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When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
The bill was expected to pass the Senate again rapidly and to be signed by the governor. [65] On June 10, 2019 the governor signed the bill officially into law and it took effect immediately. [66] Some have called it the "Save Chick-fil-A" law, given that the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has been criticized for its donations to anti-LGBT causes ...
George Walker Bush [a] (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party, he is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Rick Perry, having served as the lieutenant governor of Texas from January 1999 to December 2000, succeeded to the office of Governor of Texas on December 21, 2000, when Governor George W. Bush resigned to prepare for his presidential inauguration. Perry became the first Texas A&M graduate to serve as governor. [1]
In 2005, as governor, Bush signed the "stand-your-ground law" on the use of deadly force. [10] [123] In 1998, while running for governor, Bush supported a Florida law requiring background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows (such checks are not required by federal law). [125]
March 2 – Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) removes COVID-19 health restrictions including the mask mandate and opens businesses. [71] Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) follows suit. [72] President Biden condemns them for "Neanderthal thinking". [73] March 3 – The House passes the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, 220–212. [74]
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul halted a plan to charge most motorists $15 to enter the core of Manhattan, upending the nation’s first “congestion pricing” system on Wednesday just weeks before ...
The anti-prostitution pledge is an organization-wide policy opposing prostitution and sex-trafficking that the federal government of the United States requires certain non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to adopt in order for them to receive federal anti-HIV/AIDS or anti-trafficking funds.