Biden’s Unemployment Disaster

“In an employment trend that industry leaders are calling ‘dire,’ thousands of Presidential fact checkers have been laid off during Joe Biden’s first hundred days in office.

Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of the American Society of Presidential Fact Checkers, said that Biden has single-handedly destroyed the employment picture for many of the group’s members.

‘Over the past three months, America’s Presidential-falsehood infrastructure has all but collapsed,’ Dorrinson said. ‘We have not experienced such a devastating downturn since Richard M. Nixon left office, in 1974.’”

— “Thousands of Presidential Fact Checkers Laid Off in Biden’s First Hundred Days,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker

But serously, folks:

“What it’s been like fact-checking Joe Biden through 100 days,” Daniel Dale, CNN

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Millionaires Vote Down $10.10 Minimum Wage

“A broad-based coalition of millionaires converged on Washington today to defeat a bill that would have increased the minimum wage for American workers to $10.10 an hour.

Leaving behind their mansions and yachts, the millionaires were motivated by what they saw as an existential threat to the country, Mitch McConnell, a spokesman for the millionaires, said.

‘This was an extremely diverse coalition,’ McConnell said, noting that everyone from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich united to vote down the bill.”

— “Millionaires Unite to Defeat Minimum Wage,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker

More:

“GOP Blocks Minimum-Wage Bill in Senate,” Caitlin Huey-Burns and Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics

Related:

“Which Millionaire Are You Voting For?” Nicholas Carnes, New York Times

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