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- UK insurers refuse to pay Nord Stream because blasts were 'government' backed https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/17/uk-insurers-refuse-pay-nord-stream/ 2 comments
- Government to pay £60,000 to families of NHS workers who die on coronavirus frontline https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-government-life-insurance-scheme-death-payment-nhs-staff-a9486571.html 12 comments worldnews
- When Trump visits his clubs, government agencies and Republicans pay to be where he is https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/when-trump-visits-his-clubs-government-agencies-and-republicans-pay-to-be-where-he-is/2019/06/20/a4c13c36-8ed0-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html?utm_term=.5734400b90c2 16 comments politics
- Trump moves to freeze pay for federal workers amid government shutdown https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/29/trump-moves-freeze-pay-federal-workers-amid-shutdown/2439801002/ 25 comments politics
- U.S. government to pay $4.7 billion in tariff-related aid to farmers https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-farmers/u-s-government-to-pay-4-7-billion-in-tariff-related-aid-to-farmers-iduskcn1lc23x?il=0 31 comments politics
- Delhi government to pay 100% hospital bills of accident victims https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/delhi-government-to-pay-100-hospital-bills-of-accident-victims/articleshow/62039697.cms 5 comments india
- Delhi government to pay 100% hospital bills of accident victims https://m.timesofindia.com/city/delhi/delhi-government-to-pay-100-hospital-bills-of-accident-victims/amp_articleshow/62039697.cms?__twitter_impression=true 71 comments india
- If the government wants your property, what should it pay for it? http://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/if-government-wants-your-property-what-should-it-pay-it 3 comments politics
- CNN Journalist ‘Governments Pay Us To Fake Stories’, Shocking Exposé http://yournewswire.com/cnn-journalist-governments-pay-us-to-fake-stories-shocking-expose/ 19 comments worldnews
- The UK government pays me to write open source all day (X-post from /r/opensource) http://quickpeople.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-uk-government-pays-me-to-write-open-source-all-day/ 94 comments programming
- Eric Cantor: Federal Government spends $1.2 million paying people to play World of Warcraft video games. https://twitter.com/gopleader/status/304303440488697856 3 comments politics
- Farm Program Pays $1.3 Billion to People Who Don't Farm. Government waste at its best. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/ar2006070100962.html?referrer=reddit 13 comments reddit.com
- Pay No Attention to The Soldier Saying the Government is Lying about 9-11 http://curtmaynardsblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/pay-no-attention-to-soldier-saying.html 6 comments politics
- U.S. government pays big money for bad news about Cuba https://peoplesworld.org/article/u-s-government-pays-big-money-for-bad-news-about-cuba/ 3 comments politics
- As vaccine nationalism deepens, governments pay to bring production home https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-supply-insigh-iduskbn2b40ix 6 comments worldnews
- The Dangerous Lesson Future Presidents Could Draw from Trump - The president has turned the federal government into an arm of his campaign — without paying much of a political price https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/dangerous-lesson-future-presidents-could-draw-trump 28 comments politics
- Governments are paying companies to move their manufacturing out of China https://qz.com/1843977/governments-are-paying-companies-to-move-production-out-of-china/ 34 comments worldnews
- Government measures to tackle excessive executive pay in the UK have flopped, according to new research from a thinktank https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/06/measures-to-curb-executive-pay-have-flopped-says-thinktank?cmp=share_androidapp_reddit_is_fun 43 comments worldnews
- THe Cost Of The Bush Tax Cuts - Deficits Happen When Governments Decide Not to Pay for Government http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/bush-tax-cuts 11 comments politics
- British government to pay millions of pounds in compensation to Guantánamo detainees. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/guantanamo-bay-prisoners-compensation 3 comments worldnews
- Japan Government to pay families $150 per child each month! http://www.wmur.com/news/23292062/detail.html 10 comments worldnews
- I work for the government and have to pay into a mandatory pension plan, but I don't know if I'm going to work for the government forever. Should I start my own retirement fund? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8oill6/i_work_for_the_government_and_have_to_pay_into_a/ 15 comments personalfinance
- "The US economy is roughly 20 trillion and the liabilities of the US government is 124 trillion dollars. Where the hell is the US government going to get 124 trillion dollars from? There is no way on Earth that they can pay this money." - This is why peer to peer cash is awesome. https://youtu.be/3WclYu5l4G0?t=765 37 comments btc
