Joblessness down. Inflation down. Is that really the whole story?
WASHINGTON—Joblessness dropped to 3.7% last month. Inflation hit that figure, too, at an annual rate. Even low-wage workers’ pay hikes surpassed that.
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Top Jan. 6 witness Hutchinson: Trump should be nowhere near Oval Office again
NEW YORK—Former Republican White House denizen Donald Trump is so dangerous to democracy that he “should be nowhere near the Oval Office again,” says Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top Trump insider turned top Jan. 6 committee witness.
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Newsom backtracking on higher minimum wage
SACRAMENTO—Apparently backtracking on a prior agreement, Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., says the state now cannot afford an already enacted minimum wage hike for half a million healthcare workers next year.
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Mideast and even Ukraine ceasefire demands growing in the labor movement
MINNEAPOLIS—The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) has become the latest large labor group to demand a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Gaza war.
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No pact, no benefits, law-breaking force Mt. Sinai Hospital strike
NEW YORK—Earlier this year, Jessica Wang was forced into an impossible choice: Her baby or her career. “I was forced to choose between my baby and doing research that furthers science and my career,” she told the Auto Workers, who represent her and 500 other postdocs at New York City’s Mount...
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