According to state officials, the vast majority of unemployed or unemployed state residents have received unemployment compensation benefits. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, 92 percent of eligible claimants who applied for benefits between March 15 and June 13, and who filed continuous claims, had received payment …
Read More »John Lewis, longtime civil rights icon and congressman, dies
In his memoirs, Lewis said Alabama’s “Bloody Sunday” was a strange day from the get-go. “It was gloomy and subdued, almost like a funeral procession,” he wrote in “Walking with the Wind” of the march he led with Hosea Williams. “There were no big names up front, no celebrities. This …
Read More »Louisiana hospitals are under pressure as coronavirus cases rise: “Who can come help?” The | Coronavirus
Louisiana’s largest hospital, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, has been reduced to a single intensive care bed available in a worrying sign of the scarcity of health care resources accompanying the second wave of patients with coronavirus. Hospital resources, particularly nurses and other professionals …
Read More »Trevor Lawrence and Marissa Mowry get engaged
Clemson’s Junior Quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Anderson’s female soccer player Marissa Mowry, his girlfriend, are engaged. Mowry took to Instagram on Friday night and posted six photos of Lawrence’s proposal, which took place at the Tigers’ Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. Mowry, who shared on Instagram on May 24 …
Read More »Elizabeth Warren calls Stop & Shop to reinstate risk payment
Senator Elizabeth Warren is in command of Washington lawmakers who demand that the nation’s top grocery retailers, including Stop & Shop, Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and Whole Foods, reinstate risk-paying for hourly workers as the Companies have withdrawn compensation even when Coronavirus cases have skyrocketed in recent weeks. “Frontline workers are …
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