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Blue collar workers won big in 2023, defying bleak predictions: The year began with a recession forecast but ended with substantial wage growth and record union ...
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Blue collar workers won big in 2023, defying bleak predictions
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Why 2023 was such a good year for labor: US wage inequality narrowed, unemployment stayed low, and strikes improved worker conditions and pay
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Why 2023 was such a good year for labor
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Unemployment unaffected by Geneva’s minimum wage: Evaluation of Geneva's minimum wage pilot shows no overall impact on the rate of unemployment in the Swiss ...
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Unemployment unaffected by Geneva’s minimum wage
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Consumers could be in a 'world of hurt' if Biden doesn't act soon, former Walmart CEO warns
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Consumers could be in a 'world of hurt' if Biden doesn't act soon ...
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Philippine underemployment and unemployment rise in July | The wRap: The wRap's highlights: Unemployment in the Philippines, wage hike ...
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Philippine underemployment and unemployment rise in July | The wRap
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EXPLAINED: What's the delay with Zurich's new minimum wage ?: Even though in June Zurich voters said yes to a minimum wage of nearly 24 francs per hour ...
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EXPLAINED: What's the delay with Zurich's new minimum wage ?
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Why do many people prefer Florida to California? The vital economic freedom: For centuries scholars have studied economic growth and development with an eye ...
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Why do many people prefer Florida to California? The vital economic ...
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New Tipping Trend Hurts Those Who Need Gratuities Most: The last thing the restaurant industry needs is other businesses prompting customers to leave gratuities.
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New Tipping Trend Hurts Those Who Need Gratuities Most
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ZEW study: hardly any company jobs due to minimum wage: Critics of the minimum wage warn of negative consequences for the economy. According to a recent study ...
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ZEW study: hardly any company jobs due to minimum wage
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Faulting new methodology for latest unemployment rate: It is no longer news that the National Bureau of Statistics has released the fourth and first quarters of ...
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Faulting new methodology for latest unemployment rate
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Australia’s jobless rate is only 3.4% – so what’s holding wage growth back?: That the tight labour market isn’t leading to real earnings rises is proof of a ...
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Australia’s jobless rate is only 3.4% – so what’s holding wage growth ...
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US sees ‘unprecedented decline’ in child poverty: analysis: Story at a glance A newly published analysis by Child Trends found the U.S. child poverty rate has ...
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US sees ‘unprecedented decline’ in child poverty: analysis
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Grim jobs figures build case for an interest rate pause: The unemployment figures are higher than the Reserve Bank’s forecasts, softening the case for another ...
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Grim jobs figures build case for an interest rate pause
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Ever heard of the Heidelberg Alliance for Training and Work? The alliance, founded in autumn 2022, has developed 100-day goals in four working groups and ... Show more

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Labor market: "There will be unprecedented competition for immigrants": Lifeguards and ground staff are just the beginning. The shortage of skilled workers will ...
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Labor market:
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Pushing and pulling Africans to suffer in the Middle East: Unemployment is ‘pushing’ people to look for jobs outside their countries ...
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Pushing and pulling Africans to suffer in the Middle East
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FAIR PAY OP-ED: The case for a national minimum ‘living’ wage — it’s a matter of survival
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FAIR PAY OP-ED: The case for a national minimum ‘living’ wage — it’s a ...
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Fact Check: Joe Biden Says Black Workers' Wages Have Gone Up: President Joe Biden claimed pay was up during a Black History Month reception at the White House.
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Fact Check: Joe Biden Says Black Workers' Wages Have Gone Up
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The U.S. economy added jobs at a solid clip in December, pushing the unemployment rate back to a pre-pandemic low of 3.5%.
U.S. labor market powers ahead, but wage growth loses steam: The U.S. economy added jobs at a solid clip in December, pushing the unemployment rate back to a ...
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U.S. labor market powers ahead, but wage growth loses steam
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Minimum wage in Germany: economist fears structural unemployment: In October, the federal government wants to raise the minimum wage to twelve euros ...
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Minimum wage in Germany: economist fears structural unemployment
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People in abortion restrictive US states economically disempowered – report: Wages, incarceration rates and unemployment benefits access worse when compared with ...
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People in abortion restrictive US states economically disempowered – ...
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Swiss jobless rate sinks as unions demand more pay: The rate of unemployment in Switzerland fell to 2.2% last year, the lowest rate in 20 years.
