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California would become the second state after Connecticut to require paid days off for ill employees. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] On November 4, 2014, Massachusetts voters approved "Question 4", a ballot measure mandating sick pay for all part-time and full-time workers at firms with more than 11 employees.
The state must own death—must kill—in order to keep the social organism alive and healthy. [ 51 ] In modern terms, the use of "euthanasia" in the context of Aktion T4 is seen to be a euphemism to disguise a program of genocide , in which people were killed on the grounds of "disabilities, religious beliefs, and discordant individual values ...
For Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the tax is 9.45%, which is 4.45% state & 5% local. [16] In Los Angeles it is 9.5%, which is 7.25% state & 2.25% county. Sales and use taxes in California are made up of various state, county and city taxes. The state tax is "imposed upon all retailers" for the "privilege of selling tangible personal property at ...
Thiel was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of West Germany, on 11 October 1967, to Klaus Friedrich Thiel and his wife Susanne Thiel. [15] [16] The family emigrated to the United States when Peter was one year old and lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father worked as a chemical engineer. [17]
[24] [23] In June 2018, new data showed an increase in every U.S. state except Nevada since 1999. [25] [26] Surging death rates from suicide, drug overdoses and alcoholism, what researchers refer to as "deaths of despair," are largely responsible for a consecutive three year decline of life expectancy in the US from 2016 to 2019.
[26] [27] The state government also did not require all structure owners to maintain defensible space, a standard rule in fire-prone states like California. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The shrinking of the agricultural workforce reduced overall firefighting capacity; those workers had traditionally suppressed fires on the land they cared for, and were so ...
Robert Leroy Mercer (born July 11, 1946) [2] is an American hedge fund manager, computer scientist, and political donor. Mercer was an early artificial intelligence researcher and developer and is the former co-CEO of the hedge fund company Renaissance Technologies.
The State of California created the Donner Memorial State Park, 11 acres (4.5 ha) surrounding the monument, in 1927. Twenty years later, the site of the Murphy cabin was purchased and added to the park. [ 191 ]