After fighting professionally for ten years, Jessica Eye talks about how excited she is to headline the UFC on ESPN 10 fight card against Cynthia Calvillo on June 13 in Las Vegas. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Gov. Steve Sisolak’s preliminary proposal to trim spending in the state will include one furlough day per month for 18,000 employees and a freeze on merit raises and filling job vacancies, but only 50 layoffs of active employees.
Philonise Floyd appeared before Congress to emphasize the need for reforms that will hold police accountable for the wrongful deaths of Americans. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The U.S. Labor Department released the unemployment numbers on Thursday, June 11. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
George Floyd’s Brother Testifies in
House Police Brutality Hearing.
Philonise Floyd appeared before Congress to
emphasize the need for reforms that will hold police
accountable for the wrongful deaths of Americans.
George called for help, and he was ignored. Please listen to the call I’m making to you now, to the calls of our family, and the calls ringing out in the streets across the world, Philonise Floyd, via committee hearing.
The House Judiciary Committee hearing will examine
“racial profiling, police brutality and lost trust between
police departments and the communities they serve.”.
Attorney Benjamin Crump also spoke, saying America
has “two systems of justice, one for white Americans,
and another for black Americans.”.
Democratic leaders introduced a police reform package on Monday, which would ban police chokeholds and require states to gather data on police misconduct
1.54 Million Americans Filed
for Unemployment Last Week.
The U.S. Labor Department
released the unemployment
numbers on Thursday.
The number of jobless claims
was just below economists’
predictions of 1.55 million claims.
1.897 million Americans
applied for unemployment
insurance the previous week.
More than 44 million Americans
have filed jobless claims in
the past three months.
Continuing claims
nearly topped 21 million.
The numbers follow the May jobs report,
which revealed that more than two million jobs
were added to the U.S. economy in May.
Initial jobless claims continued the gradual downward trend. But it is still hard to square the claims figures with the much more upbeat news on the labor market from May’s Employment Report, Capital Economics, via Yahoo Finance
Paramount Network recently confirmed their decision to cancel the long-running reality show, “Cops.” (Las Vegas Review-Journal)