WANT TO GET MORE BIKES ON THE ROAD IN BRITAIN? How about making it safer and more convenient for people to ride them? Only 2% of people in UK ride bicycles to work, compared with about a quarter of them in continental countries. A group of MPs are urging their colleagues, in the name of [...]
A renewed legislative effort to raise the national minimum wage and give a boost to the millions of Americans mired in working poverty was a featured promise made by President Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. But political reality is likely to intrude on the president’s vision as familiar foes of wage hikes [...]
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