As Amazonâs payroll has swelled to 110,000 employees, however, the program is exacting a toll, current and former employees say. There are several hundred bar raisers today across the company, according to former employees, though Amazon wonât confirm a total.
For the millions who've sat motionless in shock as the president signed a de facto Muslim ban and set the stage for war with China, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Germany and the star of Kindergarten Cop, 78-year-old Maxine Waters is a gift from the heaven many of us never thought existed.
Early life and education[edit] Waters was born 1938 in Kinloch, Missouri, the daughter of Velma Lee (nÃ©e Moore) and Remus Carr. Fifth out of thirteen children, Waters was raised by her single mother once her father left the family when Maxine was two. She graduated from Vashon High School in St. Louis, and moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, in 1961.