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AFL-CIO’s Trumka: Racists & Wall Streeters In Trump White House

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By Doug Cunningham

At a Christian Science Monitor roundtable Wednesday AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka told reporters that there were racists in Trump’s White House. Trumka says some of the racist Whiter House aides actually had some policies on trade and infrastructure that labor could support.

But Trumka says labor won’t work with racists.

Now, Trumka says the Wall Street wing is dominating Trump’s White House – the opposite of what Trump promised during the campaign.

Minimum Wage $1 An Hour Increase Equals 9700 Fewer Child Neglect Cases A Year

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Researchers at Indiana University and the University of Connecticut say raising the minimum wage by a dollar an hour would decrease child neglect cases. Lindsey Rose Bullinger and Kerri Raissian say that $1 dollar wage increase would result in 9,700 fewer child neglect cases annually. The researchers studied nine years of child mistreatment cases tracking changes in the number of child neglect reports to child protective service agencies with increases in the minimum wage. Bullinger says raising the incomes of the working poor can improve children’s welfare.