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Hourly wages up, weekly wages down in September

1 year 1 month ago
Along with CPI, we also got September readings for real wages today. Hourly wages were up slightly, but because hours worked dropped there was a fall in weekly wages: All employees in September (adjusted for inflation) Hourly: +2.2% (annualized) Weekly: -1.2% (annualized) Blue-collar workers in September (adjusted for inflation) Hourly: +1.2% (annualized) Weekly: +1.5% (annualized)
Kevin Drum

Power outage cancels classes at Lindbergh High School

1 year 1 month ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The Lindbergh School District announced that Lindbergh High School, Early Childhood Education, and the Idea Center will all be shut down Thursday due to a power outage. The closure was announced around 6:40 a.m. after an unexpected power outage that occurred Thursday morning. There is currently no timetable on when [...]
Nick Gladney

Musk’s ‘Free’ Starlink For Helene Victims Wasn’t Free

1 year 1 month ago
Last week I noted how Elon Musk saw fit to inject himself in the middle of the Helene hurricane disaster by falsely claiming that hurricane victims died because the FCC refused to give Starlink a billion dollars in subsidies. I explained at length why that claim was grotesque and incorrect, in part because the subsidies […]
Karl Bode

Jay Ashcroft joins Midwest secretaries of state at election security summit in Nebraska

1 year 1 month ago
OMAHA, Neb. — Four secretaries of state and a federal agency director in cybersecurity described their work Wednesday as a line of defense in upholding election integrity and security ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen, in explaining the reason for Wednesday’s summit, asked simply, “Why not?” He said the […]
Zach Wendling