The Social Worker of the Year Awards 2024 is free to enter and members of the public are being encouraged to nominate social workers from the East Midlands who they feel deserve to be recognised for their hard work and support. The prestigious awards has 18 categories which social workers can be nominated for including, ‘Children’s Social Worker of the Year’, ‘Adult Social Worker of the Year’ and ‘Social Work Student of the Year’. There are two new award categories this year....
Canadian linebacker Charlie Moore has retired from professional football at the age of 26. “After a lot of careful consideration, I have decided to retire,” said Moore in a statement. “This decision wasn’t easy, however I feel that it is the best choice for me at this time. I thank Coach Dickenson and Coach (Mark)
Months after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the proposal, lawmakers in Sacramento are trying again to extend unemployment benefits to California workers who are on strike. Under Senate Bill 1116, introduced by State Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) and State Sen. María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles), California workers would be eligible to receive unemployment benefits after being on strike for 14 days. "No one goes on strike because they want to go on strike," Portantino said at a news conference...
Matt Ryan, who was named the NFL's most valuable player in 2016, has
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. Can Republicans keep building their support among working-class voters? Not if the Republicans have anything to say about it. Earlier today, the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released its recommendations for the fiscal 2025 budget. Among its particulars was a real working-class winner: raising the retirement age… Source
The crossbench peer spent 40 years as MP for Birkenhead and was a leading voice on welfare reform.
The United Autoworkers Union took a risk in a Republican - and often anti-union - part of the US.
Hope Murray retired in 2013 after a 50-year career that ranged from game show producer to Hollywood party planner to casino executive. She settled into a life of golf, game nights and pickleball in her San Diego community, her daughter living nearby. Then things got more expensive. Gas was nearly $5 a gallon, medication costs […]
The average age at which people in the Netherlands are retiring has increased to 65 years and 11 months, three months up on 2022, national statistics agency CBS said on Monday. Last year, 86,000 people officially retired. The average age at which people stop work has been increasing steadily since 2013 when the state pension age began increasing. Last year, 75% had reached the age of 65 but in 2013 43% were 65 or older and in 2003 just 14%. Early retirement
A retired geologist has claimed he's found a lost Bronze Age settlement in his backyard — after learning to identify artifacts by watching "Time Team," a popular TV series in the U.K. that features specialists who work to uncover details about Britain's archaeology and history. Andrew Beckly of Wellington, in Somerset, England, has amassed a horde of more than 2,500 artifacts, including blades and axes, after a chance discovery under his own lawn, according to SWNS, the British news service. He...
Marcel Hirscher, one of the most successful ski racers of all time, is planning to return next season after five years in retirement. And the record eight-time overall World Cup champion is going to compete for the Netherlands - his mother’s country - instead of his native Austria.
Of all the false narratives that the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media try to bury us under, none gets tweaked more frequently than the illegal immigration story. That's because it's the one they have the most emotional investment in.