Congress is allowing the expiration of childcare. PDR visited The Devil’s Advocates Radio Show to discuss engaging MAGA. GOP pushes astronomical cuts. Vegas Hospitality workers vote to strike.
Congress letting childcare expire.
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- MAJOR RANT: Congress is failing families. Your budget informs us about your overall values: More than 70,000 childcare programs are projected to close, and about 3.2 million children could lose their spots due to Congress allowing the end of the childcare stabilization grant program on September 30. [More]
- PDR Host Egberto Willies interviewed on The Devil’s Advocates Radio Show LIVE about engaging MAGA: I was honored to appear on The Devil’s Advocates Radio Show with host Mike Crute in Madison, Wisconsin. We discussed engaging the other side techniques and info from my book, It’s Worth It: How To Talk To Your Right Ring Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors. [More]
- ‘Unbelievably Cruel’: GOP Pushes Astronomical Cuts to Education, Housing, and Food Aid: Democratic lawmakers and policy analysts are expressing growing alarm over the House GOP’s pursuit of increasingly severe spending cuts that would decimate education programs, slash housing assistance and food aid for low-income families, undermine clean air and water safety, and compromise medical research. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, called the Republican proposals “unbelievably cruel” and accused the GOP of “playing political games on the backs of the most vulnerable, working people, families just trying to get by.” [More]
- ‘One Job Should Be Enough!’: Vegas Hospitality Workers Vote by 95% to Authorize Strike: Members of two Nevada labor unions—including the state’s largest—on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to authorize a citywide strike at 22 Las Vegas casinos, while continuing to negotiate a new contract “in good faith” with gaming companies. Chanting “one job should be enough,” tens of thousands of cocktail and food servers, bartenders, cooks, porters, and other non-gaming hotel employees in the Culinary Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165—affiliates of the Unite Here—packed the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where they voted by 95% during two sessions to approve a work stoppage at Las Vegas Strip properties owned by MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, and Wynn/Encore Resorts. [More]
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