President Biden showed support for working Americans in a historic way last week. He became the first sitting president to join a picket line of striking workers. In Wayne County, Michigan, he joined a UAW strike, telling the striking autoworkers: “Wall Street didn’t build the country, the middle class built the country. Unions built the
Smart Socks are a growing target for the wearable technology market. Separate companies recently announced product expansions for “smart” socks that are aimed at the senior market. Both products involve socks fitted with sensor systems but for differing conditions. Palarum’s SmartSock will assist with fall-risk patients and to reduce incidents at facilities. Palarum’s sock is
South Carolina politicians bickered about curtains and gas. Tim Scott and Nikki Haley had a brutally stupid back and forth. “Nikki offered a 10% gas tax increase in South Carolina. Talk about someone who has never seen a federal dollar she doesn’t like. $0.10 on the gallon in South Carolina,” Scott said addressing an earlier
ProPublica has updated “Nursing Home Inspect,” the database that helps you find problems that inspectors identified in more than 15,000 U.S. nursing homes, to make it easier to search government reports and browse serious issues. They added new data, a redesigned user interface and advanced search features. These filters will allow journalists and others to
Troy police arrested Brianna Leanate Cowart-Birckett, an employee of Troy Health and Rehab nursing home, on elder abuse allegations. Police arrested her on Sept. 12 after management told investogators Cowart-Birckett had physically assaulted a resident. The criminal complaint alleges she placed a cover over someone’s face and shoved that person’s head repeatedly. Cowart-Birckett is charged with
He might be distracted. Today well-respected New York judge Arthur Engoron found that Trump deceived banks and insurers by overvaluing his real estate holdings in order to obtain loans and better terms for deals. The Palm Beach County assessor valued Mar-a-Lago, for example, at $18 million, while Trump valued it at between $426 million and