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This is Unfolded pioneers a new factory to consumer model to drastically reduce product wastage and industry inefficiencies Lost Stock, a UK initiative launched to support garment workers impacted by Covid-19 in Bangladesh, has launched a new model for buying clothes that it hopes will create long-term change in the fashion industry. This is Unfolded is a brand new approach to clothes shopping – offering high quality clothes at high street prices – that the Lost Stock team says is better for the planet, workers, consumers and society. This is Unfolded pioneers a new factory-to-consumer m...

Dockside Restaurant in Belfast is surprised with a $1,000 cash tip Kay Stephens The dockside crew. Photo courtesy Dockside Restaurant Getting ready to hand Dockside Restaurant cash. Photo courtesy Maine Cater. Maine Cater’s note that accompanied the money. Photo courtesy Dockside Restaurant BELFAST—Back in December, we wrote a story on Maine Cater, the hospitality company dedicated to serving New England’s food and beverage industry. Husband-and-wife team, Daryle and Orianna Degen were behind the operation to provide restaurants with temporary or full-time employees—sort of an industr...

Amid great suffering, the governor pretends he is powerless.

Historic Investments In New York’s Education Systems The State Budget takes transformational steps to increase state and federal resources to ensure that all of New York’s students receive the high quality education they deserve and that all teachers are adequately supported. The 2021-2022 State Budget:  Provides a $1.4 billion increase in Foundation Aid and a three-year Foundation Aid phase-in that will finally fulfill a promise made in 2007 to fully fund our public schools Provides a $105 million expansion of full-day prekindergarten, providing pre-K funding to 210 districts who don’...

Republicans Demand Audit of Taxpayer-Funded COVID Relief After New York Earmarks Billions for Illegal Immigrants Two top Republicans in the House of Representatives are pushing for an audit of the recently-passed COVID-19 relief package after New York state created a fund to send payments to illegal immigrants. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top GOP member on the House Oversight Committee, asked Eugene Sperling, who is overseeing implementation of the relief package, to probe the fund. “The $2.1 billion price tag...