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The history of the United States that began in 2016 is notable for a return to great power rivalry between the United States, China, and Russia. This period has been called the Second Cold War as well as part of a Second Gilded Age driven by increasing wealth inequality. It has also been described as the beginning of the Seventh Party System, due to recent shifts in demographics and voting ...
The District Court and the Court of Appeals approved the certification of a class comprising about one and a half million plaintiffs, current and former female employees of petitioner Wal-Mart who allege that the discretion exercised by their local supervisors over pay and promotion matters violates Title VII by discriminating against women.
This article reviews 1962 in Michigan, including the state's office holders, population trends, largest public companies, performance of sports teams, a chronology of the state's top news and sports stories, and notable Michigan-related births and deaths.
The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property, sales, capital gains, dividends, imports, estates and gifts, as well as various fees. In 2020, taxes collected by federal, state, and local governments amounted to 25.5% of GDP, below the OECD average of 33.5% of GDP. [1] U.S. tax and ...
The George Floyd protests were a series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. [7][8] The protests and civil unrest began as reactions to the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed African American man, by city police during an arrest. They spread nationally and internationally. Veteran officer ...
The plan includes $1 trillion in direct aid, including $1,400 per-person checks, for working Americans, and would provide for direct housing and nutrition assistance, expanding access to safe and reliable childcare and affordable healthcare, increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance, and giving families with kids and ...
This glossary of economics is a list of definitions containing terms and concepts used in economics, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.
The unemployment rate was the highest in the state since 1975 and more than five points above the national rate of 7.0%. [113] May 4 – A sit-down protest against safety conditions at the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Michigan near Charlevoix resulted in 16 arrests.