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Swiss jobless rate sinks as unions demand more pay
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Spain records lowest unemployment level since 2007: A surprisingly strong year for the Spanish job market in 2022 means that Spain enters the new year with the ...
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Spain records lowest unemployment level since 2007
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It’s not the jobs, stupid: We could be heading towards the first full-employment recession. Here's why that changes everything, according to Jobs for the Future ...
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It’s not the jobs, stupid
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Klose: There's a lot more to employment than just wages: The SPD is pushing through the so-called citizen money in the traffic light coalition ...
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Klose: There's a lot more to employment than just wages
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Hong Kong’s wealth gap reaches ‘tipping point’ under Covid as unemployment rises among poor, Oxfam says
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Hong Kong’s wealth gap reaches ‘tipping point’ under Covid as unemployment ...
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Petition for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks has 3 million signatures. 'Americans need some certainty,' says restaurateur who started it
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Petition for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks has 3 million signatures ...
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From 10.45 euros to 12 euros: 17,000 employees benefit: what the increase in the minimum wage means for Stormarn
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From 10.45 euros to 12 euros: 17,000 employees benefit: what the increase ...
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South Lakeland wages rise by less than seven per cent: AVERAGE wages in South Lakeland have risen by less than seven per cent as the cost of living crisis starts ...
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South Lakeland wages rise by less than seven per cent
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Messages from the Fed pertinent to SA’s economy: However, this will not eliminate inequality or poverty.
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Messages from the Fed pertinent to SA’s economy
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What are Best and Worst Cities to Lift Your Credit Rating?: A report ranks the best and worst based on cost of living, employment numbers ...
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What are Best and Worst Cities to Lift Your Credit Rating?
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Laws add to the jobless crisis in South Africa: The labour regulations have had increasingly negative consequences for unemployed people
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Laws add to the jobless crisis in South Africa
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Job killer minimum wage: where are all the unemployed anyway?: The Minimum Wage Commission has looked at how the minimum wage has affected the German economy and ...
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Job killer minimum wage: where are all the unemployed anyway?
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Minimum wage: This is how the "state wage" is still to be prevented: The Bundestag decides on the increase of the minimum wage to twelve euros on October 1 ...
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Minimum wage: This is how the
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South Africa needs competition in labour: With unemployment at all-time highs, the conversation about competition in labour needs to happen
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South Africa needs competition in labour
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Labor Shortage Will Push Wages Higher, According To Bank Of America: Amazon, Chipotle, Under Armour and McDonald’s have all announced wage hikes.
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Labor Shortage Will Push Wages Higher, According To Bank Of America
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Conversion of Hartz IV: Heil announces "great social reform": Hartz IV should become the citizen's money - the coalition agreement of the traffic light ...
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Conversion of Hartz IV: Heil announces
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$15-an-Hour Minimum Wage Could Further Sting Teen Employment : Raising the federal minimum wage would make it harder for many teens to get or keep jobs ...
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$15-an-Hour Minimum Wage Could Further Sting Teen Employment
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Want jobs? Reform South Africa’s labour market: It is time to scrap minimum wage and other labour laws that make it difficult to create employment
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Want jobs? Reform South Africa’s labour market
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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for guaranteed income. Now experiments are taking place in his hometown and other cities around the country
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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for guaranteed income. Now experiments ...
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Here Are the Major Pieces of Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan: President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan is designed to both pump money ...
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Here Are the Major Pieces of Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
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Fast-food franchises are getting desperate to hire workers: High wages and instant bonuses are part an effort to staff up as the pandemic winds down
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Fast-food franchises are getting desperate to hire workers
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Democrats' $1.9 trillion stimulus clears key House panel, now on course for floor vote within days
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Democrats' $1.9 trillion stimulus clears key House panel, now on course ...
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Senate Democrats pledge to pass the Biden $1.9 trillion stimulus package by mid-March
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Senate Democrats pledge to pass the Biden $1.9 trillion stimulus package ...
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Senate Democrats to drop minimum wage plan in $1.9 trillion stimulus bill: Senate Democrats will abandon plans to help raise workers' pay in Biden's $1 ...
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Senate Democrats to drop minimum wage plan in $1.9 trillion stimulus bill
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The states with the most working teenagers: Volatility in the U.S. labor market during the COVID-19 pandemic has produced many challenges for employers and ...
