#$12 which i think is actually the min wage right now? (Last year it was $10)

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should i apply to work at the college coffee shop. the pay is abysmal but i could put off getting my license sooooo much longer

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I was tagged by the wonderful @steverogersnotebook - thank you <333

last 1. drink - water 2. phone call - a medical office 3. text message - someone from work asking for shift coverage 4. song you listened to - Green Day - Whatsername  5. time you cried - umm.... I’m sure it’s probably been within the last month but I can’t remember exactly when or why

ever 6. dated someone twice? - no 7. kissed someone and regretted it - no 8. been cheated on - no 9. lost someone special - yes 10. been depressed - yes 11. gotten drunk and thrown up - no

fave colours 12. green 13. blue 14. dark purple...? idk blue and green are my two faves

in the last year have you… 15. made new friends - yes 16. fallen out of love - no 17. laughed until you cried - yes 18. found out someone was talking about you - probably? can’t remember 19. met someone who changed you - no 20. found out who your friends are - yes 21. kissed someone on your facebook friends list - no

general 22. how many of your facebook friends do you know irl - probably about half 23. do you have any pets - a dog 24. do you want to change your name - no 25. what did you do for your last birthday - worked, then went to dinner with my parents and grandma 26. what time did you wake up today - 7:30ish 27. what were you doing at midnight last night - sleeping 28. what is something you cant wait for - Wizard World Portland in April...also I’m seeing David Tennant at a con next month 30. what are you listening to right now - nothing, it’s quiet.... I think I can hear a plane overhead though... 31. have you ever talked to a person named tom - Yeah, my dad’s friend is named Tom. 32. something that’s getting on your nerves - myself 33. most visited website - tumblr 34. hair colour - dark brown 35. long or short hair - long 36. do you have a crush on someone - no 37. what do you like about yourself - my enjoyment of learning 38. want any piercings? no 39. blood type - I actually don’t know 40. nicknames - N/A 41. relationship status - single, not looking 42. zodiac - Capricorn 43. pronouns - she/her 44. fave tv shows - the x-files, brooklyn nine nine, fresh off the boat, mr. robot, prison break, the mighty boosh, the it crowd, supernatural s1-10 45. tattoos - none 46. right or left handed - left 47. ever had surgery - nope 48. piercings - none 49. sport - horseback riding 50. vacation - I’d love to go to NYC, I’ve never been there before, or anywhere in the Northeast. 51. trainers - I have a couple pairs of black boots, and a pair of Adidas... and 45798435783453 pairs of Chuck Taylors

more general 52. eating - nothing right now, I’ll probably go and get breakfast in a few minutes 53. drinking - water 54. i’m about to watch - I really want to see the Shape of Water and Three Billboards 55. waiting for - my anxiety to let me move on with my liiiife 56. want - a job that pays better 57. get married - no thanks 58. career - I need a job I enjoy more that pays more than the min wage I currently earn

which is better 59. hugs or kisses - hugs 60. lips or eyes - eyes 61. shorter or taller - both 62. older or younger - I tend to “squish” on people who are older 63. nice arms or stomach - mehhhh 64. hookup or relationship - aroace so neither 65. troublemaker or hesitant - a balance

have you ever 66. kissed a stranger - no 67. drank hard liquor - yes 68. lost glasses - no 69. turned someone down - yes 70. sex on first date - no 71. broken someones heart - no? 72. had your heart broken - no 73. been arrested - no 74. cried when someone died - yes 75. fallen for a friend - yes

do you believe in 76. yourself - rarely 77. miracles - sure 78. love at first sight - maybe 79. santa claus - no 80. kiss on a first date - sure 81. angels - idk

other 82. best friend’s name - ah... well the friend i’ve had the longest, since 5th grade, is named sonia 83. eye colour - brown 84. fave movie - CA:TWS 85. fave actor - sebastian stan

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Transfer deadline day - who will make last-minute moves?

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Posted at 8:078:07

‘Blades in for Retsos’

Sheffield United

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Sam Parry – Dem Blades Fanzine

After breaking our record transfer fee with a £22m move for Sander Berge, it looks like the Blades are nailed on to make another signing later.

Panagiotis Retsos is a mobile central defender who currently plays for Bayer Leverkeusen, perfect long-term competition for Chris Basham. If this one comes off, it signals that this transfer window is one of succession planning for Chris Wilder.

Mirror,Celticare interested in the 28-year-old.

Wanyama spent a couple of years with Celtic earlier in his career and I seem to remember him scoring in a famous win over Barcelona at Parkhead.

You can read more from the gossip column here.

Posted at 8:018:01

Guess the deadline day signing

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Right, to help pass a bit of time while we wait for some actual signings to happen, how about we play a little game?

Can you guess this deadline day signing? Clue – if needed – in 15 mins. Answer at half past.

Send your suggestions to#bbcfootball

Posted at 7:577:57

Premier League news conferences

Obviously we’re going to be stacked out with transfer news throughout the day and I’m sure there’ll be oodles of that from the Premier League news conferences later today.

