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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 ...
To stabilize State and local government budgets, in order to minimize and avoid reductions in essential services and counterproductive state and local tax increases. The Act specifies that 37% of the package is to be devoted to tax incentives equaling $288 billion and $144 billion, or 18%, is allocated to state and local fiscal relief (more ...
That 2019 speech put him within spitting distance of the longest address to Congress by a president in modern times, which was President Bill Clinton’s final State of the Union in 2000, which ...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
In 1989, Florida’s legislature approved a rural health bill that included an amendment introduced by Westbrook’s neighbor, a state senator. The measure allowed for the establishment of for-profit hospices, just so long as the entity had been incorporated before 1978. Westbrook’s hospice was one of three in the state that fit that description.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) [note 1] is an initiative of the second Donald Trump administration in the United States tasked with reducing federal spending. . It was established on January 20, 2025, by an executive order renaming the United States Digital Service (USDS) to the United States DOGE Service (USDS), and establishing the U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization ...
The firm's January 14, 2025 update found the numbers increased to at least 406,007 new jobs across 751 projects and $422 billion in investments across 48 states and Puerto Rico. Georgia, New York, and Texas saw the most jobs at 43-26,000; Michigan saw the most projects at 74, and New York saw the most money at $115.46 billion. [176]
The bill was to have been at least partially funded by a number of tax hikes on high-income Americans and investors, [67] including restoring the top marginal income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6% and nearly doubling the capital gains tax for people earning more than $1 million, as well as eliminating a provision in the tax code that ...