Democrats in the House and Senate reintroduced a bill Tuesday to raise the U.S. minimum wage to $15 per hour. CNBC reports, Democrats reintroduce $15 minimum wage bill with unified control of Congress, White House: The legislation would gradually hike the pay floor to $15 an hour nationwide by 2025, then tie future increases to … Read more
Saying “Climate Day” at the White House is the same as “Jobs Day,” President Biden, accompanied by Vice President Harris and climate/clean energy advisors Gina McCarthy and John Kerry, unveiled three new Executive Orders to combat climate change and create new high paying union jobs for Americans. The President rightly told the audience that healthy … Read more
The Senate’s 50 Democrats represent 41 million more Americans than do its 50 Republicans. Yet Mitch McConnell and his tyranny of the minority took the Senate hostage and refused to agree to an organizing resolution unless Democrats acceded to McConnell’s demand that he be allowed to exercise the “McConnell Veto,” by way of the Senate … Read more
One of the provisions in the Biden/Harris $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus economic proposal is increases in both the child and earned income tax credits. If passed in its current form, qualifying families with children would receive about $3000 per child from the United States Government for this year. If the tax credits (a plan proposed … Read more
The Arizona Unemployment Rate for December was 7.5 percent. The National Rate is 6.7 percent. The state benefit for Individual Arizonans on unemployment is $240.00 a week. Only Mississippi in this country is worse. The Arizona Unemployment system discourages people from accepting part-time work before they find a full job again because the “limit to … Read more