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Sous le soleil de midi, sur la route Mwezi Gisabo dans la province Bujumbura, l’air est légèrement plus frais qu’ailleurs. Une brise traverse les rangées d’arbres encore jeunes, faisant frissonner leurs feuilles vertes. Au pied de certains troncs, la terre est encore sombre, récemment arrosée. C’est ici que Jadot Nkurunziza, chemise claire légèrement tachée de […] The post Burundi : Face à la déforestation, un « homme-arbre » mobilise la jeunesse pour restaurer les écosystèmes appeared first on Nouvelles de l'environnement.

(The Center Square) – As Chicago’s efforts to phase out sub-minimum wages are proposed nationwide, a restaurant industry advocate says the city’s mandate has led to job losses and empty storefronts. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Chicago’s restaurant industry lost 2,100 jobs in the last year. Illinois Restaurant Association President and CEO Sam Toia said Chicago is 10,000 jobs below pre-pandemic levels, and independent restaurants have suffered more since Mayor Brandon Johnson began phasing out the tip credit. “Sure, I might be making a little bit more an hour as a server, but I'm not making as much as I was making before because I'm working less hours. This is what no one is reporting. We're cutting hours. We're cutting menus, and we're going to keep doing that,” Toia told The Center Square. The One Fair Wage ordinance passed by the city council in 2023 would sunset Chicago’s tipped wage structure in 2028. In March, Johnson vetoed a city council measure to freeze the tipped wage phaseout. Toia said the mayor doesn’t understand that jobs are being lost and that a major steakhouse in the city just went from 22 servers to 16. “We're losing jobs. Restaurants are closing. All you have to do is look up and down our commercial streets here in the city of Chicago,” Toia said. Toia said 496 Chicago restaurants closed in the first half of 2025. He said labor costs have gone up 35% since the COVID-19 pandemic and product costs are up 33%. Last week, Illinois U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Chicago, introduced legislation to eliminate sub-minimum wages across the country. The measure would also raise the national minimum wage to $25 by 2031 for large employers and by 2038 for smaller employers. When asked by The Center Square if her bill might lead to reduced employment, Ramirez said that’s the argument by people who don't want to pay living wages to their employees. “But the reality is that right now you have people having to work two jobs so they can go maybe to the restaurant once a month or once every six months because they're barely making it,” Ramirez told The Center Square. Ramirez said she has been a supervisor since she was 19 years old. “I could tell you that having employees that are getting paid living wages also guarantees retention, quality in employment and certainly the kind of morale necessary to have businesses be successful,” Ramirez said. State Rep. Curtis Tarver, D-Chicago, proposed Illinois House Bill 4263 to preempt municipalities from eliminated the sub-minimum wage. Toia said he applauded Tarver for introducing the bill, but Toia said he did not expect it to pass before the current legislative session ends May 31.

Indiana’s attorney general has pulled out of a Republican-led lawsuit that aimed to strike down part of a federal law providing discrimination protections for people with disabilities.

With the emergence of a nonwhite majority in the U.S., California is at the forefront of rethinking how we teach and learn history through ethnic studies.

Election law experts in Pennsylvania have said in the past that Section 2 hasn’t had much of an impact in the state. The post U.S. Supreme Court restricts Voting Right Act, but effect on Pennsylvania likely limited appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

If we truly value workers, workforce development must mean more than just filling pipes. It must mean protecting the talent we already have. The post Opinion: The workers you don’t see are working to stay employed appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

4 მაისს არაბთა გაერთიანებული საამიროების თავდაცვის სამინისტრომ გაავრცელა განცხადება, რომ „ქვეყნის მასშტაბით სხვადასხვა არეალში დაფიქსირდა ირანიდან გაშვებული ოთხი ფრთოსანი რაკეტა:

The authors of Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation describe a future where collaborative work and reciprocity can create a different kind of society, pointing readers to hands-on skills and summarizing big-picture ideas into digestible charts and lists. The post Road maps for changing the world appeared first on The Philanthropist Journal.

Policia e Maqedonisë së veriut ka ngritur kallëzim penal ndaj dy të punësuarve në Qendrën për Punë Sociale në Tetovë, pasi kundërligjshëm kanë arritur të marrin 155 mijë denarë si pensione sociale, transmeton Portalb.mk. “I denoncuari i parë, duke punuar si operator i futjes së të dhënave në Qendrën për Punë Sociale të Tetovës, më […]

در پی حمله پهپادی جمهوری اسلامی به تاسیسات نفتی فجیره، این منطقه اصلی صنعت نفت امارات متحده عربی دچار آتش‌سوزی شده است.

The Atkinson Foundation’s Good Fight Prize celebrates the creativity and commitment within the movement for decent work. Toula Drimonis profiles the 2025 winning campaign and the two finalists. The post Fighting the good fight: Philanthropy and policy advocacy appeared first on The Philanthropist Journal.

Ոստիկանության տվյալներով՝ բազմաթիվ վիրավորներ կան, սակայն «իրավիճակն արագորեն փոխվում է, և իրավապահները հստակ թվեր դեռ ի վիճակի չեն նշել»։

O entorno do Sambódromo do Rio de Janeiro será modificado. Ao menos este é o propósito do projeto Praça Onze Maravilha, da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro, que promete, por meio de uma parceria público-privada, construir 40 mil unidades habitacionais, demolir o Viaduto 31 de Março e construir uma biblioteca pública, entre as principais ações […] Fonte

Em 2024, o Rio Grande do Sul viveu a maior crise hidrológica já registrada em sua história, uma das catástrofes socioambientais mais marcantes do Brasil recente. Chuvas com intensidade, duração e abrangência sem precedentes resultaram em inundações, deslizamentos e enxurradas com impactos devastadores do ponto de vista econômico, social e ambiental. As catástrofes e crimes […] Fonte

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Недавние скоординированные атаки джихадистов и повстанцев-сепаратистов в Мали застали врасплох военную хунту и ее российских союзников. За несколько дней вооруженные группировки взяли под контроль город Кидаль и стратегическую базу в Тесалите на севере страны. Отдельным болезненным ударом для хунты стала гибель министра обороны. Что ждет Мали — 25-миллионную страну, оказавшуюся на грани пропасти?

A six-bill package was introduced in the Michigan Senate last week to overhaul the state’s laws around manufactured housing parks, which have not been substantially updated since 1987.  The bills, introduced April 29 by a bipartisan group of legislators, would attempt to tackle a number of issues with oversight and enforcement of laws at manufactured […]

美國財政部長斯科特·貝森特（Scott Bessent）4日公開呼籲中國加強外交斡旋，敦促伊朗重新開放全球能源運輸要道霍爾木茲海峽，並表示相關議題，將在美國總統唐納德·特朗普（Donald Trump）與中國國家主席習近平下周會晤時，成為重點討論內容。