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Death on the Job: Texas Says "NO" To Water Breaks in the Heat (103kkcn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Especially in Texas. We have one of the biggest and most authoritarian governments in the country whose power is heavily weighted to the executive branch. It is emblematic of the problems of "big government."