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Effort revs up to phase out ‘sub-minimum wage’ for tipped workers

The “One Fair Wage” campaign wants tipped workers to make the same minimum wage as anyone else in Chicago. Tipped workers instead are paid $9. On July 1, that rises to $9.48 and the $15-an-hour minimum wage goes to $15.80.

Chicago Sun-Times

Increase in Americans planning to vote for candidate who shares abortion view

Finding in Gallup poll comes just before first anniversary of supreme court overturning Roe v Wade

The Guardian - US

Biden should take nothing for granted in 2024 Democratic primaries

Biden and the Democratic National Committee made a risky move: major changes to the primary calendar, that put South Carolina first, ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. History shows the risk-taking could backfire.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Trump team fears Meadows is a "rat"

Meadows reportedly testified before a grand jury investigating Trump without the former president's knowledge

Salon

House GOP erupts into infighting over Boebert's resolution to impeach Biden

Boebert's impeachment resolution is "not going to pass," one Republican said.

Axios

Nine candidates running in Louisiana’s open-seat, all-party gubernatorial primary on Oct. 14

Nine candidates are running in the all-party primary in the open-seat election for governor of Louisiana on Oct. 14. Gov. John Bel Edwards (D)—who was first elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019—is term-limited. Jeff Landry (R), Hunter Lundy (I), John Schroder (R), and Shawn Wilson (D) have the most…

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Incumbent Andy Beshear (D) and Daniel Cameron (R) are running in the Kentucky gubernatorial election on Nov. 7

Incumbent Andy Beshear (D) and Daniel Cameron (R) are running in the Nov. 7, 2023, Kentucky gubernatorial election. The primary was May 16, 2023. The filing deadline was Jan. 6, 2023.

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AOC, Nadler among Congress members urging Mayor Adams to back off ‘short-sighted’ NYC budget cuts as deadline looms

Some of New York City’s most influential members of Congress are calling on Mayor Eric Adams to back off a string of “short-sighted” spending cuts he’s seeking as part of the next municipal budget, which is due in less than two weeks.

Tribune News Service

Blunt Rochester enters race for Senate seat in Delaware

Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester announced a run for Delaware’s open Senate seat Wednesday, officially launching an expected campaign and simultaneously opening up a race for the state’s sole House seat.

Tribune News Service

More U.S. House races now featuring major-party competition

Over the past decade, the percentage of U.S. House of Representatives elections with only a Democrat or a Republican on the ballot has dropped in a majority of the election cycles and below the past century’s average. Here is the recent breakdown:

Ballotpedia

So much for all that Hunter Biden hype

Will the GOP stop hunting the Biden family now?

Salon

Trump's trial will soon be underway in Florida – here's why prosecutors had little choice in selecting any other courthouse location

Special Counsel Jack Smith may have wished he could indict and try former president Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., where Trump is disliked, rather than in southern Florida, where Trump is popular.

The Conversation

The right believes the FBI is obsessed with jailing Trump. The opposite is true

Far from being persecuted, Trump has been handled with vastly more deference than anyone else would be

The Guardian - US

Americans are hungry to be part of unions. So why is US labor so timid?

Support for organized labor is soaring. Yet the biggest US union coalition endorsed Biden without asking anything in return

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‘There’s no way I can pay it’: Americans dread restart of student loan payments

Pause on loan payments set to end in October as political fight over Biden’s forgiveness plan rages on and has been tied up in courts

Salon

MAGA loves Trump when he's playing dumb

Evangelicals, in particular, feel a flock should follow leaders who are neither smart nor moral

Ballotpedia

Six legislatively-referred ballot measures received unanimous support from both parties, more than previous years

Welcome to the Wednesday, June 21, Brew.

The Texas Tribune

Analysis: The 2023 Texas Senate, from right to left

Here’s a look at Senate members, ranked from most conservative to most liberal, based on votes cast during the 2023 regular session.

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Commentary: The debt ceiling deal was not perfect, but it was far better than a default

I was one of 165 Democrats to vote yes for the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which ultimately passed the House earlier this month in an overwhelmingly bipartisan 314-117 vote. Raising the debt ceiling saved the U.S. economy from potential catastrophe. Democrats faced a Hobson’s choice or the illusion that multiple choices…

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Senators are undermining their own power

The slow decline of the United States Congress continues. The latest example is a practice that has helped individual senators wield disproportionate influence: the “hold.” Once a justifiable way for senators to bring attention to a problem or issue germane to their state, senators are increasingly using the hold as…

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: Texas vs. California: Mean tweets, migrant dumping and the 'race to the bottom'

Name-calling. Mean tweets. A governor's quick-draw veto pen.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Josh Hawley knows better about slavery and Juneteenth. But he just wants to fight

We’ve long since become accustomed to Sen. Josh Hawley’s online provocations. The Missouri Republican (or perhaps his staff) is a prolific poster, one who uses Twitter not to enlighten or inform his constituents but to start fights and stir up politically useful culture wars. For the most part, we prefer…

Zenger

Trump’s Classified Docs Trial Delayed Until August 2023 Amid Pre-Trial Litigation

Former President faces obstruction charges for sharing classified information at Mar-a-Lago estate

The Independent UK

With Trump under indictment, House GOP calls on Trump-era special counsel who studied Russia probe

As Donald Trump faces a federal indictment, House Republicans are using the report from a special counsel to renew their argument that federal law enforcement is tainted by political bias

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats choose community activist and CTU worker Tara Stamps to fill Mayor Brandon Johnson’s old County Board seat

Stamps was one of six candidates interviewed Tuesday evening by Democratic leaders representing the Chicago wards and suburban townships that make up the district that Johnson was previously elected to serve as a Cook County commissioner.

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