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| Saturday Morning Home Repair 5/1/21
Welcome again to Saturday Morning Home Repair blogging, where we talk about fixing houses and the things in them that are supposed to work for us. An ad hoc cadre of building professionals and ... |
Glen The Plumber | 05/01/2021 | 10 |
| Employers are outraged that workers won't come crawling to work for peanuts in a pandemic The big push is on to blame the American Rescue Plan for businesses not being able to find enough workers to fill their jobs. Business owners—restaurant owners in particular—are lining up to tell reporters how those darn lazy workers would rather stay... |
Laura Clawson | 04/30/2021 | 346 |
| Biden is giving hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers a raise to $15 The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009, and an effort to raise it failed earlier this year when the Senate parliamentarian ruled that it could not be included in a simple-majority reconciliation bill and would instead be... |
Laura Clawson | 04/27/2021 | 24 |
| Hand Plane Anatomy 101, Distance Learning Edition I’ve posted a few diaries on the subject of vintage hand tools.� Several of them have involved hand planes and I’ve talked about their conditions, restorations, usages, and so on.� Like many who ... |
Enoch Ro0t | 04/25/2021 | 44 |
| Maker of Sinema's 'f*** off' ring supports $15 minimum wage, this week in the war on workers Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is definitely operating on the “any attention is good attention” theory lately, and she got the attention she craves when she posted a picture of herself drinking ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/24/2021 | 92 |
| Saturday Morning Home Repair 4/24/21 Welcome again to Saturday Morning Home Repair blogging, where we talk about fixing houses and the things in them that are supposed to work for us. An ad hoc cadre of building professionals and gifted amateurs attempt to answer questions that arise from... |
Glen The Plumber | 04/24/2021 | 36 |
| COVID-19 took the child care crisis into the stratosphere. Democrats have a plan to fix it Child care was a crisis before the coronavirus pandemic. That’s why Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott first introduced a bill to create a more comprehensive child care system in 2017, and again in 2019. So far that legislation has gone nowhere.... |
Laura Clawson | 04/22/2021 | 23 |
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