ALT A screenshot of a tweet & Apple News notification Apple News Top Stories now Henry Kissinger, the powerful and polarizing former secretary of state who... chlobuchar @me im_chloe Follow have a feeling henry kissinger is about to die 1:29 PM • 11/29/23 from Earth • 394K Views

ALT geographically specific expenditure data for food, childcare, health care, housing, transportation, and other necessities, finds that: The living wage in the United States is $25.02 per hour, or $104,077.70 per year in 2022, before taxes for a family of four (two working adults, two children), compared to $24.16, or $100,498.60 in 2021. The minimum wage does not provide a living wage for most American families. A typical family of four (two working adults, two children needs to work more than two full-time minimum-wage jobs (a 96-hour work week per working adult) to earn a living wage. Single-parent families need to work almost twice as bard as familias with twa working adults to maken living wage. A single mother with two children earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour needs to work 252 hours per week, the equivalent of almost six full-time minimum-wage jobs, to make a living wage.

ALT A giant bottle of oil being poured over salad: Me “the problem is capitalism” Every opportunity I get

ALT Two workers in full PPE (gowns, gloves, goggles, and KN95s) take samples from a covered dead swan.

ALT Another angle of the workers sampling the dead swan.

ALT Four more workers in full PPE (yellow suits, gloves, life jackets, elastomeric masks, helmets) stand over a pile of bagged deceased birds. They are on the shores of the lake.

ALT After the initial success of the musical, The Fantasticks came under criticism for the repeated use of the word "rape" in the scene preceding the song "It Depends on What You Pay" & in the lyrics of the song. In the original production, when El Gallo offers to stage the phony kidnapping of Luisa, he refers to the proposed event as a "rape", although he states that he uses the word in its literary sense of “abduction", noting that classical works such as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock use the word in this sense. (See raptio and bride kidnapping.) In "It Depends on What You Pay" he describes different kidnapping scenarios, some comic or outlandish, that he classifies as the "Venetian rape", the "Gothic rape", the "Drunken rape", etc. However, as women's rights advocates began drawing attention to rape & sexual assault in the US during the play's long run, many audience members objected to the repeated use of the word, arguing that it minimizes the damage caused by sexual crimes.

ALT To deal with changing audience perceptions, the musical's book is usually edited to replace the word "rape", in most instances, with alternatives such as "abduction" and the similar-sounding "raid". In 1990, Jones and Schmidt wrote an optional replacement piece called "Abductions", which uses the music of the "Rape Ballet", although this song did not replace "It Depends on What You Pay" at the Sullivan Street Playhouse, where, with the edits made in the book, audiences accepted the song. 501 An edited version of "It Depends on What You Pay" was used in the long-running Jerry Orbach Theater version of the show. (52] MTI (Music Theater International), which licenses the show, offers "Abductions" as an alternative choice. (53]

ALT The hired professional, El Gallo, appears & offers the fathers a menu of different varieties of "rape" - in the literary sense of an abduction or kidnapping - that he can simulate ("It Depends on What You Pay"). Deciding to spare no expense for their beloved children (within reason), the fathers agree to a "first class" abduction scene. A disheveled old actor with a failing memory, Henry Albertson, arrives with his sidekick, Mortimer, a Cockney dressed as an American Indian. El Gallo engages them to help with the staged kidnapping. Matt & Luisa return to speak of their love & hint at physical intimacy ("Soon It's Gonna Rain"). El Gallo & the actors burst in & carry out the moonlit abduction scenario; Matt "defeats" the three ("Rape Ballet"). The feud is ended & the wall between the houses torn down, with the children & the fathers joined in a picturesque final tableau ("Happy Ending").