A new report from a think tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would help three out of 10 Wisconsin workers, and work to close racial and gender pay gaps in the state. The report, from the Center on …
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The names Laura, Eta, Iota, and Dorian will all be retired from the 2020 and 2019 Atlantic hurricane seasons.
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President Joe Biden on Monday picked prominent tech industry critic Lina Khan to join the Federal Trade Commission, in a major win for progressive Democrats who critiqued the agency for not aggressively pursuing major Silicon Valley platforms on antitrust …
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The lateral hires— Edward Rhyne, Robert Phillpott, Efren Acosta and Ron Scharnberg— joined Reed Smith on Monday. They had practiced together for four years at Baker Botts, after moving there in 2017 from Norton Rose Fulbright.
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