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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that five California churches in Santa Clara County are exempt from a health directive prohibiting indoor gatherings, and are now permitted to resume services indoors.Why it matters: The late Friday action is the latest in a string of orders directing state and local governments to whittle down public-health orders intended to stop the spread of the coronavirus.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.Details: In a one-paragraph, unsigned order, the court cited an earlier decision in which it excluded religious services from statewide regulations banning most indoor gatherings.The Supreme Court's three liberal judges — Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor — dissented.Context: Santa Clara County claimed its restrictions on indoor worship remained valid because they were part of a broader ban on gatherings at religious and secular facilities, including “political events, weddings, funerals, worship services, movie showings, cardroom operations.” Other indoor operations, such as shopping malls, were allowed at 20% capacity.Five churches contested that order, saying it conflicted with the Supreme Court’s ruling, but a federal appeals court in San Francisco declined to block the restriction.Of note: The county said on Feb. 25 it planned to ease restrictions starting the following week due to a decline in coronavirus cases, per Bloomberg.More from Axios: Sign up to get the latest market trends with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free
US demand for manufactured food is forecast to grow 1.4% annually in nominal terms through 2024, according to Food Processing: United States, a report recently released by Freedonia Focus Reports. The market for manufactured food will expand as real disposable income per capita advances 0.4% annually during that period. In addition, consumers will pay a premium for products that require little or no preparation and are considered healthy or natural. Therefore, purchasing of higher-value foods is expected to support demand growth. However, the maturity of the market, declines in real disposable income in 2021, and falling meat and chicken prices will restrain faster gains.
WASHINGTON — The policy debate over raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is the latest fault line between Democrats, who largely support the idea, and Republicans, who generally oppose such a sharp increase as bad for business. But it is also revealing new fissures in the Republican Party, which is straining to appeal to its corporate backers, some of whom believe that more than doubling the minimum wage would cut deeply into their profits, and the working-class wing, which fueled President Donald Trump’s rise and would stand to gain from a pay increase. After decades of either calling for the abolishment of a federal minimum wage or arguing that it should not be raised, Republicans are beginning to bow to the realities facing the party’s populist base with proposals that acknowledge the wage floor must rise. President Joe Biden is likely to try to capitalize on that shift as he tries to deliver on his promise to raise the minimum wage, even if it does not make it into the $1.9 trillion aid package because of a ruling Thursday evening by the Senate parliamentarian. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times For years, Republicans have embraced the economic arguments that were laid out in a letter this month to Congress by Americans for Tax Reform, the Club for Growth and other conservative groups that promote free enterprise. They point to studies that assert that mandated wage increases would lead to job losses, small-business closures and higher prices for consumers. And they make the case that the economic trade-offs are not worth it, saying that more jobs would be lost than the number of people pulled from poverty and that those in states with a lower cost of living — often conservative-leaning states — would bear the brunt of the fallout. In 2016, as Republicans moved further to the right, moderate candidates such as Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor, and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, argued forcefully that the federal minimum wage did not need to be raised above $7.25, which is where it still stands today. Bush said the matter of wages should be left to the private sector, while Rubio warned about the risk of making workers more costly than machines. But Republicans have at times grappled with the challenging politics of a position that so clearly sides with business interests. In the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, said that he believed that the federal minimum wage should rise in step with inflation, as measured by the national Consumer Price Index. And after arguing early on in his 2016 campaign that wages were already too high, Trump later said he could support a $10 minimum wage. That is the number that Romney, now a Republican senator from Utah, and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced in a plan that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $10 over four years and then index it to inflation every two years. On Friday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., went a step further by matching the proposal that Democrats have made for a $15 minimum wage. His plan comes with a big caveat, however, and would apply only to businesses with annual revenue of more than $1 billion. “Megacorporations can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour, and it’s long past time they do so, but this should not come at the expense of small businesses already struggling to make it,” Hawley said. The proposal drew a sharp rebuke from David McIntosh, the president of the Club for Growth, who suggested that Hawley was adopting bad policies in a bid to appeal to Trump’s voters. He said that his organization would not support Republicans who promoted minimum wage increases and said that they should be pushing for payroll tax cuts to give workers more take-home pay. “This is another example of his ambition driving him to these populist positions that completely violate any principles he