Megan McArthur, wife of SpaceX Crew 1 member Bob Behnken and daughter-in-law of 110 Member Lou Behnken. Megan McArthur was selected as an astronaut in 2000. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of California, San Diego where she performed research activities at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. McArthur served as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-125, the final space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. The successful mission improved the telescope’s capabilities and extended its life – it is still in operation today. In completing her first space miss...

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BluSky Restoration, the out-of-state company currently rehabbing the Old Webster School Building at 2127 North 11th Street in Old North St. Louis for use as senior apartments, is using state and city tax credits to exploit out-of-state workers, paying them wages below area standards, reports Laborers Local 42 and the Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA).

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The House approved the most significant enhancement of labor rights since the New Deal, but the measure appeared headed for a Senate filibuster amid widespread Republican opposition.

“As America works to recover from the devastating challenges of deadly pandemic, an economic crisis and reckoning on race that reveals deep disparities, we need to summon a new wave of worker power to create an economy that works for everyone,” Mr. Biden said in a statement on Tuesday.

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