#relief department

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Officers Called to Cache Bay After Riot of Jobless Threatens,” Toronto Globe. November 4, 1932. Page 1. ----- (Canadian Press Despatch). North Bay, Nov. 3 - Two hundred unemployed at Cache Bay caused a near-riot there this afternoon. Provincial Officer Campeau, Chief Leclair, both of Sturgeon Falls, and two Provincial officers from North Bay, Constables N. C. Smaill and S. Berard, were called there to quell any trouble which might arise. Trouble first loomed last night, when the unemployed harried a special meeting of the Relief Committee until it was forced to adjourn. This morning they marched to the Mayor’s residence, and again presented requests for clothing. He promised that their wants would be taken care of. This afternoon a satisfactory arrangement was reached.

#north bay #sturgeon falls #unemployed #unemployed protest #unemployed demands #threatening riot #unemployed workers' association #unemployed association #unemployment relief #relief department #great depression in canada #northern ontario

[skoulsons]

To you? She’s cargo babygirl

#call the cops #the fire department #the emts #disaster relief #homeland security #the state #call them all #I am not doing well #the last of us hbo #tlou spoilers #joel miller #ellie williams

[hungerpunch]

was informed today—by way of meeting invite—that i am going to have to import an entirely separate, additional site to the site i just took live after 18 months of hellish toiling and i rage blacked out so hard that when i came to, it was to a booking confirmation for a remote log cabin in rural michigan ☠️

#apparently i'm going to spend a long weekend in mid-march extremely isolated and surrounded by wood paneling #thank you michigan for having a very cheap off season i guess? #this does not rly address that i more immediately need relief or i'm going to explode. idk. #maybe i'll spend a very precious pto day taking this friday off. #i just haven't gotten a fucking break in god knows how long and people keep asking me why #bc compared to u bitches i have like no pto for the year >:( #driveby post #the kvetching department

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Three years after receiving a $700 million pandemic-era lifeline from the federal government, the struggling freight trucking company Yellow is filing for bankruptcy.

After monthslong negotiations between Yellow’s management and the Teamsters union broke down, the company shut its operations late last month, and said on Sunday that it was seeking bankruptcy protection so it could wind down its business in an “orderly” way.

“It is with profound disappointment that Yellow announces that it is closing after nearly 100 years in business,” the company’s chief executive, Darren Hawkins, said in a statement. Yellow filed a so-called Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.

The downfall of the 99-year-old company will lead to the loss of about 30,000 jobs and could have ripple effects across the nation’s supply chains. It also underscores the risks associated with government bailouts that are awarded during moments of economic panic.

Yellow, which formerly went by the name YRC Worldwide, received the $700 million loan during the summer of 2020 as the pandemic was paralyzing the U.S. economy. The loan was awarded as part of the $2.2 trillion pandemic-relief legislation that Congress passed that year, and Yellow received it on the grounds that its business was critical to national security because it shipped supplies to military bases. Government watchdogs have scrutinized the loan because of the company’s financial turmoil and close ties to the Trump administration, which awarded the loan.

Since then, Yellow changed its name and embarked on a restructuring plan to help revive its flagging business by consolidating its regional networks of trucking services under one brand. As of the end of March, Yellow’s outstanding debt was $1.5 billion, including about $730 million that it owed to the federal government. Yellow has paid approximately $66 million in interest on the loan, but it has repaid just $230 of the principal owed on the loan, which comes due next year.

The fate of the loan is not yet clear. The federal government assumed a 30% equity stake in Yellow in exchange for the loan. It could end up assuming or trying to sell off much of the company’s fleet of trucks and terminals. Yellow aims to sell “all or substantially all” of its assets, according to court documents. Mr. Hawkins said the company intended to pay back the government loan “in full.”

The White House declined to comment.

Yellow estimated that it has more than 100,000 creditors and more than $1 billion in liabilities, per court documents. Some of its largest unsecured creditors include Amazon, with a claim of more than $2 million, and Home Depot, which is owed nearly $1.7 million.

Yellow is the third-largest small-freight trucking company in a part of the industry known as “less than truckload” shipping. The industry has been under pressure over the last year from rising interest rates and higher fuel costs, while customers have been reluctant to accept higher prices.

Those forces collided with an ugly labor fight this year between Yellow and the Teamsters union over wages and other benefits. Those talks collapsed last month and union officials soon after warned workers that the company was shutting down.

