How do we combat the economic success of the Trump administration. Lots of people are happy in one of the best economic situations we've had in 50 years.
But if all things Trump are bad then even a good economy is bad. Enter the democrats . . . the ruiner of nations (see Libya).
Basically CA passes a law that limits the number of contractors. One example is VOX gets rid of 200 freelancers and replaces them with 20 fulltime jobs.
This is good for freelancers in red states for sure.
California’s New Law That Vox Supported Just Cost Hundreds Of Vox Writers Their Jobs
^ love the title
- Hundreds of Vox Media freelancers will lose their jobs in the coming months.
- Vox Media is preparing for a California law, Assembly Bill 5, which goes into effect in 2020 and forbids nonemployees from submitting more than 35 articles per year.
- SB Nation said Monday that it will move its California team blogs, which rely on contractors, to a new system run by SB Nation employees.
This is a bittersweet note of thanks to our California independent contractors. In 2019, SB Nation contractors who live in California or contribute to California’s team sites did some truly amazing work: They ran 25 different communities, with all of the sites’ managers pulling together their own unique recipe for smart coverage. Contractors ran social media through the nerve-racking ups and downs of gametime and moderated our sprawling communities. Together, over 200 people on California sites wrote thousands of blog posts in 2019 – pieces so diverse in their conception that it’s impossible to describe them en masse except to say, they were written for a community of fellow fans. This is how things have run for our California blogs since 2003, when Tyler Bleszinski launched Athletics Nation.
Now comes the bittersweet part: In 2020, we will move California’s team blogs from our established system with hundreds of contractors to a new one run by a team of new SB Nation employees. In the early weeks and months of 2020, we will end our contracts with most contractors at California brands. This shift is part of a business and staffing strategy that we have been exploring over the past two years, but one that is also necessary in light of
California’s new independent contractor law, which goes into effect January 1, 2020. That new law makes it impossible for us to continue with our current California team site structure because it restricts contractors from producing more than 35 written content “submissions” per year. To comply with this new law, we will not be replacing California contractors with contractors from other states.
Ness goes on to encourage the more than 200 axed contractors to apply for SB Nation’s “newly-created full-time or part-time employee positions.” But there’s one big problem. As reported by
CNBC, SB Nation is only creating about 20 of those positions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/vox...-freelance-jobs-ahead-of-californias-ab5.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cali...-just-cost-hundreds-of-vox-writers-their-jobs
At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power.
The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.
^ wow, the democrats with such a rich history
