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  Jersey Mike’s Is Rounding Up for Disability Employment, Here’s Where Your Dollar Actually Goes You walk into a Jersey Mike’s in October. The line smells like vinegar and fresh bread. The kid behind the counter asks if you want to round up. You say sure. Two dollars and forty-three cents becomes three dollars. You don’t think about it again. That’s the whole design. That’s the trick of it. Jersey Mike’s Subs runs a nationwide fundraising campaign every October. The beneficiary is Best Buddies International. The occasion is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The mechanics are simple. Round up your purchase. Donate a dollar. Use the app. Use the website. The company sends 100% of those donations to Best Buddies. The donations are tax deductible. Third-party delivery orders don’t count, which is a small detail most people will never notice. But the round-up is not the story. The round-up is the doorway. Behind it, something else is happening. Something slower. Something...

Hospitalist Contract Negotiation: What They Don't Tell You in Residency The Contract Arrives The PDF lands in your inbox on a Tuesday afternoon. You open it. The salary number sits at the top of page three, bolded and underlined. It looks good. It looks like the number you've been waiting for since the first day of intern year. Then you keep reading. The document runs eighteen pages. There are sections labeled "Restrictive Covenants" and "Termination Without Cause" and "Professional Liability Insurance." The language is dense. The sentences are long. Somebody wrote this with the intention of making it hard to understand. That's the point. That's always been the point. You scroll. You highlight. You realize you don't know what a wRVU is. You realize you don't know who pays for tail insurance. You realize the non-compete clause mentions a radius measured in miles from "any facility operated by the health system." This is whe...

  Employment Attorney Calls St. Paul Mayor Scandal 'Big Mess with a Capital M', Here's Why The phone rings. A reporter asks a simple question. Marshall Tanick, a man who has spent decades watching workplaces fall apart, answers with a phrase that sticks. "A big mess with a capital M." He does not hedge. He does not soften it. The veteran employment attorney looked at the sexual harassment lawsuit against St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and called it what it is. This is not a story about politics. Strip that away. What remains is a workplace. Two leaders. A broken relationship. A 73-page report. A lawsuit. And a bill that someone will pay. The investigation is over. The report is public. The lawsuit is filed. What comes next is where things get interesting. What the Investigation Actually Found The city hired an outside law firm. Resolute Law, based in St. Cloud, spent months digging. They interviewed witnesses. They read messages. They looked at photographs. The report...

  Is Teen Summer Employment in the U.S. Rebounding After a Long Fade? The ice cream shop on Cape Cod had fifty slots. Hundreds of teenagers sent in applications starting in January. The owner filled every position before spring. That was the good news. The bad news sat in the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only 35.5% of Americans ages 16 to 19 held a paying job for at least part of summer 2026. That figure averages June and July. It rose from 33.8% the year before. A bump. Small. Real. And still miles below where it used to be. You want to know if teen summer employment is rebounding. The short answer is yes. The longer answer involves a half-century of decline, a few economic shocks, and a labor market that has slowly closed its doors to the youngest workers. The bump matters. But context matters more. The Numbers on the Table The employment-population ratio for teens ages 16 to 19 hit 36.5% in July 2026. That measures the share of all teens who were working. Compare...

Dalton Haas Returns to Federal Court: Nine Probation Violations, Employment Issues, and a Wine Festival That Never Happened The Man in the Room Dalton Haas sat in a federal courtroom in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Monday. The room had fluorescent lights. The carpet was old. The air smelled of paper and hand sanitizer. He wore a suit. Or he didn't. The reports don't specify. What they specify is the list. Nine violations. Nine separate ways of failing to do what the court told him to do. He was a candidate once. House of Delegates, District 3. He wanted votes. He got indicted instead. Wire fraud. COVID money. He lied about the revenue at a Lebanese restaurant. He lied about a wine festival. He lied about a hockey league. Twenty thousand dollars. That's what he got. That's what he admitted to. The government said he tried three more times. Failed. So he pleaded guilty in February 2023. Ten months in prison. Three years of supervised release. Now he's back. Same courth...

  The City Attorney Reviewed the Police Monitor. The Police Monitor Says He Had No Business Doing It. Madison, Wisconsin has a problem. It has a problem the way a man who built his own house out of borrowed lumber has a problem. The house stands. It keeps the rain out. But every time the wind blows, something creaks, and you remember that nobody ever agreed on who owns the foundation. The Office of the Independent Police Monitor was created in 2020 to watch the Madison Police Department. It reviews complaints against officers. It conducts investigations. It recommends policy changes. The monitor reports to a civilian board, not to the mayor, not to the council, not to the city attorney. That was the design. That was the intention. And that intention ran straight into a 42-page document dated October 2, 2026. The document came from the office of City Attorney Michael Haas. It is an employment review of Interim Independent Police Monitor Aeiramique Glass. It catalogs alleged violatio...

  ADP National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate for September 19, 2026 The number arrived on a Tuesday morning. 23,750. That is the average number of jobs private employers in the United States added per week during the four weeks ending September 19, 2026. The figure comes from the NER Pulse, a weekly update of the ADP National Employment Report, and it carries a weight that a single number rarely deserves, unless you are the kind of person who watches the labor market the way other people watch the weather. Here is what that number means. Here is what it does not mean. And here is the picture that emerges when you sit with the data long enough to stop refreshing the page. What the ADP Preliminary Estimate for September 19, 2026 Actually Says The 23,750 figure is not a monthly total. It is a weekly average. Four weeks of payroll data, smoothed into a single number, seasonally adjusted, delivered with a two-week lag so the estimates have time to settle into something resembl...