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President Obama wants to give the lowest paid workers in the country a raise. He intends to do that by significantly raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
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Presidential campaign consultant Bob Shrum asks what rational basis there is for punishing the Castro regime when the U.S. will trade with China, talk to Iran, or deal with Vietnam.…
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Maximilian Sánchez Arveláez was appointed Monday as Venezuela's ambassador to the United States, as part of President Nicolás Maduro's expressed desire to enhance the Venezuelan…
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According to a recent Gallup survey, 44% of those surveyed say it's extremely important for the U.S. to develop a plan to deal with the undocumented immigrants - a priority shift from…
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Today, Americans wouldn’t bet a nickel on their life chances. Evidence for this assertion comes from a new McClatchy-Marist survey. The results of the poll were reported in a…
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The United States and Cuba have been locked in the coldest of relationships for more than half a century. But a new poll suggests that the American people think it's time to warm things…
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When someone told me at the end of last month that the Republicans were going to unveil an immigration reform bill that would include a path to citizenship, my instant reaction was:…
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Illinois' most influential attorneys emailed a letter to President Obama this past Thursday urging him to make good on his pledge, made to many of them personally and to the public as…
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Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez has created a special fund to pay his legal bills from an ongoing Justice Department criminal probe and the FBI is also looking into his dealings with…
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Sen. Marco Rubio’s political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington. Political strategists think his chances are looking better because of the bridge scandal…
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