has about free markets,” McIntosh said in an interview. While the talking points surrounding the minimum wage have remained largely the same over the years, the politics are shifting partly because the federal wage floor has stagnated for so long — and a growing body of literature has suggested that the costs of higher wage floors may not be as significant as analysts once worried they might be. After rising gradually over the decades, the minimum has held steady at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Prices have gradually increased since then, so the hourly pay rate goes a shorter distance toward paying the bills these days: Today’s $7.25 is equivalent to $5.85 in 2009 buying power, adjusted by consumer price inflation. Given how low it is set, a relatively small share of American workers actually makes minimum wage. About 1.1 million — 1.5% of hourly paid workers and about 0.8% of all workers — earned at or below the $7.25 floor in 2020. States with the highest share of hourly paid workers earning at or below the federal minimum are often Southern — like South Carolina and Louisiana — and skew conservative. About 7 in 10 states that have an above-average share of workers earning at or below the minimum wage voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election. While only a slice of the workforce earns at or below the minimum, lifting the federal base wage to $15 would bolster pay more broadly. The $15 minimum wage would lift pay for some 17 million workers who earn less than $15 and could increase pay for another 10 million who earn just slightly more, based on a recent Congressional Budget Office analysis. Still, raising wages for as many as 27 million Americans is likely to come at some cost. The budget office, drawing on results from 11 studies and adjustments from a broader body of literature, estimated that perhaps 1.4 million fewer people would have jobs in 2025 given a $15 minimum wage. Some economists who lean toward the left have questioned the budget office’s conclusion. In research that summarized 55 academic studies of episodes where a minimum wage was introduced or raised — 36 in the United States, 11 in other developed countries — Arindrajit Dube at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that even looking at very narrow slices of workers who were directly affected, a 10% increase in minimum wage might lead to a 2% loss in employment. Looking at the effects for low-wage workers more broadly, the cost to jobs was “minute.” More recent work from Dube has found next to no employment impact from state and local minimum wage increases. Yet many Republicans have seized on the budget office’s job loss figure. In a column titled “How Many Jobs Will the ‘Stimulus’ Kill?” Stephen Moore, an adviser and ally of Trump’s, and conservative economist Casey Mulligan suggest that the $15 federal minimum wage will cost 1 million jobs or more. Moore said in an email that they were relying on the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate. Still, a variety of economic officials emphasize that the cost to jobs of a higher minimum wage is not as large as once believed and that the federal minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. “Higher minimum wages clearly do help the workers who are affected,” John Williams, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said during a virtual speech Thursday. “There are some job losses,” but recent evidence suggests that it is not as many as once expected. There is precedent for raising the minimum wage toward $15, because as the federal base pay requirement has stagnated, states and localities have been increasing their own pay floors. Twenty states and 32 cities and counties raised their minimum wages just at the start of 2021, based on an analysis by the National Employment Law Project, and in 27 of those places, the pay floor has now reached or exceeded $15 an hour. The drive toward $15 started in 2012 with protests by fast-food workers and was initially treated as something of a fringe idea, but it has gained momentum even in states that are heavily Republican. Florida — which Trump won in November 2020 — voted for a ballot measure mandating a $15 minimum wage by 2026. Like in many of those local cases, Democrats are proposing a gradual increase that would phase in over time. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the former Fed chair, suggested in response to lawmaker questions after her confirmation hearing that the long runway could help mitigate any costs. “It matters how it’s implemented, and the president’s minimum wage will be phased in over time, giving small businesses plenty of time to adapt,” Yellen wrote. This article originally appeared in The New York Times. © 2021 The New York Times Company
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Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd will soon go on trial, a sign of the deep uneasiness hanging over a city literally set ablaze almost a year ago in the anger over his death. Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz, both Democrats, were sharply criticized for failing to move faster to stop last summer's looting and destruction, which included the torching of a police station. Anything less than a murder conviction for Derek Chauvin is likely to test them — and the city — once again.
Feb. 27—One Saturday last winter a 66-year-old woman in northeastern Butler County put a gun to her head and killed herself. One other woman and 13 men ended their lives the same way in the county in 2020. The 15 gunshot wounds, all to the head, were the leading cause of self-inflicted death last year, some 40.5 percent of the county's 37 suicide deaths. Hangings accounted for another 13, ...
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Feb. 27—Organizers of entertainment venues around Butler County are trying to figure out what Gov. Mike DeWine's latest coronavirus mandate means for their attendance. On Thursday, DeWine said indoor sports and entertainment events will soon be cleared to host up to 25 percent capacity, along with 30 percent capacity for outdoor events. "This is a start," he said in a tweet to announce the ...
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