A little more than a decade after the financial crisis and Wall Street bailout, huge banks made big money off the people hit hardest by the pandemic and the economic crisis, according to little-noticed disclosures to bank regulators. Also in today’s Weekend Reader: • How Republican legislators are passing laws
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Also: Biden has a plan to tax the rich, and Sinema’s insult boomerangs to help the fight-for-$15 campaign.
Also: Biden has a plan to tax the rich, and Sinema’s insult boomerangs to help the fight-for-$15 campaign.
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Sens. Carper and Coons killed a $15 federal minimum wage — now legislators in their state have advanced the same initiative and slammed their talking points.
Also: Sinema throws labor-union donors under the bus, while conflicts emerge in Supreme Court dark money case.
Also: Sinema throws labor union supporters under the bus, while conflicts emerge in Supreme Court dark money case.
Video shows UnitedHealth exec slamming Connecticut proposal’s “artificially low premiums” and pushing employees to lobby against the bill.
While the Biden administration drags its feet on the Yemen crisis, aid workers on the ground there say the situation is worse than ever.