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The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income — Increasing the minimum wage would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their family's income, and some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO report: Minimum wage hike to cost 500K jobs, boost income — President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would cost 500,000 jobs in 2016, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. — The report also found hiking …
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New York Times:
Kiev Protesters Set Square Ablaze to Thwart Police — KIEV, Ukraine — With hundreds of riot police officers advancing from all sides after a day of deadly mayhem here in the Ukrainian capital, antigovernment protesters mounted a final desperate and seemingly doomed act of defiance late on Tuesday evening …
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CNN:
Tensions high in Ukraine after at least 21 die in fiery clashes — From Victoria Butenko. Greg Botelho and Phil Black, CNN — Ukraine protests turn deadly — Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — Downtown Kiev was aglow in fire early Wednesday, as demonstrators undeterred by a bloody day on the streets staked …
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Mediaite, JHPolitics and Hot Air
Alicia Eler / Hyperallergic:
President Obama Pens Personal Apology to an Art Historian — Art historian Ann Collins Johns of the University of Texas at Austin (image used with permission) — Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama's knock on art history majors.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Ex-Rep. Baca bashes ‘bimbo’ Negrete McLeod, won't run for seat — Former Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) won't switch districts to run for Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod's (D-Calif.) seat. — “No, I'm running for the 31st Congressional seat,” Baca told The Hill when reached by phone shortly …
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare changes may include extension of risk corridors — CONGRESS OBAMACARE HEALTH CARE PENNAVE — The Obama Administration may extend beyond 2016 a federal reimbursement program for health insurance companies that lose money by participating in the newly created health care exchanges.
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RedState, Hot Air, Washington Post and National Review
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TIME:
It's True: Liberals Like Cats More Than Conservatives Do — Preferences for pets or particular kinds of food can accurately predict partisanship, research from more than 200,000 TIME readers shows — In January, TIME ran a 12-question quiz that guessed your politics based on things …
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Hot Air and Liberal Values
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
McCain eyes Armed Services Committee — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday night said if Republicans win control of the Senate this year, he would want to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee. — McCain was asked in an interview on Phoenix radio station KFYI's “The Mike Broomhead Show” …
David Cameron / Telegraph:
Why the Archbishop of Westminster is wrong about welfare — Our plan for Britain is not just about saving money, but about doing what is right, says the Prime Minister — It is sometimes said that the Church should not get involved in politics. I disagree.
Washington Post:
Homeland Security is seeking a national license plate tracking system — The Department of Homeland Security wants a private company to provide a national license-plate tracking system that would give the agency access to vast amounts of information from commercial and law enforcement tag readers …
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Fox News and The PJ Tatler
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Jim Crow laws for gays and lesbians? Column — Kansas legislation could make discrimination easy. — What's the matter with Kansas? A bill protecting the religious freedom of businesses and individuals to refuse services to same-sex couples passed the state House of Representatives last week.
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RedState and Kansas City Star
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Obama's stimulus became a special-interest feeding frenzy — President Obama came into office just over five years ago promising to reduce the power of corporate lobbyists and to increase government's role in the economy. — In his first month, he showed that the two promises were incompatible.
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Betsy's Page
Doug Hall / Economic Policy Institute:
Low-Wage Workers Have Experienced Wage Erosion in Nearly Every State — Though six years have passed since the Great Recession officially began in December 2007 and four-and-a-half years since its official end in June 2009, U.S. workers continue to feel the impact of the recession …
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KCTV:
Teachers could spank harder under bill pending in KS Legislature — A Kansas lawmaker wants to give school teachers and caregivers more power to spank children. — Kansas House member Gail Finney, D-Wichita, said the bill is designed to restore parental rights.
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The Daily Caller, Fox News and The Raw Story
Tom Loftus / Courier-Journal:
LRC employee fired for appearing in Grimes video — FRANKFORT, KY. — Charles Booker, a legislative employee who appeared in an online video of Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes' campaign for the U.S. Senate, was fired Monday for violating a staff policy against partisan political activity.
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The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rand Paul's Republican revolution — DALLAS — It's 7 a.m. on a Saturday, Rand Paul is exhausted and airport security has just confiscated his morning joe. — “The TSA took away my coffee,” the libertarian-leaning senator, Houston-bound for a day of events with GOP activists, complains of the federal agency he's proposed abolishing.
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Yahoo! News and Political Insider blog
Skschust / CBS New York:
Sen. Booker: New Jersey Will ‘Be Able To Get The Salt That It Needs’ — JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - New Jersey was expected to receive a critical supply of rock salt that was held up by the Department of Homeland Security because it was being carried on a foreign ship.
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The Heritage Foundation and Talking Points Memo
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Newt Gingrich calls for John Kerry to resign — Newt Gingrich tweeted on Monday calling for Secretary of State John Kerry to resign because of Kerry's recent comments on climate change. … He said his wife, Callista, pointed out he had misspelled Kerry's name, as if he were related to former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Nev.).
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CNN and American Prospect
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Black Boy Interrupted — On the unfinished life of Jordan Davis — I got up at 5 a.m. today in hopes of making the gym before my train to D.C. I handled business and with some time to spare, walked over to my favorite bakery for a touch of that summer love, now lost to my life upon these shores.
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The Dish and The Monkey Cage