thousands of people showed up, we were in detroit, then we went to pontiac, a community that has experienced a lot of struggles, a lot of factory closings, then we ended up in the western part of the state in grand rapids to a packed house. a young girl named kennedy sands handed me this, from kennedys creation, she s probably nine years old. phil harper from michigan. that s why i m running, for people like my son and kennedy sands, all the great people of michigan who deserve bold leadership. you know, we have the amazing senators stepping down and this state needs bold leadership to continue to double down on the work that we have seen the triple blue do in our state capital, where they ve done so much good work, rebuilding the water infrastructure, expanding voting rights, we need that in washington d.c. as well. you know, for many people who have followed your career know that you have done a great deal of activism in michigan it particular as well. but many people know you as a
today has been an incredible day. and the reason why is because of a day like today. we start in detroit early, we ve done three different events, thousands of people showed up. we are in detroit, and then we went to pontiac, a community that s experienced a lot of struggles, a lot of factory closings. and then we ended up in the western part of the state, in grand rapids, to a packed house. and a young girl, you ask me why, a young girl named kennedy sands handed me this from kennedys creations. she s probably nine years old. hill harper from michigan, and that s why i m running, for people like my son and kennedy s hands, and all the great people of michigan who deserve bold leadership. we have the amazing senators we have now stepping down. and this state needs bold leadership to continue to double down on the work that we ve seen the triple blue do in our state capitol in lansing, where they ve done so much good work getting rid of right to work, rebuilding the water infrastructure
The rank-and-file Berlin Transit Workers Action Committee supports the election platform of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP) in the Berlin state election.
French company Vallourec is closing plants in Düsseldorf and Mülheim, Germany, costing 2,400 jobs, as well as its facility in Saint-Saulve in northern France, 100 jobs, and in Bellshill, Scotland, 70 jobs.
no surprise about that. i can t sugarcoat that. when you look at what president biden has done around economics, around job development and creation and laying out a plan for 2022 to deal with inflation as well as part of that, that s really important. we can t go back and i wish we could and stop the pandemic. a lot of these conversations around inflation we wouldn t have today. right. i don t know what percentage we wouldn t be having if we didn t have the pandemic-related supply chains and factory closings and things like that. some is labor cost. i m stuck on this. i think that we have struggled for years to try to increase the federal minimum wage and state minimum wage. it s ridiculous in some places in the country people still earn $7.25 an hour. we have raised those wages. according to the last bureau of labor statistics report, average hourly earnings at the end of december were $26.61 versus