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LAS VEGAS AP 鈥?Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is proposing a $15 federal minimum wage 鈥?with a twist.Rather than unilaterally hiking the wage to $15, the former Colorado governor proposes phasing in the increases depending on an area cost of living. The most expensive quarter of the country would get a $15 minimum wage by 2021, and the least expensive would see that hike in 2024.The plan, disclosed to The Associated Press on Friday, proposes then tying future minimum wage hikes to metro areas ; cost of living so that more expensive areas would see their minimum wages continue to rise. The Democrat is starting to roll out more economic policies as he tries to position himself as a can-do common-sense manager who can push the country leftward. Several Democrats have signed onto a $15 national minimum wage, a key priority of union leaders. Hickenlooper, who founded a small chain of brewpubs and restaurants and likes to tout his busin stanley cup ess experience on the campaign trail, has cautioned that that level will b stanley cup e too low in certain expensive urban areas but possibly too high in lower-cost rural ones.So, workers and businesses in Manhattan, Kansas will be treated fairly with workers and businesses in Manhattan, New York and no one, nationwide, will stanley cup earn less than $15 an hour, Hickenlooper said in a statement.The current federal minimum wage is $7.25, but most states pay more than that.The Democrat is starti Oqrz U.S. official: Airstrikes have killed 10 Islamic State leaders
RICHMOND, Va. 鈥?The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday that the state can take down an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became widely seen as a symbol of racial injustice as it towered over Monument Avenue in the state capital for more than a century.The high court ruling came in two lawsuits filed by Virginia residents who attempted to block removal of the 21-foot 6-meter bronze equestrian sculpture, which shows Lee in military attire atop a 40-foot 12-meter pedestal.The court found that restrictive covenants in the 1887 and 1890 af1 deeds that transferred the statue to the state no longer apply. Those restrictive covenants are air max unenforceable as contrary to public policy and for being unreasonable because their effect is to compel government speech, by forcing the Commonwealth to express, in perpetuity, a message with which it now disagrees, the justices wrote. Northam announced his decision to remove the statue in June 2020, 10 days after George Floyd death under the knee of a Minneapoli stanley cup s police officer sparked protests over police brutality and racism in cities across the country, including Richmond. The nationally recognized statue became the epicenter of a protest movement in Virginia after Floyd death and its base is now covered with graffiti. Separate lawsuits were filed by a group of residents who own property near the statue and a descendant of signatories to the 1890 deed that tra
LAS VEGAS AP 鈥?Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is proposing a $15 federal minimum wage 鈥?with a twist.Rather than unilaterally hiking the wage to $15, the former Colorado governor proposes phasing in the increases depending on an area cost of living. The most expensive quarter of the country would get a $15 minimum wage by 2021, and the least expensive would see that hike in 2024.The plan, disclosed to The Associated Press on Friday, proposes then tying future minimum wage hikes to metro areas ; cost of living so that more expensive areas would see their minimum wages continue to rise. The Democrat is starting to roll out more economic policies as he tries to position himself as a can-do common-sense manager who can push the country leftward. Several Democrats have signed onto a $15 national minimum wage, a key priority of union leaders. Hickenlooper, who founded a small chain of brewpubs and restaurants and likes to tout his busin stanley cup ess experience on the campaign trail, has cautioned that that level will b stanley cup e too low in certain expensive urban areas but possibly too high in lower-cost rural ones.So, workers and businesses in Manhattan, Kansas will be treated fairly with workers and businesses in Manhattan, New York and no one, nationwide, will stanley cup earn less than $15 an hour, Hickenlooper said in a statement.The current federal minimum wage is $7.25, but most states pay more than that.The Democrat is starti Oqrz U.S. official: Airstrikes have killed 10 Islamic State leaders
RICHMOND, Va. 鈥?The Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Thursday that the state can take down an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became widely seen as a symbol of racial injustice as it towered over Monument Avenue in the state capital for more than a century.The high court ruling came in two lawsuits filed by Virginia residents who attempted to block removal of the 21-foot 6-meter bronze equestrian sculpture, which shows Lee in military attire atop a 40-foot 12-meter pedestal.The court found that restrictive covenants in the 1887 and 1890 af1 deeds that transferred the statue to the state no longer apply. Those restrictive covenants are air max unenforceable as contrary to public policy and for being unreasonable because their effect is to compel government speech, by forcing the Commonwealth to express, in perpetuity, a message with which it now disagrees, the justices wrote. Northam announced his decision to remove the statue in June 2020, 10 days after George Floyd death under the knee of a Minneapoli stanley cup s police officer sparked protests over police brutality and racism in cities across the country, including Richmond. The nationally recognized statue became the epicenter of a protest movement in Virginia after Floyd death and its base is now covered with graffiti. Separate lawsuits were filed by a group of residents who own property near the statue and a descendant of signatories to the 1890 deed that tra