Its more than george soros. So somehow claiming poverty in the Union Movement is not a legitimate argument. Maybe for a local union in ohio it might be but for the National Unions they are political powerhouses with lots of funds. As far as the right to Work Legal Defense Foundation we rely on contributions given voluntarily to support the work we do. The average contribution is around 74 and we get reports from private foundations and individuals mostly, some Small Businesses but not Large Businesses by any stretch of the manual nation. Host james, line for independents, go ahead. Caller here in michigan, i know back in 2012 michigan went right to work but interestingly enough, you have police and fire lobby, those unions lobbies very hard and it was granted to them. Michigan state Police Troopers had the constitutionally right to collectively bargain since the michigan constitution was ratified in 1963. My question is twofold. One, what efforts is your organization making to ensure p
30 or so years and we essentially are trying to provide a roadmap to help income, low income workers and middle class individuals actually have a secure and healthy life. Host epi. Org is the website if you want to check them out as were talking into ben zipperer. As it comes to the discussion on minimum wage in this country, how Many Americans are working for minimum wage and whats the percentage of americans. Guest it depends on the location because theres a variety of minimum wages across the united states. Theres a federal minimum wage of about 7. 25 and applies in roughly 20 or so states. And then other states and local areas have higher minimum wages. On average its somewhere between 5 and 10 of the American Work force earns roughly close to the minimum wage. Host is there a typical minimum wage earner in rural areas. Guest a variety of minimum wage earners. It used to be the case minimum wage earners were mostly younger people but thats changed with the fact that wages havent gr
We have a look at conditions right now. Maurice, weve got the mobile weather lab. And after the major snow event. This is minor. Still its coming at a bad time. Take a look at the temperatures. This is one of the reasons were still seeing snow. 23. 5degrees. So certainly cold enough that were seeing an all snow event. And its definitely snarling traffic there. We do have more precipitation on the way. And this small amount of snow is causing big delays. Light snow starting falling in ocean county just before noon. Main roads remained clear and side streets were quickly coated. Most of new jersey is expected less than an inch of snow and people are not concerned. Weve had worse. Just let it melt. The snow will likely be an inch of rain is expected by tuesday night. But sleet and freezing rain move in and salt spreaders are treating roads. Signs warned drivers to slow down. Traffic is already moving slow in paramus. Thats because roads are already getting slick. Icy. Looks like its wet b
We are waiting to find out if power has been restored to the terminal and if trains will be running on time today after going completely dark yesterday. The lights back on in Grand Centrals upper level overnight as police blocked access to the lower level which was still without lights after a rarity for the historic station. Lights are out. Atm, ticket machines. Everything out. A partial power outage as an off site pipe six inches in diameter flooded a transformer around 9 30 monday morning. Lower level train tracks restaurants bathrooms and shops all closed as a result. Ive never seen it except for the black out night in 2003. Continuing upper level and the more than 60 retailers the outage meant a loss in business and spoiled food. A good amount of product especially for all of the other businesses on the market too. Passengers just eager to get to their destinations. As long as the trains are running thats all i care about. Yesterday the trains were running on time and schedule but
But the town itself it had three people a rancher and a lesbian couple who run a bookstore. [laughter] but to come down the road rather goes, what is that . It is a yellow truck he said that is the schwan man. [laughter]. And you know, our world had to. We gave the team these things. They love to them. We still had half a case of ice cream sandwiches left. I was moral about it. Ive had experience with this. Theres another book of mine called right of passage where i discovered prairie dogs really like sweet food. So i justified it. Throwing all these ice cream thing which is out desert because there are plenty of prairie dogs in the area and those things were gone. That was the only dumping in the desert that we did pioneer style that im going to talk about. You mentioned the cd player at the beginning. If you held onto it, what did you listen to on the oregon trail and did you keep up on the news in any way. Whats the origination of your name, nicholas . Of his name . Of your name. My