July 2018 – mindchangingUSA

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Dept. of Education Proposes to Curtail Debt Relief for Defrauded Students

July 30, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos proposed on Wednesday to curtail Obama administration loan forgiveness rules for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, requiring that student borrowers show…

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How will federal appeals court rule on Florida felon voting rights case?

July 26, 2018 Editor

From today’s Miami Herald: Yraida Guanipa, a Miami consultant, stood outside the federal appeals court Wednesday morning in downtown Atlanta dressed in a bright orange scarf draped over a smart…

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What Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s SCOTUS nominee means for consumer rights

July 25, 2018 Editor

From today’s NPR MarketWatch: When President Donald Trump announced Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee for the Supreme Court to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy when he retires at the end of…

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Disneyland reaches a tentative contract settlement with workers, ending a heated battle that lasted months

July 24, 2018 Editor

From today’s Los Angeles Times: Walt Disney Co. reached a tentative settlement Monday with four unions at the Disneyland Resort, putting an end to a contentious dispute that attracted the…

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Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives

July 23, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: The movement to take politics out of setting legislative district boundaries seemed to suffer a grievous, and perhaps even mortal, blow this spring when the…

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Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says

July 20, 2018 Editor

From today’s NBC News: Nine states with a history of racial discrimination are more aggressively removing registered voters from their rolls than other states, according to a report released Friday.…

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Tariffs Imperil Workers in South Carolina, Deep in the Heart of Trump Country

July 19, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: In the middle of David Britt’s campaign to get BMW to put a car factory here, a man grabbed him by the tie while he…

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Breaking: Uber Is Target of Sex Discrimination Inquiry by EEOC

July 17, 2018 Editor

From today’s New York Times: Federal officials are investigating allegations that Uber discriminated against women in hiring and pay, another federal inquiry into a company that has been rocked by…

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In #MeToo Era Companies Embrace Rolling Background Checks at Work

July 16, 2018 Editor

From today’s Bloomberg News Service: Jay Cradeur takes pride in his 4.9 driver rating on Uber Technologies Inc.’s five-star scale and the almost 19,000 rides he’s given in the capital…

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Record numbers of folks age 85+ are working. Here’s what they’re doing.

July 14, 2018 Editor

From today’s Washington Post: Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some…

Dept. of Education Proposes to Curtail Debt Relief for Defrauded Students

How will federal appeals court rule on Florida felon voting rights case?

What Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s SCOTUS nominee means for consumer rights

Disneyland reaches a tentative contract settlement with workers, ending a heated battle that lasted months

Drive Against Gerrymandering Finds New Life in Ballot Initiatives

Voter purge frenzy after federal protections lifted, new report says

Tariffs Imperil Workers in South Carolina, Deep in the Heart of Trump Country

Breaking: Uber Is Target of Sex Discrimination Inquiry by EEOC

In #MeToo Era Companies Embrace Rolling Background Checks at Work

Record numbers of folks age 85+ are working. Here’s what they’re doing.

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