In a development that should shock absolutely no one, California’s newest minimum wage hike is going to lead to higher prices and smaller businesses being run out of business to the benefit of massive corporations. It’s just another day in progressive California.
It was over ten years ago that I first became aware of an enormous problem affecting my constituents and pregnant workers across the country after reading a 2012 op-ed on pregnancy discrimination in the workplace. I learned how it is a pervasive and persistent issue that pregnant workers were pushed off the job when they simply...
The 14th Amendment clause that attorneys argue should disqualify former President Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot can apply to presidents, an expert witness testified Wednesday, going directly against the Trump campaign’s arguments. Attorneys called on a 14th Amendment expert in the hearing’s third day, Indiana University law professor Gerard Magliocca, to lay out exactly how...
The infant mortality rate in the U.S. rose for the first time in 20 years last year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with significant increases observed in two of the top causes of death. Between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in the U.S. rose by 3...
Bernice King, the daughter of late civil rights legend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., corrected comedian Amy Schumer over the use of her father's image in a pro-Israel social media post amid the war between the country and militant group Hamas. “Amy: Certainly, my father was against antisemitism, as am I. He also believed militarism...
The State Department on Wednesday announced a partnership with the nonprofit SAFE on the development of critical mineral supply chains, part of broader Biden administration efforts to reduce foreign dependence on such resources. The partnership, the Minerals Investment Network for Vital Energy Security and Transition (MINVEST), will aim to marshal private sector support for U.S....
The Senate will hold a forum with experts about the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on elections next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday. The forum will be the fifth in a series of AI Insight Forums Schumer convened that bring in stakeholders from tech companies, civil society groups and other experts...
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, the first time in nearly two years that the central bank paused rates over the course of two consecutive meetings. Since March 2022, the Fed has hiked the federal funds rate from near-zero percent to a range of 5.25 to 5.5 percent in an effort to curb...
The loudest voices conclude that there is no possibility that one can support human rights for innocent Palestinian civilians while also advocating the destruction of the terrorist-state network that commanded the butchering of babies and abduction of the elderly.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is slated to hold a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. Powell recently signaled that more rate hikes could be on the way if inflation remains high. The “core” Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rose 0.3 percent in September, weighing in at a 3.7 percent annual rate, down from 3.9...