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It's Crazy Time at the US DOL - Pay Home Health Care Workers Less Than $7.25/hr
July 23, 2025 - There is crazy and there is cruel, and both themes are running rampant at the U.S. Department of Labor these days. For cruelty, the Labor Department has just proposed eliminating some safety standards at factories and mines, as well as to limit the government’s ability to penalize employers if workers are injured or killed in certain…...
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Oro Valley is a rapidly growing region about 15 miles north of Tucson in southern Arizona. CNN/Money named Oro Valley #44 on its list of "Best 100 Places to Live and Launch". The 2020 population is over 44,000, median January temperature is 50, elevation is 2500'. The population is a bit older than Arizona in general, yet many younger families…...
Hertford is a small town located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.The population was 2,185 at the 2008 census. Hertford is the county seat of Perquiman county. This town in northeastern NC stretches from the Albemarle Sound to the Great Dismal Swamp, Perquimans means "Land of Beautiful Women." Formerly a lumber center, agriculture is now the main industry. Photo of…...
Set at the bottom left base of Cape Cod, this fairly large town is a popular retirement community surrounded on 2 sides by water. Falmouth, Massachusetts (population 32,000) actually consists of a number of villages and unincorporated towns including Woods Hole, Teaticket, and East, West, and North Falmouth. Woods Hole is where one takes the Ferry to Nantucket and Martha’s…...
Cookeville, population 29,000, is in Putnam County and the home of Tennessee Technological University (12,000 students). Known as the "Hub of the Upper Cumberlands," approximately 25,000 people travel to work, shop, or attend school in Cookeville each day. The city is located in north central Tennessee. Photos courtesy of Wikipedia and in the public domain....
