The Fed wrapped up its two day policy meeting by voting to keep interest rates unchanged. The Central bank has projected GDP will expand this year amid pent up demand from the business closures last year. On Wall to Wall, Greta spoke with Michele Schneider, the managing director of the Market Gauge Group, to get her reaction to the bank’s projection.
Biden’s USPS electric fleet mandate shock to taxpayers
Ross Marchand - Contributing columnist
Over the past few months, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has seen more than its fair share of turmoil. Thousands of workers are quarantined, net losses remain stubbornly high ($9.2 billion last year), and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s long-overdue operational changes have been met with scorn and conspiracizing.
And now, President Joe Biden is adding to the agency’s angst by requiring (via executive order) that the agency operate a fleet of electric trucks. This move will make it even more difficult for the USPS to climb out of its steep fiscal shortfall and make a costly taxpayer bailout more likely. Biden should ditch his electrification plan and let America’s mail carrier choose the most cost-effective trucks to deliver for postal consumers.
Big Tech helps small businesses during pandemic
Johnny Kampis - Contributing columnist
Like many, Cindy Bielik had to make adjustments to her small family business quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Facebook gave them the tools to adjust to the new COVID world.
Bielik co-owns The Dinner Club, a meal preparation service in La Grange Park, Illinois, with her sister Joyce Clarkson. Even though the two started the business 15 years ago, they had perhaps never faced quite a challenge (and perhaps, opportunity) when the stay-at-home orders began to be handed down by governments in March.
The sisters grew up together in a home with regular home-cooked meals, but realized that in today’s society it’s becoming harder and harder for families to take the time to plan, shop and prepare daily meals. The two started The Dinner Club to help eliminate the frustration of planning and preparing meals. They hoped this new service would allow more time for families to spend quality time tog
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One more building block to fit into their foundation of one world order if these pass. What times we live in! Looking forward to a time when the only “King” or “Ruler” is God Almighty our loving creator! I appreciate the persistence in continuing the good work needed to maintain a balanced, righteous, peace-loving nation (and world!). God bless us all and help us to remain humble and compassionate with a quiet, never-ending strength to overcome the forces of evil. Reply 1 month ago
As far as I am concerned, politicians only deal with half-truths and the balance in lies. Watch the airing of Mike Lindell’s Video of “Absolute Truth” then convince me the election was ligament.
Dear Member of Congress,
On behalf of millions of taxpayers across the country, we urge you to reject proposals to increase the federal minimum wage at a time of unprecedented economic calamity, including President Joe Biden’s push to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, more than doubling the current minimum wage of $7.25/hour.
President Biden’s recent $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” calls on Congress to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15/hour and eliminate the “tipped” minimum wage for servers. The Biden proposal likely mirrors legislation passed by the House in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021, the Raise the Wage Act, which increases the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, indexes it to inflation, and repeals the tipped minimum wage for servers.