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Barack Obama Minimum Wage Order Affects Only About 200,000 Workers
President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday a forthcoming executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal contractors to $10.10 per hour, in what aides billed as a first step toward …
Inside the Supreme Court: Why Obamacare Supporters Are Getting So Nervous
For supporters of the two-year-old health reform law, Tuesday’s Supreme Court hearing was supposed to be the day that the grownups took over. After the Affordable Care Act had been demonized and misconstrued and called a threat …
White House to Karzai: Check Yourself
The White House isn’t just turning the other cheek to Hamid Karzai, though they’re not yet throwing counter-punches either. Following the Afghan president’s allegations of dastardly foreign meddling and fraud, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told a gaggle of reporters in his office this morning that the administration wants Karzai to …