Move Will Reduce Employment Barriers for 17% of Hoosiers

It’s equal pay day, which means women in the United States have finally caught up with what their male counterparts earned last year.

On Why Donald Trump should release his tax returns

On February 23, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reversed Sally Yates’ order of August 18, 2016 to phase out private prisons holding federal inmates. President Trump signed an executive order calling for expansion of immigrant detention facilities and authorized use of private contractors to “construct, operate, or control facilities.” (NY Times, LA Times)

Five major US newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News—offered no opinion space to anyone opposed to Donald Trump’s Thursday night airstrikes. By contrast, the five papers ran a total of 18 op-eds, columns or “news analysis” articles (dressed-up opinion pieces) that either praised the strikes or criticized them for not being harsh enough:
New York Times

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The statistics showing the widening pay gap between CEOs and their workers are stunning. In the mid-1960s, the gap was about 20 to 1. By 2014, the gap had swollen to about 300 to 1.

"Skyrocketing CEO pay is one of the drivers of increased US income concentration," Anderson says.

[…] But was Assad really responsible for the attack?

To ask such a question is to be deemed an “Assadist” by pundits and discourse police across the political spectrum.

Neither the lack of an independent investigation, nor the fact that nearly all the information on the alleged attack has come from rebel sources, who stand to benefit from a US response, is deemed sufficient cause for skepticism.

According to a report prepared by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, a new group representing more than 400,000 doctors, man-made climate change is making Americans sicker with increases in deadly diseases to choking air pollution and onslaughts of violent weather. The harms are most felt by children, elderly with low income or chronic diseases, and members of communities of color.
The report classifies three types of harms:

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos finally found a public school she could visit where there wouldn’t be protests. It’s on a military base, safely inside the compound of Ft. Bragg in North Carolina.

Lafayette, IN – Lafayette’s non-audition community choir, Blue Moon Rising, will present its “Spring Sing” on May 6 at 7:00 p.m. The concert will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 333 Meridian St., West Lafayette, IN. All are invited to stay afterwards for a reception with refreshments. There is a suggested donation of $10 to help with the choir’s scholarship fund and children (any age) are free.