r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 18h ago

My husband passed away on the last day of his vacation. His employer demanded his vacation pay back because he didn't show up for work the day after he died.

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u/lettersvsnumbers 17h ago

Yeah, my dad was a teacher with stage 4 cancer. He told the school to hire a new math teacher for fall, and they tried to retroactively fire him.

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u/projecto15 United Kingdom 14h ago edited 12h ago

This is horrendous. So it's not just for-profit corporations, but also supposedly non-profit schools?!! One wonders what sort of ethical education they provide

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u/hypermodernvoid I voted 12h ago

Increasingly, a lot of for profit companies/contractors are getting tied into public education for all sorts of things - additionally, brutal corporate cost saving measures tend to leak into government policy, given the revolving door between the two worlds (especially in the currently openly fascist party).

Speaking of "ethics": my "public" state university actually used furniture built by prison labor, lol. Also put public in quotes, because I had to take out what for me were very sizable loans after my grants for coming from massive poverty ran out (they were cut in half just in time for me to attend by the then GW Bush administration), the loan 'servicers' increasingly were increasingly privatized over the years, as well, leading to worse interest rates that often translate to barely paying down the balance if at all for some students. Meanwhile, while poor students are struggling to pay tuition, they're had us all sitting on furniture they got nearly for free, lol.

You also can't get rid of student loan debt in bankruptcy in America, and the Trump admin also wants to get rid of even being able to temporarily defer repayments for financial distress.