‘Workers end up paying the price’: laborers call for safer building sites (www.theguardian.com)
Falls, slips and trips accounted for 865 worker fatalities in 2022 – more than 400 of whom worked in construction...
Layoffs could spike as one labor-market indicator says a recession is already here, market forecaster says (www.businessinsider.com)
A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election? (www.theguardian.com)
Supreme Court appears to favor Oregon city in dispute over homeless camping ban (abcnews.go.com)
Credit-Card Delinquency Rates Were Worst on Record in Fed Study (www.bloomberg.com)
Something strange has been happening with jobless claims numbers lately (www.cnbc.com)
Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb (www.bbc.com)
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US approves Rafah op. in exchange for no Israeli counter-strikes on Iran - report (www.jpost.com)
Dickey Betts, Allman Brothers Band Singer-Guitarist, Dead at 80 (www.rollingstone.com)
Researchers Develop AI to Predict Resignation Risk With New Recruits (lemmings.world)
This seems fine. What could go wrong?
Boeing put under Senate scrutiny during back-to-back hearings on aircraft maker's safety culture (apnews.com)
The Senate Commerce Committee heard from members of an expert panel that found serious flaws in Boeing’s safety culture. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the public wants the Federal Aviation Administration and lawmakers to ensure that boarding one of the company’s planes has not become more dangerous....
"Wasteful beyond control": A Michelin-starred chef on fine dining's sustainability crisis (www.salon.com)
Civil rights attorney demands footage in fatal police chase, but city lawyer says none exists (abcnews.go.com)
Drugmakers' low U.S. taxes belie their high sales (www.npr.org)
Workers at California cannabis-delivery service threaten ‘unprecedented’ strike (www.theguardian.com)
After Eaze workers unionized with United Food and Commercial Workers, company cut pay and wouldn’t address it in negotiations...
Arizona's abortion ban is likely to cause a scramble for services in states where it's still legal (apnews.com)
Adrienne Mansanares expects a flurry of calls from patients in Arizona starting this week....
It's quite simple: We, the Iranians, despise Jews, and we will exterminate those Jews who hate us, even to our own harm
Jews = Done For...
5 killed as Israeli army shells hundreds of displaced Palestinians returning to northern Gaza (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Hundreds of Palestinians are trying to return to northern Gaza via the Al-Rashid Street and very few of them, all of them women and children, succeeded in reaching the northern Gaza Strip, according to an Anadolu correspondent....
Father sues Texas Hindu temple, alleging it branded 11-year-old with hot iron (www.nbcnews.com)
The father is asking for $1 million in damages due to what he says was permanent scarring from the branding ceremony....
College enrollment is up. The financial aid mess could bring it crashing down. (www.vox.com)
Az's pre-statehood laws banning abortion also made gay sex punishable by up to life in prison (www.tucsonsentinel.com)
US Consumer Sentiment Dips More Than Expected as Stubborn Inflation Takes a Toll (www.inc.com)
Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
A near-total ban on abortion has supercharged the political dynamics of Arizona, a key swing state (apnews.com)
Arizona was already expected to be one of the most closely contested states in November’s U.S. presidential election. But a ruling this week instituting a near-total abortion ban supercharged the state’s role, transforming it into perhaps the nation’s most critical battleground....
Labor group demands California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers extend to all sectors (www.foxbusiness.com)
