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‘Irresponsible’ and ‘long overdue’: What economists and workers say about Biden’s bid for a $15 minimum wage and end to tip credits MarketWatch 1/20/2021 © Getty Images When President-elect Joe Biden first proposed raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour on the campaign trail in 2019, the U.S. was experiencing its best unemployment figures in decades. Since then, the unemployment rate has nearly doubled to 6.7% as the pandemic has cost millions of Americans their livelihoods. Som...

Campbeltown Courier Some of Kintyres heroic Davids, from left: David Armour, David Cox and David Fyfe. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to rein...

Opinion/First Person: The Library of disposable Art — Autographed Copies David Macpherson The recent passing of David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader in the first three "Star Wars" films, made me remember the one time I met him.  I was 10 years old. It was 1979. I was visiting family in New York City. My uncle, realizing that I loved comic books to an insane degree, took me to a new kind of store. It was a comic book shop. Who knew that such delights were even legal? The shop was s...

WATCH: A live conversation about medicine, spirituality and mental health during a pandemic holiday season Experts from Trinity University speak to KSAT anchors about managing the holidays Updated:  Tags:  . On Wednesday, Dec. 16 at 6:30 p.m., KSAT anchors Steve Spriester and Isis Romero hosted experts from Trinity University to discuss and answer your questions about medicine, spirituality and mental health during this holiday season. (Previously) The conversation will begin at 6:30 p.m., du...