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Neoliberalism is coming apart and Biden has a real opportunity to transform the everyday world
Liberal economic ideas dominated the political conservation in the United States for almost half a century, starting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory over President Herbert Hoover in 1932. But the New Deal era ended when Presid ...[Read more]
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Biden to Sign Executive Order Raising Federal Workers’ Wages to $15 an Hour
President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that he is raising the minimum wage for employees contracted to work for the federal government to $15 per hour starting next spring. The increase will represent a 37 percent increase in pay overall from th ...[Read more]
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Corporations Like McDonald’s Don’t Believe Their Own Anti–Minimum Wage Talking Points
Restaurant chains have told their investors that a minimum wage hike wouldn't be a big deal — even as their corporate lobbying groups in Washington fight plans for a $15 minimum wage. ...[Read more]
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With $15 Wage Included, House Dems Fulfill Election Promise With Passage of Sweeping $1.9 Trillion Covid-19 Relief Package
"House passage today of President Biden's American Rescue Plan moves us one step closer to the investments needed to crush this virus, distribute the vaccine, reopen our schools and revitalize the economy." ...[Read more]
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Business groups prepare for lobbying push against $15 minimum wage
Business groups are preparing for a lobbying fight after Democrats in both chambers reintroduced a bill Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act, spearheaded by incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sand ...[Read more]
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Biden’s First Days Signal Significant Shift From Trump on Labor and Economy
As President Joe Biden begins rolling out executive orders and legislative proposals aimed at reshaping federal government priorities, when it comes to labor issues, his $15 federal minimum wage proposal, which would increase the minimum wage nationally t ...[Read more]
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Government Study Confirms $7.25 Minimum Wage Is Poverty Trap for Millions of Americans
Bolstering arguments that the minimum wage in the United States is a "starvation wage" that must be lifted, a new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that millions of families with a worker earning the federal minimum or just above i ...[Read more]
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