Newcastle boss Steve Bruce kicks it all off but their are plenty of other updates coming your way. Just look at this lot:

Newcastle (08:45)

Bournemouth (09:00)

Man Utd (10:00)

Everton (13:00)

Tottenham (13:00)

Wolves (13:00)

Norwich (13:15)

Arsenal (13:30)

Liverpool (13:30)

Man City (13:30)

West Ham (13:30)

(All times listed above are GMT)

(Sun).

Bowen started his career at non-league Hereford and could apparently be in line to earn wages in the region of £60,000 per week, if he moves.

You can read more from the gossip column here.

Posted at 7:477:47

‘Fernandes will be worth every pound’

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Portuguese football writer Jose Delgado on Bruno Fernandes:

“He’ll be worth every pound because he is a fantastic player. Manchester United have a very good player who can be the start of them rebuilding their team.

“He is humble, he is not someone who thinks he is a star and you can see that when he plays for the national side with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo. In Manchester he will have the emotional intelligence to do his job and find his place.

“He can be a leader in the future and I think he will impose himself by the work he does.”

here.

Posted at 7:307:30

Dembele to Gillingham?

BBC Radio Kent’s Ben Watts:Will it be a busy day for Gillingham boss Steve Evans and chairman Paul Scally?

Celtic boss Neil Lennon said in his press conference yesterday that they’d turned down a bid from Gills to take teenage winger Karamoko Dembele on loan. Bhoys fan Evans worked with Dembele’s older brother Siriki while he was manager at Peterborough.

Gillingham defender Lee Hodson’s return to the Scottish Premiership with St Mirren was also confirmed yesterday. Reports north of the border suggest Watford loanee Alex Jakubiak could also be heading to Paisley. The 23-year-old is the Medway club’s top scorer with six league goals, but he’s fallen out of favour and only started five times since September.

His exit would free up another matchday squad loan space at ME7 (Gills currently use the maximum of five) – Wolves winger Jordan Graham, who is out of contract in the summer, has been linked.

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Micah Richards was pictured by Fiorentina’s Twitter account after his arrival in Florence to finalise his moveImage caption: Micah Richards was pictured by Fiorentina’s Twitter account after his arrival in Florence to finalise his move

Test your knowledge with our quiz here.

Posted at 7:107:10

‘Can’t see anyone leaving’

Arsenal

Akhil Vyas – Arsenal Supporters’ Trust

I think most people would say we have a need at centre-back and I wouldn’t disagree. Losing Calum Chambers to injury was a blow and with Shkodran Mustafi (whatever people think of him) now out, it leaves us short. Mikel Arteta has certainly got us organised, so having an additional option may help him in the three competitions we are still in.

As I think we are a bit short, I wouldn’t like to see anyone leave. Even the young players such as Eddie Nketiah are getting chances, so I can’t see anyone leaving.

Posted at 7:087:08

Post update

We’ve asked fans from all 20 Premier League clubs to provide a little insight into what their club needs on transfer deadline day.

Let’s kick things off with Arsenal.

Posted at 7:057:05

January can be kind…

BBC Radio 5 Live

Former Derby and Swansea manager Paul Clement:“I had a good experience of the January window when I was at Swansea. It is traditionally a difficult window, it is shorter than summer and clubs do not want to sell their best players which is what you are looking for.

“We bought four players each costing £4m and they all had an impact in us staying in the Premier League – Tom Carroll, Jordan Ayew, Martin Olsson and Luciano Narsingh. We had real difficulties in January, we were in the relegation zone and we managed to stay up. It was good business.”

Posted at 7:017:01

Wigan’s Robinson set for AC Milan

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Wigan to AC Milan – it is like a move straight out of Football ManagerImage caption: Wigan to AC Milan – it is like a move straight out of Football Manager

Wigan defender Antonee Robinson is on the brink of a remarkable £10m move to AC Milan.

The Serie A giants have been tracking Robinson, 22, for a number of weeks and are understood to have made a move for him on Thursday.

Robinson joined the Latics from Everton in the summer after impressing on loan at the DW Stadium.

The USA international started Tuesday’s 2-1 win against Sheffield Wednesday in what could turn out to be his final appearance for the club.

Robinson cost Wigan around £2m 12 months ago, although it is understood Everton negotiated a sell-on fee.

While Wigan manager Paul Cook would not want to lose Robinson, with his side in the Championship relegation zone, he hopes to use the money to fund deadline-day spending that gives them a chance of avoiding a return to League One.

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This Company Is Making Texting With Your Doctor the New Normal

Vermont-based startup OhMD is making HIPAA-compliant texting free for medical practices across America and accelerating the ubiquity of telemedicine.

March 26, 2020 6 min read

Sometimes, the stats just speak for themselves. “We know that 98 percent of patients will read a text message, and 90 percent of those patients will see that text message within three minutes,” says Ethan Bechtel, founder of telehealth startup OhMD. “When you compare that to email, which is read 20 percent of the time, or a patient portal message, which is read 7 percent of the time, you quickly realize there is literally no other way to do this at scale.” 

