Spending on TV has been climbing back toward normal in Milwaukee since the pandemic struck, and the stations are getting a windfall from a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race that will give the balance
The United States is the only industrialized country without a national paid maternity leave policy, and one of six OECD countries without paid leave for fathers. That leaves U.S. firms to decide whether to provide paid leave to their employees who need time to care for themselves, new children, or loved ones. Just 21% of the civilian workforce, typically white collar workers at larger firms, have access to employer-provided paid leave.
Yet some recruiters and executives at small firms, especially tech start-ups, say that providing paid leave to employees or living in a state with a public paid leave program is increasingly making the difference in recruiting and retaining top talent, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic strains families to the breaking point. “I’ve had people turn me down because of the paid leave,” said Patricia Sias, head of HR at a small STEM firm that does not offer paid family leave. In a previous position, with a large firm, she said the paid leave p
Regarding the use of vaccines developed using cells from aborted human persons
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On 21 December 2020,
Reuters reported on a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announcing that the Vatican had signed off on the use of vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.[1] Though the CDF document stresses that it strongly desires the use of ethically acceptable vaccines, the document also emphasizes that the common good and the protection of the weakest and most exposed also hold equal claim. While CDF laments the lack of ethically acceptable vaccination methods, it argues incorrectly that the use of ethically compromised vaccines using fetal cell lines is remote material cooperation with evil, precisely because we are dealing in questions of life and death.