Tag: election
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Job growth gives inflation-saddled Democrats a lifeline heading into Election Day
The final jobs report before Tuesday’s midterm elections gave President Biden a thin lifeline for a closing campaign argument, but it was likely too little, too late to ease voters’ year-long concerns about historically high inflation and eroding wages. Employers added 261,000 jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday, a performance better than Wall…
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Republicans gear up for fight over leftist causes after midterm election
Republican senators sent letters to 51 law firms across the country warning that investments in Wall Street companies that push liberal issues such as climate change and diversity could run afoul of antitrust laws. The move by the GOP lawmakers signals that they will make the battle over “woke capitalism” a key initiative if they…