If you haven’t yet done so, The Gray Panthers urge you to SPREAD THE WORD to reinstate and extend unemployment insurance and contact you Senator TODAY:
In Unemployment Benefits Extension, a Logistical Headache for States
Overtaxed State Agencies Struggle to Keep Up
By ANNIE LOWREY 7/19/10 6:00 AM
[People seeking unemployment benefits wait in the lobby of an Employment Development Department office in California. (EPA/ZUMAPRESS.com)
On Tuesday, the Senate plans to vote on a federal extension of unemployment benefits, blocked by Senate Republicans for an unprecedented two months. The swearing-in of Carte Goodwin, the temporary replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), will give Democrats the crucial 60th vote to overcome a GOP filibuster and restore unemployment insurance to 2.5 million Americans….]
For more on Carte Goodwin try HERE and HERE.
The DOL has published a list of products we all want to think twice about purchasing. However, as you read the list you will see some of the difficulties in following through on this kind of a determination. Take cotton for example; Benin, Burkina Faso, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are on the no-no list. Where did your last tee shirt come from? Do we have anywhere near enough inspection? See the list HERE:
ILAB News Release: [07/19/2010]
Contact Name: Gloria Della Clarisse Young
Phone Number: (202) 693-8666 or x5051
Release Number: 10-0914-NATUS Labor Department publishes updated list of products made with forced or indentured child labor
[WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs today announced the publication of a final list of products that federal contractors must certify under Executive Order 13126 are not produced with forced or indentured child labor. The list will appear in the July 20 edition of the Federal Register….]
As an older adult, around age 55?, my father had Whooping Cough and let me tell you, it wasn’t fun. It is very hard to breath during the coughing attacks. He thought that he had been vaccinated as a child, leading us to believe that the vaccine had lost effectiveness. Check with your doctor about vaccines. Personally, if I were traveling to CA in the future, I’d check with my doctor about getting the vaccine as well.
Vaccine urged as whooping cough epidemic grows
By Bobby Caina Calvan
Published: Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 – 12:37 pm
Last Modified: Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 – 1:02 pm
[State health officials today urged more Californians to get vaccinated for whooping cough, as the disease grew to epidemic proportions…]
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/19/2900460/vaccine-urged-as-whooping-cough.html
Border security and Immigration reform are two separate issues. The former is used as a ploy to prevent the latter from happening. Ruben Navarrette shows how the two issues rotate around each other:
Politicians posture over U.S.-Mexico border
Ruben Navarrette Jr.
[“What do you mean I’m out of money?” says the bumper sticker. “I still have checks left!” In the immigration debate, some folks use the same logic to raise the issue of border security.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/29/EDAP1E6NQ5.DTL
You may remember that President Obama issued an Executive Order on May 22, 2010 directing the institution of a “ National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling”. The Commission released it’s final report today. I guess it will be my evening read:
Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force Announced
Posted by Phil Larson on July 19, 2010 at 02:23 PM EDT
Obama Administration officials today released the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force, which would establish a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes (National Policy) and create a National Ocean Council (NOC) to strengthen ocean governance and coordination.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans
Grab and Keel 