Most Americans share President Joe Biden’s enthusiasm for increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 (NZ$21) an hour from $7.25 (NZ$10). Two-thirds of them – and more than 40 per cent of Republicans – favour such a rise, according to Pew Research Centre, a polling firm. Economists, however, are more divided. When a panel of eminent scholars was asked in 2015 whether a $15 minimum would deal a substantial blow to employment, 40 per cent of respondents were undecided, and the rest were split evenly for and against. There is an explanation for the indecision: the world has little experience of large minimum-wage rises, and they could cost an economy jobs. Yet history also suggests that such increases, implemented with care, may nonetheless have beneficial longer-term effects.
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(CN) The decades-long sentences of three Kansas men convicted of plotting to blow up a Mosque were affirmed by the 10
th Circuit on Monday.
After a jury trial in which the government called 15 witnesses and submitted 500 exhibits and the defense called 10 witnesses and offered 40 exhibits, a federal judge in 2019 sentenced Curtis Allen, 53, and Gavin Wright, 55 members of the so-called Kansas Security Force militia group to 25 years each in federal prison for plotting to blow up an apartment complex and mosque in Garden City, Kansas. Accomplice Patrick Stein, 51, received a 30-year sentence.
US Appeals Court Upholds Prison Sentences for Men Who Plotted To Bomb Kansas Somalis
A U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions and prison sentences of three men who plotted to bomb a Kansas apartment complex that was home to Somali immigrants and a mosque, rejecting in a ruling on Monday that the FBI had entrapped them.
Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein were found guilty by a jury in the Kansas U.S. district court in 2018 of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and violating the civil rights of Muslims living in the Garden City housing complex.