AP The three cited Chicago teachers strike, wide teachers strikes last Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona and, most importantly, West Virginia, the recent and Los Angeles teachers strike, and the one-day strikes staged by Fight for $15 And A Union movement of fast-food, retail, warehouse, and other..…
More interesting is a tantalizing reference to Jackson’s letter to ex-senator Nathaniel Macon, in which “Jackson admitted that while he still believed” in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of Jefferson and Madison, “he also believed in the Union.” ..…
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia: “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.” ... He is understood to be a coal miner from West..…
Donald McEachin of Virginia . Congressman Joe Neguse of Colorado . . Chair, Congresswoman Kathy Castor . ..…
Such a time like this, when 2019 marks 400 years of our shared African ancestors being sold in Virginia. . ..…
Brian Shoemaker, President of Local 1405 of American Federation of Government Employees union, loads box of food into van on Friday, Jan 25, from Feeding America Southwest Virginia. ... David Verardo, union president, was still owed $2,000 and estimated that the 1,000 workers his union represents..…
generous listing of these swing jurisdictions includes just fifteen states Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.. ..…
Vanessa Tyson has lodged against Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax have become a hot topic as the situation has devolved into a most unfortunate game of “he said, she said.” ... She just wants, as she says, the Virginia voters to know who this person is,” Rosenfeld added. . ..…
In light of the recent comments and discoveries of Virginia officials wearing blackface and appearing in racially insensitive costumes, and asking them if they've ever exhibited behavior or wore makeup to appear as another race ethnicity.. ... It has been week for Virginia's three top..…
Just days after the media hysteria surrounding second lady Karen Pence's job as an art teacher at a Christian private school in Virginia that adheres to biblical doctrine, presidents from the five religious colleges participated in a discussion just a few miles down the road in Washington, D.C.,..…
Virginia . • Pct. of pop. age 65+: 15.0 percent (10th lowest) . • 65 and older poverty rate: 7.1 percent (7th lowest) . • 65 and older bachelor's deg. attainment: 32.4 percent (7th highest) . • Healthy life expectancy after 65: 14.2 years (25th lowest) . 4. ... West Virginia . •..…
The one-sided angle of the CNN Health article should not have come as that much of a surprise considering the fact that CNN has done its best to act as a PR firm for the pro-abortion movement; first by refusing to cover the radical abortion bill proposed in Virginia, and later by cutting off guest..…
One can assume that Virginia's Democratic Party is very happy to see this week draw to close. ... Last night Virginia Black Caucus reiterated its call for Northam to step down and did not call for Herring's resignation. ..…
Recent campaigns such as the Fight for $15, the 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike, numerous graduate student unionization efforts, and the Marriott workers’ strike hint at the reformation and emergence of a more racially diverse and increasingly precarious “new working class,” especially..…
Instead, Amazon split its second headquarters between Northern Virginia and New York, so only 25,000 jobs would be coming to the Big Apple over the first 10 years. ..…
Following Jan 22 settlement between Los Angeles school district and the United Teachers of Los Angeles, education workers are on the in other states and districts, including teachers and support staff Virginia and West Virginia.. ... In West Virginia educators strike, the first..…