Minimum Wage on Table
Wall Street Journal -
The last federal increase, signed into law months before the 1996 presidential elections, followed bargaining over tax- and health-insurance-related issues important to Republican conservatives. The same could happen now because the minimum-wage debate is coming to a head even as Republican leaders, already offering concessions to timber interests, are looking for the final Senate votes needed for a compromise on estate-tax relief. While far too early to predict, the party could solve two problems at once by linking the wage and estate-tax issues in an election-year deal.
2006-06-19
Hospitals face IRS scrutiny on tax-exemption
MLive.com, MI -
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2006-06-18
Family leave act spurs scrutiny
Pacific Daily News, GU -
''I think the states are responding to the very real needs of their working families,'' said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit group that fought for passage of the family leave law. ''Our workplaces and government policies are out of sync with the reality of most working families' lives. I think the situation is getting more and more untenable for families with parents working longer and longer hours. The stresses are enormous.''
2006-06-16
Budget talks snag on health insurance for illegals' kids Lawmakers
San Francisco Chronicle, USA -
But Assembly Speaker Fabian N��ez said negotiators have reached an impasse that will cause a delay of at least a few days. He noted that Republicans were unhappy with methods proposed by Democratic leaders for paying off some pending loans, but the GOP was most upset with a proposal to provide health care services to uninsured children -- including undocumented immigrants.
2006-06-15
Cialis planning daily pill
DetNews.com, MI -
Icos and Lilly plan to market the once-daily drug to men who take impotence drugs frequently, said Paul N. Clark, Icos' chief executive. Most men who use the drugs take them about four to six times each month. But a daily dose would be aimed at allowing more spontaneity in the user's sex life than the strategic planning required of what Icos calls the "on demand" version.
2006-06-14
Can Bloggers Overcome Media Attacks on Progressives?
Beyond Chron, CA -
All became targets of wide-ranging corporate media attacks when they promoted more equitable tax and health care policies, or opposed immoral wars. What does it say about the electoral possibilities in America when any candidate offering a progressive agenda is parodied and slandered not simply by Fox News, but by most of the mainstream media? Can the bloggers now featured on Meet the Press, and whose conventions are covered in the New York Times and Washington Post, change this dynamic? Or are netroots activists simply seeking to join the ranks of the pundits and political insiders who have effectively limited American political debate?
2006-06-13
The Rest of Our World
Richmond Out in the Mountains, VT -
The group protested the presence of military recruiting on campus because the U.S. military violates the University’s employment policy, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in recruiting and hiring, according to the SLDN, an organization that defends military personnel affected by the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The government admitted it was spying on the group in February 2005 after learning there would be a protest at NYU Law School against the presence of military recruiters on campus. according to the SLDN, the DoD was concerned because the protest “may involve outlaws.”
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