<ul class="summary-list"><li>Bowers doomed a bill that allowed the legislature to overturn elections, per Capitol Media Services.</li><li>The speaker, who backed former President Trump in 2020, was skeptical of granting such wide powers.</li></ul>The Republican speaker of the <keyword id="11907754" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="arizona" source="Orion">Arizona</keyword> House of Representatives on Tuesday effectively doomed legislation that would have permitted the state legislature to overturn election results, <a href="https://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/arizona-house-speaker-quashes-bill-to-allow-lawmakers-to-reject-election-results/article_043eb976-8475-11ec-819c-47a5a455510d.html">according to Capitol Media Services</a>.<a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2596P.htm">House Bill 2596</a>, which was introduced by conservative state Rep. <keyword id="13111977" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="john-fillmore" source="Orion">John Fillmore</keyword> of Apache Junction last month, was intended to curb no-excuse early voting and order that every ballot be counted by hand no later than 24 hours after precincts close on Election Day.However, the bill also afforded increased oversight of elections to lawmakers, allowing the legislature to nullify election results from legislative races, along with congressional and statewide contests.In lieu of spiking the bill unilaterally, Speaker <keyword id="13111976" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rusty-bowers" source="Orion">Rusty Bowers</keyword> simply assigned the legislation to each of the state House's 12 committees, virtually eliminating the chances of the proposal being passed by the legislature, per the Capitol Media Services report."We gave the authority to the people,'' the Mesa Republican told the news outlet, pointing out that the bill had been sent to multiple committees for further review.He voiced skepticism at the Republican-led proposal, though, despite the party's widespread acceptance of former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword>'s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">debunked claims</a> about the 2020 presidential election and his own support of the former president's reelection bid."For somebody to say we have plenary authority to overthrow a vote of the people for something we think may have happened, where is [the evidence]?'' Bowers asked.Stan Barnes, a Republican consultant and former state legislator who has known Bowers for decades, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/us/politics/arizona-republicans-rusty-bowers-voting-rights.html">told The New York Times</a> that the speaker "wanted to put the wooden cross right through the heart of this thing for all to see."The speaker's action drew condemnation from Fillmore."He does things like he's God," the conservative legislator told Capitol News Services, while conceding that there wasn't currently enough support in the 31-member House caucus to remove Bowers and replace him with a like-minded Republican."Sometimes there are a great many of the legislators (who) don't have the intestinal fortitude to do what is right," Fillmore added.The bill as written would have also eliminated the use of electronic voting machines or tabulators in Arizona elections, which Fillmore said during a January legislative floor speech was needed to return to "1958-style voting.""We should have voting, in my opinion, in person, one day on paper, with no electronic means and hand counting that day," he said when discussing the bill last month, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-republican-john-fillmore-early-voting-restrictions-legislature-overturn-elections-2022-1">later rejecting the notion</a> that he wanted to return to practices that violated the <keyword id="11940459" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="voting-rights" source="Orion">Voting Rights</keyword> Act of 1965.Arizona — a longtime GOP bastion that in recent years has become one of the country's premier swing states — has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ducey-ward-arizona-republicans-maricopa-election-audit-rally-2021-7">ground zero</a> for some of the <keyword id="11921390" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="republican-party" source="Orion">Republican Party</keyword>'s most high-profile efforts to question the 2020 election results.While most Arizona officials have long contended that there was no electoral malfeasance at the local level, Trump and many Republicans across the country <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ducey-ward-arizona-republicans-maricopa-election-audit-rally-2021-7">continue</a> to promote the claim that the vote was tainted, notably in Maricopa County. The county is the state's most populous jurisdiction and one that voted for now-President Joe Biden after years of supporting GOP presidential nominees.A Maricopa election audit widely touted by Republicans nationwide last year <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-documents-show-arizona-audit-confirms-bidens-win-over-trump-2021-9">reaffirmed</a> the president's countywide victory over Trump.In 2020, Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee since Bill Clinton in 1996 to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/young-latino-educated-voters-helped-biden-flip-arizona-trump-election-2020-11">win</a> Arizona, defeating Trump by 10,457 votes out of nearly 3.4 million ballots cast.

