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    OK & LA have way too much to lose. We'll have legal MJ in Texas before we have casinos.

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    OK & LA have way too much to lose. We'll have legal MJ in Texas before we have casinos.
    True but us not getting sportsbooks legal sucks alot

    Back on the subject of not being talked about enough is Abbott keeping Billions of Fed government money out of public schools for "reasons"

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    True but us not getting sportsbooks legal sucks alot

    Back on the subject of not being talked about enough is Abbott keeping Billions of Fed government money out of public schools for "reasons"
    He released about 11 billion 3 weeks ago, who knows what happens with the other 7 billion.

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    Only about one in 28 unemployed people actually turned down jobs to stay on expanded unemployment, Fed study says


    • Beefed-up unemployment had a "small" impact on workers looking for jobs, a new Fed paper shows.
    • Labor market data show on average, just one worker out of 28 chose UI over accepting a job offer.
    • The authors said the $300 weekly benefit likely affected "employers' perception of worker availability."


    https://www.businessinsider.com/unem...obs-fed-2021-5

    employers' "perception" and Repug lies as the fabrication for screwing red state workers out of Federal PUA.

    Similar was shown in 2020 when weekly PUA was $600

    the Repug-screwed red state workers will still vote for Repugs to keep screwing them
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    Republicans blame unemployment aid for restaurant hiring woes.

    Restaurant workers say something else

    “The staffing issue has actually a lot more to do with the conditions that the industry was in before covid and people not wanting to go back to that, knowing what they would be facing with a pandemic on top of it,”

    “People are forgetting that restaurant workers have actually experienced decades of abuse and trauma. The pandemic is just the final straw.”

    ”I’ve seen the number of people who are passionate about the restaurant industry slowly ebb away over the last 20 years,”

    it’s because the server’s minimum wage hasn’t changed. There is this belief that servers and bartenders are interchangeable.”

    Restaurant workers were already underpaid and undervalued, lacking benefits and stability, working hours that make it difficult to have a family or social life—

    and then a pandemic in which they suffered disproportionately was piled onto that, with long layoffs during shutdowns and

    customers and employers willing to endanger their health when restaurants reopened.

    surveyed 2,000 restaurant workers and found that 26% had left the industry. It’s kind of a wonder the number isn’t higher, under the cir stances.

    Restaurant workers are telling us that their work environments were just barely sustainable before the pandemic piled on its traumas.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...something-else




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    Black Unemployment 57% Higher Than National Number

    https://247wallst.com/jobs/2021/06/0...tional-number/

    White supremacists drink to that

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    35% of Small Businesses Risk Financial Failure This Summer

    Despite expedited COVID vaccinations,
    eased restrictions in many states, and
    accelerated re-openings of several different industries across the U.S.,

    Alignable’s June Revenue Poll shows that 35% of all small business owners are still at risk of closing...

    Alignable’s June Revenue Poll results reflect

    ulative negative effects of COVID,

    inflationary pressures including the rising prices of gas, supplies and employees,

    as well as increasing labor shortages.

    In fact, 55% of those polled said they're having trouble finding employees, up 5% from last month.

    Beyond those challenges, several polltakers reported that they are still not fully open.

    Some say they've had to take a second job to keep their small business afloat long enough

    to see if it actually has a chance to recover after COVID subsides.

    https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/s...re-this-summer

    Thanks, Trash and your sycophantic mafia.



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    35% of Small Businesses Risk Financial Failure This Summer

    Despite expedited COVID vaccinations,
    eased restrictions in many states, and
    accelerated re-openings of several different industries across the U.S.,

    Alignable’s June Revenue Poll shows that 35% of all small business owners are still at risk of closing...

    Alignable’s June Revenue Poll results reflect

    ulative negative effects of COVID,

    inflationary pressures including the rising prices of gas, supplies and employees,

    as well as increasing labor shortages.

    In fact, 55% of those polled said they're having trouble finding employees, up 5% from last month.

    Beyond those challenges, several polltakers reported that they are still not fully open.

    Some say they've had to take a second job to keep their small business afloat long enough

    to see if it actually has a chance to recover after COVID subsides.

    https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/s...re-this-summer

    Thanks, Trash and your sycophantic mafia.


    Mother er Biden is in that pickle as well, bouts. He's got 213k of his own dead Americans on his end of the COVID Death Ledger.

