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Joe Biden kicked off his presidency by obliterating a vast swath of Trump administration measures within hours, even as he steeled his team for a series of bruising fights with business over the economy, starting with a $US15 minimum wage and tax hikes.
Riding a wave of market and popular relief at his inauguration as America s 46th president on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), Mr Biden wasted no time in signing 15 executive orders.
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the White House.
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They included halting the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline project to Canada, rejoining the Paris Accord, restoring US membership of the World Trade Organisation and creating a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/490729.html (Natural News) Joe Biden told a small crowd at his inauguration Wednesday he wanted to ‘unify’ the country.
Biden is used to speaking to small crowds; he couldn’t draw flies to a manure festival when he barely campaigned for president last fall. And his running mate, Kamala Harris, was so unpopular even Biden got more black support than she did as she became one of the first in the crowded field of Democratic hopefuls to abandon her traction-less effort.
So was it COVID-19 that kept people way? Nope; earlier this month before professional agitators convinced a few hundred of his supporters to riot at the Capitol Building, then-President Donald Trump (still our
As Romney Quibbles on COVID Relief Bill, Progressives Urge Biden to Move Swiftly
Sen. Mitt Romney attends a hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on January 19, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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With Covid-19 killing thousands of people each day in the U.S. and the economy still mired in deep recession, progressives are calling on President Joe Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress to abandon futile outreach to the GOP and push ahead with a robust relief package after a pair of so-called “moderate” Republican senators voiced skepticism Wednesday about passing another major spending bill.
Warning: Biden would boost pay but blow up small business
Thursday, January 21, 2021 |
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President Joe Biden will urge the Democrat-controlled Congress to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a push that is alarming some economists and lawmakers, and small business owners already struggling during the pandemic.
The current minimum wage is $7.25, which has remained unchanged for more than a decade since it was bumped up in July of 2009.
According to CNBC, the business news outlet, Biden is including the $15-per-hour push in the America Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion aid package that promises to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden recently outlined his plans to hit the ground running in his first 100 days in office, including a $1.9 trillion spending bill that he hopes the Democrat-controlled Congress will pass quickly. Included in that proposed spending bill are two items in particular that employers should pay attention to and that have been the topic of recent HR Legalist coverage: a minimum wage increase, and extension of paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”).
As recently noted here, the new year brought with it an increase to several states’ minimum wage, including California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, with the end goal being an eventual $15 per hour minimum wage. As the various states take differing paths to arrive at the desired $15 per hour minimum, the lack of uniformity can be somewhat of a head