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Demonstrators rally at the Capitol in support of McDonald s workers on strike to be paid $15 per hour in 15 cities on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) [ JOSE LUIS MAGANA | AP ]
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How do you get to a desired $15 per hour federal minimum wage without legislation? Step 1: Use a pandemic-caused recession to give people who are out of work the equivalent of nearly $15 per hour in unemployment benefits. Step 2: Continue to offer those benefits even after there are more job openings than people looking for work, thereby incentivizing the unemployed not to work for less than $15 per hour. Step 3: When employers canât fill positions, tell them to âpay more.â Totally brilliant strategy. In the interim, consumers only have to deal with poor service from understaff
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has launched a new campaign designed to educate nature-seekers about Leave No Trace principles and hiking preparedness, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announced last week.
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The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) were found this month to have violated the famed “forever wild” clause in New York’s constitution.
Neither agency has been able to muster a meaningful response.
Damaged public Forest Preserve lands need to be restored, official state policies that debased the state constitution must be reformed, and plans for a motorized trail network that violated forever wild need to be rescinded.
Yet neither the DEC or APA have managed a coherent and thoughtful response that acknowledges their violations and takes responsibility for their mismanagement.
Since New York’s top court ruled last week that the state violated its own constitution by cutting trees for Class II snowmobile trails on the Forest Preserve, state agencies have given scant response on what this might mean for the future of.