After its bankruptcy filing, company officials placed much of the blame on the union, saying its members caused “irreparable harm” by halting its restructuring plan. Yellow employed about 23,000 union employees.

“We faced nine months of union intransigence, bullying and deliberately destructive tactics,” Mr. Hawkins said. The Teamsters union “was able to halt our business plan, literally driving our company out of business, despite every effort to work with them,” he added.

In late June, the company filed a lawsuit against the union, asserting it had caused more than $137 million in damages by blocking the restructuring plan.

The Teamsters union said that Yellow’s executives unjustly blamed the union for the demise of the company, which had been “plagued with financial trouble for nearly two decades,” officials said in a statement.

“Teamster families sacrificed billions of dollars in wages, benefits and retirement security to rescue Yellow,” said Sean O’Brien, the union’s general president. “The company blew through a $700 million government bailout.” Calling Yellow’s top executives “dysfunctional” and “greedy,” he blamed them for failing to “take responsibility for squandering all that cash.”

The bankruptcy could create temporary disruptions for companies that relied on Yellow and might prompt more consolidation in the industry. It could also lead to temporarily higher prices as businesses find new carriers for their freight.

“Those inflationary prices will certainly hurt the shippers and hurt the consumer to a certain extent,” said Tom Nightingale, chief executive of AFS Logistics, who suggested that prices would probably normalize within a few months.

In late July, Yellow began permanently laying off workers and ceased most of its operations in the United States and Canada, according to court documents. Yellow has retained a “core group” of about 1,650 employees to maintain limited operations and provide administrative work as it winds down. Yellow said it expected to pay about $3.4 million per week in employee wages to operate during bankruptcy, which “may decrease over time.” None of the remaining employees are union members, the company said.

The company also sought the authority to pay an estimated $22 million in compensation and benefit costs for current and former employees, including roughly $8.7 million in unpaid wages as of the date of filing.

Yellow had readily accessible funds of about $39 million when it filed for bankruptcy, which it said would be insufficient to cover its wind-down efforts, and it expected to receive special financing to help support the sale process and payment of wages.

Jack Atkins, a transportation analyst at the financial services firm Stephens, said that Yellow’s troubles had been mounting for years. In the wake of the financial crisis, Yellow engaged in a spree of acquisitions that it failed to successfully integrate, Mr. Atkins said. The demands of repaying that debt made it difficult for Yellow to reinvest in the company, allowing rivals to become more profitable.

“Yellow was struggling to keep its head above water and survive,” Mr. Atkins said. “It was harder and harder to be profitable enough to support the wage increases they needed.”

David P. Leibowitz, a Chicago bankruptcy lawyer who represents several trucking companies, said Yellow had found itself in a “perfect storm, and they have not managed that perfect storm very well.”

The company’s financial problems fueled concerns. It lost more than $100 million in 2019 and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it defrauded the federal government during a seven-year period. Last year it agreed to pay $6.85 million to settle the lawsuit.

Congressional oversight committees have scrutinized the company’s relationships with the Trump administration. President Donald J. Trump tapped Mr. Hawkins to serve on a coronavirus economic task force, and Yellow had financial backing from Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm with close ties to Trump administration officials.

Democrats on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis wrote in a report last year that top Trump administration officials had awarded Yellow the money over the objections of career officials at the Defense Department. The report noted that Yellow had been in close touch with Trump administration officials throughout the loan process and had discussed how the company employed Teamsters as its drivers.

In December 2020, Steven T. Mnuchin, then the Treasury secretary, defended the loan, arguing that had the company been shuttered, thousands of jobs would have been at risk and the military’s supply chain could have been disrupted. He predicted that the federal government would eventually turn a profit from the deal.

“Yellow had longstanding financial problems before the pandemic, was not essential to national security and thus should never have received a $700 million taxpayer bailout from the Treasury Department,” Representative French Hill, Republican of Arkansas and a member of the Congressional Oversight Commission, said in a statement. “Years of poor financial management at Yellow has resulted in hard-working people losing their jobs.”

#us politics #news #the new york times #2023 #donald trump #conservatives #republicans #trump administration #yellow corporation #teamsters union #unions #union workers #workers union #bankruptcy #chapter 11 #Darren Hawkins #U.S. Bankruptcy Court #coronavirus relief #ppp loans #department of treasury #government bailouts #Sean O’Brien #House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis #steve mnuchin #department of defense #rep. French Hill #Apollo Global Management

[tomorrowusa]

After the Republican Supreme Court struck down the student debt relief program last month the Biden administration promised to look for other ways to roll back exorbitant student debt.

