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- Health
- CNET
With Heat Advisories, an ER Doctor Explains Heat Stroke Signs and What to Do About It
Heat advisories are in no short supply this summer. Just today, according to CBS News, about half of the US has been under active heat advisories, affecting 168 million Americans. It's important that if you're spending time outside in the heat, you remain aware of symptoms of heat-related illness like heat stroke. According to the US Department of Labor, people who work outside are especially vulnerable in the first few days of heat exposure because their bodies need time to adapt. In addition to workers, heat stroke is especially common among "infants, younger children, the elderly and those with significant heart or lung conditions," Dr. Alex Koo, an emergency room physician with MedStar Health, told CNET. People with certain health conditions, those taking specific medications or drugs (including alcohol) and individuals living in hot climates or homes without air conditioning may also be at higher risk for heat stroke. This is what you should know if you or someone near you starts experiencing symptoms of heat stroke. Heat stroke symptoms to pay attention to "Heat stroke almost will always present with symptoms," said Koo. "As the body cannot dissipate heat faster than it is producing or receiving, the body will experience heat exhaustion first." While heat exhaustion isn't quite as serious, it still requires you to cool down as quickly as possible. If left untreated, heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, which is a medical emergency. If your symptoms worsen, last more than one hour or you start vomiting, call 911. Symptoms of heat stroke, according to the Mayo Clinic and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include: Altered mental state, including confusion, agitation and slurred speech (this may also result in "odd" behavior) Headache Hot, flushed, usually dry skin (or, alternatively, heavy sweating -- if brought on by exercise, heat stroke may include moist skin) Loss of consciousness Racing heartbeat Rapid breathing Seizures Very high body temperature Vomiting Keeping hydrated by drinking enough water, both before you head outdoors and while you're out in the heat, is an important step to warding off heat to do when experiencing heat stroke If you or someone around you is experiencing heat stroke, it's important to take action. 1. Call 911 Having heat stroke is a medical emergency that requires professional care. If there's more than one person around to aid the person suffering heat stroke, have them call 911 while the other helps the person through the steps below. 2. Get to a cooler area immediately If you're around someone who has heat stroke, move them to a cooler area such as a nearby air-conditioned room. As quickly as possible, "try to help that person to a shaded, cooler area," said Koo. The goal is to cool down the body's core temperature. 3. Take off excess clothing Removing long-sleeve shirts, pants or other clothing will help a person cool down faster. Koo said you should especially "loosen any tight clothing and have them sit or lie down on a cooler surface." (If you run in layers to "sweat off weight," you probably shouldn't. It's dangerous and can lead to heat stroke. Consider cooling clothes that work with your body to keep you cooler and more comfortable.) 4. Hold ice, cold towels or cool water to the skin If you or someone else is experiencing heat stroke, place a cold towel or water bottle on the neck, armpits or groin to help cool the body. While you wait for help to arrive, you can even spray them down with cold water or put them in a cold shower -- anything to cool them off. Cold water immersion or an ice bath is one treatment for heat stroke that doctors may use at the hospital. Don't force a drink on someone experiencing heat stroke, Koo said. "If the person is altered, confused, nauseous or seizing, do not try to force them to drink fluids. They could vomit and choke." However, if "the person is experiencing heat exhaustion and [is] able to drink fluids," then they can be given sips of water or "solute-infused beverage, as electrolyte sports drinks." Koo added, "Avoid caffeine-containing and alcoholic drinks." Other doctor-approved heat safety tips Koo told CNET, "Keep up to date on the weather, checking the forecast for the heat index, rather than just the temperature of the day." Remember that the early evening is going to be the hottest time of the day, not the afternoon. He said to also "prepare [yourself] and your loved ones for a day out in hot weather by wearing loose clothing, ensuring everyone is hydrated prior, during and after fun in the sun." Make sure you're applying and reapplying sunscreen and seeking shade whenever possible. "Know the signs of heat exhaustion as the first indication that it may be time to move to a cooler environment," he stated.
