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Year: 2021

Here’s why Gen Z is unionizing

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business Even among the generally youthful demographic of Starbucks workers unionizing in Buffalo, New York, 17-year-old Maya Panos is younger than most. In her short stint as a member of the labor market, the high school senior says she lost economic stability — Panos was laid off from her first job

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Poland: Belarus eyes using Afghan migrants as border pawns

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Poland’s prime minister has warned that migrant pressures on the European Union’s border with Belarus could continue, this time with people fleeing from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke Sunday in Vilnius following meetings with the prime ministers of Lithuania and Estonia. He was

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How hoarding saved Black Friday

CNN, KGO, KTRK, WCPO, KCAL, KCBS, KYW By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business For months, there have been warnings to shoppers: Get through your holiday to-do list early. Wait until Black Friday or later, and you may not be able to find what you want. But as stores prepare for the peak of the most important

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Ann Arbor becomes first US city to require free menstrual products in public restrooms

By Alex Harring and Mirna Alsharif, CNN Ann Arbor, Michigan, will soon require menstrual products in public restrooms, as it sets to enact legislation national advocates say is a first. The city council unanimously voted to pass an ordinance Monday requiring all public restrooms in the 120,000-resident college community — including those located inside businesses

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UK to probe racial bias in medical devices after COVID toll

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to Black and Asian people getting sick and dying disproportionately from COVID-19. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the pandemic has highlighted health disparities along race and gender lines. Britain’s statistics office has found

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UK to probe racial bias in medical devices after COVID toll

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The British government is investigating whether built-in racial bias in some medical devices led to Black and Asian people getting sick and dying disproportionately from COVID-19. Health Secretary Sajid Javid says the pandemic has highlighted health disparities along race and gender lines. Britain’s statistics office has found

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