Thousands of people didn’t get to cast their ballots in the recent Arizona primaries. Hundreds of people were still in line at 11:30pm in Phoenix, more than four hours after polls closed. One reason it is so hard to vote in Arizona is because the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. As a result, there were 70 percent fewer polling …
Palo Alto is a technology boom town with a per-capita income well over twice the average for California. But 93% of the homeless population end up sleeping outside or in their cars. Palo Alto has almost no shelter space, just 15 beds that rotate among city churches through a shelter program called Hotel de Zink. A 2013 census …
If the British Government wanted to strip £12bn off the benefits bill it could do so at the stroke of a pen. All it has to do is “make it a legal requirement for employers to pay a living wage”. At the moment firms routinely pay their workers less than is needed to live on, …
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(with apologies for mentioning the issue again, but it is rather important) There are millions of people whose lives will be directly affected by Britain’s EU referendum but who will have no say in it whatsoever. These include some 2.4 million European citizens living in the UK – 79% of them in work – whose …
Mr. Brian Moynahan is the CEO of the Bank of America. He was paid $16 million last year, a rise of 23% ($14.5 million was given him in stock and $1.5m in salary). This was after the bank’s share price fell 5.9% over 2015 and has fallen a further 29% this year. During 2015 Bank …
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