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Reply to comment by 3720-To-One in State lawmakers introduce bill to bring back rent control by HRJafael
That’s what CA just did. I have faith it will prove useful soon enough.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in State lawmakers introduce bill to bring back rent control by HRJafael
I believe Biden just did it again last year. They won’t take the football out from under us again, right?
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Reply to Holyoke mall shooting by runninginsquare_s
Cool cool cool, I was there just a few hours prior…
witteefool t1_j2pox28 wrote
Service wages need to abolished. It’s a minimum wage for a reason. If you get tips, cool! But the idea that anyone earning $6.75 an hour “actually” earns $15 an hour thanks to tips is ludicrous. I’m sure some waitstaff do, but it’s a minority.
Also agricultural workers deserve a minimum wage as well.
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Reply to comment by fiercealmond in The line to see Avatar: The Way of Water at Jordan's IMAX in Natick by Tara_is_a_Potato
Nope is fantastic, so is the new Knives Out.
witteefool t1_j1bv5nx wrote
Why? Of all movies, why?
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Reply to Another Boston painting I just finisherd by ep2992
Hey, I know that corner! Your watercolor technique looks great.
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Reply to comment by Ill_Long5021 in Cop Who Resigned After Groping UMass College Student Landed New Job Investigating Sexual Assaults in MA by Thayer1111
There have been attempts to start a nationwide database on police misconduct but as you can imagine there’s a big backlash from certain “unions.” Right now it’s too easy for cops with records to hop from town to town and state to state.
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Reply to comment by ak47workaccnt in State to open temporary shelter at Devens by ak47workaccnt
Yeah, I don’t understand how a 4 month stay at a shelter is going to get unhoused families back in their feet. There needs to be more long term solutions with affordable housing (and also raising the minimum wage but at least MA is decent about this.) The increase in homelessness is nationwide, there’s clearly a large problem here that a short term shelter can’t address.
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Reply to comment by Joe5205 in News 12 Poll: Should Connecticut raise servers' wages? by jaydecay123
In theory that’s how it should work. In practice the business owner rarely does the work to assure workers are paid minimum wage if their tips don’t cover it.