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I realize this is more than 140 characters, so it will be difficult for many here to maintain attention... but read it, nonetheless: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/04/business/stock-market-today-coronavirus While wage data in the United States have risen rapidly during much of the pandemic era, the trend reflects a statistical quirk. Workers at the lower end of the earning spectrum have disproportionately lost jobs, taking smaller data points out of the pool and pushing up the overall average in what economists call a “compositional shift.” “The large employment fluctuations over the past several months — especially in industries with lower-paid workers — complicate the analysis of recent trends in average hourly earnings,” the Labor Department report said. Average hourly wages were 4.7 percent higher in August than they were a year earlier. That is slightly weaker than the July figure, but still sharply elevated from the 3.3 percent average gain for the data series in 2019. On the ground, the wage story has been complicated, based on anecdotal evidence. While some employees have received hazard pay for coming to the workplace while infection remains a risk, others have taken wage cuts as companies tried to avoid furloughing workers even as revenues sank. Employers have at times reporting raising pay to compete with expanded unemployment insurance, which lapsed in late July. “A number of staffing agencies reported that before enhanced unemployment benefits had expired, the benefits motivated them to raise wages to attract workers,” according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book business survey for August, based on interviews from the Cleveland district. In the Philadelphia area, companies reported retaining so-called “hero” pay, while some in the Atlanta region reported rescinding salary cuts even as others made them permanent.
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If these are the types of things you guys are hanging your hat on, you live in an alternate reality. If you watched that entire speech and then Q&A, you'd understand the reality that Faux News, Breitbart, PPP and all the other far right conspiracy theorists are hanging their hats on Twitter moments as proof of a much broader discussion. Clearly you haven't watched Biden's entire speeches and Q&As. If you did, you'd concede he's quite mentally capable of being Commander in Chief, especially when compared with Trump, who I admit has set a very low bar. However, it's clear you and several others aren't going to understand any of this until November at least, so just come back to the main forum already. Just over a week until the season opener
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Will the Bills consider a 16 man Practice Squad???
transplantbillsfan replied to LB48's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
uuuuhhhh... consider? It'd be malfeasance to NOT have a full practice squad of 16. -
NFL Sunday Ticket 2020
transplantbillsfan replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Sister-in-law still has a college email that works... $100 for the season without having to convert to DirecTV... -
Trump better get himself within 3% nationally if he wants a shot at this election. It's absolutely amazing to say that for an incumbent who's currently a longshot to get reelected... The election is T-minus 2 months exactly and I keep hearing Trump is going to close the gap but it's just not happening. Cue the "bu... bu.. bu.. but 2016!!!" crowd in 3... 2... 1...
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Duke should definitely be part of the WR's this year
transplantbillsfan replied to LB48's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I doubt he makes the team. He might be on the expanded Practice Squad though. Big Duke fan... we just have too much WR depth... for once. -
Domestic terrorist attack in Wisconsin
transplantbillsfan replied to Penfield45's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Practice updates week of 8/31
transplantbillsfan replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm confused. I thought yesterday was the last day of media coverage for practice until the regular season. -
NFL Sunday Ticket 2020
transplantbillsfan replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
You ever get an answer? This is something I'm trying to figure out -
NFL Sunday Ticket 2020
transplantbillsfan replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I think you're right. My sister-in-law sent me a screenshot of what she saw when she typed in her school email and it's $24.99 per month for 4 months. Do you or anyone else know who's used the NFL Sunday Ticket U? My only concern is what devices are supported. In the description it says "watch on your compatible tablet, smartphone, laptop, or connected device like a game console." There's a link at the bottom of "Supported Devices" but since I only got a screen shot from my sister-in-law I don't know what those are. I have a Samsung Smart TV. It's not a device so I'm guessing it wouldn't be supported. But the TV has an Internet Browser. Anyone know if that would work because the platform thinks it's a laptop? I don't think my 1st generation Roku would work. Would a Chromecast work? Anyone know? If I can't put it on my big screen TV, I don't want it. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
transplantbillsfan replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Idiot. Thanks for a great example of why I hate PPP. You're wildly misinformed and love to distort the facts. Everyone has always known people dying are typically those with underlying conditions. This, however, doesn't mean these people are dying with or without Covid. It means there are underlying conditions that are toxic as it relates to Covid being introduced. Those dying over the last 6 months from Covid who also had diabetes are dying because Covid was thrown into the mix with a disease many were managing aren't asterisks in your sickening tally because, like Trump, you want the numbers to look good. Stop shaming people with underlying conditions. Asthma is one of those underlying conditions. More Americans probably have them than you'd think. 10,000 perfectly healthy people with no underlying conditions died from this in the last 6 months. Scary. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
transplantbillsfan replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Trump needs to take his goddamn job seriously for the few remaining months he's in office. Top 6 Covid cases per capita all include states Trump needs for his own reelection purposes, which is the only thing that really motivates him other than money: Louisiana Florida Arizona Mississippi Alabama Georgia These are all places a Republican nominee should pretty easily win, but Donald Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot out of pure neglect. -
Look at that wild Trump enthusiasm ? And just in anticipation... The AP could find no evidence for the 128.4 million figure cited in the post, which is six times greater than the figure listed for the DNC. A headline in The Hill did announce, “First night of GOP convention delivers nearly six times more views than start of Democrats’ event on C-SPAN live stream.” The article only referred to online C-SPAN views, which were 440,000 on the opening day of the RNC, compared to 76,000 for the DNC. Those numbers represent a small fraction of the millions of viewers who watched the conventions across multiple networks and platforms. It is possible that the 128.4 million figure in the post was generated by taking 21.4 million, which was a preliminary Nielsen estimate for the third night of the DNC, and multiplying it by six, based on a misunderstanding of the headlines about the C-SPAN numbers.
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CBS power rankings..Cowboys 4th, Bills 26th?
transplantbillsfan replied to mjd1001's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Whoa. Going with a rookie kicker makes me nervous but Hauschka hasn't been right since that injury a couple years ago.
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Favorite Bills Season of the Past Decade
transplantbillsfan replied to corta765's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Anyone not saying the year we made the playoffs is under 25 or needs to slap themselves upside the head. -
The real question is will these 2 reporters be allowed back into a Bills practice after tweeting all this insider information.