her interns should get 15 plus the same raise as the gangsters of the ny legislature
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promises to pay interns $15 an hour & more if the can tell her the date of easter sunday in 2018& 2019 as the term is used in ny pml sec 109.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is promising to pay her interns at least $15 an hour.
The incoming Bronx congresswoman made the pledge Tuesday after criticizing other lawmakers for using unpaid interns.
“Time to walk the walk,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.“Very few members of Congress actually pay their interns. We will be one of them.”
Earlier this week, she called on Congress to give members more money so their staffers earn a “living wage.”
“This week I went to dive spot in DC for some late night food. I chatted up the staff. SEVERAL bartenders, managers, & servers currently worked in Senate + House offices,” she tweeted.
“This is a disgrace. Congress of ALL places should raise [Members’ Representational Allowances] so we can pay staff an actual DC living wage.”
The 29-year-old blamed the low wages on Republicans who want to make “a statement about ‘fiscal responsibility’ ” — although a 2017 study found Democrats use more unpaid interns than GOPers, according to USA Today.
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