Arizona Republican House Speaker quashes bill that would have allowed legislature to overturn election results

<ul class="summary-list"><li>According to the 2020 Census, Black Americans comprise 5.7% of San Francisco's population.</li><li>Decades of targeted policies have affected the community's population and the conditions of historic neighborhoods.</li></ul>As the city of San Francisco battles to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-chronicle-map-shows-vacant-office-buildings-downtown-2023-5">lure residents back into the city post-pandemic</a>, many of its Black residents are considering leaving the state altogether.Today, only 5.7% of the city's population identifies as Black, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/us/san-francisco-reparations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared to 13% in 1970</a>. Of that community, predominantly located in neighborhoods including the Fillmore District and Bayview-Hunter Point, 58% say they are considering moving out of state, citing the high cost of housing and high taxes as major grievances. This figure is up to 14% greater than Asian and Latino respondents, according to a <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96j2704t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 University of California-Berkeley poll</a>. Once lauded as the "Harlem of the West," the Fillmore District was home to thousands of Black workers who arrived in the 1940s. It became home to some of the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2006/05/25/5430278/harlem-of-the-west-memories-of-s-f-jazz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">region's hottest jazz clubs</a>, hosting the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and John Coltrane. The political landscape served as a hotbed for the Black Panther Party and other notably progressive politics. Under the guise of "<a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urban renewal</a>" in the 1960s and 1970s, however, Black homeowners were pushed out when their property was seized for developing high-rises and office buildings. By 1990, the Black population decreased to <a href="http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty70.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">10.9% of the city's population</a>. By the 2010s, the growth of Silicon Valley and subsequent increase in cost of living left many Black residents, facing high taxes and <a href="https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/Reallocation-of-SFPD-Funding-Report-09-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the lowest household income</a>, with fewer options in San Francisco. The recently developed San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee's task force is advocating for <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/san-francisco-proposes-reparations-includes-5-million-for-eligible-black-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$5 million cash payments for Black residents</a> who were wrongfully impacted by policies and displacement. While the source and feasibility of this form of reparations payment is still under debate, the future and potential return of Black San Francisco still remains in the balance.

Less than 6% of San Francisco's population is Black. Of that, 58% have considered moving out of the state.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11907754" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="arizona" source="Orion">Arizona</keyword> state Rep. John Fillmore proposed a bill that would curb no-excuse early voting measures.</li><li>Fillmore wants all ballots to be counted by hand, with a deadline 24 hours after polls close.</li></ul>A conservative Arizona lawmaker this week introduced legislation that would curb no-excuse early voting — which has long been a popular option for state voters — and would mandate that every ballot cast be counted by hand no later than 24 hours after precincts close on Election Day, <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/01/27/arizona-republican-john-fillmore-honest-election-reform-bills/9241368002/">according to The Arizona Republic</a>.The legislator, state Rep. John Fillmore of Apache Junction, put forward <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2596P.htm">House Bill 2596</a> in order to give increased oversight of elections to lawmakers, which he said would adhere more closely with the state constitution, <a href="https://yourvalley.net/stories/lawmaker-proposes-35-page-rewrite-of-election-laws,282722">per Capitol Media Services</a>.The bill as written would eliminate the use of electronic <keyword id="13061045" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="voting-machines" source="Orion">voting machines</keyword> or tabulators in Arizona elections.In 1991, the state legislature permitted voters the ability to vote by mail without providing an excuse, <a href="https://news.azpm.org/p/newsfeature/2020/8/21/178857-arizonas-long-history-with-voting-by-mail/">according to Arizona Public Media</a>."We should have voting, in my opinion, in person, one day on paper, with no electronic means and hand counting that day," Fillmore said on Wednesday when discussing the bill. "We need to get back to 1958-style voting."In the late 1950s, Jim Crow-era literacy tests were still employed to prevent Black citizens from participating in elections; the 24th Amendment, which was ratified by the states in 1964, banned the use of poll taxes as a prerequisite for voting.The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, which was overwhelmingly passed by Congress, barred discriminatory voting practices in the US. Fillmore told <a href="https://yourvalley.net/stories/lawmaker-proposes-35-page-rewrite-of-election-laws,282722">Capitol Media Services</a> after the hearing that he did not support a reversion to electoral practices that were allowed before the passage of the VRA.One of the most consequential elements of Fillmore's proposal would allow the legislature to overturn election results from legislative races, along with congressional and statewide contests.The proposal is currently written to give the legislature the ability to commence a session after an election to "review the ballot tabulating process," adding that "any qualified elector may file an action" in Arizona's Superior Court to petition for a new election if the legislature rejects the results.Arizona — a longtime Republican bastion that in recent years has morphed into a Southwestern swing state — has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ducey-ward-arizona-republicans-maricopa-election-audit-rally-2021-7">ground zero</a> for some of former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword>'s debunked conspiracy theories regarding the 2020 election results.While most Arizona officials have long contended that there was no electoral malfeasance at the local level, Trump and many Republicans across the country have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ducey-ward-arizona-republicans-maricopa-election-audit-rally-2021-7">continued</a> to promote the claim that the vote was tainted, notably in Maricopa County, the state's most populous jurisdiction and one that voted for Biden after decades of backing GOP presidential nominees.For over a year, Trump has been at odds with Gov. Doug Ducey over the certification state's results, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-will-never-endorse-doug-ducey-republican-senate-run-arizona-2022-1">telling</a> a large rally crowd earlier this month that he would "never" back the Republican if he jumped into the state's 2022 Senate GOP primary.A Maricopa election audit that was widely touted by Republicans nationwide last year <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/leaked-documents-show-arizona-audit-confirms-bidens-win-over-trump-2021-9">reaffirmed</a> Biden's countywide victory over Trump.Fillmore said during the Wednesday hearing that he lacked confidence in the results due to "serious concerns" that he feels were not addressed."I don't care what the press says. I don't trust ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox or anybody out there. Everybody's lying to me and I feel like I have a couple hundred ex-wives hanging around me," he said.He continued: "This is not a President Biden thing. This is not the other red-headed guy thing."In the 2020 election, Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee since Bill Clinton in 1996 to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/young-latino-educated-voters-helped-biden-flip-arizona-trump-election-2020-11">win</a> Arizona, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/arizona-presidential-election-2020-live-vote-counts-results-2020">edging out</a> Trump by 10,457 votes out of nearly 3.4 million ballots cast.

