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BREAKING: No taxes on tips ⁉️ Sounds good, but who really benefits? Spoiler: Not the workers who need it most. Let’s focus on raising the federal minimum wage instead. ✍️ CEPR's Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 talks to The Progressive. #MinimumWage #WorkerRights i.mtr.cool/sbnfmbgsuo
.President Biden, you ended the US' "forever war" in Afghanistan. Now help prevent Afghans' 'forever suffering' by unfreezing their central bank assets & releasing reserves from the Afghan Fund. This policy hurts civlians more than the gov't. #UnfreezeAfghanistan i.mtr.cool/pjjkmdbevm
🇨🇺 Nearly 50 members of Congress call to end Cuba’s Terror designation, including Congressman Greg Casar, Rep. Barbara Lee, and Rep. Nydia Velazquez. #LetCubaLive 👇More in our new #SanctionsWatch: cepr.net/cepr-sanctions…
💸 Eliminating federal taxes on tips might seem like a win for workers, but it’s more of a gimmick than a solution. Many tipped workers wouldn’t see any benefit since they don’t earn enough to owe income taxes. #FairWages #LaborDay Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 explains: i.mtr.cool/smtuqprpct
🇵🇸 Polio returns to #Gaza after 25 years. Aid groups like Save the Children International and Oxfam International blame Israeli restrictions on supplies, mass displacements, and destroyed infrastructure. Details in our #SanctionsWatch: cepr.net/cepr-sanctions…
🌎 40 legal groups and 200 lawyers, like National Lawyers Guild, IADL Law, and The CCR, are calling for an end to unilateral economic #sanctions. In a letter to President Biden, the group describes the sanctions as clear violations of international law. Read more below in our #SanctionsWatch:
✅Extreme #inequality is not the result of a free market—it is a result of how the #government has structured the market. This is clear to anyone but the country's leading newspapers like the The Washington Post, writes Dean Baker: i.mtr.cool/rfzqrtejfh
The media are determined to tell everyone the #economy is awful in spite of: ✔️The longest stretch of low #unemployment in more than 70 yrs ✔️Healthy real wage growth ✔️Record levels of job satisfaction 👇More from Dean Baker: i.mtr.cool/qpshzbguxj
Secret ballots for unions? Almost as shady as they sound. ✅ Card checks: Quick, open, and worker-led. ❌ Secret ballots: Closed, loooong process that gives bosses more time to sabotage workers. Hayley Brown and Sylvia Allegretto 🎶 break it down: i.mtr.cool/gzklxdoxhr