When Bechtel says “this,” he’s referring to the desperate battle that healthcare workers across the globe are waging against the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. One of the most essential ways that doctors can slow the pandemic is by communicating with patients from afar, so this is a moment tailor-made for OhMD. The Vermont-based company offers medical providers a HIPAA-compliant communication platform, centered around texting, which they’re now making free to hospitals and medical practices across the nation. 

A time to text

“Texting is such an important technology to leverage right now, because it doesn’t require that two people be on the phone at the exact same time to share information,” Bechtel says. “You can send a message out to 10,000 patients at the same time and be sure that 90 percent of them are going to read it. You can say, ‘Hey, if you have X, Y and Z symptoms, this is where you need to go for the testing facility. Do not go to the ER. Do not go to your family practitioner.’ We have clients in all 50 states, and the number of text messages being sent through the platform has tripled in the last week. Everything changed overnight.”

Until now, telehealth companies have been relative newbies in the glacially evolving landscape of healthcare, and their biggest challenge has been getting covered by insurance companies. But on March 17, Medicare announced it would be covering telehealth services for an unspecified time period. “Medicare just set the bar for reimbursement for telehealth in a massive way,” Bechtel says. “It would have taken a decade. Before this I believe the estimates were that telemedicine was going to be a $64 billion industry by 2025, but I would assume that number is no longer relevant because everything has changed. This is going to be the primary means of communicating and conducting a visit in the coming months, and I don’t think that genie gets put back in the bottle.”

Related: Why Increased Telemedicine Practice is the Need of the Hour for a …

Bittersweet boost for business

Like many people working in industries unexpectedly benefited by the crisis, Bechtel says he has mixed feelings about this being a take-off moment for OhMD. “What I feel is an internal struggle over the world being on fire and us being here, solving an important problem. It’s a good thing for our company and it’s a good thing for patients, and we’re helping doctors save lives, end of story. But it’s just hard to reconcile that with, I guess, the sheer size of this catastrophe.”

In a sense, Bechtel has been preparing for this his whole life. Healthtech might not be the first industry that comes to mind when someone says, “My family has been in the business for generations” — but as a kid growing up in Burlington, Vt., in the ’90s, Bechtel spent weekends helping out at his mom’s company. She was an orthopedic nurse practitioner turned X-ray tech who got her MBA and then started a business that provided financial services software to medical practices.

After college he began working for the family business and honed in on electronic medical records. He quickly understood that one of the greatest challenges for online medical portals was communicating with patients, and that’s how the idea for OhMD was born. In 2014 Bechtel took OhMD to the NYC healthtech accelerator Blueprint Health, and in 2016 he got funding from Burlington-based healthtech company IDX Solutions, which helped him make the decision to headquarter his business back home. 

Related: Is Boom in Digital Healthcare is the Best Opportunity to Build Global …

Tracking a virus and fast-tracking telehealth adoption

Bechtel says that OhMD was closely following the coronavirus spread in China in early January, and his team began working overtime to fast-track a video function they’d planned to release later this year. In early March they began to hear from physicians in different states that OhMD was being used to triage patients before bringing them into the office. At that point, they realized how useful their services could be for this moment and decided to make the platform free or subsidized for as many practices as they had the bandwidth to help. 

“Offering free features has always been part of our DNA, but right now stakes are much higher than they’ve ever been,” Bechtel says. “So while there’s a cost to offering free texting features for practices, we believe it’s our responsibility to bear as many of those costs as possible.”

Bechtel hopes that the distant blue sky in this storm will be the ubiquitous adoption of telehealth services, which he believes will play into the evolution toward a healthcare system that is ultimately more sustainable and effective. “As time goes on, more and more doctors will be reimbursed based on how healthy their patients are, versus how many patients they see. Because at the end of the day, this is all about outcomes,” Bechtel says. “How do we make you healthier? Healthcare is a very slow-moving system with many different stakeholders. But this is an inflection point for a number of us in this space. And I think if there’s a silver lining at the end of all of this, it’s that in 12 months, we’re going to look back and wonder why it took a pandemic to force us to use technology that actually improves patient care and access.”

Related: COVID-19 Will Fuel the Next Wave of Innovation

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This Company Is Making Texting With Your Doctor the New Normal

Vermont-based startup OhMD is making HIPAA-compliant texting free for medical practices across America and accelerating the ubiquity of telemedicine.

March 26, 2020 6 min read

Sometimes, the stats just speak for themselves. “We know that 98 percent of patients will read a text message, and 90 percent of those patients will see that text message within three minutes,” says Ethan Bechtel, founder of telehealth startup OhMD. “When you compare that to email, which is read 20 percent of the time, or a patient portal message, which is read 7 percent of the time, you quickly realize there is literally no other way to do this at scale.” 