- Top Democrat urges foreign governments to stop using Trump hotels, paying his businesses | House Foreign Affairs chair Eliot Engel told staffers to inform foreign officials that such transactions could violate the Constitution. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/top-democrat-urges-foreign-governments-stop-paying-trump-s-company-n1042031 7 comments politics
- Government paying private firm $297 million to help hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-border-patrol-hiring-20171217-story.html#nt=oft12ah-1gp2 33 comments politics
- The government has decided to pay every rural household living below the poverty line a sum of Rs4,600 to construct a latrine for their own use. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2186721/rs35k-crore-toilet-sop-bpl-families.html#ixzz23e4fyqrw 3 comments india
- Steve Jobs: "In this country, we seem to have fewer smart people in government, and people don't seem to be paying as much attention to the important decisions we have to make" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.02/jobs_pr.html 78 comments reddit.com
- For-Profit Colleges Sue The Federal Government Over Student Loan Rules: "The group seeks to stop a federal regulation...[that] restricts access to federal student-aid dollars for institutions deemed to have too many students who struggle to pay back their student loans." http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/11/07/362069843/for-profit-colleges-sue-the-federal-government 45 comments politics
- Off-balance-sheet federal liabilities - Just how much has the U.S. government promised to pay? http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/07/offbalancesheet.html 3 comments economy
- UK's largest firms fail to cut CEO pay to navigate Covid-19 crisis - The report warned that sky high CEO pay was likely to prove “particularly controversial in the case of companies that have drawn on government support” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/05/uks-largest-firms-fail-to-cut-ceo-pay-to-navigate-covid-19-crisis 116 comments worldnews
- Japan's government says it will pay up to about 80 dollars per person per day to businesses as income compensation for parents taking leave from work in response to temporary school closures that began nationwide https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200303_01/ 3 comments worldnews
- The Canadian government has agreed to pay compensation to indigenous Canadians who were taken from their homes and adopted into non-indigenous families. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/06/canada-pays-indigenous-people-taken-from-their-homes.html 23 comments worldnews
- Mateusz Kijowski, head of Polish anti-government KOD, admitted to using organization’s funds to pay his IT business http://www.politico.eu/article/mateusz-kijowski-kod-polish-opposition-leader-hit-by-cash-conflict/ 38 comments europe
- What the average citizen doesn’t explicitly understand is that a significant part of the government’s plan to repair the financial system and the economy is to pay savers nothing and allow damaged financial institutions to earn a nice, guaranteed spread http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/your-money/26rates.html?hp 10 comments reddit.com
- Investigation: India delayed crucial syringe orders – now the world will pay a price | Letters show manufacturers repeatedly asked the government for clarity on India’s requirements for Covid-19 vaccinations. But the government did not respond. https://scroll.in/pulse/1007348/investigation-india-delayed-crucial-syringe-orders-now-the-world-will-pay-a-price 29 comments india
- Most Europeans want governments to help the homeless and are willing to pay more taxes for it, though most citizens know little about details of homelessness. Poland and France surveyed less sympathetic with the plight of the homeless than other EU countries. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0221896 15 comments science
- A Labour government will reduce the average full-time working week to 32 hours with no loss of pay within the next decade, UK shadow chancellor John McDonnell has announced. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-conference-32-hour-working-week-john-mcdonnell-corbyn-a9116581.html 680 comments worldnews
- Workers represented by Argentina's main labor union gathered on the streets of Buenos Aires to protest job cuts and pay raises that have not kept up with inflation, challenging the government seven months ahead of key congressional elections http://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-protests-iduskbn16e2ez 3 comments worldnews
- "Passing that debt ceiling does not mean you default." The result of not raising the debt ceiling would mean that the government is "not paying interest to U.S. bondholders. That's it."- Fox News host Neil Cavuto http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gold-exec-reassures-fox-viewers-the-debt-limit-fight-won-t-ruin-the-economy-video 3 comments politics
- mutual funds dividend tax | Investors to pay 10% dividend tax from next fiscal : In a blow to the 46 million equity-linked retail investors of the mutual fund industry, the government may announce a 10% tax on the dividends, as notified by the tax department under the amended section-115BBDA http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-top-story/mutual-funds-dividend-tax-investors-to-pay-10-dividend-tax-from-next-fiscal-117061900192_1.html 8 comments india