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Underreported: What Happened When Government Tried to Fix a Coal Town

Monday, September 18, 2017 - 10:30am
The Daily Signal

Sept. 18, 2017

Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers have three months to keep the treasury secretary's timetable for achieving tax reform. Small business leaders say they're a big part of a potential boom, Rachel del Guidice reports. President Trump is in New York much of the week for a major speech at, and meetings about improving, the United Nations, Fred Lucas writes. A federal jobs program didn't change Kentucky coal country as promised, Kelsey Harkness shows. Plus: Jarrett Stepman on the minimum wage and public health. Happy 70th birthday, Air Force.

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Higher Minimum Wage Laws Might Make You Sick

 

A new study found that just a 10-cent increase in the minimum wage "increased hygiene violation scores by 11.45 percent."

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We Hear You: Electing to Investigate Voter Fraud

 

"The politicians need to be forced to take a position on whether they are willing to have noncitizens vote," writes Bernard R. Gans of Los Angeles.

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