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Four-day work week bill aims to give workers and businesses more flexibility

Capital News Service

The new, shorter work week proposed by the bill would represent a departure from the standard five-day, 40-hour work week established through a 1940 amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Drawing on success stories from companies that have adopted the four-day work week since the pandemic, the bill’s objective is to give more businesses the flexibility to try it out for themselves.

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Commentary Missing the Point 

Missing the Point – Taking Over Baltimore

Les Cohen

It’s high time that we all take responsibility for saving the city of Baltimore. And, to that end, I’m suggesting that the legislature declare a state of public emergency and, yes folks, take over management of the city’s public education, public safety, economic development and infrastructure management. The city government can and should participate in the takeover, but cannot be in charge of it.

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Commentary 

Maryland House Republican Caucus introduces legislative package to reduce crime, improve education and restore the state’s economy

House Republican Caucus

Maryland has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the United States, yet the number of murders and violent crimes committed with guns continues to grow every year, with the overwhelming majority of those committed with stolen guns. Astonishingly, the Maryland General Assembly has for years refused to make the theft of a firearm a felony. Again this year, the House Republican Caucus will offer the Gun Theft Felony Act (HB 750) and fight to close this absurd loophole in Maryland law.

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Commentary Missing the Point 

Missing the Point – The Fed ‘Committee’ we need to do something about

Les Cohen

Increasing interest rates is making matters worse and hurting the real families who, collectively, comprise the economy we’re always talking about.  What can we do about it?  Congress needs to modify the language of the Fed’s independent agency status and rescind the Fed’s authority to make economic policy outside of representative government.  Take the Fed out of business of fighting inflation. 

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