Arizona GOP state lawmaker proposes bill axing no-excuse early voting and requiring hand count of all ballots: 'We need to get back to 1958-style voting'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <keyword id="57493" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arizona">Arizona</keyword> state lawmaker compared people with <keyword id="9071042" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nonbinary">nonbinary</keyword> identities to identifying as chickens.</li><li>"What's going to happen when someday someone wakes up and they want to go to a far extreme and identify as a chicken or something," Fillmore said.</li><li>State Rep. John Fillmore is facing backlash for his remarks, according to NBC affiliate KPNX.</li></ul>An Arizona state representative is facing intense backlash from parents and other lawmakers after comparing nonbinary people to barnyard animals. "I don't believe that we as a society should have all of the different binaries identified," Arizona Republican State Rep. John Fillmore said during a committee meeting on Wednesday."What's going to happen when someday someone wakes up and they want to go to a far extreme and identify as a chicken or something for crying out loud?" Fillmore continued. "Where do we draw the line?"<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—JOSH SANDERS (@JoshSandersTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1359719229046444034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2021</a></blockquote>Fillmore at the time of his remarks had been explaining his proposed bill, which aims to limit gender identification options on any state documentation, KPNX, an NBC affiliate, <a href="https://www.12news.com/article/news/politics/arizona-legislator-compares-transgender-and-non-binary-kids-to-barnyard-animals/75-7511cc3c-c14c-4472-96e2-d6eb67df53e4">reported</a>. Having to choose between male and female options can often <a href="https://www.insider.com/how-to-deal-with-gender-dysphoria-if-youre-trans-nonbinary-2020-12">alienate nonbinary people</a> who don't identify as either gender. Fillmore's comments sparked immediate backlash from both lawmakers and parents who listened to his remarks during the committee session. State Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, for example, called his proposed bill "harmful," KPNX reported."I was angry," Hamilton said. "There were three moms who made themselves very vulnerable and put their families in the public arena by sharing their very personal experience as to why a bill like this can be hurtful and detrimental for their children's well-being."Fillmore also has an ethics complaint filed against him. "Representative Fillmore continuously made discriminatory and harassing comments during public testimony and in his response compared members of the LGBTQ+ community to farm animals," the complaint reads, according to KPNX."By his actions, Representative Fillmore has engaged in conduct that compromises the character of himself, the integrity of the Arizona State House of Representatives, and shows a lack of respect for members of the LGBTQ+ community," the complaint continues.Fillmore's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. In a video posted to Twitter, Fillmore said he "in no way" is trying to "tear" down nonbinary people."What I'm trying to do is give clarity to our government," he continued. "That when we give an identification such as on a driver's license or a police officer is told to look out for a male and things of that nature, the gender dysfunction thing, which is being pushed by some people on the left, is now allowing, for instance, men to enter into the restrooms of little girls. And it creates situations that I don't think are beneficial to society and the nuclear family as a whole." Gender-neutral bathrooms have been a point of tension for years. The Obama administration in 2016 granted transgender students the right to use public school bathrooms and locker rooms that matched the gender with which they identify. The Trump administration <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/transgender-bathroom-rights-trump-administration-2017-2">reversed some of these protections</a>. Lawsuits sprung out of both decisions.In December 2020, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-rejects-oregon-transgender-bathroom-lawsuit-2020-12">struck down an appeal</a> from an anti-LGBT group after Oregon parents complained that a school had allowed transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity.In a statement to KPNX, Fillmore said the ethics complaint was filed "entirely without merit.""It's rather unfortunate that some opponents of the bill have unfairly and grossly mischaracterized my comments at Wednesday's hearing," Fillmore said. "I invite people to listen to my actual remarks, which do not remotely match the distorted version critics have alleged."

