Wages

Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.

A family whose 21-year-old son developed a life-threatening reaction to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine has been waiting six months to learn if the U.S. government’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program will help cover their son’s medical bills, but there’s been no response from the program.

According to numbers released by the US government, consumer prices have increased by 7.5 percent in the past year, the steepest increase since 1982.

Traffic jam, not an uprising.

The Biden administration is preparing to draft Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency regulations.

Americans aren't coming back to work.

Prices metric tracked by Federal Reserve rose 5.8% last year, sharpest increase since 1982.

Number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since mid-November.

Record high job openings and extremely low employment have not stopped workers from losing ground due to inflation running at a 39-year high, data from the Labor Department showed Wednesday.

'Our approach to COVID-related absences has evolved'