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Yes, you can put some student loans on a bankruptcy. However, there are new laws and more ways to repay your student loans including Income-Based Repayment. You should contact your student loan holder to find out what options are available to you.
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Laws, Policies & More...
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Labor Laws...US & State:
Nevada Labor Laws:
Nevada is a right-to-work state which means that both the employer and the employee can terminate employment at any given moment without reason, two weeks notice is not required!NRS 608.040 *Whenever an employer discharges an employee, the wages and compensation earned and unpaid at the time of such discharge shall become due and payable immediately.
NRS 608.050 Wages to be paid at termination of service: Penalty; employees lien.
NRS 608.165 All uniforms or accessories distinctive as to style, color or material shall be furnished, without cost, to employees by their employer.
NRS 608.250 Establishment by Labor Commissioner; exceptions; penalty. *Minimum Wage.
NRS 608.260 Action by employee to recover difference between minimum wage and amount paid; limitation of action.
US Labor Laws:
In order to be eligible to take leave under the FMLA, an employee must (1) work for a covered employer, (2) work 1,250 hours during the 12 months prior to the start of leave, (3) work at a location where 50 or more employees work at that location or within 75 miles of it, and (4) have worked for the employer for 12 months. The 12 months of employment are not required to be consecutive in order for the employee to qualify for FMLA leave. The regulations clarify, however, that employment prior to a continuous break in service of seven years or more need not be counted unless the break in service is (1) due to an employee’s fulfillment of military obligations, or (2) governed by a collective bargaining agreement or other written agreement.
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. It also applies to employment agencies and to labor organizations, as well as to the federal government.
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Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act,
also known as COBRA or the Patient Anti-Dumping Law. EMTALA requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when a patient presents to an emergency room for attention to an emergency medical condition.
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Police departments are using GPS systems on people's cars for surveillance!
knowledge. Knowing our rights and responsibilities as citizens and workers provides us with the ultimate protection from being taken advantage of. I encourage everyone to know the labor laws (local, state, and federal) as well as the general laws of our country. I am not an attorney, I am just trying to help people through information.
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*California bill would prohibit carrying guns in public-abclocal.go.com/kgo 04/21/10-expired
Read the article I wrote about Corporate control through campaign financing
Public Information Officer
Supreme Court of The United States
Washington, DC 20543
From pages 5 and 6 of the syllabus:
"While a single Bellotti footnote purported to leave the question open, 435 U. S., at788, n. 26, this Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not causethe electorate to lose faith in this democracy."
Received 02/16/10:
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Dear Catana,
Thank you for telling me what you think about the Supreme Court's recent decision allowing corporations unprecedented new influence over elections.
We got a huge response, and we're still going through all the feedback. But this much is clear: The overwhelming majority was strongly in favor of fixing this problem.
The other day, Rep. Chris Van Hollen and I announced the blueprint for legislation that will help us begin to pick up the pieces -- including several provisions mentioned by members of the ChuckSchumer.com community.
See how we plan to keep corporations from abusing their new right -- check out the plan now and get the word out by sharing it on Facebook!
A lot of people who wrote responses were quick to identify this ruling as a real and immediate threat to our democracy.
We also got a lot of great ideas for how to fix it. Here are a few of those ideas:
No corporation that has government contracts or receives government money should be allowed to contribute to political campaigns or candidates. No foreign entities should be allowed to contribute to a political campaign or candidate.
-- Lisa, Mechanicville, NY
Require the CEO of a [corporation] to appear at the end of any political ad financed in part by a corporation.
-- David, Seattle, WA
[R]equire prior authorization for the corporation to get the approval of its shareholders to engage in campaign financing -- with the position to be taken clearly relayed to the shareholders.
-- Madeleine, Manhattan, NY Banning pay-to-play, preventing foreign influence, and disclaimers by ad sponsors are all provisions we've included in our proposal.
See the rest of our proposal to restore accountability after the Supreme Court's ruling and see if yours made it in!
If we don't act quickly, the Court's decision will have an immediate and lasting impact on this fall's elections.
Spread the word to your friends on Facebook today and help make sure the American people know what we're doing.
Thank you,
Chuck Schumer |
Paid for by Friends of Schumer
509 Madison Avenue, Suite 1902
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Received 02/04/10:
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Dear Catana,
You may have heard that the Supreme Court recently granted corporations the right to directly influence political campaigns.
It's a dangerous new ruling that overturns more than 100 years of law and precedent -- and the most dangerous part might be that it gives foreign governments and foreign-controlled corporations a massive loophole through which they can influence the outcome of American elections.
As Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, my Democratic colleagues and I are taking the President's lead and moving to fix this. But Republicans have already shown this is just the latest thing they'll say "no" to.