An Arizona state lawmaker is facing backlash after comparing nonbinary identities to people who'd someday identify as a chicken

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An <keyword id="57493" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arizona">Arizona</keyword> lawmaker appeared to compare non-binary individuals to chickens during a hearing Wednesday.</li><li>Republican Rep. John Fillmore was speaking during a committee meeting about a bill he introduced.</li><li>The bill seeks to pre-emptively ban the use of "X" as a non-binary signifier on state identity documents.</li></ul>An Arizona state lawmaker appeared to equate being transgender to someone identifying as "a chicken" during a hearing about a bill to pre-emptively ban people who identify as non-binary from having their gender identity recognized on state documents.House Bill 2725, which would require Arizona state identification documents such as drivers' licences to list only male and female as gender options, was sponsored by Republican State Representative John Fillmore.It seeks to prevent those who identify as non-binary from using an "X" marker rather than male or female in the gender field of such documents.Arizona state law does not currently allow this distinction.During a committee hearing on the bill, Fillmore argued that possibly allowing non-binary citizens this option in future could lead to people identifying as chickens."I don't believe we, as a society, should have all of the different binaries identified," <a href="https://www.azleg.gov/videoplayer/?eventID=2021021079">he said during the hearing.</a>"What's going to happen when someday someone wakes up and they want to go to a far extreme and identify as a chicken or something, for crying out loud," he added."Where do we draw the line?"<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Laura GomezRodriguez (@bylauragomezr) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1359685102247104512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2021</a></blockquote>Prior to his comments about people identifying as chickens, Fillmore said the "gender dysfunction thing" allows "men to enter into the restrooms of the little girls and creates situations that I don't think are beneficial to society and the nuclear family as a whole."Megan Mogan, a Tuscon woman who has a child who identifies as non-binary and who spoke in front of the committee Wednesday, said that Fillmore's words dehumanized her child and countless others."I don't think you have to be the parent of a non-binary person, you can just be the parent of anyone, and if someone dehumanizes your child, it's like one of the worst possible feelings you can have," <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/arizona-legislator-compares-transgender-people-farm-animals-n1257763">Mogan said in an interview with NBC News Friday.</a>She tweeted at the time that Fillmore had compared her child to a "barnyard animal."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Megan Mogan (@MoganMegan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1359599151525203970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2021</a></blockquote>Fillmore is now facing an ethics complaint after his comments Wednesday. Riley Behrens, a local man and community advocate who previously worked as a Democratic campaign staffer in Arizona, filed a complaint after attending the meeting.<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/12/john-fillmore-arizona-republican-trans-non-binary/">According to Pink News,</a> Behrens' complaint alleges that Fillmore "engaged in conduct that compromises the character of himself, the integrity of the Arizona State House of Representatives, and shows a lack of respect for members of the LGBTQ+ community.""We were all just in shock," Behrens told NBC.Republican lawmakers, however, called the ethics complaint "entirely without merit."