Today's fix is a first step which is more like an accounting adjustment than anything. It's a bit complicated though it is for real.

The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would cancel $39 billion of student debt owed by more than 804,000 borrowers whose debts have been outstanding for more than 20 years. The Education Department said it was implementing its plan, announced in April 2022, to compensate borrowers for what it called “historical inaccuracies” and other failures in how the agency and its contracted loan servicers have managed the income-driven repayment programs. The program is separate from President Joe Biden’s sweeping student debt relief program that the Supreme Court struck down last month. But the announcement comes as the Biden administration looks to highlight its alternative pathways for delivering student debt relief in the face of that legal defeat. “We will not stop there,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement, praising the announcement as a “historic step” to alleviate student debt burdens.

Tangible debt relief will start to be felt in 60 days and will continue through next year for the more than 800,000 people eligible.

Department officials revised borrowers’ accounts to retroactively count months towards forgiveness under the income-driven repayment plans that previously weren’t counted or wouldn’t typically qualify. Those months of credit pushed the more than 804,000 borrowers to reach the threshold for loan forgiveness of 20 or 25 years, depending on the type of income-driven repayment plan.

The US Department of Education has more information here.

Biden-Harris Administration to Provide 804,000 Borrowers with $39 Billion in Automatic Loan Forgiveness as a Result of Fixes to Income Driven Repayment Plans

#scotus #student debt relief #us department of education #biden-harris administration #joe biden

[larryshapiro]

Raritan Fire Department - Relief Hose Company 2

#larry shapiro #shapirophotography.net #larryshapiro #larryshapiro.tumblr.com #larryshapiroblog.com #firetruck #fire truck #EONE #E-ONE #Typhoon #RaritanFD #Relief Hose Company 2 #ReliefHoseCo2 #Raritan NJ #Raritan Fire Department

[bravest-notts]

a truly blessed thursday is upon us bc on top of the tlovm trailer and cr3 tonight, my top surgery consult got moved from march to january

#not cr #which was already moved up from may to march bc i sent an alarming enough health report to my pcp #that she reached out to the plastic surgery department and was like #hey my patient's had his second rib injury can we scoot him in earlier #given that i have been of and on trying to get top surgery for 5 years #and actively trying for a full year #it's a colossal relief to be this close #maybe i will stop being tachy whenever i leave my house once i get to stop hurting myself 50 hours a week #imagine that #(i am deeply bitter about being forced to wait 5 years when ppl even in other states have nigh instant access but) #(we are gonna focus on the positives goddammit)

[starryvomit]

“9-5”

-S

#female writers #women writers #female poets #women poets #romanticize your life #slow life #slow living #nature #law of the universe #the divine cycle #the divine feminine #the divine masculine #nature lovers #mother earth #social media #societal expectations #societal issues #societalimpact #societal pressure #societal perceptions #societaltransformation #academia aesthetic #social norms #social anxiety #anxiety relief #toxicity #unrealistic expectations #light academia #spilled ink #the tortured poets department

[bxd-kxrma]

“Who knew such a small girl with a party popper could be so devastating.”

#dash comm; #irresistible//irresponsible; Sampo #I still stand by that this man is perfection in the comic relief department #in all departments #best boi

[thefreeblog]

How are you doing after the final episode?

All the above anon. What is even my life anymore?

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #vegas x pete #kimchay #anon asks #vegaspete #i am not lying when i say i dont get involved in shows very often #i am like kim in that department #i dont care what happens in finales or how it ends #i am just for the ride #but fhis show has done some emotional damage #and i am glad i found this show #the way i was invested in no one dying #it was huge sigh of relief at the end

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“HAMILTON TRIES TO REDUCE RELIEF,” Brantford Expositor. June 23, 1932. Page 7.  ---- Suggestions Made at Meeting of Controllers Yesterday ---- In view of comparisons that have been made from time to time between the relief systems in Brantford and Hamilton and the government's threat to cut off assistance at Hamilton unless the system were made less costly, efforts in the Ambitious City to alter their arrangements are being followed with interest here. Already controllers from Hamilton have been here to study the Brantford Community League plan and there appears to be a possibility that a similar organization will be set up in the neighboring city. 

In response to the request of government officials that expenditures for direct relief were high, the Hamilton Board of Control yesterday instructed Relief Officer John McMenemy to revise the relief lists and reduce allowance, wherever possible, to the level of last summer's rates. The session was marked by a clash between Controller Lawrence and Mayor Peebles. 

