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Jun 06 2023
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CDA wages lead Idaho
Idaho’s average wage for all occupations increased by $1.64 to $24.69 per hour for 2022 and the Coeur d’Alene area recorded the biggest increase, according to a recently released state survey. Idaho’s median wage, representing the midpoint between lowest and highest earners, increased from $18.50 per hour in 2021 to $19.26 per hour in 2022, according to the state Bureau of Labor Statistics’
Spokesman ReviewJan 02 2024
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Big Macs could cost $15 thanks to minimum wage hikes: analyst
The decision by states in half the country to hike their minimum wage could send the price of fast-food staples like a McDonald’s Big Mac soaring to $15 in those states, according to an economic analyst.
Brandon Arnold, executive vice president of the fiscally conservative think tank the National Taxpayers Union, pointed to California’s decision to mandate that employees at fast food
New York Post (News)Jan 01 2024
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Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and Delaware for 2024, but no change in Pennsylvania
Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and Delaware for 2024, but no change in Pennsylvania Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and Delaware for 2024, but no change in Pennsylvania Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and Delaware for 2024, but no change in Pennsylvania Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and Delaware for 2024, but no change in Pennsylvania Minimum wage goes up in New Jersey and
ABC 6 WPVIMay 17 2024
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Real Madrid considering Kroos and Modric contract renewals
Real Madrid are considering renewing the contracts of Toni Kroos and Luka Modric. Both players’ deals expire on June 30 and this is the first time this season that Madrid have considered extending the midfielders’ stay at the club beyond the end of the campaign. The the idea since last summer has been that at least one of the two players would leave after the 2023-2024 campaign. This would
New York Times (News)Nov 02 2023
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Not only will Uber and Lyft pay $328 million to settle a wage theft suit, they are establishing a New York minimum wage and paid sick leave
Uber and Lyft will pay drivers in New York a combined $328 million to settle wage theft claims and have agreed to establish a minimum wage and paid sick leave for drivers across the state, Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday. The settlements resolve allegations that the popular riding-hailing companies improperly charged drivers sales taxes and other fees when those costs should
FortuneMay 16 2024
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Putin Backs Beijing Peace Plan for Ukraine as He Meets with Xi Jinping in China
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing as Russia wages a new offensive in northeast Ukraine. Last year, China put out a 12-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. Earlier today, Xi said China “hopes for the early return of Europe to peace and stability.” Xi and Putin also signed a joint statement to deepen their partnership on trade, as
Democracy Now!May 17 2024
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UAW faces test of its plan to unionize auto plants in anti-union South as vote wraps up at 2 Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama
The United Auto Workers union faces the latest test of its ambitious plan to unionize auto plants in the historically nonunion South when a vote ends Friday at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The voting at the two Mercedes factories — one an assembly plant, the other a battery-making facility — comes a month after the UAW scored a breakthrough victory at Volkswagen’s
FortuneMay 12 2024
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AOC highlights effort to ‘win’ against ‘barbarism’ for the future
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was adamant that she will not give up working to fend off a future she views as undesirable, saying, “we have to fight for each other.” While speaking on Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) podcast, AOC complained that people are forced to choose “between medicine and rent,” ostensibly because of perceived inequities in healthcare and wages, calling it “barbarism
Washington ExaminerSep 18 2023
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Connecticut's minimum wage to go up in January
Connecticut’s minimum wage will go up next year from $15 per hour to $15.69 per hour. The governor’s office said the increase, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, is due to the state’s first-ever economic indicator adjustment. A new state law signed in 2019 included five incremental increases in the minimum wage between 2019 and 2023, followed by future adjustments that are tied to the
NBC ConnecticutMay 15 2024
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Regional Complexities Of The Israel/Hamas War : Fresh Air
The Economist Middle East correspondent Gregg Carlstrom explains why some Arab leaders hate Hamas, fear Iran and have some sympathy for Israel — although not for how Israel is waging the war.
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