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    Stimulus Checks Substantially Reduced Hardship, Study Shows

    Researchers found that sharp declines in food shortages, financial instability and anxiety coincided with the two most recent rounds of payments.

    the two latest rounds of aid significantly improved Americans’ ability to buy food and pay household bills and reduced anxiety and depression, with the largest benefits going to the poorest households and those with children.

    Among households with children, reports of food shortages fell 42 percent from January through April. A broader gauge of financial instability fell 43 percent. Among all households, frequent anxiety and depression fell by more than 20 percent.

    the largest declines in measures of hardship coincided with the
    $600 checks that reached most people in January and the $1,400 checks mostly distributed in April.

    “We see an immediate decline among multiple lines of hardship concentrated among the most disadvantaged families,”

    there is no clear way to measure whether the benefits were worth the costs. quality of American human life isn't worth measuring?

    the aggressive use of stimulus checks coincides with growing interest in broad cash payments as a tool in social policy, and

    the evidence that they can have an immediate effect on the economic strains afflicting many households could influence that debate.

    critics of such aid often warn that the needy might waste it. critics = racists, Repugs, Capitalists

    5.2 million children had escaped food insufficiency since the start of the year, a figure he called dramatic. "wasting" food on poor children

    the American Enterprise Ins ute, questioned the reliability of the census data Capitalist tool

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/u...-hardship.html

    racist Confederate / red states know exactly whom they are hurting by stopping FREE Federal unemployment assistance months early



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    Half of the pandemic's unemployment money may have been stolen

    Unemployment fraud during the pandemic could easily reach $400 billion, according to some estimates, and

    the bulk of the money likely ended in the hands of foreign crime syndicates — making this not just theft, but a matter of national security.
    They all knew fraud was inevitable, but decided getting the money out to people who desperately needed it was more important than laboriously making sure all of them were genuine.

    at least 70% of the money stolen by impostors ultimately left the country, much of it ending up in the hands of criminal syndicates in China, Nigeria, Russia and elsewhere.

    "These groups are definitely backed by the state,"

    Much of the rest of the money was stolen by street gangs domestically, who have made up a greater share of the fraudsters in recent months.

    "Mules" — low-level criminals — are given debit cards and asked to withdraw money from ATMs. That money then gets transferred abroad, often via bitcoin.

    After unemployment insurance became the primary vehicle by which the U.S. government tried to keep the economy afloat, however, all that changed.


    Unemployment became where the big money was — and

    was also being run by bureaucrats who weren't as quick to crack down on criminals as private companies normally are.



    Unemployment fraud is now offered on the dark web on a software-as-a-service basis, much like ransomware.

    States without fraud-detection services are naturally targeted the most.



    https://www.axios.com/pandemic-unemp...47b72f67f.html

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    two bazookas, which one was bigger?


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    CDC eviction moratorium ends in 11 days.

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    Facing staffing issues, American Airlines cancels hundreds of flight

    American Airlines canceled more than 200 flights over the weekend due to staffing shortages, and

    expects to cut more daily through July.


    The company scrapped 123 flights on Saturday and 178 flights on Sunday,

    with 97 more canceled for Monday.

    All airlines are dealing with staffing issues connected to the coronavirus pandemic;

    in March 2020, when air travel all but stopped, thousands of employees were laid off or accepted buyouts,

    and now that people are flying again, there aren't enough workers.

    American Airlines said its catering contractor and wheelchair operators also aren't fully staffed.

    https://theweek.com/travel/1001743/f...eds-of-flights

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    Unemployment wasn't keeping people from work as Republicans claimed —

    data shows something else could be happening

    Republicans promoted the conspiracy theory that Americans weren't going back to work amid the COVID-19 pandemic because they were too busy living the comfortable life on the U.S. dime.

    Data now shows that they were wrong.

    in Missouri when federal pay for the unemployed was scrapped, workers still were being choosy.

    Gov. Mike Parson (R) proudly proclaimed that his state would be among the first to kill unemployment benefits.

    It still hasn't worked, however.

    "Work-force development officials said they had seen virtually no uptick in applicants since the governor's announcement,

    which ended a $300 weekly supplement to other benefits,"

    the online job site Indeed found that

    in states that have abandoned the federal benefits, clicks on job postings were below the national average."

    "Clearly part of the problem now is that what employers and what workers think is out of whack."

    With fewer child care options, already high costs are soaring. If someone makes less money working and paying for child care,

    then it makes more sense to stay at home.

    the high cost of health and safety is the factor.

    they contract COVID from unvaccinated co-workers or customers, they could hurt family members or their children and be bankrupt from health expenses.

    people now know how in-demand they are and are better able to negotiate for higher pay, better benefits and things most good companies provide.

    public benefits have made people "very complacent." $300/week? $7.50/hour?