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
When is Labor Day Weekend in 2025? Why we celebrate with a 3-day weekend
As some parts of Texas face stifling heat, there's still several more weeks of the hottest part of the year. Labor Day has long been an unofficial mark of the end of summer — and the next three-day weekend before students and workers generally resume their five-day weekly schedules. When is Labor Day, and why do we celebrate it? Here's a quick rundown. People are also reading: Labor advocates demand heat protection for workers as planet warms When is Labor Day 2025? Labor Day is always the first Monday of September, which falls on Sept. 1 this year. When is Labor Day weekend 2025? This year Labor Day weekend runs from Saturday, Aug. 30 though Monday, Sept. 1. Is Labor Day a federal holiday? Yes. President Grover Cleveland signed a congressional act to make Labor Day a federal holiday on June 28, 1894. Before that, more than 30 states were already officially celebrating it. The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Why do we celebrate Labor Day? Labor Day honors the social and economic achievements of American workers. Its roots can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution and the labor movement activists of the late 19th century. These activists fought for workers' rights through organized strikes, demonstrations, and rallies focused on improving working conditions. Many modern employee benefits, including the 40-hour workweek, paid time off, sick leave and workplace safety, were made possible through the labor movement. Labor Day celebrates American workers, unions and labor leaders. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Labor Day weekend 2025: See date, history behind the federal holiday Solve the daily Crossword
Business Insider
20-07-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Nike salaries revealed: How much the retail giant pays designers, software engineers, and other tech workers
As Nike tries to mount a comeback and live up to its reputation as a dominant retail force, the sportswear giant appears to be investing in some tech and design jobs. Publicly available work visa data, which companies are required to disclose to the US Department of Labor, gives an idea of how much Nike's employees bring home and some of the roles it has invested in. Nike had about 890 open positions worldwide listed on its jobs board as of July 18. Current CEO Elliott Hill, who rejoined the company in October, has told investors that Nike is aligning its employees to focus on five key action areas: culture, product, marketing, marketplace, and connecting with consumers on the ground in their communities. That strategy plays into Nike's efforts to focus its marquee brands — Nike, Jordan, and Converse — on key sports such as running and basketball. "We are in the midst of realignment at Nike," Nike said in a statement to Business Insider. The realignment and sport strategy aim to "create sharper distinction and dimension" for its brands, the company said. Here's what some key Nike roles can earn based on data through the quarter ending in March. The salary data includes information from Nike Inc. and some subsidiaries, such as its retail services arm and Air Manufacturing Innovation division. It reflects US-based roles and, given it's based on H1-B visa disclosures, tends to skew more tech-focused. Data and engineering roles: Software engineers can earn more than $300,000 Software Engineer II: $156,641 to $172,780 a year Software Engineer III: $139,845 to $192,227 a year Data Engineering: $99,123 to $265,466 a year Data Analytics: $114,600 to $163,985 a year Materials Designer: $100,000 a year Senior Digital Product Designer: $126,617 a year Senior 3D Designer: $91,707 a year Manager roles: Managers can take home more than $270,000 Delivery Excellence, Uniform Operations Manager: $164,439 a year Product Manager: $154,577 to $204,753 a year Senior Program Manager: $147,434 a year
Economic Times
14-07-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
A ‘100% American' farm workforce? That's delusional
iStock Want a job picking fruit? There are thousands available right now on the US Department of Labor's Seasonal Jobs website. Orchard work paying $19.82 an hour in Washington, $17.96 in Pennsylvania and $15.87 in West Virginia. Berry planting and picking jobs at $19.97 an hour in California, $16.23 in Florida and $16.08 in Georgia. Employers have to offer these jobs to US workers before bringing in foreigners on H-2A visas for temporary agricultural work. The sharp rise in H-2A issuance the past decade indicates that they haven't been getting many takers. These statistics offer some context for Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' recent remarks that the agricultural workforce was headed 'towards automation and 100% American participation,' and that 'with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.' I'm confident that Rollins doesn't believe any of this. But after trying to get President Donald Trump to back off on deportations of farmworkers, briefly succeeding, then being overruled by guy-who-seems-to-be-in-charge-at-the-White-House-at-the-moment Stephen Miller, she had to come up with something to say. So let's unpack the Medicaid recipients. Almost two-thirds of the working-age adults on Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor, already have jobs. Most of those who don't are busy with school or unpaid caregiving, or suffer from an illness or disability. A recent KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation) analysis of Census Bureau survey data found this left about 2.1 million Medicaid recipients aged 19 to 64 who were not working for some other reason in that there's no real justification for restricting the view to Medicaid recipients, while sending 60-year-old newbies into the fields would be crazy, I looked at numbers from the same survey (the 2024 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, available at the University of Minnesota's IPUMS-CPS) and found an estimated 