| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers,...
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| Feb 3, 2021 | RoundupThis week, Democrats are grappling with whether to press ahead with their own COVID-19 relief package or to seek some consensus — by drastically reducing the scope of the effort — with their GOP colleagues. In OtherWords, Mitchell Zimmerman says that would...
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| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThe Democratic Party establishment is now issuing a go-slow warning to the new president they backed. They instruct that, while Biden should undo the most repressive and regressive edicts of Trump, he should not attempt the kind of big-idea, Rooseveltian structural...