How Americans' Lives Have Turned Into All Work And No Play, In 3 Charts. By Bryce Covert , Dylan Petrohilos Posted on Share this: "How Americans’ Lives Have Turned Into All Work And No Play, In 3 Charts" Share: CREDIT: Shutterstock American workers are putting in more and more hours each week, as the supposedly 40-hour workweek has stretched to 47 hours.
Just 12 percent of people who work in the private sector get paid family leave benefits, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. American employers are more likely to give their workers paid sick days, vacation days, or holidays. Even those who get this time off are getting less of it. CREDIT: Dylan Petrohilos/ThinkProgress The United States is very lonely when it comes to the fact that it doesn’t require paid maternity leave. The country is also lonely in its lack of a guarantee that workers can get paid sick days or holiday and vacation time. How To Write To Congress. American Exception - Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech - Series. The Geopolitics of Oil. Oil is one of the most useful substances on this earth, a fact that hasn’t gone unrecognised by world leaders.
Billions of pounds and thousands of lives have been spent protecting or seizing oil assets across the globe. If a country is going to go to war, it seems that many people think large oil supplies are a decent enough reason to do so. It is impossible to ignore the historical legacy of what happens to poorly defended countries that are unfortunate enough to have oil and decide they want to keep it. It’s not so much about expanding power, as it about managing an inevitable decline. It is easy to see why the USA, and to a lesser extent the UK, is so vilified by so many in the developing world.
While I don’t reserve a great deal of respect for people like George Bush, Tony Blair or other warmongers, I have to concede that their foreign interventions are what has made life in the West so easy. The UK and US both once had large oil and gas reserves. The US tells a similar story. USA Security & Defence Issues. Republicans. FAA To Ease Rules For Police Agencies To Fly Unmanned Drones. LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Surveillance aircraft used by the U.S. military overseas could soon be coming to the skies above Los Angeles County.
KNX 1070′s Charles Feldman reports the Federal Aviation Administration is making it easier for local law enforcement agencies to fly unmanned drones. The FAA has streamlined the process that would allow agencies to fly smaller, unarmed versions of the drones that hunt down terrorists in places such as Pakistan and Afghanistan. While the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has not yet applied for an application to fly drones over our skies, its Homeland Security chief Bob Osborne said drones could be in the department’s future — with some caveats.
“We have so much congestion in the skies that I would anticipate that there would be some pretty rigid safety standards,” said Osborne. “Mountain rescue, where you have a car over the side that’s a thousand feet down the cliff, oftentimes our aircraft can’t fly that low,” he said. One Per Cent: Occupy vs Tea Party: what their Twitter networks reveal. Peter Aldhous, San Francisco bureau chief According to some political commentators, Occupy Wall Street is the left's answer to the Tea Party - driven by a similar anger towards elites.
But the social networks of people tweeting about the two movements suggest that they have rather different dynamics. Those tweeting about the Tea Party emerge as a tight-knit "in crowd", following one another's tweets. By contrast, the network of people tweeting about Occupy consists of a looser series of clusters, in which the output of a few key people is being vigorously retweeted.
The Occupy network also has many casual unconnected tweeters, shown to the bottom right of the diagram below. Anti-Intellectualism in the USA. Democrats. Hispanics: the rising power in the United States.