Eleanor Mueller

Of the 17 million workers who have applied for and received unemployment benefits between January and May of 2021, a disparate 22 percent were Latino and 18 percent were Black, according to a POLITICO analysis of Census data.

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The Paycheck Fairness Act would require employers to demonstrate that any gap in pay between a man and a woman was due to job performance rather than gender.

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The decision means that unemployed workers in those states will stop receiving an extra $300 a week beginning in June.

Republicans in states like Wisconsin, Florida and Alabama are already signaling that they would put up a fight against Biden’s expansive social welfare proposal.

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The announcement comes as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which would make it easier for workers to unionize, stalls in the Senate.

And President Joe Biden’s climate plan faces global skepticism.

Losing unions’ support ahead of 2022 could be devastating to Democrats, who are looking to maintain — and, ideally, build on — their razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections.

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Reporters spoke about their reporting on a range of subjects, from pros and cons of the Paycheck Protection Program, to the possibility of paid leave policy at the federal level.

Advocates expressed concern that the administration risks missing out on pandemic-created momentum to enact more robust reform.

Failure to effectively inoculate this population could exacerbate racial health inequities and jeopardize the country’s recovery, public health experts warn.

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“We’re not going to let a few people stop it from happening,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said. “Its time has come. Its time is long past due to be enacted. And we’ll do it.”

Two of organized labor’s highest priorities for the Biden administration, the PRO Act and the Raise the Wage Act, are both unlikely to garner the 60 votes needed for passage in the Senate.