Scott Littlehale

Good question - I don't know for sure (yet) but I doubt it. The most likely suspect is MN, but I checked and the job-based uninsured rate for construction trades workers is 34% vs a 25% rate for all other workers.
A narrower gap and a much better coverage rate, to be sure, but still a relative gap.

I decided to toss in TX for comparison. And holy hand grenades, TX takes the cake for poor construction job quality!

Each state's construction workforce % US-born/Citizen probably has a significant influence on the above pattern.
US born as a % of the construction trades workforce:
* OR - 79%
* WA - 71%
* CA - 48%
Implication: It'll be harder to attract/retain CA workers w/o additional costs for health care.

Bar chart shows gaps in %s of workers covered by a job-based health policy between Construction Workers and all other workers in each of three states: California, Oregon, and Washington. Each state has a significant gap in terms of percentage points, with construction workers more likely to be uninsured by a job-based policy. California has both the largest pct pt gap *and* the highest uninsured rates (again: uninsured in this means uninsured by a job-based policy).

I am comparing descriptive stats of the construction labor markets of our union's expanded jurisdiction, which includes Nor Cal, Oregon & Washington (& N. ID).
California (statewide) has the most extreme gap in job-based insurance coverage for construction workers of the three states:
20 pct pts
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Andy Ogles seems unable to comprehend the basic values the United States was founded on – like religious freedom under the First Amendment.
 
Muslim Americans are our neighbors, colleagues, and friends. They belong here, but this vile Islamophobia doesn’t belong in Congress.

In the case of this BlackRock fund, they are allowing investors to withdraw 5% as doc'd in the funds. They're obliged to let that happen and they're following through. They're just not letting investors withdraw MORE than what was agreed to upfront.

Reading Schelling in Tehran: 1 Technically, in Doha

My class was scheduled to read Thomas Schelling this month in our course on Nuclear Weapons and World Politics. It turned out to be a current affairs course. Here's part 1 of my series on reading Schelling in this crisis.

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I saw a couple of dozen today while paddling a couple of hours on Elkhorn Slough! I'm a shit photographer, so I am quite grateful for this content!

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

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Shortly after his office refused to meet with me, nearly one thousand career researchers across NIH campuses signed onto a letter to Director Bhattacharya and delivered it to his office asking him to meet with our union and address the same healthcare issue I asked him about it.

Update: Sarah Afzul, the woman's sister, told me that Naqvi has been released from a detention facility in Wisconsin, where she was transferred overnight and they've been reunited with her

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

DHS killed a 23yo in Texas in March 2025 the same way they killed Renee Good www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DHS lies are institutional, not tied to one or several individuals.

French Laundry chef again scolds Bay Area town over affordable housing project

lmfao Thomas Keller showing up to a community meeting in his chefs jacket to complain about affordable housing being built near his 3 Michelin star restaurant is just beyond parody. what a piece of shit

It is a conversation not about one place, but about transnational labor trafficking. But whatever, Stephen, I thought you and I could be a bit more cordial. Genuinely sorry to be mistaken.

No. Conditions are far worse in the UAE, I would hazard to guess. This book goes to your first argument about people buying plane tickets, etc. Give it a read. Happy to talk after. It really is a good book and is very well written.

Respectfully, this framing is ahistorical and does not acknowledge the blurry lines between labor contracting, indentured servitude, and human trafficking.
I strongly recommend you pick up The Great Escape and read it. It's a page-turner
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looks like maybe it's still possible???
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screenshot of search for hayek how little we know The Curious Task - Econlib - The Library of Economics and Liberty Econlib> the-curious-task Jun 12, 2025 how little they really know about what they imagine they can design." -FA Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, pg 76. Hayek ... Discoveries are not Planned: Friedrich Hayek on Bottom-Up Progress Charles Koch Foundation > stories > discoveries-are-n... Nov 9, 2022 ... You need not take my word for it; just look at his own: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know "The Use of Knowledge in Society" -Econlib Econlib> Books Feb 5, 2018 ... by Friedrich A. Hayek. What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic

years ago they allowed users to create a custom programmable search engine interface. I've clung to that and the relevance of results is definitely superior.

The power of the American legal profession, a cartel that regulates itself, is immense. Its unique power in the US has been noted since Tocqueville. So the fact that many law firms and bar associations have been folding to the administration so far has been something of a puzzle.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda.

The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court.
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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This is very much the attitude within CBP (as evidenced in witness video, body cam video, and their own words in their reports), everyone is a professional protester, agitator, antifa, or gang member—but they are all the enemy.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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