Controller Lawrence objected to such action being taken, and believed it would only result in general dissatisfaction among relief recipients who would come to him to have their allowance adjusted. 

Mayor Peebles then suggested that a committee of three members of the City Council should be appointed to deal with all grievances, and in this way Controller Lawrence would be relieved of the troubles he anticipated. His worship said: "We will ask all complainants to submit their grievances in writing, and we also shall obtain a written report from the relief officer." 

"I won't do it," broke in Controller Lawrence. "You are just trying to make me a messenger boy. I would have to sit here and get the complaints and then go to the relief officer and get a statement." 

Mayor Peebles: - All right, then, keep your old system. I just thought we might be able to relieve you a little. 

Controller Lawrence complained bitterly that he was the most persecuted of men. 

The mayor continued: "All right. I withdraw my motion about the committee. I won't discuss the matter further with you." 

It was explained that no reductions had yet been made this year in relief allowances, although such action was taken last summer. Controller Bell urged that the city engage competent investigators, and pay them good wages, as their inquiries would save the city thousands of dollars by perhaps discovering the names of many persons who are not deserving of the city relief.

#hamilton #direct relief #unemployment relief #administration of poverty #relief department #relief committee #austerity politics #punishing the poor #fiscal crisis #great depression in canada

[shadowglens]

kratos’ line about “i do not regret saving your life and never will, but the choice between life and death should have been yours to make, i should not have robbed you of that choice” makes me 🙃😭 when i think about grimhild ressurecting freyr

#txt #gow spoilers #grimhild x freyr #like ... he chose it. freyr chose his moment and sacrificed himself so his family would live #he chose his moment of firy glory and with it took the whole of asgard with him and that was all he ever wanted #and then grimhild takes his departing soul between her hands and tears him back into the land of the living #only for freyr to then find out in the immediate aftermath of being ressurected that she has hid Multiple important things from him #his fate in ragnarok and her pregnancy #and he Understands god does he understand but it still hurts #that she couldn't trust him with his own damned fate #i imagine freyr also feels a little .. guilty? in a way? because when he thought his sister was dead in the past he just mourned her #and moved on and didn't even really think to check? whereas here's grimhild literally dragging her bleeding body through helheim for him #idk idk the whole aftermath of him being ressurected is filled with relief and anger and love and guilt and anxiety and ... exhaustation #and a deeper understanding between the two of them of how far they are willing to go for one another #(freyr willing to sacrifice his immortal life for her) #(grimhild willing to risk her magic and body and soul to bring him back) #afjdfghsdjgasd #ch: grimhild #dont mind me rambling about a thing hardly any of the moots care about lol im going to bed

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Friday invalidated President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief plan, meaning the long-delayed proposal intended to implement a campaign trail promise will not go into effect.

The Justices, divided 6-3 on ideological lines, ruled in one of two cases that the program was an unlawful exercise of presidential power because it had not been explicitly approved by Congress.

The court rejected the Biden administration's arguments that the plan was lawful under a 2003 law called the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act, or HEROES Act. The law says the government can provide relief to recipients of student loans when there is a “national emergency,” allowing it to act to ensure people are not in “a worse position financially” as a result of the emergency.

Chief Justice John Roberts said the HEROES Act language was not specific enough, writing that the Court's precedent "requires that Congress speak clearly before a department secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy."

The plan, which would have allowed eligible borrowers to cancel up to $20,000 in debt and would have cost more than $400 billion, has been blocked since the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary hold in October.

About 43 million Americans would have been eligible to participate.

The student loan proposal is important politically to Biden, as tackling student loan debt was a key pledge he made on the campaign trail in 2020 to energize younger voters.

The ruling will immediately put pressure on the Biden administration to find an alternative avenue to forgive student debt that could potentially withstand legal challenge.

Advocates, as well as some Democrats in Congress, say the Education Department has broad power to forgive student loan debt under the 1965 Higher Education Act, a different law to the one at issue in the Supreme Court cases.

Separately, the student loan repayment process is set to begin again at the end of August after having been put on pause during the COVID-19 pandemic, although first payments will not be due until October.

The court considered two cases: one brought by six states, including Missouri, and the other brought by two people who hold student loan debt, Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor. The court ruled that the program was unlawful in the case brought by states but found in the second case that the challengers did not have legal standing.

