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A group of Senate Democrats is urging President Biden to support recurring stimulus checks for low-income Americans as part of his nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package.

Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package.

An American father and son wanted by Japan for aiding former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn escape from the country in a box were handed over to Japanese custody Monday, ending their months-long battle to stay in the U.S.

House Democrats passed a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill on a mostly party-line vote early Saturday.

Progressive lawmakers are pushing the White House to override a decision last week by the Senate parliamentarian and include a federal minimum wage increase in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package.

President Biden voiced support for a group of Amazon workers pushing to organize in Alabama, calling the union vote "vitally important."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to unveil legislation on Monday that would tax the net worth of the wealthiest Americans, a proposal aimed at reducing income inequality in the U.S. 

The plan, introduced last week by Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden and Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders, included tax penalties on large corporations that fail to pay $15 an hour and incentives for the "smallest of small businesses" to encourage them to raise their wages.

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.