New York’s minimum wage will increase to $16.50-per-hour in New York City, Westchester, and Long Island, and $15.50-per-hour for the rest of the state. This adjustment is part of New York’s historic multiyear agreement between Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature to...
Above: The split image is from a New Yorker video: Eighty Years of New York City, Then and Now. While the Empire State Building developers were preparing to reduce the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to rubble, another venerable relic of the Victorian age, the Murray Hill Hotel, was still clingi...
In an average week, he and his pals spend most of their time drinking uncountable bottles of booze of every kind, destroying property by breaking furniture, mirrors, and other things, and arriving back at their abodes extremely late in a drunken state. The dandies also pursue women, but jus...
Anecdotally both women and men state that having fewer children has given them more time to work, earn money, and provide for their families (Blue Ventures, unpublished data). Women are more likely to spend their income on their household; this may translate into improved nutrition, and therefo...
party would preserve the name of Yang’s organization (would members be known as Forwardists?). They’d launch a “national building tour” this fall and plan to hold their first convention next summer with the hope of getting national candidates onto the ballot in nearly every state by ...
(Pugh et al. 1991, 628) Frequently, these goals are then set to push the limits of technology. In helping NASA get to the moon, IBM developed realtime data processing. Stretch, an early IBM supercomputer, inaugurated the use of solid-state technology. Part One: Betting the Company IV. ...
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm urged Jamie Dimon, David Solomon and other top Wall Street brass at a private New York dinner t o invest in clean power, according to people familiar with the event. Granholm invoked President Joe Biden’s signature climate law in making her case to t...
A combination of newsreel footage, documentary, and reenactment,Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr’sHitler’s Reign of Terrorplayed to capacity crowds for two weeks in New York City, despite the refusal of the state’s censor to license the film. Disinherited by his parents when he became a newspaper pu...
”Nanny State!” can go to heck as far as I’m concerned, though I do appreciate an earlier comment that a lot of folks cannot drive worth a heap of beans and need such shyte… Seneca’s Cliff Aug 1, 2020 at 8:52 am The costs to p...
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