President Biden is putting forward a budget that hikes domestic spending enormously but also increases military spending by 1.7 percent. | Patrick Semansky/APWASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.5 trillion spending blueprint for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 contains a big hike for domestic programs, while his Pentagon proposal—a 1.7% increase—caught flak from both left and right. Congressional progressives said the military money should be cut, while Republicans wanted even more for war, and less for everything else.Biden’s spending plan, which he’ll elaborate on with even more...…President Biden is putting forward a budget that hikes domestic spending enormously but also increases military spending by 1.7 percent. | Patrick Semansky/APWASHINGTON—Democratic President Joe Biden’s $1.5 trillion spending blueprint for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 contains a big hike for domestic programs, while his Pentagon proposal—a 1.7% increase—caught flak from both left and right. Congressional progressives said the military money should be cut, while Republicans wanted even more for war, and less for everything else.Biden’s spending plan, which he’ll elaborate on with even more...WW…

Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance | Jacquelyn Martin/APWASHINGTON—Advocates, from National Domestic Workers Alliance leader Ai-jen Poo to Megan Rapinoe, the outspoken leader of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, used Equal Pay Day, March 24, to again push wide-ranging legislation against pay discrimination on the job.Their testimony, before the House Oversight Committee, came as the Equal Pay Coalition, led by the National Women’s Law Center, reported the median 2020 income for a working woman nationwide was 82 cents for every dollar a median white man earned. That figure...…Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance | Jacquelyn Martin/APWASHINGTON—Advocates, from National Domestic Workers Alliance leader Ai-jen Poo to Megan Rapinoe, the outspoken leader of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, used Equal Pay Day, March 24, to again push wide-ranging legislation against pay discrimination on the job.Their testimony, before the House Oversight Committee, came as the Equal Pay Coalition, led by the National Women’s Law Center, reported the median 2020 income for a working woman nationwide was 82 cents for every dollar a median white man earned. That figure...WW…

People wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center in Las Vegas. | John Locher/APWASHINGTON—New claims for state-paid jobless benefits, before seasonal adjustments, jumped 32% in one week, to just under a million in the week ending Dec. 5, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.And even when you take seasonal factors into consideration, the increase was still 19%, BLS added.The numbers—947,504 new state jobless aid claims in the week ending Dec. 5, compared to 718,522 the week before—show the forced second round of coronavirus pandemic-caused business...…People wait in line for help with unemployment benefits at the One-Stop Career Center in Las Vegas. | John Locher/APWASHINGTON—New claims for state-paid jobless benefits, before seasonal adjustments, jumped 32% in one week, to just under a million in the week ending Dec. 5, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.And even when you take seasonal factors into consideration, the increase was still 19%, BLS added.The numbers—947,504 new state jobless aid claims in the week ending Dec. 5, compared to 718,522 the week before—show the forced second round of coronavirus pandemic-caused business...WW…

A restaurant worker cleans the tables in the outdoor dining area of a Mexican restaurant in La Mirada, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery. Under Trump's labor policy she can look forward to having her tips go to her boss if and when she gets back on the job. | Jae C. Hong/APWASHINGTON —Previously thwarted by...…A restaurant worker cleans the tables in the outdoor dining area of a Mexican restaurant in La Mirada, Calif., Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Waiters and bartenders are being thrown out of work – again – as governors and local officials shut down indoor dining and drinking establishments to combat the nationwide surge in coronavirus infections that is overwhelming hospitals and dashing hopes for a quick economic recovery. Under Trump's labor policy she can look forward to having her tips go to her boss if and when she gets back on the job. | Jae C. Hong/APWASHINGTON —Previously thwarted by...WW…

Ben Margot / APOAK BROOK, Ill.—Lack of protection against the ravages of the coronavirus, including no masks, no paid sick leave, and no hazardous duty pay, led thousands of McDonald’s workers from coast to coast undertake a “virtual strike” of their giant fast-food employer on May 20.And pickets—spaced six feet apart to prevent spread of the virus—actually appeared at the firm’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., to take their cause to the firm’s front door the day before its annual shareholders meeting.Fight For $15 And A Union, which again organized the protests, reported 20 other actual...…Ben Margot / APOAK BROOK, Ill.—Lack of protection against the ravages of the coronavirus, including no masks, no paid sick leave, and no hazardous duty pay, led thousands of McDonald’s workers from coast to coast undertake a “virtual strike” of their giant fast-food employer on May 20.And pickets—spaced six feet apart to prevent spread of the virus—actually appeared at the firm’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., to take their cause to the firm’s front door the day before its annual shareholders meeting.Fight For $15 And A Union, which again organized the protests, reported 20 other actual...WW…

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order issuing a blanket limit on federal regulations to "support economic recovery" during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, May 19, 2020, in Washington.| Evan Vucci / APWASHINGTON—Catering to corporate chieftains and right-wing ideologues, GOP President Donald Trump ordered all federal departments and agencies, large and small, to trash rules and regulations, and their enforcement. He used the excuse that doing so would help stimulate the economy to recover from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.Trump did not...…President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order issuing a blanket limit on federal regulations to "support economic recovery" during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, May 19, 2020, in Washington.| Evan Vucci / APWASHINGTON—Catering to corporate chieftains and right-wing ideologues, GOP President Donald Trump ordered all federal departments and agencies, large and small, to trash rules and regulations, and their enforcement. He used the excuse that doing so would help stimulate the economy to recover from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.Trump did not...WW…