2.1 million 18-to-44-year-olds — 59% of them men — who did not work in 2023 and did not name disability, caregiving or school as the according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.3 million people were working for pay in agriculture and related industries in June. The number who are not US citizens is some fraction of that. So it'll be an easy swap, right? Well, no, unless the Trump administration plans to resort to forced labor. There may be some combination of technological innovation and higher wages that could lure more US citizens into farm work (want to operate berry-picking drones from your home computer for $50 an hour?), but it's certainly not going to happen quickly or Americans want to labor on farms because this is an affluent, urbanized (suburbanized, really) nation with ample less-grueling work on offer, and a prime-age (25-54) employment-population ratio that's near an all-time high. If government policy really were to shift to zero tolerance for not just undocumented immigrants but all noncitizens on US farms — which is what Rollins seemed to say — the short- and possibly longer-term outcome would be the collapse of American agricultural production. Already, the crackdowns have paralyzed farm work in some California counties. These statistics showing 42% of crop farmworkers to be undocumented come from an annual survey of just 1,500 to 3,600 workers, and may not be entirely reliable. One has to imagine that some farmworkers are wary of telling government survey-takers that they're here illegally. Plus, there's no sign in the survey results of the big growth that we know has happened in foreign farmworkers here legally on temporary visas. The survey also covers only crop farmworkers, who according to the USDA's quarterly farm labor survey make up about half of an overall hired-worker farm labor force that tops out in the summer at around 800, in turn is a lot less than the aforementioned 2.3 million agriculture and related industries workers estimated by the BLS from the Census Bureau's monthly Current Population Survey, with the difference partly definitional but also an indication that the available numbers on agricultural employment aren't ultra-reliable. The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages compiled by the BLS from state unemployment-insurance records doesn't count workers not covered by unemployment insurance, and reported an average of 1.2 million farm jobs last year. It offers what may be the best breakdown, though, of where those jobs are located. In these numbers, California has 34% of the nation's paid farm jobs. A 2022 analysis by the Center for Migration Studies of New York based on pre-pandemic Census data estimated that the Golden State accounted for 49% of the 283,000 undocumented agricultural workers in the US. The analysis also found that 70% of undocumented farmworkers had arrived in the US in the 1990s and 2000s — after the Immigration Act of 1986 had provided a path to legalization for an earlier generation and before increased border security made it much harder to cross over to the US and back undetected — and 88% were Mexican. The immigration wave of 2022-2024 appears to have been light on both Mexicans and wannabe farmworkers, so those numbers may not have changed all that much undocumented farmworkers are thus an experienced, aging bunch — in many cases quite skilled and hard to replace, but also facing bleak retirement prospects because while most have been paying into Social Security for decades, they've been doing so using fake IDs and won't be eligible for any benefits. For this and a lot of other reasons, widespread employment of undocumented workers is a bad thing. But I've heard many times from people in California's agricultural sector that they simply can't persuade US citizens or noncitizens with all-purpose work authorizations to take jobs in the sounds like a copout, but the evidence from H-2A visas does offer some support. To hire seasonal foreign workers, farmers not only have to offer the jobs domestically first, but also pay visa-holders prevailing local wages as calculated by the Department of Labor and provide transportation, housing and food. After decades of slow growth and complaints from farmers about the onerous requirements, the number of visas issued has tripled in the past decade, with Mexicans getting the overwhelming majority (other countries with significant numbers of H-2A recipients include South Africa, Jamaica and Guatemala).All in all the program, while not free of abuse, seems to be a successful effort to steer agricultural employment into legal channels, and so far there's no sign in the monthly visa numbers that Trump — whose own businesses are frequent users of H-2A and the smaller H-2B visa program for non-agricultural seasonal workers — is trying to slow it down. Immigration crackdown or no, a '100% American' farm workforce almost certainly isn't in our future. 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Time of India
14-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
A ‘100% American' farm workforce? That's delusional
Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this column are that of the writer. