“Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/22/growing-public-employee-benefits-to-force-school-cuts/
“Boards with five members would be required to have at least two women, and boards with six or more members would be required to have at least three. Those companies that failed to comply would be fined an amount equal to the average compensation for a board member.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/california-gender-quotas-company-boards
“In their quest for cash, municipalities across the nation are trampling individual rights and human dignity by imposing arbitrary and abusive fines on residents. In some cities, if you walk on the left side of the sidewalk rather than the right, you could be fined. BBQ in the front lawn? Face a fine. Have mismatched window treatments? Face a fine.”
Read more: https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/town-fines-municipal-governments-abuse/
“A Clinton era federal law called the Adoption of Safe Families Act hands out federal funds to states based on the number of children the state takes from parents.”
“Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it.”
“This isn’t even the first time five police cameras all conveniently malfunctioned at a critical time.”
“Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/22/end-the-wars-to-halt-the-refugee-crisis/
“Political assassinations, murders, and violence continue to escalate as Mexico’s elections approach.”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/06/28/political-murders-push-120-in-mexican-elections/
“Civil rights advocates and medical groups are arguing the databases should be used to identify problem patients and get them into treatment. The American Medical Association calls for the databases to be placed under health departments rather than the police agencies and disciplinary boards that control most of them.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/databases-key-crackdown-on-opioids-686879
“A day earlier, Harley-Davidson announced that it would shift some of its production overseas in response to the European Union’s new 31 percent tariff on its imported bikes, which was imposed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/business/trump-harley-davidson-tariffs.html