This is 100% true, and is a position that organizations are pushing DA’s to take around the country—not sure what is so astounding about this concept.

Wrote above also, but here are some more details about the case:

More details about the story, but this was a special needs preschool, the kid was giving hot sauce as punishment, and he was vomiting uncontrollably when he came home—which is why the parents were alerted to something being wrong in the first place. So, while you might be fine feeding your personal little one a little…

I wouldn’t think that length of labor would actually increase likelihood of epidural. If labor is unusually long, I would think that it is because not progressing as it should, and an epidural may actually slow it down.  So I am not sure how they are related--even if there is a likelihood for a longer labor based on…

Yes, those pregnancies may be considered higher risk, but they aren’t at risk for “epidurals”. I mean, don’t threaten me with a good time! 

because a woman having a baby over the age of 35 is at an increased risk of premature birth or the need for an epidural or caesarean.

Because the cashier does not work for tipped wages! Just like the person who checks you out at a fast food restaurant.

I agree that it should be built in. But it isn’t in the US. The whole premise of less-than-minimum wages for tipped servers is based on the idea that tips are essentially presumed to exist as part of the transaction and simply make up part of the server’s wages, not a “bonus” for good service as they may have…

Yes, agreed.  But until then, we shouldn’t “protest” the existing system by making sure that low wage workers get even lower wages.

But tipping is not a surprise. Just like sales tax is not a surprise. You know that your $12 sandwich won’t actually be $12 and you have to factor that in when you order, just as you should the tip.   

They absolutely do feel those same pressures. But eating out is a choice and the cost of tipping, unfortunately under our current system, must be factored into that cost. If you have $20 to spend on a meal, then buy a $15 item so you can afford to tip appropriately, don’t choose the $20 item and not tip. No one would…

Yes. And I see that you blamed workers for not doing that themselves when they are being shorted. Did you keep your job at Golden Corral after doing this? What would you propose for people who are in more vulnerable situations and both cannot afford to risk losing their jobs but are suffering from wage theft?

To say we they are getting paid “more” b/c inflation of the price of goods is still a ridiculously bad argument to be used to justify decreasing the % at which they are tipped (which is ultimately what you are doing). Even if technically getting more money, if that is solely premised on the fact that goods and…

Even if this is true in theory, this is not true overwhelmingly in practice, and very few tipped wage workers in food service actually receive minimum wage if that requires the employer to chip in extra cash. See, e.g., Economic Policy Institute study:

So your argument is “the price of goods has increased, therefore we are justified in paying people less”?

Hmm... I can’t wait for all the folks to demand he be charged with a crime for reporting these fake threats and all the many many articles to be written about how this conduct makes it so hard for the REAL conservative victims of harassment to be taken seriously and is causing folks who would normally love…

There are no “merit” scholarships in Ivy schools.

Ivies do give athletic scholarships, but this has nothing to do with the scholarship process.  

I purposefully decorated the room to be gender neutral (a really cool alien graphic wallpaper that was mostly black and white and had blue, pink, and yellow & mostly gray, white and black details), but still I can see wanting/needing to plan and wanting to know the gender if you are a type-A person (which, I…

Much has been said about giving John Lasseter a “second chance.” But he is presumably being paid millions of dollars to receive that second chance. How much money are the employees at Skydance being paid to GIVE him that second chance?