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The states with the most working teenagers
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The 8 Senate Democrats who voted against raising the minimum wage are collectively worth over $43 million
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The 8 Senate Democrats who voted against raising the minimum wage are ...
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Food banks see 'perfect storm' of high demand, inflation and supply chain shortages heading into Thanksgiving holiday
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Food banks see 'perfect storm' of high demand, inflation and supply chain ...
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These 8 money moves can help you make up for lost income: As the Covid-19 recovery continues, many Americans are looking to replace jobs or income they've lost ...
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These 8 money moves can help you make up for lost income
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Why there's no global minimum wage: Wages are integral to the fulfilment of work. Around the world, most countries have set a minimum wage ...
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Why there's no global minimum wage
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The 4 measures in the Biden stimulus plan that could put extra cash in your wallet - Business Insider
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The 4 measures in the Biden stimulus plan that could put extra cash in ...
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Labor market: Why a shortage of skilled workers can also be good for Germany: Many companies are desperately looking for personnel. A problem? Not necessarily - ...
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Labor market: Why a shortage of skilled workers can also be good for ...
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As Fears Of Worker Shortages Grow, White House Economists Say Covid-19 Is To Blame—Not $300 Unemployment Benefits
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As Fears Of Worker Shortages Grow, White House Economists Say Covid-19 Is ...
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11 things you need to know about the COVID-19 stimulus the House just passed: The vote puts Biden closer to the first major legislative victory of his presidency ...
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11 things you need to know about the COVID-19 stimulus the House just ...
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The labor market was already weird, now it's adjusting: Howard economics professor Dr. William Spriggs explains that despite recent trends wages still aren't ...
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The labor market was already weird, now it's adjusting
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It’s been 12 years since the last federal minimum wage increase. Where efforts to raise the pay rate stand
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It’s been 12 years since the last federal minimum wage increase ...
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New stimulus proposals look like a guaranteed income experiment. Early results show whether it will work
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New stimulus proposals look like a guaranteed income experiment ...
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Democrats Move to Salvage Minimum Wage Hike: Even as the House passed President Biden’s pandemic aid plan with a minimum wage increase included ...
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Democrats Move to Salvage Minimum Wage Hike
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'This can't wait.' Why long food lines signal need for more coronavirus stimulus aid
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'This can't wait.' Why long food lines signal need for more coronavirus ...
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Biden signs $1.9 trillion rescue package into law, starting the clock on distributing $1,400 stimulus checks
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Biden signs $1.9 trillion rescue package into law, starting the clock on ...
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Employers struggling to fill entry-level roles could soon turn to TikTok to recruit
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Employers struggling to fill entry-level roles could soon turn to TikTok ...
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Biden’s Giant Stimulus to Easily Pass House, Democrats Say: President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion package will sail through the House when it takes up the bill on ...
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Biden’s Giant Stimulus to Easily Pass House, Democrats Say
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11 things you need to know about the COVID-19 stimulus the House just passed: The vote puts Biden closer to the first major legislative victory of his presidency ...
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11 things you need to know about the COVID-19 stimulus the House just ...
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History shows how Democrats can still get their minimum wage increase: a bipartisan deal
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History shows how Democrats can still get their minimum wage increase: a ...
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How the $15 minimum wage would improve quality of life in the US: An increased minimum wage would lift hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty and give ...
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How the $15 minimum wage would improve quality of life in the US
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Biden stimulus plan calls for $15 federal minimum wage: President-elect Joe Biden renewed his push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour during a press ...
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Biden stimulus plan calls for $15 federal minimum wage
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Hubertus Heil: "Mass unemployment would be many times more expensive than short-time work"
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Hubertus Heil:
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If you are jobless or earn the minimum wage, Hong Kong is no place to be: Two recent decisions by the government suggest to me that Bible study is still ...
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If you are jobless or earn the minimum wage, Hong Kong is no place to be
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Democrats propose $50 billion in small business aid as part of larger pandemic relief plan
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Democrats propose $50 billion in small business aid as part of larger ...
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Biden’s Rescue Plan Is a Start. Now Think Big.: Economic inequities that have been building for decades won’t be resolved by a $1.9 trillion Band-Aid.
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Biden’s Rescue Plan Is a Start. Now Think Big.