Local governments had trouble staffing posts for lifeguards. This led to most of the state pools at state parks to close. Most of those parks are fairly remote (so gas+time for $9.00/hr). Even teens were disinterested in a summer job that paid shit. Guess what? Local governments raised their pay around here to…

And man, is the business community getting salty about this. I have seen so many passive-aggressive signs in store windows complaining that “no one wants to work anymore =( ” as if the whole problem is lazy people and not basic economics.

I feel like another real improvement would be to stop companies in a number of industries from allowing customers to bully and mistreat workers. Companies are so thirsty for every last cent that they’ll empower any and all customers to terrorize workers and make their lives miserable. Most customers don’t take the…

Brittany Commisso, who handled administrative tasks for the governor in the executive chamber, told CBS News’s Face the Nation that she believes Cuomo’s treatment of her “was a crime.”

it always cracks me up when people point to the $7.25 minimum wage and say it’s intended for high-school age kids to earn, not for adults to try to survive or raise a family on... while they go to fast food places during lunch, shop at WalMart during a quick work break, and go see a matinee movie in the middle of…

Conservatives only like the free market when it benefits the owners, not the workers.

A lot of people (both on the left and right) complain about “security theater” in the wake of 9/11 — the way we have to take off our shoes, not pack water, not be able to go through security as a non-passenger to meet arriving friends and relatives at their gate or to keep them company before their plane leaves the…

It stands for “we fired all our editors”

A hell of a lot of liberals still like to get very, very quiet about Bill Clinton- I think largely out of support for Hillary. I mean we still can’t even really have conversations about Biden.

I was less than satisfied with Biden’s response yesterday, mostly because he’s towing the same line as Cuomo, a fellow space invader, that their own intensions of touching others are what matters.

People you know won’t do the right thing not doing the right thing is no reason to do the wrong thing.

Someone needs to explain to him that it's still sexual harrasment even if he does it to everyone or didn't "mean it" sexually.

If people on the left want to have any moral authority, they need to take care of their own first. Screaming #metoo and #TimesUp but then defending Bill Clinton, Al Franken, and Andrew Cuomo with whataboutism is forfeiting any claim to moral high ground.

THIS.

I’m autistic so my guide is this:

The “gentle but accurate” comment deserves perhaps a little benefit of the doubt.

That and it clearly never occurred to anyone to, you know, tell the Governor to knock off this shit.

the Executive Chamber did not report the allegations at the time to the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations (“GOER”), the State agency tasked with conducting harassment investigations for State agencies, and did not otherwise conduct any formal investigation. Instead, the Executive Chamber’s senior staff sought to…

The complaint: Women’s armors are clearly designed to make the character look like a wet dream while the male ones are made to look like a power fantasy. We want female armors that are as much a power fantasy as the mens!

Yes, those are the only two choices: frump, or porn model.