#visa for students

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Craig Harrington at MMFA:

The economic policy provisions outlined by Project 2025 — the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration — are overwhelmingly catered toward benefiting wealthier Americans and corporate interests at the expense of average workers and taxpayers. Project 2025 prioritizes redoubling Republican efforts to expand “trickle-down” tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation across the economy. The authors of the effort’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise, recommend putting key government agencies responsible for oversight of large sectors of the economy under direct right-wing political control and empowering those agencies to prioritize right-wing agendas in dealing with everything from consumer protections to organized labor activity. [...]

Project 2025 would chill labor unions' abilities to engage in political activity. Project 2025 suggests that the National Labor Relations Board change its enforcement priorities regarding what it describes as unions using “members' resources on left-wing culture-war issues.” The authors encourage allowing employees to accuse union leadership of violating their “duty of fair representation” by having “political conflicts of interest” if the union engages in political activity that the employee disagrees with. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; National Labor Relations Board, accessed 7/8/24]

Project 2025 would make it easier for employers to classify workers as “independent contractors.” The authors recommended reinstating policies governing the classification of independent contractors that the NLRB implemented during the Trump administration. Those Trump-era NLRB regulations were amended in 2023, expanding workplace and labor organizing protections to previously exempt American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023; The National Law Review, 6/19/23; National Labor Relations Board, 6/13/23]

Project 2025 would reduce base overtime pay for workers. The authors recommend changing overtime protections to remove nonwage compensatory and other workplace benefits from calculations of their “regular” pay rate, which forms the basis for overtime formulations. If that change is enacted, every worker currently given overtime protections could be subject to a slight reduction in the value of their overtime pay, which the authors claim will encourage employers to provide nonwage benefits but would effectively just amount to a pay cut. The authors also propose other changes to the way overtime is calculated and enforced, which could result in reduced compensation for workers. Overtime protections have long been a focus of right-wing media campaigns to reduce protections afforded to American workers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023, Media Matters, 7/9/24]

Project 2025 proposes capping and phasing out visa programs for migrant workers. Project 2025’s authors propose capping and eventually eliminating the H-2A and H-2B temporary work visa programs, which are available for seasonal agricultural and nonagricultural workers, respectively. Even the Project 2025 authors admit that these proposals could threaten many businesses that rely on migrant workers and could result in higher prices for consumers. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

Project 2025 recommends institutionalizing the “Judeo-Christian tradition” of the Sabbath. Under the guise of creating a “communal day of rest,” Project 2025 includes a policy proposal amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to require paying workers who currently receive overtime protections “time and a half for hours worked on the Sabbath,” which it said “would default to Sunday.” Ostensibly a policy that increases wages, the proposal is specifically meant to disincentivize employers from providing services on Sundays as an explicitly religious overture. [Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership, 2023]

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International Trade

Project 2025 contains a lengthy debate between diametrically opposed perspectives on international trade and commerce.Over the course of 31 pages, disgraced former Trump adviser and current federal inmate Peter Navarro outlines various proposals to fundamentally transform American international commercial and domestic industrial policy in opposition to China, primarily by using tariffs. He dedicates well over a dozen pages to obsessing over America’s trade deficit with China, even though Trump’s trade war with China was a failure and as he focused on China, the overall U.S. trade deficit exploded. Much of the rest of Navarro’s section is economic saber-rattling against “Communist China’s economic aggression and quest for world domination.”In response, Kent Lassman of the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute promotes a return to free trade orthodoxy that was previously pursued by the Republican Party but has fallen out of favor during the Trump era.

The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 agenda would be a boon for the wealthy and a disaster for the working class folk.

See Also:

MMFA: Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxes

[birbwell]

me when im in the shits and want to say "tch blorbo would never let this bad thing happen to me" but the blorbo in question is a terrible horrible person who would absolutely let it happen to me

[nenelonomh]

LOVELIES!! if i was to sell pdfs of ib notes, would anyone be interested?? for example, the ss above is a little bit from my lower body muscle details, function and sporting examples doc (it has 4028 words and i've included pictures).

i would sell groups of ~10 documents for $10-15.

i also take physics hl (moving to biology next term but i have all of the topic a notes), business management hl, spanish ab, english sl, and mathematics aa sl.

❤️ nene

[salvadorbonaparte]

This whole apartment hunt is once again showing me that working class people are not expected to make it into academia. Oh what do you mean you don't have wealthy parents paying for your flat on top of your fully funded PhD scholarship?

[herigo]

Never give up, NEVER!

[beforeiread-studies]

21.06.2024 || Just had my visa appointment for Korea. By some miracle, I did not forget any documents. They did choose the worst looking passport photo I had brought with me but oh well.

Now the long wait for the visa application results begins.

[collegiate-collective]

-> 06.09.2024 || Freitag

Day 12 of 30 days of productivity

What I did today!

☕ caught up on my language course

☕ emailed the doctor's office to establish care

☕ finished onboarding

☕ submitted an application

What I'll do tomorrow!

🍂 Street art tour

🍂 make my work schedule

🍂 look for internships

Prompt: Do you prefer taking notes digitally or on paper?

On paper, just helps it stick better :) also, I live using my highlights after I'm done and making the specific layouts

[aromanticgarbage]

Thinking about that silly i hate foreigners 2012 filthy frank video and the fact that Joji literally pulled out his government approved passport for a stupid two minutes long comedy skit.

[candyn-gutz]

CONGRATS ON MAKING IT THROUGH HIGHSCHOOL IM PROUD OF YOU BESTIE!!!!!! ill try to make something for you if i can ^^

WAAAAHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH BESTIE!! ♡♡♡ i am still reeling from the shock that it's over but such is life.... <.<

ID BE SO FLATTERED but also you dont have to.. ^^; <- i will print it out to eat it btw/j

[waitingforminjae]

funniest part of amidst a snowstorm of love is their first meeting when he brings her a drink and she's rightfully suspicious and he starts fighting for his life to prove he's who he says he is, like that has any relation whatsoever to the likelihood of him spiking her drink

[miningforheart]

that moment you get something you wanted and you're like yay great. now i don't want it anymore

[gingerbreadmonsters]

sleepy and v fed up w this blasted reading for japanese history class tomorrow. give me 45 minutes to finish this article and i will be back to talk about kissing or something

[hertwood]

GIRLS WHO SURVIVED UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO GANGGGGGGGGGGG

responding to both of these together I LOVE YOU i never got 2 finish my degree bc they refused to accommodate very reasonable disability accommodations OR give me medical leave :)))))) but when covid hit they were SUDDENLY able to give online classes to everyone :) i still deserve a i survived UoT certificate instead of a diploma at this point

[springcatalyst]

damn this budget gonna hurt.. .. how do u do commissions and would anyone want them...

[leftperfectionmoon]

my fellow german moots or anons! I need urgent help/advice! please :')

i'm moving to germany for university soon and I wanted to know the laws about watching tv shows and movies from telegram downloads. i've also heard that torrent use is strictly prohibited and has consequences (even for books).

I wanted to know if there are cheaper and safer alternatives for it. I also have a lot of movies/tv shows/ pdf from my research downloaded on my laptop. I wanted to know if I can get into trouble for taking it with me.

you can DM me/ send me an ask/ comment, etc.