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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 ...
As governor of Florida, Bush signed into law several bills "extending new rights to gun owners, including those to expand protections for people permitted to carry concealed firearms." [123] One such measure signed by Bush allows reciprocity for out-of-state permit holders. [123]
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 ...
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 bill was approved by a vote of 40–10 [4] and on March 26, 2015, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed SB 101 into law. [5] The bill is similar to the Arizona SB 1062 vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer in 2014, which would have expanded Arizona's existing RFRA to include corporations. [6] [7]
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.
Between 2001 and 2003, the Bush administration instituted a federal tax cut for all taxpayers. Among other changes, the lowest income tax rate decreased from 15% to 10%, the 27% rate went to 25%, the 30% rate went to 28%, the 35% rate went to 33%, and the top marginal tax rate went from 39.6% to 35%. [8]
Bill Clinton. Net worth: $120 million. The 42 nd president of the U.S., Bill Clinton held office from 1993 to 2001. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a ...