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Summary List PlacementIn his first presidential town hall, President Joe Biden again signaled his support for a $15 minimum wage.  Biden was questioned by a business owner, who expressed concern that businesses in areas with a low cost of living would have to shutter if it went up.  Biden said it's "not illegitimate" for small businesses to worry about the impact of increasing the minimum wage...

Summary List PlacementMore than a decade since the last federal minimum wage increase, the country could be on track to see more than a doubling of the current rate by the year 2025, but only if Democrats can get the measure passed. As part of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, he included a measure to raise the minimum wage from its current...

Summary List PlacementHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi can only afford to lose the support of a handful of her House Democratic colleagues in order to be elected on January 3, to her fourth term as leader of the House. A handful of outspoken left-wing activists are pressuring Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive House lawmakers to take advantage of this vulnerability to force a vote...