Bill establishing labor standards in Hawaii moves forward


by Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Honolulu Star-Advertiser— A bill before legislators would give counties the power to adopt labor standards.

Mobile World Live—US moves forward on TikTok ban. US President Joe Biden signed legislation that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok if parent company ByteDance doesn’t agree to sell its US assets over a nine-month time span.

KHON2—Experts agree: Hawaiʻi has to make this move. Imagine you and your friends have a digital notebook where you keep track of all the trades or exchanges you make with each other. Like, if you trade cards, cookies or even favors, you write it down so everyone remembers who gave what to whom.

www.counterpunch.org—The Effort to Reduce Plastic Production Moves Forward. Plastic pollution continues to be a global problem and one of the main challenges of addressing it is identifying where the plastic products come from and who produced them. Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks ended on Tuesday in Canada, as reported by AP. Delegates More