Tag: GOVERNMENT
Is DEI Ready To DIE?
While it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the term Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) became a specific term in the American lexicon, we can certainly trace the beginnings of its concepts to the middle part of the 20th century. In...
LA Times Angles for High-Speed Rail As ‘Jobs’ Program
What a train wreck. The Los Angeles Times is touting how California’s high-speed rail project “trains workers and provides thousands of jobs in the Central Valley.” You read that right. They finally admit that it’s just a union jobs program....
Introspection is the Enemy of Happiness – Especially in Government
“Introspection is the enemy of happiness.” A very coldly cynical line spoken by Sterling Archer, the lead character in the astonishingly funny “Archer” animated spy television series. It is also very true. While Socrates famously said that “The unexamined life...
California Employment Training Panel
California’s Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 3, Part 1, Chapter 3.5 contains the Employment Training Panel. Section 10200 contains five legislative findings and declarations, including that California’s economy is being challenged by competition from other states and overseas. In order...
The Toy Department
Back when newspapers still existed – hey, get off my lawn you rotten kids! – there was a common nickname for a certain section of the paper. News, op-ed, sports, business, real estate, arts, local were all called what they...
New Overtime Law for Agriculture Workers Was Never About the Workers
After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), to require overtime pay of time-and-a-half for farm employees working more than eight...