The three liberal Justices on the conservative-majority bench dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan saying that by ruling against the plan, the Court had "exceeded its proper limited role in our nation's governance."

She said the states bringing the challenge did not have legal standing to even bring the case, and in analyzing HEROES Act, the conservative Justices ignored the clear language of the law.

"The result here is that the Court substitutes itself for Congress and the executive branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness," Kagan wrote.

The Court decided the case in part based on a legal argument made by the challengers that the conservative majority has recently embraced called the “major questions doctrine.”

Under the theory, federal agencies cannot initiate sweeping new policies that have significant economic impacts without having express authorization from Congress.

The conservative majority cited the major questions doctrine last year in blocking Biden’s COVID vaccination-or-test requirement for larger businesses and curbing the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to limit carbon emissions from power plants.

The challengers argued that the administration’s proposal — announced by Biden in August and originally scheduled to take effect last fall — violated the Constitution and federal law, partly because it circumvented Congress, which they said has the sole power to create laws related to student loan forgiveness.

Biden had proposed canceling student loan debt during the 2020 presidential election campaign.

The administration ultimately proposed forgiving up to $10,000 in debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year (or couples who file taxes jointly and earn less than $250,000 annually). Pell Grant recipients, who are the majority of borrowers, would be eligible for $10,000 more in debt relief.

The administration closed the application process after the plan was blocked. Holders of student loan debt currently do not have to make payments as part of COVID relief measures that will remain in effect until after the Supreme Court issues its ruling.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated in September that Biden’s plan would cost $400 billion.

#us politics #news #nbc news #2023 #student debt relief #student debt forgiveness #student loan debt #student loan forgiveness #president joe biden #biden administration #us supreme court #scotus #Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act #HEROES Act #justice john roberts #8th circuit court of appeals #Higher Education Act #department of education #justice elena kagan #major questions doctrine #us constitution

[kashilascorner]

my conclusion after finishing the witcher season 2 is that they had a very clear storyline which is overall ok but the writing (especially on an episode basis) is weak at best

#props to the actors for working with what they had (esp yennefer fringila and triss) #yennefe's arc was..... i mean i know plenty of ppl don't like her s1 arc because of the whole motherhood thing #but i actually liked how it was focused and that it wasn't so much about motherhood itself but more about body autonomy #and the desperatr need of having someone to unconditionally love you and depend on you (at least that's how i saw it) #and her arc here had sooooo much potential but ultimately it was botchy in it's development #also jaskier. a beloved character. much needed comic relief but did nothing after geralt saved him #don't get me started on how fringila was far too naive at first and the moment she snaps out of it it's shown during a murderous spree #only to have her character dragged down AGAIN for being too naive. similar butchering to what happened to cahir's character in the end #only it's far far worse with fringila and hmmm cannot shake the feeling it's uh. racist writing actually! #idk. the dialogues weren't too good. ciri went through some good character development but she was very much the only one to do so #i mean geralt kinda did too but he's so stiff....... also tons of witchers around and they were all pretty useless for writing's sake #vesemir and geralt's relationship was good but felt underdeveloped. ciri and yen was good but rushed... ah #speciaf effects costumes sets & scenery lighting (the lighting!!!) were all very good #i think in the more technical department everything was pretty solid. can't judge the sound really because in dub it's a bit different #anyways at least i got to see 8 hours of very pretty ppl on my screen #laura watches stuff #also! you know those joke posts going around abt how shows actually need more s*x? yeah? well this is one of them lol #spicing it up a bit was not difficult wouldn't necessarily get in the way of the story and would actually help disipate the #storytelling tension given there is barely any comic relief at all for the most part (or any relief at all lmao all the calming acenes are #repetitive pseudo deep conversations between two characters lmao)

[worstpunk]

An email update about student debt relief

#student debt relief #student debt relief plan #department of education #student #debt #debt relief #biden

[kafiranablogs]

Dearness Relief hiked to 50% - What does it mean for central government pensioners - know eligibility and payment details here | India Business News

Dearness Relief hike: The central government has recently announced a 4% hike in Dearness Relief (DR) for pensioners, effective from January 1, 2024. This adjustment will increase the DR to 50% for eligible pensioners. Eligibility and calculation details are provided in a March 13, 2024 Office Memorandum from the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW).Here’s what you need to know…

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#accountant general #business News #Dearness Relief #Dearness Relief hike #Dearness Relief hiked to 50% #Department of Justice #pension disbursing banks #pensioners #reserve Bank of India #State Bank Of India