– The New York Times

President Biden met with business leaders at the White House on Tuesday as part of his push to rally support for the $1.9 trillion pandemic package being debated in Congress and his plan to raise the minimum wage.

– ProPublica

To justify their reopening decisions, governors point to falling case counts. But epidemiologists and public health experts say a crucial factor is missing from these calculations: the threat of new viral variants.

– Newsweek

Central to the conservative ideology that informs GOP policymaking and Republican voting is trickle-down economics, which insists that policymakers can enable the market to increase wages through tax cuts and deregulation. But the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act shows that very few droplets make it down to a parched Main Street.

– The Washington Post

The activist group One Fair Wage has a new report regarding the “unfairness” of the tipping system.