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âWhile the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,â Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day.
Trumpâs proposal to end federal taxes on tips (which Vice President Kamala Harris later said she also supports) is aimed at benefiting mostly low-income workers, though some economists doubt it will work.
The late criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, who wrote about crime trends for the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice at the end of his long career in this field, told us in 2021 that presidents âcan facilitate a response,â citing an initiative by Biden at the time to work with cities to reduce gun violence.
Meanwhile, an independent âafter-action reviewâ commissioned by Minneapolis concluded that the delayed deployment of the state National Guard was at least partly the result of inexperienced city officials not following the proper protocols when Walz was first contacted about providing military assistance.
An audio clip, widely shared on X (formerly Twitter), supposedly captures Labourâs shadow health secretary Wes Streeting swearing and saying he doesnât care, when asked about Palestinians being killed.
The essence of a fake: Yoga instructor accidentally reveals one million dead Ukrainian soldiers during event announcement.
According to official data, last year, the average pension in Latvia was not âŹ320, as claimed by the blogger, but âŹ560 â 2.5 times higher than in Belarus.
Some of the posts feature a screenshot of Scottish Labourâs website showing that membership enquiries should be directed to an office in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Biden may endorse his vice president for the nomination, but he wouldnât have âany formal power over the delegates to say they have to vote for X candidate,â said Mayer, the Northeastern University professor.
âLive fact checkingââanalysing politiciansâ claims in close-to-real timeâis one of the trickiest things we do, and we did it a lot in this election campaign.