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... Adjusted for inflation, the average hourly wage for American private sector workers grew by just 1.3% from 2024 to 2025, according to Oxfam and ITUC's analysis. In comparison, earnings for the 384 CEOs in the S&P 500 for whom pay data is available increased by 25.6% between 2024 and 2025.

CEOs are paid an average of 281 times more than the typical worker, according to a September 2025 report by the Economic Policy Institute, with CEOs taking home an average total of $22.98 million in 2024. That's up from a ratio of 60 just three and a half decades ago.

"What the data shows is that we cannot have a conversation about the affordability crisis without talking about extreme inequality, and in particular the extreme inequality between CEO pay and worker pay," Patricia Stottlemyer, labor rights policy lead for Oxfam America, tells CNBC Make It. ...

@#3 ... Retes sat zip-tied in the dirt for four hours. "The entire time I was sitting there, they only asked for my ID once," he says. He told them it was in his car -- the one with the disabled veterans license plate. "I don't know if they ever went to go check my ID."...

"He told them [his ID] was in his car -- the one with the disabled Veterans license plate"

!!!

@#4 ... Putin's dying?!? ...

If so, will his replacement be less militaristic towards the good people of Ukraine?

... Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he thinks Russia's conflict with Ukraine is coming to an end ...

Color me skeptical.

I'll believe it when he returns all the lands he annexed by use of his military during his unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine.

@#62 ... The statue was not commissioned by the government or the Republican Party. It was financed by a group of cryptocurrency investors promoting a meme coin called $PATRIOT.

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The prayer circle, the clergy, the blessing, the phone call from the president of the United States. All of it, for a crypto promotion." ...

Typical of Pres Trump's grifting of his presidency?

... "I will not rule over Hungary -- I will serve my country," Magyar said ...

I wonder if Pres Trump would ever utter something similar, say ...

"I will not rule over America -- I will serve my country."

@#21 ... It would take generations for the US to get to a point where we are prepared for a pandemic. The public has been too malinformed and undereducated ...

I agree, with one comment, though ...

Yes the public has been misinformed by some, and that has led to much of the public digesting problematic medical information.

And now, one of the largest purveyors of that problematic medical information is determining the health policies of the Country.

So, yeah, it is going to take a while to recover.

@#13 ... Logan Act violation. ...

How so?

Please be specific.

thx.

... A prominent Baptist pastor told Fox News on Saturday that President Donald Trump has a "better understanding" of the bible than Pope Leo XIV when it concerns the military conflict with Iran ...

Wow.

@#2 ... higher fuel and food costs ...

Also, higher costs for everything transported by trucks that use diesel fuel.

fwiw, I filled up my car's gas tank on March 2: $3.90 per gallon

Today, I filled it up again: $5.39 per gallon

From the reporting I've heard this afternoon, what is being passed back and forth via Pakistan is little more than a list of topics to be discussed in the future. Granted it is still early reporting, so take it as that ...

... After seven months on the graveyard shift, working from midnight to 8 a.m., Retes was eager to move to a daytime schedule and spend more waking hours with his family. ...

Pres Trump says he is deporting only the most violent and criminal undocumented immigrants.

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... Retes isn't sure how long he was held down before someone zip-tied his hands. Agents picked him up and walked him to the farm where he works. Officers began asking who would be responsible for Retes. "The entire time they were walking me back, they were passing me off to other agents, asking, 'Who's going to take responsibility for what happened to him?'" he says.

Confused as to what had just happened and why, Retes waited for an opportunity to prove he was a citizen. "I mean, I didn't do anything wrong," he says. "I just figured they were going to finish doing whatever they were doing and they were going to let me go." Retes sat zip-tied in the dirt for four hours. "The entire time I was sitting there, they only asked for my ID once," he says. He told them it was in his car"the one with the disabled veterans license plate. "I don't know if they ever went to go check my ID."

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had been adamant that its immigration raids were focused on the "worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens."

So it was reasonable for Retes, who was perhaps racially profiled by officers, to think he'd be free to leave after proving his citizenship. ...