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WASHINGTON — The hard-right Freedom Caucus is pushing House Republican leaders to condition government funding on passage of new proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote and create a new deadline that faces broad Senate opposition. If GOP leaders attached it to government funding, it would spark a standoff with Democrats and President Joe Biden that risks a government shutdown. House and Senate Democrats favor a late 2024 deadline. Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the Freedom Caucus demands amount to “outrageous partisan pills” that are a “nonstarter,” calling for a bipartisan approach. “The House will continue its successful effort to responsibly fund the government for FY25 when it returns from its district work period.”

Persons: WASHINGTON, —, Mike Johnson, President Trump, ”, Harris, Joe Biden, Sen, Susan Collins, Patty Murray, Donald Trump, ” Murray, Bob Good, Johnson, Athina Lawson Organizations: Republican, Caucus, Biden, Trump, Democratic, GOP, Democrats, Committee, NBC, Freedom Caucus, NBC News Locations: U.S, Maine

☆ PepsiCo is using robotics and AI-powered crop planning to transform its supply chain
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( John Kell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

PepsiCo says it's two-thirds of the way done with an overhaul of its supply chain. This article is part of "The Future of Supply-Chain Management," a series on companies' manufacturing and distribution strategies. With more automation, workers are doing fewer physical tasks, like driving a forklift, and far more oversight of the machines taking over those tasks. Workers at manufacturing facilities and distribution centers and the unions that represent them often bristle at automation, which can lead to layoffs. Even as it has invested in automation, PepsiCo's total workforce has swelled: It grew by 20%, to 318,000, over the five years that ended in 2023.

Persons: it's, —, Gregg Roden, he'd, Roden, Athina, Campbell, Kanioura Organizations: PepsiCo, Chain Management, Service, Gatorade, Frito, Microsoft, Workers, Tyson Foods, Food, McKinsey Locations: Doritos, North America

☆ Congress closing in on partial budget deal ahead of shutdown deadline
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Negotiators are working on an agreement for six funding bills, four of which expire Friday. But a partial shutdown is still not out of the question. A partial shutdown would impact several government agencies, including agriculture, Veterans Affairs, transportation and housing. What a partial shutdown looks likeIf the four funding bills do expire Friday, their corresponding agencies would shut down Saturday at 12:01 a.m. A partial shutdown would leave those agencies' roughly 100,000 federal employees without pay for any new work during the shutdown, whether they are furloughed or not.

Persons: Chuck Schumer, Mike Johnson, Joe Biden, Johnson, Athina Lawson, Bobby Kogan, Biden, Kogan Organizations: U.S, Capitol, Washington , DC, Lawmakers, Congressional, White, Congress, Veterans Affairs, Social Security, D.C, Department of Housing, Urban, Agriculture, Rural Development Locations: Washington ,

He spent part of the previous day meeting with GOP lawmakers who were concerned about features of the bill, namely the expanded child tax credit. Democrats focused on boosting the child tax credit. The tax credit is $2,000 per child, but not all of that is refundable. Households benefitting as a result of the changes in the child tax credit would see an average tax cut of $680 in the first year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden's first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Johnson, Athina Lawson, Jason Smith, “, ” Smith, Joe Biden's, ”, Suzan DelBene Organizations: WASHINGTON, Senate, New, Republicans, China, Center Locations: United States, “, Palestine , Ohio

☆ PepsiCo's first-ever chief strategy and transformation officer says cultural change is crucial when implementing tech tools at a company
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Meira Gebel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Athina Kanioura, PepsiCo's first-ever chief strategy and transformation officer, has revamped the company's internal digital strategies. "If you treat this as a technology change, it will not be successful," she said. "There weren't global standards," she said. "We had to work to correct and, in some cases, get rid of some of the standards that existed and replace them with global standards," she said. Mapping out a communication campaign and establishing global standards are great first steps, she said.

☆ Qualcomm spars with EU antitrust regulators over Huawei, ZTE rebates
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Foo Yun Chee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LUXEMBOURG, March 14 (Reuters) - Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Tuesday criticised European Union antitrust regulators over their definition of rebates given to Chinese phone makers Huawei and ZTE in the second day of a court hearing aimed at overturning a 242-million-euro ($259 million) fine. The EU competition enforcer said an analysis of Qualcomm's prices showed it sold some of its chips below cost to Huawei (HWT.UL) and ZTE (000063.SZ), with rebates and discounts driving the final prices down. Had the Commission made those two simple corrections, you would have found no predation," Athina Kontasakou told the court. Martin Farley, a lawyer for the Commission, defended its analysis of Qualcomm's prices as "fundamentally correct and robust". The case is T-671/19 Qualcomm v Commission.

☆ Golf Course Living Is Paradise—Except for the 651 Balls Pelting Your House and Yard
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( James Fanelli | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Erik and Athina Tenczar in 2017 bought what they thought was their forever home in Kingston, Mass., a four-bedroom colonial that sits near a left-hand dogleg on the 15th hole of the Indian Pond Country Club. To their dismay, the Tenczars soon learned that ambitious golfers regularly attempted to cut the corner, putting their house in the line of fire.

☆ Insula legendară a familiei Onassis va fi transformată într-un complex turistic de lux
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Guvernul elen a publicat miercuri în Monitorul Oficial un acord al său pentru construirea unui complex de lux pe insula Skorpios, situată în largul coastelor de vest ale Greciei şi care a aparţinut familiei celebrului armator Aristotel Onassis, informează AFP. Preţul a fost evaluat la 165 de milioane de euro, potrivit Monitorului Oficial din Grecia, scrie Agerpres. Insula Skorpios, care are o suprafaţă de 83 de hectare, a fost vândută în 2003 de nepoata celebrului armator grec, unica moştenitoare a acestei dinastii, Athina Onassis Roussel, către miliardarul rus Dmitri Ribolovlev. În 1968, miliardarul Aristotel Onassis s-a căsătorit pe această insulă cu Jacqueline Kennedy, văduva fostului preşedinte american J.F. Aristotel Onassis şi cei doi copii ai lui - Christina şi Alexander - au fost înmormântaţi pe insula Skorpios.

Persons: Aristotel Onassis, Preţul, Athina Onassis Roussel, Dmitri Ribolovlev, Jacqueline Kennedy, american J.F . Kennedy, Christina, Alexander Locations: Skorpios, Greciei, Grecia, Agerpres, turişti, american

☆ Insula Skorpios din Greciei va fi transformată într-un complex turistic de lux
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

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