When Bechtel says “this,” he’s referring to the desperate battle that healthcare workers across the globe are waging against the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. One of the most essential ways that doctors can slow the pandemic is by communicating with patients from afar, so this is a moment tailor-made for OhMD. The Vermont-based company offers medical providers a HIPAA-compliant communication platform, centered around texting, which they’re now making free to hospitals and medical practices across the nation. 

A time to text

“Texting is such an important technology to leverage right now, because it doesn’t require that two people be on the phone at the exact same time to share information,” Bechtel says. “You can send a message out to 10,000 patients at the same time and be sure that 90 percent of them are going to read it. You can say, ‘Hey, if you have X, Y and Z symptoms, this is where you need to go for the testing facility. Do not go to the ER. Do not go to your family practitioner.’ We have clients in all 50 states, and the number of text messages being sent through the platform has tripled in the last week. Everything changed overnight.”

Until now, telehealth companies have been relative newbies in the glacially evolving landscape of healthcare, and their biggest challenge has been getting covered by insurance companies. But on March 17, Medicare announced it would be covering telehealth services for an unspecified time period. “Medicare just set the bar for reimbursement for telehealth in a massive way,” Bechtel says. “It would have taken a decade. Before this I believe the estimates were that telemedicine was going to be a $64 billion industry by 2025, but I would assume that number is no longer relevant because everything has changed. This is going to be the primary means of communicating and conducting a visit in the coming months, and I don’t think that genie gets put back in the bottle.”

Related: Why Increased Telemedicine Practice is the Need of the Hour for a …

Bittersweet boost for business

Like many people working in industries unexpectedly benefited by the crisis, Bechtel says he has mixed feelings about this being a take-off moment for OhMD. “What I feel is an internal struggle over the world being on fire and us being here, solving an important problem. It’s a good thing for our company and it’s a good thing for patients, and we’re helping doctors save lives, end of story. But it’s just hard to reconcile that with, I guess, the sheer size of this catastrophe.”

In a sense, Bechtel has been preparing for this his whole life. Healthtech might not be the first industry that comes to mind when someone says, “My family has been in the business for generations” — but as a kid growing up in Burlington, Vt., in the ’90s, Bechtel spent weekends helping out at his mom’s company. She was an orthopedic nurse practitioner turned X-ray tech who got her MBA and then started a business that provided financial services software to medical practices.

After college he began working for the family business and honed in on electronic medical records. He quickly understood that one of the greatest challenges for online medical portals was communicating with patients, and that’s how the idea for OhMD was born. In 2014 Bechtel took OhMD to the NYC healthtech accelerator Blueprint Health, and in 2016 he got funding from Burlington-based healthtech company IDX Solutions, which helped him make the decision to headquarter his business back home. 

Related: Is Boom in Digital Healthcare is the Best Opportunity to Build Global …

Tracking a virus and fast-tracking telehealth adoption

Bechtel says that OhMD was closely following the coronavirus spread in China in early January, and his team began working overtime to fast-track a video function they’d planned to release later this year. In early March they began to hear from physicians in different states that OhMD was being used to triage patients before bringing them into the office. At that point, they realized how useful their services could be for this moment and decided to make the platform free or subsidized for as many practices as they had the bandwidth to help. 

“Offering free features has always been part of our DNA, but right now stakes are much higher than they’ve ever been,” Bechtel says. “So while there’s a cost to offering free texting features for practices, we believe it’s our responsibility to bear as many of those costs as possible.”

Bechtel hopes that the distant blue sky in this storm will be the ubiquitous adoption of telehealth services, which he believes will play into the evolution toward a healthcare system that is ultimately more sustainable and effective. “As time goes on, more and more doctors will be reimbursed based on how healthy their patients are, versus how many patients they see. Because at the end of the day, this is all about outcomes,” Bechtel says. “How do we make you healthier? Healthcare is a very slow-moving system with many different stakeholders. But this is an inflection point for a number of us in this space. And I think if there’s a silver lining at the end of all of this, it’s that in 12 months, we’re going to look back and wonder why it took a pandemic to force us to use technology that actually improves patient care and access.”

Related: COVID-19 Will Fuel the Next Wave of Innovation

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This Company Is Making Texting With Your Doctor the New Normal

Vermont-based startup OhMD is making HIPAA-compliant texting free for medical practices across America and accelerating the ubiquity of telemedicine.

March 26, 2020 6 min read

Sometimes, the stats just speak for themselves. “We know that 98 percent of patients will read a text message, and 90 percent of those patients will see that text message within three minutes,” says Ethan Bechtel, founder of telehealth startup OhMD. “When you compare that to email, which is read 20 percent of the time, or a patient portal message, which is read 7 percent of the time, you quickly realize there is literally no other way to do this at scale.” 

When Bechtel says “this,” he’s referring to the desperate battle that healthcare workers across the globe are waging against the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. One of the most essential ways that doctors can slow the pandemic is by communicating with patients from afar, so this is a moment tailor-made for OhMD. The Vermont-based company offers medical providers a HIPAA-compliant communication platform, centered around texting, which they’re now making free to hospitals and medical practices across the nation. 

