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1w ago
What’s behind the wage gap between men and women? It has narrowed recently. In 2023, women’s median weekly wages of $1,005 equaled 84% of men’s ..read more
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1w ago
New York state lawmakers plan to hand out tens of millions in taxpayer dollars to local media outlets to help pay for journalists’ salaries. The ..read more
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1w ago
California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top ..read more
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2w ago
On April 1, the new California $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect. In signing the bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom rejected the ..read more
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2w ago
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers, and President Joe Biden is trying to help. Last month ..read more
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1M ago
When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today ..read more
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1M ago
One week the Environmental Protection Agency comes for our gasoline-powered cars, the next for our diesel-powered trucks. EPA chose Good Friday, when many Americans were ..read more
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1M ago
Buying a home is a cornerstone of the American dream, a dream that is further out of reach today for many Americans. According to the ..read more
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1M ago
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—One-third of small-business owners say increased crime is cutting into their earnings, and 7 in 10 grade President Joe Biden’s performance ..read more
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1M ago
Lawmakers snuck the Corporate Transparency Act into the 1,480-page National Defense Authorization Act in 2021. The measure is targeted squarely at small businesses with fewer ..read more