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.
Waters was elected to the state Assembly in 1976 and was re-elected to seven consecutive terms. She won election to the U.S. House in 1990. Waters and her husband, Sidney Williams, a former U.S. ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, have two children. Maxine Waters' long political career has been characterized by supporting liberal causes and black rights, often in a confrontational manner.