Executive pay these days is inextricably linked to a company’s stock performance. So in a period where the overall market is booming, as it did after the initial plunge from the pandemic last year, these pay packages can swell to outsize proportions.
arrow Dianne Morales greets a new volunteer at Jackson Heights Greenmarket on Sunday Cindy Rodriguez / Gothamist
Dianne Morales had a cold. Not COVID, she’s fully vaccinated, but when she arrived at the Jackson Heights Greenmarket on Sunday, acutely aware that this was a pivotal moment in the mayor’s race and for her candidacy, she was battling congestion and a slight sore throat. So she did what we’ve all learned to do: she wore two masks and proceeded with caution.
Dressed in a white shirt, linen blazer, and black pants, she elbow-bumped and chatted with prospective voters and volunteers, posing for pictures and listening to the issues that mattered to them. Her stump speech, which she delivers at campaign events like this one, is as much about making a case for her own candidacy as it is about broader involvement.
NYU graduate student strike enters second week as GSOC-UAW makes concessions
A strike by New York University graduate students for higher wages, tuition waivers and better health care and protection for immigrant and international students has now entered its second week with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), affiliated with the United Auto Workers, already abandoning key demands.
It is apparent that the NYU administration is pressing for a full capitulation by the GSOC-UAW.
Striking NYU graduate students (WSWS media)
The university administration is clearly waiting for the end of the semester, which will be over next week at NYU, in the confident expectation that the GSOC-UAW will sell out on all the major demands advanced by students.
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Quoting Kristen Munson in Utah State Magazine: “In mid-January, the internet was awash in sea shanty videos on TikTok. A week later, memes of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, bundled in a Burton coat and sweater mittens, made the rounds on Twitter. Within minutes, Sanders, originally photographed at the January 20 inauguration ceremony, was Photoshopped sitting on a subway, perched on the iconic Friends couch, and on the White House lawn near a boy pushing a lawnmower. Where do memes come from and why do we love them so?”
And what do the memes we share say about us? We’ll ask Lynne McNeill, associate professor of folklore at Utah State University and co-founder of the USU Digital Folklore Project.
Charlie Munger: Bernie Sanders has basically won on income inequality Max Zahn
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) Vice Chairman Charlie Munger on Saturday declared progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) the victor in the nation s political fight over income inequality. The hot economy and loose monetary policy will end up narrowing the nation s wealth gap, Munger predicted.
Popular Searches With everything boomed up so high and interest rates so low, what s going to happen is the millennial generation is going to have a hell of a time getting rich compared to our generation, Munger says. The difference between the rich and the poor in the generation that s rising is going to be a lot less, he adds. So Bernie has won.