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Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage #minimumwage

Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage
Advocates warn a proposed rule by the Department of Labor will deepen the country’s “crisis of care.”

Here is a little more:
The minimum wage in BC in 1974 was $2.50/hr (the highest in Canada at the time).
That’s $15.75 in 2025 dollars.
The minimum wage in BC as of June 1 2025: $17.85/hr
So adjusted for inflation, University costs have risen 117% but the most common wages for students have only risen 13%.
It’s not hard to figure out why people, especially young people, are struggling.
Put another way:
In today's dollars Tuition has risen $81 every year since 1974.
Minimum wage has risen 4 cents per hour every year since 1974.
@Paulatics @josie_osborne
Source min wage: https://minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/since1965.html

Efficient $\varepsilon$-approximate minimum-entropy couplings
Spencer Compton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19598

Efficient $\varepsilon$-approximate minimum-entropy couplings
Given $m \ge 2$ discrete probability distributions over $n$ states each, the minimum-entropy coupling is the minimum-entropy joint distribution whose marginals are the same as the input distributions. Computing the minimum-entropy coupling is NP-hard, but there has been significant progress in designing approximation algorithms; prior to this work, the best known polynomial-time algorithms attain guarantees of the form $H(\operatorname{ALG}) \le H(\operatorname{OPT}) + c$, where $c \approx 0.53…

Acyclic and complete coloring of digraphs with the minimum and maximum possible numbers of colors
Mika Olsen, Christian Rubio-Montiel, Alejandra Silva Ramirez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16043

Acyclic and complete coloring of digraphs with the minimum and maximum possible numbers of colors
The dichromatic and diachromatic numbers of a digraph are the minimum and maximum numbers of colors, respectively, in acyclic and complete colorings of the digraph. In this paper, we construct, for all $r \leq t$, non-symmetric digraphs with dichromatic number $r$ and diachromatic number $t$. Moreover, we discuss the existence of asymmetric digraphs with dichromatic number $ r $ and diachromatic number $ t \geq r $, establishing a quadratic upper bound $ b(r) \leq t $.

The maximum variance of a finite sequence, given its mean, minimum, and maximum
Jules L. Ellis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

The maximum variance of a finite sequence, given its mean, minimum, and maximum
This paper derives the maximum variance of a finite sample of real numbers, given their mean, minimum and maximum. As the sample size increases, the maximum variance under these constraints converges from below to the upper bound (maximum - mean)(mean - minimum).

Exact Optimization for Minimum Dominating Sets
Enqiang Zhu, Qiqi Bao, Yu Zhang, Pu Wu, Chanjuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18256 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Exact Optimization for Minimum Dominating Sets
The Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) problem is a well-established combinatorial optimization problem with numerous real-world applications. Its NP-hard nature makes it increasingly difficult to obtain exact solutions as the graph size grows. This paper introduces ParDS, an exact algorithm developed to address the MDS problem within the branch-and-bound framework. ParDS features two key innovations: an advanced linear programming technique that yields tighter lower bounds and a set of novel reducti…

Quantitative description of the surface tension minimum in a two-component surfactant system
Edgar M. Blokhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20110 https://arx…

Quantitative description of the surface tension minimum in a two-component surfactant system
The Gibbs adsorption equation is the thermodynamic cornerstone for the description and understanding of the surface tension in a surfactant solution. It relates the decrease in surface tension to an increased surfactant adsorption. In the early 1940's, it therefore puzzled researchers to sometimes observe a minimum in the surface tension for certain surfactant solutions, which seemed to indicate surfactant desorption (even depletion) according to the Gibbs adsorption equation. It is now underst…

“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.
Here, in detail, is why.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/202…

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Optimal Quantum $(r,\delta)$-Locally Repairable Codes via Classical Ones
Kun Zhou, Meng Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18175 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.181…

Optimal Quantum $(r,δ)$-Locally Repairable Codes via Classical Ones
Locally repairable codes (LRCs) play a crucial role in mitigating data loss in large-scale distributed and cloud storage systems. This paper establishes a unified decomposition theorem for general optimal $(r,δ)$-LRCs. Based on this, we obtain that the local protection codes of general optimal $(r,δ)$-LRCs are MDS codes with the same minimum Hamming distance $δ$. We prove that for general optimal $(r,δ)$-LRCs, their minimum Hamming distance $d$ always satisfies $d\geq δ$. We fully characte…

Former FBI Deputy Director:
Is it a coincidence that the testimony she delivered is exactly what the White House was looking for?
Immediately after the interview, her status in the system is reclassified.
Sex offenders are not allowed traditionally to go to minimum security facilities
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