A time to text

“Texting is such an important technology to leverage right now, because it doesn’t require that two people be on the phone at the exact same time to share information,” Bechtel says. “You can send a message out to 10,000 patients at the same time and be sure that 90 percent of them are going to read it. You can say, ‘Hey, if you have X, Y and Z symptoms, this is where you need to go for the testing facility. Do not go to the ER. Do not go to your family practitioner.’ We have clients in all 50 states, and the number of text messages being sent through the platform has tripled in the last week. Everything changed overnight.”

Until now, telehealth companies have been relative newbies in the glacially evolving landscape of healthcare, and their biggest challenge has been getting covered by insurance companies. But on March 17, Medicare announced it would be covering telehealth services for an unspecified time period. “Medicare just set the bar for reimbursement for telehealth in a massive way,” Bechtel says. “It would have taken a decade. Before this I believe the estimates were that telemedicine was going to be a $64 billion industry by 2025, but I would assume that number is no longer relevant because everything has changed. This is going to be the primary means of communicating and conducting a visit in the coming months, and I don’t think that genie gets put back in the bottle.”

Related: Why Increased Telemedicine Practice is the Need of the Hour for a …

Bittersweet boost for business

Like many people working in industries unexpectedly benefited by the crisis, Bechtel says he has mixed feelings about this being a take-off moment for OhMD. “What I feel is an internal struggle over the world being on fire and us being here, solving an important problem. It’s a good thing for our company and it’s a good thing for patients, and we’re helping doctors save lives, end of story. But it’s just hard to reconcile that with, I guess, the sheer size of this catastrophe.”

In a sense, Bechtel has been preparing for this his whole life. Healthtech might not be the first industry that comes to mind when someone says, “My family has been in the business for generations” — but as a kid growing up in Burlington, Vt., in the ’90s, Bechtel spent weekends helping out at his mom’s company. She was an orthopedic nurse practitioner turned X-ray tech who got her MBA and then started a business that provided financial services software to medical practices.

After college he began working for the family business and honed in on electronic medical records. He quickly understood that one of the greatest challenges for online medical portals was communicating with patients, and that’s how the idea for OhMD was born. In 2014 Bechtel took OhMD to the NYC healthtech accelerator Blueprint Health, and in 2016 he got funding from Burlington-based healthtech company IDX Solutions, which helped him make the decision to headquarter his business back home. 

Related: Is Boom in Digital Healthcare is the Best Opportunity to Build Global …

Tracking a virus and fast-tracking telehealth adoption

Bechtel says that OhMD was closely following the coronavirus spread in China in early January, and his team began working overtime to fast-track a video function they’d planned to release later this year. In early March they began to hear from physicians in different states that OhMD was being used to triage patients before bringing them into the office. At that point, they realized how useful their services could be for this moment and decided to make the platform free or subsidized for as many practices as they had the bandwidth to help. 

“Offering free features has always been part of our DNA, but right now stakes are much higher than they’ve ever been,” Bechtel says. “So while there’s a cost to offering free texting features for practices, we believe it’s our responsibility to bear as many of those costs as possible.”

Bechtel hopes that the distant blue sky in this storm will be the ubiquitous adoption of telehealth services, which he believes will play into the evolution toward a healthcare system that is ultimately more sustainable and effective. “As time goes on, more and more doctors will be reimbursed based on how healthy their patients are, versus how many patients they see. Because at the end of the day, this is all about outcomes,” Bechtel says. “How do we make you healthier? Healthcare is a very slow-moving system with many different stakeholders. But this is an inflection point for a number of us in this space. And I think if there’s a silver lining at the end of all of this, it’s that in 12 months, we’re going to look back and wonder why it took a pandemic to force us to use technology that actually improves patient care and access.”

Related: COVID-19 Will Fuel the Next Wave of Innovation

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John Stossel- Free Stuff 2020, Government Bullies Steal Houses, No Filming on Farms, Minimum Wage Hurts Beginners etc...

John Stossel- Free Stuff 2020, Government Bullies Steal Houses, No Filming on Farms, Minimum Wage Hurts Beginners, The Paid Leave Fairy Tale, Birthright Citizenship: What the Constitution and Common Sense Say.

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Mow Your Lawn or Lose Your House!

