House impeachment managers said many rioters believed they were following Donald Trump’s direction when they attacked the Capitol, as Democrats tried to show the former president incited the mob to insurrection.
House impeachment managers said many rioters believed they were following Donald Trump’s direction when they attacked the Capitol, as Democrats tried to show the former president incited the mob to insurrection.
Christopher Wilson
February 11, 2021, 2:00 AM
A damning new study by the Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, found that Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while he was president exacerbated problems that had been accruing over four decades of government neglect, leading to Americans dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than people in other high-income nations.
The report commissioned by The Lancet, a British publication, laid out how years of declining spending on public health and an increase in wealth inequality combined with COVID-19 to cause avoidable deaths in the United States, with a disproportionate effect on minority communities. The authors found that 40 percent of the more than 400,000 American virus deaths as of mid-January could have been averted if the U.S. had a mortality rate in line with those of the other G-7 nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K.).
Biden’s claim that with a $15 minimum wage, ‘the whole economy rises’ Glenn Kessler (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News)
“I do think that we should have a minimum wage, stand by itself, $15 an hour and work your way up to the it doesn’t have to be boom. And all the economics show, if you do that, the whole economy rises.”
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, Feb. 5, 2021 President Biden is pushing for a gradual increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, after which it would be indexed for inflation. The wage was last raised in 2009, to $7.25, though more than half of the states now have set even higher minimums.