Compensation
CLIMATEWIRE | Negotiators struck a fragile agreement Saturday over the outlines of an international fund for climate-ravaged countries after hours of acrimonious haggling foreshadowed likely divisions at the global climate talks later this month. The agreement, stitched tenuously together long after sunset in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, included a provision demanded by the U.S. that […]
FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) — Black farmers, land owners and their families gathered at the Florence Center on Monday to discuss a $2.2 billion compensation from the U.S. government. The president of the Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association Thomas Burrell, discussed a discrimination lawsuit filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture stating that the Department is […]
June 23 (Reuters) – Ukrainian state-owned energy company Naftogaz said on Friday it had taken legal action in the United States against Russia to recover $5 billion awarded in the Hague as compensation for damages and lost property in Crimea. It said it had filed a motion in the United States District Court for the […]
Racial Disparity in States’ Victim Compensation Funds Bay to Bay News Source link
The cold formality of the letter is seared in Debra Long’s memory. It began “Dear Claimant,” and said her 24-year-old son, Randy, who was fatally shot in April 2006, was not an “innocent” victim. Without further explanation, the New York state agency that assists violent-crime victims and their families refused to help pay for his […]
May 12, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.), Mark Takano (D-Calif.), and Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) reintroduced the bicameral Respect, Advancement, and Increasing Support for Educators (RAISE) Act, legislation that would boost teacher compensation by putting tax money back in their pockets and help diversify the teaching workforce. […]
Many foreign workers who were hurt or killed while working for Pentagon contractors on U.S. bases in Afghanistan most likely received little or none of the financial compensation required by the U.S. government, according to a report released this week by the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute.
After more than a year delving into history and studies to make its case for reparations to California descendants of enslaved Black people, a first-in-the-nation taskforce began deliberations on Wednesday to quantify how financial compensation might be calculated and what might be required to prove eligibility. Conversations for how to determine payments are in the […]
“Our attitude toward the U.S. was always that it’s good news Biden is in the White House and not Trump, and it’s good news that they have a law for domestic action,” said Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Bangladesh, who advises some of the world’s poorest countries […]
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