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Pelosi: House set to approve $15 fed minimum wage
For the first time in a decade, the House is set to approve an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including for tipped workers.
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Pelosi: House set to approve $15 fed minimum wage
For the first time in a decade, the House is set to approve an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including for tipped workers.
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Protesters hound Buttigieg at minimum wage march
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Newsy’s Latest Headlines
White House defends push for $15/hour minimum wage, and other top headlines.
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Worried About Long-Term Scarring to Economy: Joseph Stiglitz
Jan.21 -- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and professor at Columbia University, speaks with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick and Joe Weisenthal on "What'd You Miss?" about the inequality in the U.S. economic recovery.
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We Are Heading for the Worst Inflation Risk in 40 Years: Summers
Feb.26 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, cautions against dismissing concerns that the economy could overheat. He says there is tension between Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's...
Bloomberg
Some Tech Stocks Are Overvalued: Kraus & Tett
Feb.26 -- Financial Times Editorial Board Chair Gillian Tett says some tech stocks are overvalued and cautions that markets are positioned in a way that suggests that rates will stay low forever. Aperture Investors Chairman & CEO Peter...
Bloomberg
Inflation Caused by Fed Dismissing Concerns as Transient: Summers
Mar.05 -- Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a Wall Street Week contributor, says that every great inflation is caused by a central bank that dismisses it as transient. He thinks the Fed should be prepared to cause pain...
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U.K. Supreme Court: Uber Drivers Are Workers, Should Get Benefits
The decision could have ripple effects across the ride-share industry and threaten its business model.
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Union chief: Gig workers deserve to be treated with dignity
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady speaks following a decision by Uber to give its drivers a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions. Ms O'Grady said the "writing was on the wall" for similarly structured gig economy practices.
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House Passes $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package
The bill heads to the Senate, despite getting no support from House Republicans.
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CLEAN : 2021 Nobel Economics winners "discovered that what we thought was right is wrong"
We discovered that what we thought was right is wrong" explains Nobel committee member Tore Ellingsen about the work of newly awarded Guido W. Imbens, Joshua Angrist and David Card who revolutionised empirical work in their field and...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCES PLAN TO COMBAT SWEATSHOPS
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United States President Clinton teamed up with the garment industry Monday to announce a plan to help combat sweatshops -- where workers are forced to labour long hours producing clothes for extremely low wages.
In a...
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Fast food protests return across the U.S. amid push by White House, lawmakers for higher minimum wage. (Dec 5)
"We can't survive, on 7.25."
(UPSOUND: Protester)
"Hold the pickles. Hold the fries. Make our wages super-size."
"This is what democracy looks like ..."
(SOT: Jenny Paris, Popeye's employee)
"It has become really difficult, I have had to...
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HONG KONG: MAIDS LEAD DEMONSTRATION
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About four hundred foreign workers have staged a protest in Hong Kong, fearing more layoffs and pay cuts amid a deepening recession.
Demonstrators, mostly Filipino maids, attacked a proposal to cut the government-set...
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Hundreds demonstrate to demand rise in minimum wage
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Haiti's impoverished capital, Port-au-Prince, on Wednesday to demand an increase in their wages.
Garment workers at an industrial park in Port-au-Prince say that the government's...
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Haitian police fire tear gas at protesters demanding rise in minimum wage
1. Wide of protesters knocking down crowd barriers
2. Medium of tear gas canister on ground, pulls out to show people fleeing
3. Various of riot police, kicking away tear gas canisters and protesters clashing
4. Wide of parliament
5....
Bloomberg
Puerto Rican Economy Starting to Stabilize
Oct. 30 -- OFG Bancorp President and CEO Jose Fernandez discusses the state of Puerto Ricos economy. He speaks on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg
NRF: Retail Job Wages 'Highly Competitive
Oct. 15 -- Bloomberg's Yang Yang reports on the National Retail Federations wage report. She speaks on Bottom Line. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Democratic senators are taking aim at insurance executives' pay as they jockey for advantage in a rare weekend session to debate President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
HEADLINE: Rare Saturday session for Senate health care debate
CAPTION: Americans can't take weekends off from worrying about health care and the Senate shouldn't either, Majority Leader Harry Reid said he opened a rare Saturday...
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Minimum Wage Protests at McDonald's Headquarters
Thousands of protesters marched to McDonald's Corp. headquarters outside of Chicago in heavy rain and thunderstorms.They were marching and rallying demanding a higher wage and a union ahead of the fast-food giant's annual shareholders'...
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Hundreds of fast food workers have gathered in New York City demanding a $15 minimum wage. New York's minimum wage is now $8.75 and is set to rise to $9 at year's end. (June 15)
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus033056Hundreds of fast food workers have gathered in New York City demanding a $15 minimum wage.The crowd formed before a meeting of a wage board created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It's scheduled to...
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Clinton: Should be About Families, Not Politics
Hillary Clinton shared her visions for child care and breaking down barriers for young families at a family health center in Louisville, Kentucky on Tuesday. Clinton said her view on family care was in sharp contrast to that of the...
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CLEAN : South African trade unionists march through Cape Town
CLEAN : South African trade unionists march through Cape Town