An Arizona lawmaker appeared to compare those who identify as non-binary to chickens

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The hospitality industry is struggling to fill open positions.</li><li>The sector can attract new talent by investing in education and training.</li><li>The "skilling up" of employees will also better prepare workers for a rapidly changing labor market </li><li>John Fillmore is President of Chegg Skills.</li><li>This is an <keyword id="11905565" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="opinion" source="Orion">opinion</keyword> column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</li></ul>Not so long ago, things were looking up for the hospitality industry. The robust introduction of vaccines caused the lifting of many <keyword id="11893994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19" source="Orion">COVID-19</keyword> related restrictions, and it seemed like the worst was over for America's <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/06/05/restrictions-lifted-normalcy/">restaurants, cafés, and bars</a>. But the contours of another crisis are coming into view.Early in the year, a mere 8% of restaurant operators listed recruitment as their top challenge, but by April, that number shot up to a staggering <a href="https://www.businesstravelnews.com/Lodging/Suppliers-Say-Staffing-Shortages-Dragging-Recovery">57%</a>. A survey published earlier this month by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-hospitality-workers-restaurant-hotels-pay-wages-joblist-survey-2021-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">Joblist</a> confirmed that an earthquake was happening: a third of former hospitality employees said they will not be returning to the sector, citing poor pay and lack of benefits. Further confirmation came from a study from UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center finding that more than <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/food/las-vegas-valley-restaurant-owners-struggle-with-worker-shortages-2360388/">half of current hospitality industry workers</a> were seriously considering leaving their <keyword id="11899183" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jobs" source="Orion">jobs</keyword>.What is to be done to save the industry from freefall? The obvious answer, of course, is wages. And thankfully, we're seeing much-needed improvement on that score, with the industry recording a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-hospitality-workers-restaurant-hotels-pay-wages-joblist-survey-2021-7?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T">normal year's worth of pay raises</a> in June alone. But if you listen to employees, current and former, you learn that money alone cannot solve the problem.For that, we need something more powerful - a shift in the mindset, a radical reimagination of how we approach hospitality jobs that includes both a living wage and opportunity for further economic mobility.Just look at white-collar industries, which have long understood that investing in their employees and building up loyalty required much more than just competitive wages: it meant investing in employees' career development, even though some employees would apply those new skills in different jobs. Service sector businesses may now need to think about making a similar leap, offering clear and visible paths to career growth both within and outside the organization.<h2>The solution is education</h2>Imagine working the night shift at a fast-food restaurant and feeling like you have no path to developing the skills necessary to have more economic options. Now imagine that your employer proposed helping you pursue academic studies, which are otherwise utterly unaffordable for far too many Americans.For an increasing number of service sector workers, that dream is becoming a reality - not because of innovative government programs, but from an increasing commitment of private companies to support their frontline workers. Starbucks first partnered with Arizona State University in 2014 to allow its employees to earn their bachelor's degree through ASU Online with 100% tuition coverage. ASU then worked through InStride to extend this offer to all companies. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/02/guild-education-reaches-3point7-billion-valuation-amid-labor-shortage.html">a slew of training providers have sprung up</a> to help workers skill-up. Out-skilling platform LearnIn, for example, course curators OpenSesame, and employee-course matchmakers Guild Education - which works with organizations such as Walmart, Chipotle and Disney and has helped over three million workers gain access to higher education - are all carving out a <a href="https://www.guildeducation.com/why-guild/guild-difference/">significant space</a> for themselves.Guild reports that employees who used their services had a <a href="https://www.guildeducation.com/why-guild/guild-difference/">93% retention rate</a> six months later, compared to 56% for those who didn't. And that for every dollar employers spent on education, they saw a <a href="https://www.guildeducation.com/why-guild/guild-difference/">$2.84 return on investment</a>. To put it in highly technical terms, a win-win.Investing in education has implications that go beyond mere short-term financial gains. As automation continues to disrupt industries at a rapid pace, we may soon face a reality in which about <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/19/automation-labor-economy/">40</a>% of US jobs are lost to machines.And you can guarantee that it will be those in low-income jobs who are hit hardest. The only way to prepare for such a transition, and to avoid chaotic and disastrous socioeconomic implications, is to encourage those most at risk, like service sector workers, to acquire skills in new fields such as software development, data science, or UX design.But the math just doesn't add up to put them all through college. When you take <a href="https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/paying-for-college-infographic">$20,000</a> tuition annually and multiply it by the six years it takes many to graduate, that adds up to a $120,000 education (and often much more). With over <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/why-politicians-must-push-to-improve-service-jobs">70 million</a> Americans in low-wage service jobs, that would mean over $8 trillion to try and meet all of our retraining needs through the traditional path. That affordability crisis means many people in service jobs will have had no real chance to develop formal skills in high-demand tech areas through traditional higher education. As a result, millions of talented and motivated people are having their potential wasted by a system that is currently stacked in favor of those with resources. They need help. Hospitality businesses struggling to find new talent must now go back to the drawing board to provide them that help. By doing so, they will become enablers of economic mobility which, in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, joins climate change as one of the greatest challenges society must meet in the coming decades.Companies should remember that the great ethos of the service sector has always been aspirational - that even the humblest entry-level job was always perceived as a testing ground for ambition and dedication and a gateway to bigger and better things. It's why CEOs and movie stars alike take such pleasure in talking about their early, first jobs - not because they're fortunate enough to no longer have to wait on tables or mop up behind the bar, but because they appreciate the first place that gave them a chance to prove their worth.Let us, then, focus on precisely that: creating opportunities for employees to feel supported, empowered, and in control of their futures to re-ignite an America where individuals are constrained only by the power of their dreams and their dedication to making those dreams a reality.Do that, and you'll see an economic boom that extends well beyond our bars and restaurants, benefitting us all.

