January 15, 2021 4:49 PMLegal
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LOS ANGELES The Adult Performance Artists Guild (APAG) released a statement Friday morning concerning a new rule just announced by the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (COO) which APAG says may put an end to the discrimination many adult industry workers have encountered in recent years from banking institutions. The OCC is an independent bureau of the United States Treasury Department that serves to ensure safety and soundness within the national banking system.
The full APAG statement follows: Yesterday the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its finalized rule to ensure fair access to banking, and this will change the way that banks are allowed to treat legalized sex work. Adult workers have faced occupational discrimination lead by the banking industry since Operation Choke Point was put in place. This policy that blocked banking access for high-risk accounts, would affect performers even when those wo
Liberia: Cllr. Varney Sherman Breaks Silence on Economic Sanctions; Files Response to the Senate Debunking the Allegations against Him
Liberia: Cllr. Varney Sherman Breaks Silence on Economic Sanctions; Files Response to the Senate Debunking the Allegations against Him
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MONROVIA – Renown Liberian lawyer and politician, Cllr. H. Varney Sherman, Senator of Grand Cape Mount County, who was placed on economic sanction last December by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for his alleged involvement in a series of bribery and corruption related cases has filed a formal response to the allegation to the Liberian Senate while at the same time seeking redress in the United States.
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It’s Past Time for a U.S. Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund
Given the U.S. penchant for deficit spending, it is necessary to find other sources of revenue for the government of the United States.
The United States currently has a debt of $27.4 trillion on its books. The debt payments on the national debt of the United States for fiscal year 2020 was $522.77 billion. The budget for the United States in fiscal year 2020 was $4.829 trillion. This would have produced a budget deficit of $966 billion, but with the Covid-19 pandemic, the budget deficit ballooned to an estimated $3.7 trillion deficit for 2020.
The Congressional Budget Office in November of 2019 estimated that the interest on the U.S. National Debt in 2028 would be $914 billion. These estimates on the interest payment on the national debt were done before the Covid-19 pandemic. The Congressional Budget Office has not yet published any changes to this estimation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The restaurant and bar industry has shed over 2.4 million jobs since the coronavirus pandemic started.
December job losses represent a dramatic increase from the 17,000 jobs lost by the restaurant and bar industry in November.
Workers at restaurants and bars made up 74% of the unemployment numbers for December.