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Minimum wage hike to $15 passes in California, New York

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and New York acted Monday to gradually push their statewide minimum wages to $15 an hour — the highest in the nation — as Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders again seized on wage disparity and the plight of the working poor in their fight for the Democratic presidential

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GOP candidates pitch conservative path to fight poverty

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidates said Saturday their party must do more to convince poor Americans that conservative policy — and not an active federal government — will expand economic opportunity. But the White House hopefuls, addressing a conservative economic forum in the early voting state of South Carolina, didn&

Manhattan Institute

Moving up grows harder for some Americans, study says

Residential and economic mobility remain a part of life in the U.S., though a new study shows that the opportunities for both are more limited for some than in the past. Economic mobility, or the ability to move beyond the economic circumstances of one's parents, has long