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Feb 10 2021
News
House panel advances $15 minimum wage as Democrats try to include it in Covid relief bill
A House committee early on Wednesday approved a portion of the Democratic coronavirus relief proposal which includes a $15 per hour minimum wage.
The chamber’s Education and Labor panel advanced its piece of the $1.9 trillion aid package in a 27-21 party line vote. The proposal includes a provision to gradually raise the federal pay floor to $15 an hour by 2025.
The House Budget
CNBCFeb 19 2014
News
Dems struggle (again) to explain why less work is better
For a second straight week, Democrats find themselves explaining why it’s a good thing for fewer Americans to be employed. Last week, it was a Congressional Budget Office report that said millions would leave the U.S. workforce in order to obtain ObamaCare benefits. This week, the CBO says that the centerpiece of the Obama Democrats midterm campaign pitch, a call to increase the federal
Fox News (Online News)Feb 10 2015
News
At stake in immigration debate: Billions of dollars
In Congress’ standoff over immigration policy, Republicans seem to be battling not only President Barack Obama but their own rhetoric on government spending. Immigration riders attached to the Homeland Security spending bill by the House GOP turn out to actually widen the budget deficit over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. As a result, the $39.7 billion measure
PoliticoFeb 07 2015
News
Low Deficits Don't Prove That More Spending Is Needed
Over the last few years, the Republican Congress and Barack Obama have done a decent job of bringing down the immense deficits created by the recession and the President Obama's own response to it. The federal deficit is now "only" $468 billion dollars for 2015. The deficit will continue to fall, mostly because of increased taxes, until 2017 - at which point it will start to grow larger,
TownhallJan 02 2013
Opinion
GOP Rep: Senate Republicans "Must Have Been Drunk" to Vote For the Cliff Deal
How bad do some House Republicans think the Senate bill is? Ohio Rep. Steven LaTourette thinks the only way that number of Senate Republicans could have voted for the plan was if they were drunk:
"I think our sense, at least in the House, was that a number of the Republicans that voted for it must have been drunk, because it really was a number that wasn't reflective of where we thought
TownhallFeb 25 2015
News
Yes Obama's Amnesties Do Increase Deficits
Yesterday I asked White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest to justify White House claims that President Obama's immigration executive actions reduce federal deficits in light of a letter from the Congressional Budget Office showing that they increase on-budget deficits by $8.8 billion.
Earnest then claimed that I was reading the letter wrong, and that the letter actually said that
TownhallFeb 18 2015
News
Obama Touts Phony Obamacare Numbers (Again)
Last year, the Obama administration announced to much fanfare that it cleared 8 million Obamacare enrollments but later admitted it inflated those figures by 1.3 million.
In the wake of the bogus numbers revelation, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell apologized for the “unacceptable mistake” and held meetings to solicit ideas on how to repair HHS’s tarnished image
Breitbart NewsJan 27 2021
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Left and Right Coverage on Minimum Wage Bump Differs
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” -Mark Twain
On Tuesday, Democrats in Congress reintroduced a bill to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. Slanted coverage soon followed.
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Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: Partisan Divide Emerges on Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act
Each week, AllSides Media Bias Alerts examine media bias in coverage of a major or important story using the AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and our AllSides Media Bias Chart™.
The Inflation Reduction Act (a scaled-back version of Biden’s defunct Build Back Better legislation) recently passed in the Senate after over a year of negotiation. Worth roughly $740 billion, the bill contains
Clare AshcraftApr 08 2021
News
National debt is surging higher. Here’s why worry is heading lower.
Politicians of both parties have long kicked concerns about national debt down the road. Now an era of low interest rates and a focus on economic recovery push the value of fiscal responsibility even further out of sight.
Like the swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano and the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio, the doves on government debt have returned to Washington.
And in a big way
Christian Science Monitor