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"Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher...died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities" https://t.co/YOVuQ8WuuK — PolitiTweet.org
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11. For more independent journalism that holds the powerful accountable, subscribe to the Popular Information newsletter. It's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org
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10. So shoplifting isn't preventing @Walgreens from being profitable, but it booked at $3.7 billion loss last quarter. Why? The company took a $5.2 billion charge for opioid litigation, based on Walgreens' role in fueling the opioid epidemic by filling illegitimate prescriptions — PolitiTweet.org
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9. This frenzy has already had political consequences. Legislators around the country, at the urging on industry, are proposing legislation to increase penalities It drove the recall election of former San Fransisco DA Chelsea Bourdin — PolitiTweet.org
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8. Since May 2021, the @nytimes has published at least six stories warning readers of a spike in retail theft. Other outlets published more over the same time period: @wsj (13) @cnn (7) @insider (18) https://t.co/C5YJucaegF — PolitiTweet.org
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7, @Walgreens upbeat comments gloss over the company's role in fomenting a national panic over retail theft. Mainstream gravitates toward sensationalist crime coverage In this case, the media spread the drugstore chain’s dubious narrative, even though it wasn't backed by data — PolitiTweet.org
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6. According to @Walgreens, total shrink in its last quarter was 2.5%. Kehoe said he was "quite happy" with the number We asked Walgreens how much of the 2.5% was due to shoplifting. The company didn't answer It's likely that external theft @Walgreens amounts to <1% of sales — PolitiTweet.org
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5. Now @Walgreens is admitting that its rhetoric didn't match the reality. Walgreens CFO James Kehoe told investors last week that Walgreens "cried too much last year" about shoplifting and spent too much money on private security. https://t.co/C5YJucaegF — PolitiTweet.org
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4. "Shrink" covers more than just shoplifting. It also includes damaged goods and employee theft. "External theft" amounted to just 0.5% of sales across the industry in 2021, according to @NRFnews. — PolitiTweet.org
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@Walgreens 3. The number of shoplifting offenses actually dropped dramatically between 2019 and 2021, according to FBI stats. And @NRFnews, the industry's lobbying group, found that "shrink" decreased from 1.6% of sales in 2020 to 1.4% in 2021. https://t.co/C5YJucaegF — PolitiTweet.org
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@Walgreens 2. Just a year ago, @Walgreens blamed their lackluster earnings on “gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products.” There was never actually any data to support these claims. — PolitiTweet.org
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1. For years, @walgreens and other major retailers have been sounding the alarm about an alleged spike in shoplifting, describing it as an existential threat to their business. The claims generated a MEDIA FRENZY Now, Walgreens is quietly backtracking https://t.co/C5YJucaegF — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @SollenbergerRC: CNN is now joining NBC News in confirming my reporting that a Herschel Walker staffer is accusing CPAC chair Matt Schla… — PolitiTweet.org
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True. Democrats don’t want rich people to get away with cheating on their taxes. — PolitiTweet.org
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🚨 BREAKING → The House just voted to repeal funding for Biden’s 87,000 new IRS agents. Every Democrat voted no. Te… https://t.co/69CzEeAyOw
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RT @JeffreyASachs: An Ohio teacher, who was reading The Sneetches to her Grade 3 class, was abruptly cut off by an admin when a student sai… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @ALALibrary: ATTN FL Residents: Time is almost up to weigh in on state training for educators who select reading materials in your schoo… — PolitiTweet.org
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@davidham_actual I'm not. That's why I'm listing Signal first. But not every tip is sensitive. Some people just send links from a local news source or something. — PolitiTweet.org
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REMEMBER TO SEND ME TIPS ✅ Signal: 202-599-7124 ✅ Text: 202-599-7124 ✅ [email protected] ✅ DMs open — PolitiTweet.org
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9. If you value this kind of reporting, please subscribe to the Popular Information newsletter and get it straight to your inbox It's free to sign up Independent media can't be reliant on algorithms controlled by right-wing billionaires for distribution https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org
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8. Misclassifying workers is ILLEGAL! And in 2019, corporations paid $226 million in fines for breaking the FLSA. But they saved $4 BILLION That's an 18x return on investment. So it is a pervasive practice. https://t.co/G17fLmDhpl — PolitiTweet.org
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7. Based on the data, the study estimates that "that firms avoid paying for over 151 million employee-hours by strategically using managerial titles." The stolen pay "equates to roughly $4 billion in overtime payments avoided per year." https://t.co/G17fLmDhpl — PolitiTweet.org
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6. In other words there is strong evidence employers are paying people just above the FLSA threshold and then giving them managerial-sounding titles to avoid overtime When the pay is just below the threshold, companies mostly don't bother because they would pay overtime anyway — PolitiTweet.org
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5. A new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found there was a "485% increase in the usage of managerial titles for salaried employees just above the salary threshold set in the Federal Labor Standards Act." https://t.co/G17fLmDhpl https://t.co/PWMO1RFasy — PolitiTweet.org
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4. What kind of work someone does is hard to verify externally. You have to be there. Executive/administrative work involves managing the business or helping someone else manage It is not manual labor. So companies give out titles to make more employees sound like managers. — PolitiTweet.org
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3. To be EXEMPT from overtime an employee must ✅ Be salaried (not hourly) ✅ Be paid at least $35,568/yr or $684/week ✅ Work primarily consists of "executive, administrative, or professional duties." First two tests are hard to game. The third is where the abuse comes in. — PolitiTweet.org
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2. Here is how this scam works. Under the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA), companies have to pay overtime to anyone who works more than 40 hours a week Except for EXEMPT employees To be EXEMPT an employee must meet three tests https://t.co/G17fLmDhpl — PolitiTweet.org
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1. Hostess ➡️ "Guest Experience Leader" Front desk clerk ➡️ "Director of First Impressions" Coffee cart attendant ➡️ "Coffee Cart Manager" Corporations are using phony titles to cheat workers out of BILLIONS in overtime pay 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @AndyRichter: Wait - Prince Harry got married??!!? — PolitiTweet.org
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It's 2023 and the minimum wage is still $7.25 hour — PolitiTweet.org
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Right now the United States House of Representatives is governed by a secret document between McCarthy and a couple dozen other members WHO TRIED TO OVERTURN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — PolitiTweet.org