    "In St. Louis, a single person needs to earn $14 an hour to cover basic expenses at a minimum standard,"

    "Add a child, and the needed wage rises just above $30.

    Two adults working with two children would each have to earn roughly $21 an hour."

    many workers have felt that they were the ones being taken advantage of by companies,

    now it appears they're refusing to be part of that system.

    Of the 34 employers and agencies at a Maryland job fair, many were

    willing to increase pay by $1 an hour.

    "They're offering $10, $12, $13," ... "There's no point in being here."

    He works two jobs, but even his job at McDonald's pays $15 an hour.

    the free market is delivering a harsh blow to low-paying employers.

    https://www.rawstory.com/republican-unemployment-lie

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/b...-benefits.html




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    Southwest Airlines cancels and delays 1000s of flights. Again.


    https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...s-16278594.php

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    U.S. Braces for Evictions Wave as Moratorium End Nears;

    Some 6M Tenants Owe Back Rent


    https://www.newsweek.com/us-braces-e...k-rent-1604749

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    MORE THAN $425 MILLION PROMISED FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE DIDN’T MAKE IT TO TENANTS OR THEIR LANDLORDS

    Some states failed to get pandemic aid to renters promptly.

    Some spent it on other things.

    And some never set up an assistance program in the first place.

    facing possible eviction despite bold promises by governors to help renters after Congress passed the sweeping CARES Act in March 2020.

    set aside at least $2.6 billion from the CARES Act’s Coronavirus Relief Fund to prop up struggling renters,

    but a year later, more than $425 million of that — or 16% — hadn’t made it into the pockets of tenants or their landlords,

    https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/covid-divide/rental-assistance-did-not-go-to-tenants-landlords



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    This Company Got a $10 Million PPP Loan,

    Then Closed Its Plant and Moved Manufacturing Jobs to Mexico


    Many American businesses received millions in federal pandemic aid intended to protect workers, but exploited loopholes and rule changes to lay off those employees anyway.

    An analysis of applications for trade adjustment assistance, which the federal government provides to workers whose jobs have disappeared due to imports, shows that

    at least half a dozen companies that applied for more than a million dollars apiece in PPP loans terminated more than 50 workers in 2020 after their aid was approved.

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    Mitch McConnell Admits Democrats Deserve All The Credit For $4 Billion Coming To Kentucky

    The Kentucky senator acknowledged that his state would benefit from the American Rescue Plan, even though he voted against the funds.

    Under the American Rescue Plan, Kentucky stands to get $4 billion. Cities and counties are set to gain as much as $800 million to help them recover from the pandemic.

    But he made it clear that he had nothing to do with that money. In fact, he and every other Republican in Congress opposed the American Rescue Plan.

    “This doesn’t make sense. It’s wildly out of proportion to where the country is now,” he said.

    “Well, it passed on a straight party-line vote. Not a single member of my party voted for it.”



    “So you’re going to get a lot more money,” he added.

    “I didn’t vote for it, but you’re going to get a lot more money.

    Cities and counties in Kentucky will get close to $700 or 800 million.

    If you add up the total amount that will come into our state ― $4 billion. ...

    So my advice to members of the legislature and others ― local officials ― is to spend it wisely,

    because hopefully this windfall doesn’t come along again.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch...b0b7636a7e7ba1



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    at some point, they'll have to go get the money from the big corporations and rich people who took most of it. It is not possible to continue this way.

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    at some point, they'll have to go get the money from the big corporations and rich people who took most of it. It is not possible to continue this way.
    Nazi's!!!

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    Nancy Pelosi is either callous, out to lunch or both


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    Nancy Pelosi is either callous, out to lunch or both

    My ass, Winester. This is on mother er Biden, bub. Don't try that Nancy Pelosi happy horse . Uh, uh.

    Let us proceed...

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    at some point, they'll have to go get the money from the big corporations and rich people who took most of it. It is not possible to continue this way.
    It is possible for the oligarchy to continue indefinitely, totally detached from, immune to the ty lives of the non-oligarchy

    The only solution, historically when an oligarchy forces a country into unrelenting tiness, is violent revolution:

    USA,
    China,
    Russia,
    France,
    Cuba

    There won't be violent revolution in USA. The next phase will be Capitalist/Christian Nationalist fascism, sooner like 2024, or later, but fasism is inevitable.

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