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U.S Minimum Wage in 2009: $7.25/hr
U.S minimum Wage in 2026: $7.25/hr
U.S. Billionaire Wealth in 2009: $1.27 trillion
U.S Billionaire Wealth in 2026: $9.15 trillion
Our job: Pass a billionaire wealth tax & raise the minimum wage to at least $20 an hour.
No more excuses.
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1969 a US soldier is asked:
"If you could send one message to Americans 50 years in the future what would it be?"
"Don't send your sons to finish what politicians start."
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This year, Essex Libraries are celebrating a significant milestone, 100 years of serving communities across Essex.
Since 1926, libraries have played a vital role in providing access to knowledge, learning and opportunity for generations of residents. Alongside their extensive book collections, today's libraries offer digital resources, skills development opportunities, cultural events, local history collections and inclusive spaces where communities can connect.
Reflecting on the anniversary, Chairman of Essex County Council, Cllr Karen McIvor, highlighted the important contribution libraries continue to make to communities across Essex and encouraged residents to take part in the celebrations and visit their local library.
Read the full blog by visiting: blog.essex.gov.uk/leader-cab…
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Some things are more important than football. A lot more important.
Everyone connected to #itfc has a reason to feel extra proud when they wear the poppy this weekend 🌺
Here’s why ⬇️
Lest we forget
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#corrie someone tell me what an upturned pineapple outside your door means?
#Emmerdale Nicola liking the sound of Kevin snoring as Jimmy was a snorer
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🍂This little one is busy gathering leaves to build a cosy nest! 🫶🦔🐾
This bonfire night, remember that leaf and log piles are perfect hedgehog homes. Before lighting your bonfire, always check and move the entire pile.
Don’t destroy their homes. Check before you light! 🔥
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Greg Abbott continued to get elected by fomenting fear that Mexicans and immigrants were going to take our jobs and destroy our way of life.
That he actually had his job taken by a Mexican woman is a level of poetic justice worthy of a Dickens novel.
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Povo indígena comemorando a derrota da extrema direita nos EUA.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
O vídeo é de junho de 2026, das comemorações do 150º aniversário da Batalha de Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) em Montana. Mostra cavaleiros nativos em cavalgadas, não celebração de eleições nos EUA.
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#OnThisDay 4 November 1994
#PaulOGrady appears as #LilySavage in #Brookside, having been sent by Sizzler the gangster to open Barry Grant's new restaurant.
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I will find her a job.
I run a training business and skills academy.
If someone can get me in touch with Casey - I’m pretty sure I can get her an interview and a job within 5 working days.
If BBC can make this happen I’m more than happy to turn this into reality
Young people need people to coach them, help them find a career.
That’s what I do.
If anyone can make this happen, hopefully I can turn a bad situation, into a positive one.
"If I had it my way I would be doing a nine-to-five every day. I would love to do that,” says Casey Smith. The 19-year-old is one of nearly a million young people in the UK classified as a Neet - not in education, employment, or training.
Read more: bbc.in/4kvyJoT
Its been very quiet here fireworks wise this year.There was a big display saturday I was able to watch from house.Primary school have a display this saturday.But theres been no youngsters throwing them in street.
#corrie Brodie waking up to what a scum bag Leannes bloke is.If they buy out underworld what experience do they have? Unless he wants to turn it into flats





