No Filming on Farms

Minimum Wage Hurts Beginners

The Paid Leave Fairy Tale

Birthright Citizenship: What the Constitution and Common Sense Say

  Free Stuff 2020

Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/G5odA8Gsmzs

John Stossel

Published on Jul 30, 2019

Presidential Candidates promise expensive new programs. We added up the cost. Never before have so many politicians promised to spend so much. Among some candidates, the 2020 presidential campaign has turned into a contest to see who can offer the most "free stuff." So far no one has tracked their promises, so the Stossel team did. Stossel compares the top five candidates, based on the betting odds. He looks at Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Bide, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Bernie Sanders' expensive promises, issue by issue: education, health care, climate, welfare, and … well, let's make it a contest! There's a grab-bag round too. Some examples of what the Democrats would spend if they become president: Sanders wants to "eliminate student debt" and "make public colleges and universities tuition-free." Sound nice, but he seldom mentions the $220 billion. price tag. Mayor Buttigieg promises to spend $31.5 billion to give teachers a pay raise. Kamala Harris likes that one too. Senator Harris also wants government to pay your rent if it's more than 30% of their income. $94 billion a year. The Democratic candidate promises keep on coming: Medicare for All, $3 trillion. Increase Food Stamps, $10.8 billion. Expand National Service, $2 billion. A federal job guarantee $158 billion. But the Republican incumbent is a big spender too, says Stossel. Since Donald Trump became President, spending has risen about $500 billion. But the Democrats want to spend MUCH MORE. Stossel's tally includes more than 50 spending proposals. Watch to see who wins the title, "Biggest Spender". Stossel says, no matter who wins, taxpayers are the losers. Since we completed this video Friday, Senator Harris proposed her own "Medicare for All" plan. She says it will be cheaper than Senator Sanders' version, but as of now there is no independent calculated cost. She also proposed a new plan to spend $75 billion on minority-owned businesses and historically black colleges.

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Mow Your Lawn or Lose Your House!

John Stossel

Published on Jul 9, 2019

Florida man may lose home because he didn’t cut his grass. --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y7eqz8th --------- Jim Ficken left his home to take care of his recently deceased mother's estate. While away, the man he paid to cut his lawn died. The grass in Ficken's yard grew more than 10 inches long. The city of Dunedin has an ordinance against long grass. City officials fined Ficken $500 a day. Over time the fines added up to almost $30,000. "I was shocked," Ficken tells John Stossel, "It was just amazing that they would fine me that much." Ficken doesn't have $30,000, and now the city wants to foreclose on his home. Ficken's Lawyer, Ari Bargil of the Institute for Justice, points out that the city had other options: "Hire a lawn service to come out and mow the grass, and send Jim a bill for 150 bucks, but they didn't do that." The reason, says Bargil, is that the city "wants the money. Code enforcement is a major cash cow for the city." Dunedin collected $34,000 in fines in 2007. Last year, the fines ballooned to $1.3 million. "That's an almost 4,000% increase," Bargil tells Stossel, adding the city attorney "has called their code enforcement body a 'well-oiled machine.'" The city released a statement, saying they "have come under recent unfair criticism." They argue that Ficken is a "repeat offender" and has a "chronic history" of not maintaining his property. Stossel confronts Ficken, "The town says you're kind of a public nuisance." Ficken admits he is a "bit of a slob" but adds "I got everything taken care of when they notified me." Bargil argues Dunedin's big fines violate the 8th Amendment. It not only protects us from cruel and unusual punishment but also from "excessive fines." Stossel agrees: what's more excessive than politicians taking your home because you didn't cut your grass?

  No Filming on Farms

John Stossel

Published on Jul 16, 2019

Recently hundreds of animal activists have sneaked onto farms to do hidden-camera investigations. They often expose animal abuse. --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y7eqz8th --------- Their videos led companies like Wal-Mart and Wendy’s to impose stricter animal welfare requirements on companies that sell them meat. Of course, farm groups don’t like the secret recordings. Kay Johnson Smith of the Animal Agriculture Alliance tells John Stossel that the videos often mislead consumers into thinking farm conditions are worse than they are. She says “activists ... [are] stalking farms to try to capture something that the public doesn't understand.” Her group, and others, push state politicians to pass so-called “ag-gag” laws that make it a crime to mislead in order to get a job on a farm – that’s often how activists get on farms to film. “We call it farm protection,” says Johnson Smith. Stossel asks: “what about everybody else? Why do you get special protection?” She responds: “the agricultural community is the only business community that this sort of tactic is really being used on right now.” Stossel pushes back: “I'm an investigative reporter. I can't do my job if there are laws that prevent me from showing things. Nobody believes it if you don't see it.” “These activist groups want to eliminate all of animal agriculture,” Johnson Smith replies. Some activists do want to stop people from eating meat. But many of their undercover investigations show real animal abuse. Some led to convictions of abusive farm workers. “These groups are exposing issues that are happening,” Stossel points out. “If they really cared about animals,” says Johnson Smith, "they would stop [the abuse] right then. Instead, they go weeks and months without reporting anything to the farm owners ... [because] they want to make their sensational video!” The Agricultural Alliance now pushes for laws that would force activists to report abuse quickly. But that would kill investigations before they can document much, explains Amanda Howell of the Animal Legal Defense Foundation. One has to film for multiple days, Howell notes. Otherwise, “a company can say, ‘This is a one-off!’” Johnson Smith replies, “There are bad apples in every industry, but 99.9% of farmers do the right thing every single day ... farming isn’t always pretty.” Howell says that the only way for the public to learn the truth is if undercover investigations are allowed. “We should all be worried when corporations are supporting laws that impinge our right to free speech.” Stossel agrees. “Whatever you thinks of the activists, and I have problems with many of them, government shouldn’t pass special laws that prevent people from revealing what’s true.”