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of Want a job picking fruit? There are thousands available right now on the US Department of Labor's Seasonal Jobs website. Orchard work paying $19.82 an hour in Washington, $17.96 in Pennsylvania and $15.87 in West Virginia. Berry planting and picking jobs at $19.97 an hour in California, $16.23 in Florida and $16.08 in have to offer these jobs to US workers before bringing in foreigners on H-2A visas for temporary agricultural work. The sharp rise in H-2A issuance the past decade indicates that they haven't been getting many statistics offer some context for Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' recent remarks that the agricultural workforce was headed 'towards automation and 100% American participation,' and that 'with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid , we should be able to do that fairly quickly.' I'm confident that Rollins doesn't believe any of this. But after trying to get President Donald Trump to back off on deportations of farmworkers, briefly succeeding, then being overruled by guy-who-seems-to-be-in-charge-at-the-White-House-at-the-moment Stephen Miller, she had to come up with something to say. So let's unpack the Medicaid recipients. Almost two-thirds of the working-age adults on Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor, already have jobs. Most of those who don't are busy with school or unpaid caregiving, or suffer from an illness or disability. A recent KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation) analysis of Census Bureau survey data found this left about 2.1 million Medicaid recipients aged 19 to 64 who were not working for some other reason in that there's no real justification for restricting the view to Medicaid recipients, while sending 60-year-old newbies into the fields would be crazy, I looked at numbers from the same survey (the 2024 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey, available at the University of Minnesota's IPUMS-CPS) and found an estimated 2.1 million 18-to-44-year-olds — 59% of them men — who did not work in 2023 and did not name disability, caregiving or school as the according to the most recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2.3 million people were working for pay in agriculture and related industries in June. The number who are not US citizens is some fraction of that. So it'll be an easy swap, right? Well, no, unless the Trump administration plans to resort to forced labor. There may be some combination of technological innovation and higher wages that could lure more US citizens into farm work (want to operate berry-picking drones from your home computer for $50 an hour?), but it's certainly not going to happen quickly or Americans want to labor on farms because this is an affluent, urbanized (suburbanized, really) nation with ample less-grueling work on offer, and a prime-age (25-54) employment-population ratio that's near an all-time high. If government policy really were to shift to zero tolerance for not just undocumented immigrants but all noncitizens on US farms — which is what Rollins seemed to say — the short- and possibly longer-term outcome would be the collapse of American agricultural production. Already, the crackdowns have paralyzed farm work in some California statistics showing 42% of crop farmworkers to be undocumented come from an annual survey of just 1,500 to 3,600 workers, and may not be entirely reliable. One has to imagine that some farmworkers are wary of telling government survey-takers that they're here illegally. Plus, there's no sign in the survey results of the big growth that we know has happened in foreign farmworkers here legally on temporary visas. The survey also covers only crop farmworkers, who according to the USDA's quarterly farm labor survey make up about half of an overall hired-worker farm labor force that tops out in the summer at around 800, in turn is a lot less than the aforementioned 2.3 million agriculture and related industries workers estimated by the BLS from the Census Bureau's monthly Current Population Survey, with the difference partly definitional but also an indication that the available numbers on agricultural employment aren't ultra-reliable. The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages compiled by the BLS from state unemployment-insurance records doesn't count workers not covered by unemployment insurance, and reported an average of 1.2 million farm jobs last year. It offers what may be the best breakdown, though, of where those jobs are these numbers, California has 34% of the nation's paid farm jobs. A 2022 analysis by the Center for Migration Studies of New York based on pre-pandemic Census data estimated that the Golden State accounted for 49% of the 283,000 undocumented agricultural workers in the US. The analysis also found that 70% of undocumented farmworkers had arrived in the US in the 1990s and 2000s — after the Immigration Act of 1986 had provided a path to legalization for an earlier generation and before increased border security made it much harder to cross over to the US and back undetected — and 88% were Mexican. The immigration wave of 2022-2024 appears to have been light on both Mexicans and wannabe farmworkers, so those numbers may not have changed all that much undocumented farmworkers are thus an experienced, aging bunch — in many cases quite skilled and hard to replace, but also facing bleak retirement prospects because while most have been paying into Social Security for decades, they've been doing so using fake IDs and won't be eligible for any benefits. For this and a lot of other reasons, widespread employment of undocumented workers is a bad thing. But I've heard many times from people in California's agricultural sector that they simply can't persuade US citizens or noncitizens with all-purpose work authorizations to take jobs in the sounds like a copout, but the evidence from H-2A visas does offer some support. To hire seasonal foreign workers, farmers not only have to offer the jobs domestically first, but also pay visa-holders prevailing local wages as calculated by the Department of Labor and provide transportation, housing and food. After decades of slow growth and complaints from farmers about the onerous requirements, the number of visas issued has tripled in the past decade, with Mexicans getting the overwhelming majority (other countries with significant numbers of H-2A recipients include South Africa, Jamaica and Guatemala).All in all the program, while not free of abuse, seems to be a successful effort to steer agricultural employment into legal channels, and so far there's no sign in the monthly visa numbers that Trump — whose own businesses are frequent users of H-2A and the smaller H-2B visa program for non-agricultural seasonal workers — is trying to slow it down. Immigration crackdown or no, a '100% American' farm workforce almost certainly isn't in our future.
