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The local radio ad had a particular appeal as it played over the airwaves early this summer. “We’re all trying our best to give you the service you expect and the vacation you’ve been wishing for, for the past couple of years,” the radio spot went...
The View From Here: Making sense of the ‘Take this job and shove it’ economy Employers are trying to fill openings, but employees are quitting at record rates. Americans are quitting their jobs at rates that haven’t been seen in decades. In what some are calling the “Take this job and shove it” economy, about 4 million people quit in April alone, near double the number who resigned a year earlier. The exodus has been especially noticeable in the retail sector, where 649,000 workers gave their notice, the largest exodus since 2000, when record-keeping on that statistic began. This c...
Scholars Strategy Network: The Maine Climate Plan is out – the rest is up to us Gov. Janet Mills has correctly made climate one of her top priorities. By John Dorrer Share As United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres summarized in the recent UN State of the Climate report, “the state of the planet is broken.” He went on to say that humanity is waging a war on nature and described this as “suicidal.” A stern warning to skeptics and deniers who continue to resist critical intervention. Maine has taken a bold step toward avoiding a climate catastrophe with the release of the ...