  https://youtu.be/JIKqN5z2Hh0

Minimum Wage Hurts Beginners

John Stossel

Published on Jul 23, 2019

Seattle was the first big city to pass a $15 minimum wage. --------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y7eqz8th --------- People there were excited. “I think it's pretty awesome since I benefit from it,” one told us. Another added: “I wish it was all over the place, not just Seattle.” Now, five years after the law passed, the evidence is in: while some did earn more, entry-levels jobs decreased. (https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/fi...) The politicians never mentioned that when they passed the bill says Erin Shannon of the Washington Policy Center (https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/): “It’s really presented by minimum wage advocates as ... a win-win for employers ... a win-win for workers.” But she pointed us to a factory that moved hundreds of jobs out of state, and to a store that stopped hiring beginners because of the $15 minimum wage. “The politicians, in Seattle especially, have no sense whatsoever about what it means to small businesses like us,” the owner of Retrofit Home tell us. A minimum wage hurts young people who need a first job, say three young people who won a contest organized by Stossel in The Classroom, which provides free videos and lesson plans about free markets to teachers. Dillon Hodes won the high-school level video contest. He says a friend who worked at Kroger saw her hours cut as the store implemented a $12 minimum. “Raising the minimum wage causes increased unemployment,” explains Rigel Noble-Koza, the college-level contest winner. Stossel says he learned things from Noble-Koza’s video, which noted that Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have no national minimum wage. The minimum wage “stops us from actually getting a job,” says Esther Rhoads, who won the high school essay contest. She points out that the earliest advocates of the minimum-wage wanted to price black Americans out of the market. About hundred years ago, blacks were often paid less, but they were more likely to be employed than whites. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2122891) Congressman Clayton Allgood said he hoped the min wage would stop: “cheap colored labor in competition with white labor.” “It was meant ... to keep the poor and the minorities from getting jobs,” Esther tells Stossel. The minimum also harms young people. Esther explains: “I'm 14, it'd be very difficult for me to find a job ... my labor wouldn't be worth $15 an hour.” “If only politicians were as smart as those kids,” Stossel says.

    https://youtu.be/M3jYM04y7Ic

The Paid Leave Fairy Tale

John Stossel

Published on Jun 4, 2019

Why mandated paid family leave is bad for business and bad for most women. --------- Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel --------- Most 2020 presidential candidates support government mandated paid family leave. That means government will order businesses to provide a certain amount of paid time off for new parents. That sounds kind. Politicians and the media point out that only the U.S. and Papua New Guinea do not require paid time off for parents. "It's disingenuous to say [that]" explains Patrice Lee Onwuka, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum. Onwuka tells John Stossel that most full-time American workers already get paid leave. "About 17% of workers have paid parental leave … but you jump to 60, 70, 80 percent when you consider people have sick time off, overtime or all-encompassing personal time." These benefits are voluntarily provided to even lower-level employees.     "Chipotle workers, CVS workers, Walmart workers…," says Onwuka. "Why would CVS and Walmart provide this voluntarily?" asks Stossel. "For an employer to attract … good talent or retain their talent, they need to offer benefits that really resonate with workers," explains Onwuka. "Paid maternity and paternity leave is one of those benefits." "Politicians are so arrogant," says Stossel, "that they now tell people that mandating leave for all employees will be 'good for business.'  Somehow they don't know that business knows better what's good for business." In truth, says Stossel, mandated leave turns out to be "bad for business and not even good for most women."  Onwuka points out, "If we look at how the rest of the world has provided very generous, mandated paid leave plans, we see that it actually has a negative impact on women." Why would that be? Because mandatory leave makes companies fear hiring young women.  "If an employer has a young woman in front of him of child bearing age," say Onwuka, "he's thinking, okay, I have to provide paid time off. I have a potential other employee who's a male…" A family leave mandate makes the man a safer bet. "In California, the first state to mandate paid family leave, a study found women of childbearing age were more likely to be unemployed," explains Stossel. Comparing Europe to America, Onwuka explains, "American women are twice as likely to be in senior level positions, managerial positions, then women in Europe … it's very much tied to these mandates around paid leave and paid time off."

      Birthright Citizenship: What the Constitution and Common Sense Say

1st November 2018

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In South Korea, New President Faces a Tangle of Economic Problems

By Motoko Rich, NY Times, May 12, 2017

SEOUL, South Korea--The day after South Korea elected a new president, the mood on the campus of Yonsei University in Seoul was bleak.

Many students, who might have been expected to celebrate the victory of a liberal, Moon Jae-in, to the presidency on Tuesday, instead spoke of fears about their prospects in a country plagued by corruption, household debt and other economic ills.

“Unfortunately, because we ourselves do not see the future of Korea as so rosy, I do not want to bring up children in this unpromising society,” said Bang Seong-deok, 26, a civil engineering doctoral student taking a break with a friend outside a classroom block on Wednesday. “I think that mentality is persistent among many of my peers.”

