Money & The Economy
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US Added 379,000 Jobs In February, Unemployment Rate Fell To 6.2%
The U.S. economy reported an increase of 379,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate fell to 6.2%, according to…
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AOC’s Denmark Comparison on the $15 Federal Minimum Wage, Debunked
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently took to Twitter to once again call for raising the federal minimum wage. She argued that…
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New Jobless Claims Increase Slightly To 745,000
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims increased slightly to 745,000 last week as the economy continued to suffer…
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Why Using Templates for Making PowerPoint Presentations Makes Good Sense
Source: SlideUpLift From weekly team meetings to corporate Strategy presentations- to selling to prospective customers everything is now online- owing…
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What Ayanna Pressley Doesn’t Understand About Poverty
Elected in 2018, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley has made a name for herself as one of Congress’s most progressive voices, alongside…
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What Is Bitcoin and What Makes it Special? An Economist Explains
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are all the rage right now. Of course, the rise of non-government, decentralized, encrypted electronic currencies…
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Sanders, Wyden Demand COVID Relief Punish Businesses That Don’t Pay $15 Per Hour
Sens. Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden demanded a new amendment to Democrats’ coronavirus relief plan, which would punish big businesses…
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Biden Is Pushing His Robin Hood Government Income Transfer Too Far
In our Democracy (technically a Constitutional Republic), the government has essentially two roles: One is to provide public goods, and…
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Costco Raises Minimum Wage To $16, But Won’t Advocate For All Businesses To Follow
Costco will raise its company-wide minimum wage to $16 per hour, a one-dollar increase that raises its wages higher than…
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New Jobless Claims Decrease To 730,000
The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims decreased to 730,000 last week as the economy continued to suffer the…
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Is the Left Trying to Crash the Housing Market?
The housing market across the United States has been absolutely red-hot. In many states, home prices have risen significantly and…
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‘My Income Has Dropped To Zero’: About 45% Of Small Businesses Risk Closure Within Weeks
At least 13.9 million of the nation’s small businesses are at serious risk of shuttering their doors by April 1,…
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Romney, Cotton Join Dems to Introduce Minimum Wage Raise Despite Small Business Woes
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton introduced a plan Tuesday to increase the national minimum wage to…
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Busler Single Rate Federal Income Tax Plan is an optimum solution
To determine what a plan to permanently fix the federal income tax code would look like, let’s first look at…
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Wharton Study Warns Biden’s Expensive ‘Stimulus’ Plan Will Hurt Economy in the Long Term
President Biden is hitting the road and traveling across the country to pitch his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus and relief…
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