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Although the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that disadvantaged communities in America are disproportionately affected by pollution, hundreds of complaints sent to its civil rights office since the mid-1990s have only once resulted in a formal finding of discrimination.

After the House passed the legislation, the president says, ‘If we act quickly, decisively and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus’

A new survey by WalletHub revealed that some communities have been more successful at handling their finances, especially Saddle Butte, Montana. 

House Democrats are set to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package in a Friday evening vote.

Progressive Democrats launched a last-minute campaign urging the White House to overrule a top Senate official who decided late Thursday night that a federal minimum wage increase could not be included in the coronavirus relief package.

President Biden left no doubts on day one in the White House that the Trump era of deregulation was over, according to a report.

Democrats are looking for ways to include a $15 minimum wage hike in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package after the Senate Parliamentarian said it does not fit the rules to be passed via the budget reconciliation process on Thursday night.

The Biden administration has so far been quiet on minority community development, and former HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson said Thursday he hopes former President Donald Trump’s highly-effective Opportunity Zones don’t get undone.

A massive coronavirus relief bill that Democrats plan to pass on a party-line vote includes millions of dollars for a taxpayer-funded nonprofit group with a scandal-ridden history. 

Costco will raise its minimum wage to $16 an hour starting next week, CEO Craig Jelinek said.

Progressives are threatening to withhold support for the COVID relief package if the measure doesn't include a long-sought minimum wage increase. 

U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress that only 10% of the new postal delivery vehicles it is ordering will be electric despite President Biden's push to fully electrify the U.S. government fleet.

President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Interior, New Mexico Democrat Rep. Deb Haaland, struggled Wednesday to say why she supports the controversial decision to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.

Not waiting for more federal help, states have been approving their own coronavirus aid packages, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help residents and business owners devastated by the pandemic’s economic fallout.

Full recap of Fed Chair Powell's second day of testimony on the U.S. economy.

Facebook's independent Oversight Board has received an appeal on behalf of former President Donald Trump.

President Biden is expected to meet with a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers at the White House Wednesday afternoon to discuss supply chain issues, including a shortage in semiconductor chips.

The U.S. national debt will swell to nearly $30 trillion if Democrats are able to ram through their COVID-19 relief package via budget reconciliation.

President Biden pledged on the campaign trail to raise the corporate tax rate — an increase that could have a detrimental side effect on the U.S. economy.

Red states that chose to keep their economies open are being "punished" under the $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package pushed by President Biden, Sen. Cynthia Lummis told Fox News.