Labor

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Tim Constantine has the latest Republican poll numbers, and a surprising announcement for employees at the Department of Labor.

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The Demise of the European Union Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Associated Press)

The Obama administration has tried under VA Secretary Robert McDonald to get beyond the crisis that erupted in Phoenix in April 2014 over delayed health care for veterans and phony waitlists. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Marco Rubio said if businesses are required to pay higher wages than the market warrants, it will force them to turn toward more automation to save costs. (Associated Press)

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Two Knoxville, Iowa City Council members who voted last week to remove a veterans memorial from a city park have been unseated. (Facebook/@Stop the Insanity)

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FILE - In this June 30, 2014 file photo, demonstrators stand on the steps outside the Supreme Court in Washington, where the court was poised to deliver its verdict in a case that weighs the religious rights of employers and the right of women to the birth control of their choice. The Supreme Court is wading into its fourth dispute over President Barack Obama’s 5-year-old health care overhaul. The newest “Obamacare” case involves objections by faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities to the process the administration devised to spare them from paying for contraceptives for women covered under their health plans, and yet ensure that those women can obtain birth control at no extra cost. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Tim Constantine reports on the Obama administration continuing to review the Keystone XL pipeline, Hillary Clinton on raising the minimum wage, and a retooling of The Muppet Show.

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Members of the Graduate Employee and Students Organization-Unite Here deliver a petition bearing the names and faces of hundreds of Yale University graduate student employees during a protest on campus in New Haven, Connecticut on Oct. 15, 2015. (Associated Press)

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National Edition Opinion cover for November 5, 2015 - The left’s plan for single-payer health care (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)

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The Five Guys burger chain said it is investigating after video surfaced showing several employees attacking a female patron inside a Miami Beach franchise. (YouTube/@BurrTv A1LenzProductions)

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National Edition News cover for November 4, 2015 - More than half of Obamacare co-ops go belly up: President Barack Obama shares a humorous moment with a group of doctors from around the country in the Oval Office, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to a health insurance reform event at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Some pollsters and activists think Donald Trump's lasering in on the economy and his perceived competence in creating jobs will appeal to the one segment of Hispanics that matters most in elections: those who work and tend to vote. (Associated Press)

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The proposal by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton would raise the current minimum wage — set at $7.25 in 2009 — by almost two-thirds. (Associated Press)

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President Obama has declared this week as the first National Apprenticeship Week, with more than 200 events nationwide aimed at supporting programs "that will help rebuild our middle class," the Labor Department said. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2015 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. The government's insurance website is faster and easier to use, but as a third sign-up season gets underway, President Barack Obama's health care law is approaching limits. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Marco Rubio argued that the child tax credit was not a transfer payment but a repayment of taxes paid, including payroll taxes imposed on all workers. He said that the tax credit should be viewed as an investment in families and in their children's futures. (Associated Press)

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, right, smiles at a light moment during a Chicago City Council meeting Wednesday, October 28, 2015 in Chicago. The City Council easily approved the Mayor's budget plan, that includes a massive property tax hike and other fees to help close a shortfall and improve the city's underfunded pension system. A vote many aldermen called the most difficult of their political careers. (Brian Jackson/Sun-Times Media, via AP) CHICAGO TRIBUNE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES **FILE**

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• Minimum Wage Help Wanted Sign Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Colorado state Sen. Irene Aguilar (right), a Democrat and a physician, helps deliver more than 156,000 signatures to put a health care question on next year's general election ballot. ColoradoCareYES wants to start the nation's first universal health care plan. (Associated press)