How States Should—And Should Not—Push Back Against the Biden Administration theepochtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theepochtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For some special interests, a fading coronavirus pandemic poses a problem, but not always an insurmountable one.
Big Labor and its acolytes cite the virus as a compelling reason for doubling the minimum wage and forcing businesses to provide more paid sick leave, while the Biden administration is using the pandemic as part of its justification for overhauling immigration toward eventual amnesty
for undocumented migrants.
Meanwhile, the left-leaning Brookings Institution has successfully persuaded the federal government to allocate more money to child care programs in the name of pandemic safety.
These changes have long been on the policy wish lists of advocates, but in a time of pandemic they evoke words widely attributed to Winston Churchill: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Or as a headline this week might sum up a new urgency: “The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials.”
By Erin Beck
Mountain State Spotlight Mar 11, 2021
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Amid a global pandemic and economic crisis, state lawmakers are rushing through legislation that could make it harder for West Virginians to file for unemployment if they lose work and pay for medical care if they get sick on the job.
West Virginians could also lose state-level protections that became especially important during the pandemic, like guarantees they would be paid on time, earn minimum wage, and receive overtime pay.
Idaho lawmakers plan veto power over federal government idahobusinessreview.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idahobusinessreview.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was a freezing afternoon in February 2011 as I marched up State Street to the Wisconsin State Capitol. I was between undergraduate classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when I caught word that a group of graduate-student workers were delivering valentines to Republican Governor Scott Walker and holding a rally at the Capitol urging him not to abolish their collective-bargaining rights. I had some time to kill and was curious about the action, so I marched along with them.
On the Capitol steps, I learned that Walker was proposing drastic legislation, known as Act 10 â ostensibly a âbudget repair billâ â that would strip away the collective-bargaining rights of public-sector workers. It would effectively kneecap the unions that represented my graduate-student teaching assistants, K-12 teachers, public-works employees, and other public-sector workers. The legislation would force public-worker unions to re-certify themselves annually by obtaining a majori