It's not just politicians. That entire generation clings to power and jobs, refusing, either due to ego or that they have trickle down economics'd themselves out of a social safety net and pension.
A huge majority of the leadership positions in major companies are old people. They need to learn to retire and step aside.
The problem is the government can't set the price of goods in a private contract between two non-government entities, which is what would need to happen. The various bills you see in states setting co-pay caps is about as close as we can get, and that only happens because the government CAN regulate insurance companies and the policies they offer. While that might, eventually, put pressure on the insurance companies to demand lower prices from the manufacturers, it's a long way disconnected from the price paid by the patient.
And regulating copays doesn't help people without insurance at all.
That's why this is such an important step. When prescription coverage was added to Medicare, the ability of the government to negotiate drug prices was specifically striped from the bill. The Inflation Reduction Act added it back, finally. And it's a huge win. Medicare and Medicaid are enormous programs, and when they throw their weight around, they can affect the markets they're in dramatically. It's why the drug companies are already filing suit.
But the real solution isn't trying to force private insurance companies to play ball, or make drug manufacturers sell at a low price, it's to leverage that giant market pressure and expand Medicare eligibility to everyone. And if you're worried about funding? Don't be. Unlike social security, Medicare's tax has no maximum wage.
It's only stupid if you think Microsoft wants to retain employees.
The tech industry is contracting after over expanding during the pandemic and, instead of layoffs, MS is hoping to get to their budget cuts by attrition.
It's also imminently possible you're right, but the Relativity or someone else from the 29th century has been busy undoing the damage such widespread awareness of the future events would cause.
Chakotay's vision of the future was also not the future that ultimately ended up existing. In such a world, the Relativity probably left him alone, as his foreknowledge wasn't particularly useful, and they could simply look at some Starfleet records and see if he ever shared what he knew in a way that would affect the future. On seeing that he didn't, they opt to not intervene.
Meanwhile, Janeway has shown time and time again to do whatever the fuck she wants with the timeline, and Captain Braxton probably relished pulling her in, zapping her memory of those events, and dumping her back into her own time.
More likely than not, she's just fucking with him because she has known for quite some time that the first officer was "hiding" the stuff in her ship, and it's just a coincidence that she threatened him with it.
According to the article, the suit rests on a federal law, part of one of the early civil rights acts, that demands contacts CONTRACTS be race-neutral.
The original intent, of course, being to eliminate things like preventing black people from buying houses and such.
It's a combination of two major factors: The camera is pretty low-resolution, both in its ability to take video, and pixel density, and because there's no atmosphere to give us the "blur" and color filtration we're so used to seeing around objects.
Man, after the EEOC ruling, it was obvious this, or something like it, would appear.
And frankly, on the pure merits, this chucklefuck is right: selecting businesses based on their owners' skin color is discrimination based on race.
But like colleges will surely find a slightly different metric to give preference to BIPOC and other disadvantaged groups, lenders that want to lend to businesses owned by BIPOC individuals will do the same. Perhaps, in this case, instead of "Is the person black?" they can ask, off the top of my head, "Will lending or investing in this business help overcome systemic racism or help lift traditionally oppressed populations out of poverty?"
Meanwhile, Justice Thomas will get a new boat and vote accordingly.
Including Pell Grants which is absolutely free federal funding for schools, which tends to pay almost entirely for a community college degree, with plenty left over. This year, for instance the maximum is a little over $6,800.
The average cost of a community college tuition, fees, etc. is aorund $3,000 - $4,500 this year, depending on how you slice the data.
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