The increases come as rising costs of housing, food, and utilities are pinching more #workers across the country, said Yannet Lathrop, senior researcher and policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, who authored the report.

Thanks to @cpoolenyc.bsky.social for bringing this piece to my attention

One extremely underappreciated aspect of today’s affordability crisis is that its roots lie not in recent price spikes but in the long-term suppression of workers’ pay. 5/

"Why does DHS feel threatened by clergy praying? What are they hiding?"

"I saw knees on necks," she wrote. "I saw people pulled and dragged. I saw people slammed to the ground. Faith leaders were brutalized today for wanting to offer spiritual care to their stolen neighbors. It was horrific."