For the third time in less than a year, cities and counties across California are passing a flurry of emergency protections this week to prevent landlords from evicting tenants behind on rent due to COVID-19.
Three additional AFSCME Union Members have died in the past few days
3 AFSCME members died of COVID-19
and last updated 2021-01-22 18:18:09-05
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 3 has learned three additional union members have died in the past few days, bringing the number of deceased essential employees to 9.
They state that there are also well over 3,000 COVID positive members.
The members that passed were a correctional maintenance officer in Baltimore City, a correctional officer in Hagerstown, and a Facilities employee at the University of Maryland, College Park.
âToday we mourn the passing of one our own. Officer Renner served the people of Maryland with honor for 10 years. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and co-workers. We need everyone to stay healthy and safe and take every precaution so we can get through this together,â said Tom Myers, President of Local 1772, Hagerstown Corrections, said,
For Immediate Release, January 13, 2021
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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered Fish From Drilling, Fracking in Nevada
LAS VEGAS The Center for Biological Diversity issued a formal notice today of its intent to sue the Bureau of Land Management for failing to protect the endangered Railroad Valley springfish from oil drilling and fracking in central Nevada.
“The Bureau of Land Management has neglected its legal obligation to protect these imperiled little fish for more than 25 years, pushing them closer to extinction,” said Patrick Donnelly, Nevada state director at the Center. “The Trump administration has doubled down in its rush to give away our public lands to its buddies in the oil industry. This disdain for the natural world is dangerous, as well as illegal.”
December 24, 2020
After nearly a decade of back and forth with the Securities and Exchange Commission, active exchange-traded funds arrived with the ability to shield their portfolio holdings.
About 15 funds debuted this year from mutual fund families T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, and American Century, and from ETF developers Blue Tractor and Precidian. Some of the new ETFs replicate popular mutual funds. New ETFs include T. Rowe’s Blue Chip Growth ETF (TCHP), Dividend Growth ETF (TDVG), Equity Income ETF (TEQI) and Growth Stock ETF (TGRW), Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth ETF (FBCV), Fidelity Blue Chip Value ETF (FBCG) and American Century Focused Dynamic Growth ETF (FDG).
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December 21, 2020
The 340B Drug Price Program is under attack by the drug industry and its consultant vendor, Kalderos, as they attempt to brazenly convert the program from a drug discount that manufacturers must provide to nonprofit hospitals and clinics to a rebate program,
setting Kalderos up as the arbiter of who will get the rebate and when
By law, drug manufacturers must provide a discount on drug pricing to covered entities (nonprofit hospitals and clinics) under 340B through an agreement with the government as a condition of Medicaid and Medicare covering their drugs
WASHINGTON (December 21, 2020) AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) sounded the alarm today at reports that drug companies – through their vendor Kalderos – are moving forward with plans to undermine the 340B drug program – to the harm of safety net providers, who are already struggling to maintain services to their populations in the midst of a pandemic (340B