Economy
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California Passes $20 Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers
(Headline USA) A new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year. When it takes effect on April 1, fast food workers in California will have the highest guaranteed base salary in the industry. The state’s minimum wage for all other workers — $15.50 per…
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Musk Livestreams Border Visit: ‘Extreme Individuals’ Crossing Over
(Headline USA) Tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed his visit to the southern border this week, highlighting the ways in which illegal immigrants and drug cartels are exploiting the open border, according to Bloomberg. “This is real time, unfiltered,” he said in the video, accompanied by Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas. “What you see is what I see.”…
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Energy Groups Call on Biden to Revise ‘Punitive’ Regulations
(The Center Square) Fourteen U.S. energy groups have called on the Biden administration to prioritize U.S. energy production and American’s energy needs by developing fair and consistent federal leasing regulations. They submitted comments to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over a newly proposed Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process…
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Biden’s GDP Growth Numbers Signal More Pain on the Way
(Will Kessler, Daily Caller News Foundation) A new estimate for U.S. economic growth released Thursday could mean that higher interest rates will be with Americans for longer. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of economic growth, for the U.S. remained at 2.1% for the second quarter of 2023 in its third revision, after being revised down from…
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Average Long-Term Mortgage Rate Reaches Highest Point in Nearly 23 Years
(AP) Home loan borrowing costs climbed again this week, pushing the average long-term U.S. mortgage rate to its highest level in nearly 23 years, another blow to prospective homebuyers facing an increasingly unaffordable housing market. The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan rose to 7.31%, from 7.19% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac…
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AOC Breaks w/ Bidenomics: ‘Economy is in Crisis’
(Headline USA) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., admitted this weekend that the U.S. economy is in “crisis,” contradicting President Joe Biden’s claims that his economic agenda is working. “Our economy is in a special kind of crisis. Our whole economy is in a special kind of crisis,” the “Squad” member said at a union rally in…
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Illegals Plant Venezuelan Flag In Texas, Biden’s Approval Plummets
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Sept. 25, 2023, illegal immigrants from Venezuela were able to plant their flag on a Texas island because of destructive immigration policies by the [Joe] Biden administration. Due to this and many other instances when illegals proudly declared through their actions that they planned to invade the United States, Biden…
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USDA Provides Nebraska Statewide Arboretum with $10 Million to Plant Trees
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service provided the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum with a five-year, $10 million grant to improve its urban forest infrastructure. The arboretum plans to use this grant for tree plantings, tree maintenance and removal, and workforce development. “The primary aims of the grant are to…
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AI Will ‘End Human Dominance’ in Five Years, WEF Says
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Two high-ranking members of the globalist World Economic Forum said that the human race will soon be “dominated” by artificial intelligence during an interview with the Rothschild family-owned globalist outlet The Economist. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of AI technology company Google DeepMind, and Yuval Noah Harari, a senior advisor to the WEF and…
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REPORT: Democrats ‘Panicked’ Trump Will Win the Blue Collar Vote
(Headline USA) Democrats are reportedly panicked that former President Donald Trump “outmaneuvered” President Joe Biden by announcing a rally with striking auto workers this week. Trump announced on Monday that he plans to skip the second GOP presidential debate and visit Detroit instead, where he will meet with members of the United Auto Workers union. Left-wing…
