask the data-mining and

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Key Long-Term-Care Insurer To Raise Women’s Premiums

Charge nurse Esther Marania checks on a patient at General Hospital in San Francisco on March 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will largely prohibit insurers who sell individual and small-group health policies from charging women higher premiums than men for the same coverage. Long-term-care insurance, however, isn’t bound by that […]

Michelle Andrews
بواسطة Michelle Andrews

Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will largely prohibit insurers who sell individual and small-group health policies from charging women higher premiums than men for the same coverage. Long-term-care insurance, however, isn't bound by that law, and the country's largest provider of such coverage has announced it will begin setting its

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What Researchers Learned About Gun Violence Before Congress Killed Funding

Martina Garcia, right, of the Hispanic Community Organization For Life, speaks about witnessing too much violence in her community during a Harlem march and vigil against gun violence on the first anniversary of the Tucson, Arizona shootings that killed six and injured 12 in New York, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) President Obama […]

Joaquin Sapien
بواسطة Joaquin Sapien

President Obama has directed the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence as part of his legislative package on gun control. The CDC hasn't pursued this kind of research since 1996 when the National Rifle Association lobbied Congress to cut funding for it, arguing that the studies were politicized and being used to promote gun control.

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