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It may be overshadowed by stimulus checks and unemployment benefits, but the money for multiemployer pension funds could save workers' retirements.

Hand gestures are commonplace in the Senate, but Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is getting flack for the way she voted against a $15 minimum wage.

Senate GOP Down One for Stimulus Vote-a-Rama as Dan Sullivan Returns Home for Funeral On 3/5/21 at 8:12 PM EST Alaskan Republican Senator Dan Sullivan has left Washington D.C. for a funeral as the Senate votes on potential amendments to the coronavirus relief package. Sullivans return to his home state is due to the funeral of his father-in-law, which is being held in Fairbanks, according to The Hill. "Senator Sullivan intended to vote against final passage of the bill and made his opposition ...

KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): The government is tapping into more data compiled by various ministries to narrow down its assistance to individuals and businesses that are still reeling from the year-long health pandemic, says Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Aziz (pic). "We are holding discussions at the finance and relevant ministries level on how we can help, especially in the sectors that are still affected by this epidemic," he said. The discussions and data compiled would be use...

The agreement paves the way for President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill to move forward in the Senate.

Raising The Minimum Wage Would Have Been A Popular Move, Polls Show Support for increasing the minimum wage to $15 was near-universal among Democrats. Bill Clark via Getty Images Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, to call on Congress to pass the $15 federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill.  Slightly above half of Americans favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15, a new HuffPost/YouG...

Debbie Stabenow Doesnt Know How GOP Senators Vote Against Stimulus Bill Is a Winning Message On 3/6/21 at 3:53 PM EST Following Saturdays Senate vote to pass President Joe Bidens $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, Democratic Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow criticized her Republican colleagues who voted against the package—given its bipartisan popularity and the ways it helps so many Americans. In an interview with MSNBC, Stabenow was asked whether she was disappointed that the votes fell on...

Senate passes Bidens $1.9tr COVID-19 bill on party-line vote

Americas $1.9 trillion rescue package could throw a spanner in RBIs recovery plans SECTIONS Share Synopsis In India, the government is following a borrow-to-grow strategy but the RBI, while helping keep the government’s borrowing cost low, is geared to keep inflation under control. The contradictory impulses would be tough to balance. Agencies Rural fuel inflation rate since February 2020 averaged only about 1% but urban fuel prices rose at a rate of about 7%. The government will soon give th...

Hyde-Smith, Wicker wanted pro-life amendment included in relief bill.