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.
After serving in the California State Assembly, Maxine Waters (born 1938) was elected by Californians to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. As a member of Congress she fought for legislation promoting aid to poor and minority neighborhoods in American cities and combating apartheid in South Africa.