Each state is different. Per this article, NE is going up by $1.50/hr to $12 this year with more raises following each year for a few more.

This somewhat recent law might make hiding behind shell companies more difficult:

https://apnews.com/article/business-miami-money-laundering-legislation-trump-investigations-1e6c527fafd9e5a7b56af1eff9d3247e

I’m sorry that you had to go through that. Hopefully the dentist is alarmed at this failure and reflects on ways to avoid it in future procedures.

She probably saw from your eyes and expression how stressed you were. You might have looked a little “wild-eyed” to her. She barely knows you so she wouldn’t know with confidence that you behave well under pressure.

I suggest that you leave a message informing your dentist of what happened here regarding insufficient pain management. You can include an apology if you want for seeming stressed.

The goal here is to inform her that she can do a more thorough job managing pain. Part of that needs to be telling her patients to speak up as soon as they begin to feel pain. I’ll bet that had you told staff of the pain they’d have found a way to manage it. Probably the Dr would have popped over and dosed you with something.

Here’s a podcast where the first handful of episodes lays out what it’d look like if a civil war were to happen and why the author thinks there’s a reasonable chance that it could happen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-could-happen-here/id1449762156?i=1000433661458

We’ve seen his lawyer go to prison before and that pattern may repeat here. We’ll just have to see whether he ends up seeing the inside of a cell along with them.