We are drafting legislation and will be introducing it soon, but first I want to know where you stand -- take a moment to click here and tell me what you think about closing this loophole.
In his State of the Union address last week, President Obama urged Congress to place new restrictions to limit the influence special interests and foreigners have in politics.
And did you see how the crowd reacted when he said that?
On the Democratic side of the aisle, we all stood up to cheer. On the Republican side, everyone sat in silence, glued to their seats.
With the President's support, the Senate Rules Committee and I held a hearing on this issue on Tuesday.
But before we finalize the bill we introduce, I want to know whether people like you are going to sit on your hands with the Republicans or stand up to move this country forward.
Click here to tell me whether you're ready to stand up and help us move forward.
The main thrust of the President's State of the Union speech was about creating jobs, and that's good news. We have to focus on jobs, the economy, and helping middle class families right now.
But keeping special interests and foreigners from gaining undue influence on the process will make that focus possible.
Thank you,
Chuck Schumer |
Paid for by Friends of Schumer
509 Madison Avenue, Suite 1902
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Copy of an e-mail I sent to the White House on January 29, 2010 about the Supreme Courts decision on Coporate/Labor Union Campaign Financing:
The Supreme Courts Decision...
Their decision will absolutely destroy this country, they are traitors for going beyond the law, and those that voted in favor of the corporations should be removed from the bench by Congress as set forth in the United States Constitution...if that document means anything anymore!
I do not know any human being, especially Americans, that are willing to let the Supreme Court put absolute power in the hands of the corporations without absolute backlash...we will NEVER succumb to the corporations!
I have gathered all of the contact information for the Supreme Court of the United States and I am going to begin a massive letter writing campaign to let the Supreme Court Justices know that their actions are criminal, inhuman and Anti-American!
Down With Corporate America...
Down With The Black-hearted and Greedy!
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and sacred right--a right we hope and believe is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln
Below are more of my favorite quotes...what are yours?
"The most heroic word in all languages is--REVOLUTION!"
Eugene Debs
"It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquiries into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people, of their virtue and good sense."
John Adams
"In the abstract theory of our government the obedience of the citizen is not due to an unconstitutional law: he may lawfully resist its execution."
John Quincy Adams
"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
Henry Clay, politician
"If the State cannot survive the...agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the sturgglings of Humanity to be free, then let the American Union be consumed by a living thungerbolt, and no tear shed over its ashes. If the Republic must be blotted out from the roll of nations, by proclaiming liberty to the captives, then let the Republic sink beneath the waves of oblivion, and a shout of joy, louder than the voice of many waters, fill the universe at its extinction."
William Lloyd Garrison
"Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any poeple. The powers that have ruled long, and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative till they find they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not! ... To plant--to revolutionize--those are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution--we, the children of rebels! We were born to be rebles--it runs in our blood."
Wendell Phillips
"Full opportunity for full development is the unalienable right of all. He who denies it is a tyrant, he who does not demand it is a coward; he who is indifferent to it is a slave; he who does not desire it is dead. The earth for all the people! That is the demand."
Eugene Debs
"If we do not soon bestir ourselves for a bloody revolution, we cannot leave anything to our children but poverty and slavery."
Die Arbeiter Zeitung, Chicago labor paper
"We can't have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now."
Hellen Keller
"Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty."
Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
"That circumstances sometimes justify it...(revolution) is not Communist doctrine but an old American belief." Justice Jackson
"Wherever one goes in this civilized world, one always finds the same set-up. The little man, the man who does the dirty work, the producer is of no importance, recieves no consideration and is always being asked to make the greatest sacrifice. Yet everything depends on this forgotten man. Not a wheel could turn without his support and co-operation. It is this man, whose number is legion, who has no voice in world affairs...he knows that he has been robbed and cheated from time immemorial. He is suffocated with all this bitter knowledge. He waits and waits hoping that time will alter things. And slowly he realizes that time alters nothing, that with time things only grow worse. One day, he will decide to act. "Wait!" he will be told. "Wait just a little longer" But he will refuse to wait another second."
Henry Miller
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"There is a political feudalism where a dynasty has the trappings of a parliamentary system but manipulates it for the benefit of the ruling class...Revolution in theTwentieth Century means rebellion against another kind of feudalism...economic feudalism...and the United States should promote democratic revolution against these conditions of economic feudalism."
William Douglas, Supreme Court Jusitice
"They set up the courts; they set up the police; they set up the army; they set up an educational system; they set up the newspaper; they set up all the apparatus to brainwash and to keep in subjugation. If we're going to be free, and we will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally...no people in this world have ever achieved independence and freedom through the ballot or having it legislated to them. (They) got their freedom through struggle and through revolution."
William Epton
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without...a rebellion."
Thomas Jefferson
How well do you know the U.S. Constitution?
I took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test and the result is listed below:
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