"This is progress": Amtrak opens up claims for passengers denied service due to disabilities
Amtrak's $2.25 million fund is open for claims from individuals with mobility disabilities who were unable to access its stations.
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Amtrak's $2.25 million fund is open for claims from individuals with mobility disabilities who were unable to access its stations.
What They Really Mean by ‘Equity’ According to the New York Times, Susan Rice, director of President Joe Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, “is charged with ensuring that the new administration embeds issues of racial equity into everything it does.” Having “everything” as your remit makes for an unwieldy policy portfolio, particularly when the task at hand is to impose “equity” on the whole of American society. That would at least be a laudable goal if the White House’s true objective were the pursuit of righteousness and fairness. Sadly, it is not. “Equity” is not “...
Biden signs memorandum to combat bias incidents toward Asian Americans Kimmy Yam © Provided by NBC News President Joe Biden signed a memorandum Tuesday, denouncing the discrimination toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community that has arisen alongside the Covid-19 pandemic. The federal directive, which is being signed as part of a group of racial equity-focused executive orders, memorandums and actions, in part issues guidance on how the Justice Department should respond to the heightened number of anti-Asian bias incidents. Manju Kulkarni — Executive ...
The Sun Sentinel on the state’s congressional delegates who voted to contest the presidential election results: In the attack on American democracy to advance Donald Trump’s lies of a “stolen” election, Florida occupies a shameful place. Twelve members of the state’s congressional delegation joined Sen. Rick Scott in rejecting the lawful votes of millions of Americans who voted for Joe Biden in Arizona, Pennsylvania or both. Only one other state - Texas, with its 16 traitorous Trumpers - had so many members of Congress perpetrating a fraud on the people that encouraged mass violence...
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