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NCAA Can No Longer ‘Tweak' Its Governance Model. Real Change Is Needed
4 days ago | Forbes
Hoping to get ahead of some of the legal challenges by furiously lobbying Congress for relief from antitrust concerns, Makan Delrahim, former assistant attorney general in the...
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Crypto Tax: How Congress Wants to Pay for Your New Roads
4 days ago | Time
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Congressional Democrats are on a renewed push to act on voting rights with a 'sword and shield' approach
4 days ago | Business Insider
Summary List Placement Democrats in the White House and both chambers of Congress are rushing to take action on voting rights before the August recess, with a group of House...
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Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2
10 days ago | CNBC
Treasury Secretary Yellen warned her department will start "extraordinary measures" on Aug. 2 if lawmakers don't raise the debt ceiling.
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Inside the disagreement and inaction in Congress over raising the minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 12 years
11 days ago | Business Insider | 2 articles
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during an event to introduce the Raise The Wage Act in the Rayburn Room at the U.S. Capitol January 16, 2019 in Washington, DC.
Photo by Chip...
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It's been 12 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage. As a McDonald's worker who makes just $10 an hour, I'm getting sick of Congress delaying another much-needed raise
11 days ago | Business Insider | 2 articles
Summary List Placement For millions of workers across the country, it's been 12 years without a raise in the minimum wage.
12 years is a long time. In the past 12 years, we've...
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White House officials tell civil rights leaders they can 'out-organize voter suppression' as voting rights bills stall: report
12 days ago | Business Insider | 2 articles
Summary List Placement White House officials have told voting rights groups and civil rights leaders that they believe it's possible to "out-organize voter suppression...
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Georgia County Tried To Help Everyone Facing Eviction. Now A Crisis Looms
12 days ago | NPR
A federal moratorium on evictions ends next week. But $50 billion from Congress to help Americans behind on rent isn't reaching many who need it. One problem: local rules that...
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The Infrastructure Bill Needs to Succeed Where Tech's Utopian Promises Failed
12 days ago | The New Republic
As the multitrillion-dollar infrastructure bill wends its way through Congress , its exact parameters and legislative outcome remain uncertain. But whatever the eventual...
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Democrats Want to Reform This Program That Helps Poor Elderly and Disabled Americans
12 days ago | Time
President Joe Biden has invoked Franklin Delano Roosevelt several times as he has implemented sweeping anti-poverty measures to tackle record unemployment and economic...
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Disney executives won't attend CinemaCon in-person as delta Covid variant...
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Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2
Treasury Secretary Yellen warned her department will start "extraordinary measures" on Aug. 2 if lawmakers don't raise the debt ceiling. Read more ...
Biden job approval rating drops to 50% in Gallup poll, his lowest to date...
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Amazon's Leap Into Healthcare
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A man used AI to bring back his deceased fiancé. But the creators of the...
GPT-3 is a computer program that attempts to write like humans. Fabrizio Bensch/ Reuters A man used artificial intelligence to create a chatbot that mimicked his late... Read more ...
Biden set to nominate Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador to Australia: report
Caroline Kennedy. Marc Andrew Deley/Getty President Biden is set to nominate Caroline Kennedy as ambassador to Australia, per a CNN report . Kennedy served as US ambassador to... Read more ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill that bans police from posting...
California Governor Gavin Newsom at a June 2021 press conference. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill preventing police from... Read more ...
London luxury homes sell at feverish pace
Luxury homes in London sold at breakneck pace in the first half of 2021. There were 237 deals that closed above $6.8 million, according to Mansion Global. That tally was 59... Read more ...