If service sector employers ever want to see their workers again, they have to do more than raise wages. They'll need to help people get ahead.

Bed Bath & Beyond is closing nearly 150 more locations as it whittles its footprint down to just 360. Here's the full list of closing stores.

Some of them hated it. Some of them loved it. All of them learned from it.
Since George Washington's inauguration, 44 men have occupied the White House to perform one of the most difficult jobs in the world. Some defined their terms with great accomplishments or grave misjudgments; others barely made a mark on history. Yet all strove to fulfill their mandate to the best of their abilities and live up to the incredible expectations placed upon them.
Whether they succeeded or failed, our fascination with presidents' leadership styles, habits, decisions and personalities continue long after they leave office. Their perspectives and pronouncements are dissected over and over as we seek to understand what these men, who went through an experience most Americans can barely conceptualize, can teach us about life. 
In honor of Presidents' Day, we've rounded up a list of some of the best advice from 32 presidents past and present on how to do and be your best, no matter how challenging your job is.
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52fe7cf56da8110960063b8c-800-400/george washington quote.jpg" border="0" alt="George Washington Quote" />George Washington, 1789-1797: "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
John Adams, 1797-1801: "You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen."
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809: "When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."
James Monroe, 1817-1825: "It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future."
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829: "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
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Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837: "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841: "All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess."
John Tyler, 1841-1845: "Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853: "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."
James Buchanan, 1857-1861: "A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad."
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865: "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877: "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881: "For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all."
James Garfield, 1881: "Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
Chester Arthur, 1881-1885: "Good ball players make good citizens."
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889, 1893-1897: "Whatever you do, tell the truth."
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Teddy Roosevelt, 1901-1909: "We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage."
William Taft, 1909-1913: "Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood."
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921: "One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat."
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929: "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb ... Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: "Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you."
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953: "I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961: "Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
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John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963: "Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty."
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1969: "If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe."
Richard Nixon, 1969-1974: "The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep."
Jimmy Carter, Jr., 1977-1981: "Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose."
Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989: "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave."
George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993: "No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit."
Bill Clinton, 1993-2001: "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."
George W. Bush, 2001-2009: "Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author."
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Barack Obama, 2009-present: "One voice can change a room. And if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world."
Additional editing and reporting by Jill Klausen and Elizabeth Wilke.

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