The National Minimum Wage has been $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009. Ove the next ten years (2009 to 2019,) 30 of the states in this country have secured higher minimum wages than the national standard. Of those 30 states, 16 have laws that provide for incremental increases in their state minimum wage over … Read more
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Donald Trump spent much of his 2016 campaign disparaging America. His inaugural address presented a dystopian vision of ‘American carnage’. As David Brooks explains, Donald Trump Hates America. Irony is dead in America.
In the movie 2001 A Space Odyessy, which came out a little over 15 months before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, several assumptions were made about a space-age Earth society that would exist in 2001. Among those assumptions were: Space Planes would take passengers to an International Space … Read more
Growing up in the the 1960s, I followed the NASA space program like I followed my favorite baseball teams. I knew the names of the astronauts as well as the baseball players on my Topps trading cards. I had a collection of plastic models of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecrafts, and of the lunar … Read more