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4Heroes4Life and life after active duty launch “Let’s Join Forces” campaign 4Heroes4Life (www.4heroes4life.com), the social enterprise dedicated to raise money to aid returning veterans, and Life After Active Duty (LAAD, www.lifeafteractiveduty.org), a non-profit organization created to help veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan reintegrate into their community, have banded together to launch “Let’s Join Forces,” a new fund-raising campaign. The “Let’s Join Forces” campaign is a new joint initiative to raise muchneeded funds to aid returning veterans through sale of the Cord Cruncher tangle-free headphones. The Cord Cruncher is a set of portable headphones wrapped in a stretch latex sleeve to keep them from tangling. The Cord Cruncher is being offered by social enterprise company 4Heroes4Lifem, which is applying a new approach to fundraising, using commercial business strategies to raise funds to directly support American veterans. The Cord Cruncher is the first product being offered
by 4Heroes4Life, and 50 percent of all sales through the “Let’s Join Forces” initiative will go to fund LAAD’s veterans support programs. “We are partnering with Life After Active Duty as a cause that is directly related to our mission: to aid returning veterans with much-needed services,” said Mark George, founder of 4Heroes4Life. “As social entrepreneurs, we can align our grassroots funding efforts with the cause, giving donors something tangible in exchange for their support. We want our donors to get a great product and understand that their hardearned dollars go directly to the cause. As we expand our catalog, we expect to forge a lasting relationship with donors and help a lot of veterans along the way.” LAAD is a non-profit organization that supports veterans returning home from war to help them make a successful transition to civilian life. LAAD has four main focus areas: direct support and training for returning veterans, raising community
consciousness through education, providing basic coping skills through their “Silent Wounds” program, and empowering veterans and their families through personal development. 4Heroes4Life’s is a community organization dedicated to raising capital to support programs for our nation’s veteran heroes and their families. 4Heroes4Life markets consumer goods and services and uses the proceeds to fund programs to support homeless veterans, treat wounded and disabled veterans, provide job placement and training, treat PTSD, and offer other veteran services. 4Heroes4Life is committed to partnering with other organizations and social enterprise networks to promote return on community (ROC). In addition to raising money to provide aid for veterans, 4Heroes4Life also serves as an advocate for veterans, working to change public policy to help build a stronger local ecosystem to support veterans. For more information, visit www.4heroes4life.com.
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Senate passes measure to protect garment workers Goes to Governor's desk for signature
The State Senate approved Assembly Bill 1384, authored by Assemblymember Roger Hernández (D-West Covina), on a 25-11 vote. AB 1384 establishes a penalty to any garment manufacturer who fails to properly display their name, address and garment manufacturing registration number outside the business entrance. “Supporting business growth should be one of our priorities to help California recover to its full economic potential,
however, we need to continue to provide protections against those businesses that operate sweatshops in the underground economy and deny workers their fundamental rights,” said Hernandez. Certain exemptions to this provision exist, among them includes a waiver of this requirement if the Labor Commissioner finds that compliance would not be feasible due to design or layout of a business premise. Specifically, this bill would establish a civil penalty of $100 per
day for failure to post the mandated information. Subsequent violations would be assessed at $200 per day. “AB 1384 is a fair solution to provide those businesses that play by the rules in our state, by ensuring all garment manufacturers to properly display this mandated information. I ask Governor Brown for his continued support of worker’s rights, but also to provide protections to small businesses who follow the letter of the law,” added Hernandez.
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nearly impossible for higher-paying nations to compete. These practices are increasingly viewed as a form of unfair trade, much like the currency manipulation that Mitt Romney so famously decried during his 2012 presidential campaign. Congress, by statute, has ordered the United States Trade Representative to seek input from the fifty states on the effects of, and policies relating to, globalization. Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 12 provides such guidance. It enshrines the position of the state of California that future treaties, trade agreements, and relevant international protocols should require a gradually increasing wage in signatory nations. Since the dawn of the republic, the United States has used its treaty power to require things like free elections (with Iraq, after the Iraq war), respect for U.S. companies’ patent and intellectual property
rights (in various treaties), and of course, currency valuations (in the various Bretton Woods accords, etc.). The Assembly passed AJR 12 by a vote of 52-21. “American workers and companies are having trouble competing because workers are paid inhumane rates in some other countries,” said Gatto. “This ‘race to the bottom’ hurts workers around the world and causes thousands of U.S. jobs to be sent overseas each year. Gradually increasing international wages, even from 50 cents an hour to one dollar, would make U.S. exporters, from movie makers to automakers, more competitive, and would help raise billions out of poverty.” Gatto’s floor speech endeavored to connect the bill to each of his colleagues and their constituents. He stated that a “no” vote on AJR 12 was tantamount to a statement that one likes calling one’s cell-phone or com-
puter provider, only to be routed to an overseas call center. Traditionally, such customer-service jobs have been among the most vulnerable to outsourcing from artificially depressed global wages. The concept in AJR 12 has been supported and championed by economist Richard Duncan, author of “The Corruption of Capitalism: A strategy to rebalance the global economy and restore sustainable growth,” and a frequent television contributor. Duncan is the Chief Economist for Blackhorse Asset Management, which is affiliated with several high-performing hedge funds. Duncan is not alone among cutting-edge economists who view this policy as one of the few proposals that can actually help correct the vast trade and currency imbalances caused by globalization. AJR 12 now heads to the Senate for consideration.
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period tomorrow, 8/23/13. Additionally, two public hearings, one in Northern and one in Southern California, will be held.
CDPH staff explained on a conference call today that 12 months is the maximum allowable time for CDPH to finalize the MCL;
however, recognizing the significance of this action, CDPH stated that process is not expected to take the full 12 months.
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tablish higher standards and better management practices to ensure ongoing
compliance. The feasibility report, which will be developed by
the County Office of Child Care, is due before the Board within 45 days.