Anger at the collusive ties between government and business was at the heart of the protests that led to the impeachment of Mr. Moon’s predecessor, Park Geun-hye. During the election campaign, Mr. Moon vowed to end that corruption, but he also promised to address other factors that had fueled the revolt: skyrocketing household debt, high youth unemployment and stagnant wages, all of which are hobbling the economy.

He faces daunting obstacles as he tries to overhaul entrenched practices and deliver on ambitious campaign promises in a country that has yet to complete the tough transition from tiger economy to developed society.

Mr. Moon, whose party spent nearly a decade in opposition, “is a very sincere person, and I think he will try his best, but it’s a much bigger problem,” said Gi-wook Shin, director of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford. “It’s not something that you can fix by tweaking one or two issues. They are all related to each other.”

In the food court of a student lounge at Yonsei, Lee Ji-won, 23, a public administration major, said her friends often described the moribund state of their country as “Hell Chosun,” a reference to the last dynasty of Korea, which lasted for five centuries.

Ms. Lee, who aspires to be a lawyer, said she worried about eventually having to take care of her parents and grandparents. Although just over half of voters in their 20s and 30s cast their ballots for Mr. Moon, according to exit polls, Ms. Lee did not vote for him. She said she was not convinced that he would be able to pay for his economic policy prescriptions.

During the past decade, when conservatives were in power, they tried to recapture the high-growth years that characterized South Korea’s dynamic postwar rise from poverty. Much of that growth was turbocharged by chaebol, the family-controlled conglomerates like Hyundai and Samsung that dominate the economy and in which vast wealth is concentrated.

Because the chaebol tend to guarantee lifetime employment to an elite group of employees, those who do not secure these jobs have grown disaffected. And since the chaebol effectively wield monopolistic powers over their suppliers, workers at smaller businesses that depend on the large companies for their revenue often suffer from depressed wages and tough working conditions.

Those factors have exacerbated income inequality in South Korea, and young people in particular are affected as they scramble to compete for a small pool of prestigious jobs at the chaebol or accept lower-paid work at smaller companies. In many cases, they cannot find jobs at all. The youth unemployment rate here is nearly 10 percent.

In a country with one of the lowest birthrates in the world and a rapidly aging society, improving conditions for young South Koreans is vital.

“Koreans really have to think hard about how to motivate young people and meet them partway, not only with job opportunities but better working environments,” said Katharine H.S. Moon, a professor of political science at Wellesley College.

They are “the backs on which the middle-aged and elderly people are going to be eating, sleeping and surviving for the next few decades,” she added.

Some economists have also expressed skepticism about how Mr. Moon’s administration will finance his plans, which include pledges to create 810,000 public sector jobs and subsidize living expenses for young people during job searches.

Some measures could work in the short term, economists said, but would not be sustainable.

Economists say that for South Korea to create many more private sector jobs, it needs to open up the market for entrepreneurs and prevent the chaebol from taking over start-ups before they have the chance to expand.

The government needs to nurture “a business ecosystem that is more ably disposed to start-ups protecting their intellectual property rights and giving them better financial access and incubating and supporting them,” said Lim Wonhyuk, professor of economic development at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Sejong City.

For now, many entrepreneurs are concentrated in retail and dining. The fate of Reo Sushi Maguro, a cozy restaurant in the heart of Seoul, is a sobering illustration of the challenges facing Mr. Moon.

Around the corner from several government office buildings, Reo Sushi, which specialized in premium tuna sashimi, enjoyed a bustling business as corporate executives treated civil servants to expensive meals.

But in September, the legislature passed an anticorruption law barring public servants from accepting a meal worth more than 30,000 won, about $27, to avoid a potential conflict of interest. Reo Sushi’s business took a dive.

To cover costs as well as replace lost income, the owner, Oh Sung-min, 39, began borrowing money at high interest rates, until the debt spiraled to about $266,000.

Mr. Oh’s wife, Chung Sora, 35, a beauty salon owner who learned the extent of the debt only two weeks ago, blames the antigraft law.

“I think it’s ridiculous,” she said. “The politicians may have thought, ‘We will try to regulate people’s bad behavior,’ but so many shops closed as a result.”

Mr. Oh, who decided to close his sushi place after a government counselor agreed to help him develop a 10-year debt-repayment plan, is in a familiar situation. Economists say small-business owners have taken out a large portion of the country’s about $1.19 trillion in household debt.

Mr. Oh, the father of a toddler, will depend on Ms. Chung’s beauty salon to support the family for now. Ms. Chung, who recently took on her own debt to expand the salon, said she was determined to pay off her husband’s debt in a year.

As Mr. Oh served final customers this past week, he said he had plans to start fresh with a new restaurant, this time offering chicken ribs and cheaper tuna dishes. Still, he was not quite as optimistic as his wife.

“Of course, it is most Korean people’s wish to tell the president and the next administration to revive the economy,” he said. “But I think that is actually a very difficult task.”