WASHINGTON — A bill to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 would lift 1.3 million people out of poverty but also put an estimated 1.3 million Americans out of work, the Congressional Budget Office projected on Monday. The report, which projected higher pay for at least 17 million workers, is […]
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PepsiCo is reporting better-than-expected profit and revenue as the company continues its shift to healthier snacks and drinks under a new CEO. Organic revenue — which doesn’t include acquisitions — rose 4.5 percent, a slower pace than the first quarter. CEO Ramon Laguarta has said Tuesday that he expects that growth to continue to slow
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Image caption The Beechcroft unit is in south Belfast A small number of young people were admitted to adult mental health wards in recent weeks due to a shortage of specialist staff at NI’s only inpatient facility for children with mental health problems. Some admissions were delayed while beds were found on suitable wards, the
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Cardi B is asking for the fans who caught her wig ― which she threw into the audience during a performance over the weekend ― to DM her. On Friday, the rapper snatched her own wig at the Wireless Festival in London while performing “Bodak Yellow.” She posted a video on her Twitter and Instagram
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionIgnazio Visco: The markets are making us pay for uncertainty While it’s easy to get distracted by trade wars or Brexit uncertainty, there’s a financial iceberg on the horizon that could threaten all our well-being. Over the years, Italy’s government has built up more than £2 trillion
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The issue of travel and climate change has been on my mind since I became The New York Times’s travel editor last year. I started on Travel just as we were putting together the annual “52 Places to Go” list and as we were choosing the new 52 Places Traveler, who gets on a plane
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Emma Chamberlain, 18, is the funniest person on YouTube. What does she do? So far the content of her videos has not been the point: She makes cupcakes, or tries her hand at sewing. Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge of “Fleabag,” an artist close to twice her age, she interrupts the proceedings constantly to speak to her
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In a pre-World Cup press conference, a reporter asked U.S. star Megan Rapinoe how to grow women’s soccer. “Doing the same exact thing [as the men’s side] and trying to replicate that within a system that has kept women down for a long time is probably not the best way to go about it,” the attacking
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Maria Vismale, 29, who wants to run for office in Henrico County, Va., said she thought many conservative women like her were hesitant to be leaders. “We take a more submissive approach, and we have a tendency to be afraid to ask and assert ourselves, to be seen as blunt or controversial,” she said. But
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Recreational cannabis is legal in 10 US states Teenagers are less likely to use cannabis in places where the drug has been legalised, a new study suggests. Researchers at Montana State University looked at health surveys of US high school pupils between 1993 and 2017. While overall use of
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