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Included in the legislation are $1,400 direct payments to individuals and $400 a week unemployment benefit through August. The US House of Representatives has approved in a late-night vote President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, as Democrats who control the chamber steered the sweeping measure towards approval. Minimum wage debate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had predicted the bill …
Biden's $1.9 Trillion Rescue Plan: Vital Medicine Or Costly Overkill? If successful, his "American Rescue Plan" will help struggling families and businesses weather an unprecedented pandemic and provide a boost to a badly dented economy. "The question isn't whether we need big stimulus," former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told NPR's Weekend Edition this month. Progressives also hoped to use the …
New Delhi: The Union cabinet has approved the Wage Code Bill, which raised the national minimum wage by ₹2 to ₹178 per day, despite an internal labour ministry committee recommending a much higher amount of ₹375. The mandatory national minimum wage will not be fixed as per the labour ministry’s expert committee report on minimum wage, two government officials said, …
