The Daily Populous Friday November 22nd, 2024 night edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by GirasoleDE

This type of rigging is exactly what Biden’s overtime policy would combat. His administrative rule, proposed last year, would raise the income threshold for many workers to qualify for extra pay for hours beyond the 40-hour week under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Right now, that threshold is only around $35,000 per year. The rule would raise it to around $58,000.

Around four million additional people would qualify for overtime protections under this change. These are people who make more than $35,000 but less than $58,000 per year, but don’t currently qualify for overtime; to oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these workers as managers, exempting them from federal overtime protections.

The Biden rule would make them eligible: According to Labor Department spokesman Jesse Lawder, this group includes hundreds of thousands of people who do many types of manufacturing work as well as those holding low-to-medium-level positions in everything from retail and fast-food franchises to construction. Many are overworked and underpaid due to the same elite rigging of our economy perpetrated by the “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

veweequiet on November 21st, 2024 at 16:13 UTC »

90% of all media in America is owned by 6 companies and 5 of the 6 are owned by conservatives.

There was no big media failure. The failure was in the American people thinking that left wing liberals ran the media in America.

DmAc724 on November 21st, 2024 at 15:47 UTC »

This is Trump’s lackeys setting up to make good on his campaign promise to end taxes on overtime. Amazing that millions of idiots didn’t get that his plan was to end taxes on overtime by ending overtime.

feral-pug on November 21st, 2024 at 15:18 UTC »

"Media failure" more or less summarizes the entirety of 2024 and the absolute negligence the media displayed by sanewashing Trump during the election cycle.