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The Trump administration has issued a rule that will make overtime pay available to 1.3 million additional workers, but that replaces a more generous plan advanced by former President Obama that would ve covered nearly 5 million more people.The Labor Department said Tuesday that it is raising the salary level that companies will have to pay to exempt workers from overtime to $35,568 a year, up from $23,660. Americans earning less than that amount will typically be paid time and a half for any work over 40 hours a week.The prior threshold of $23,660, has been in place since 2004. The new threshold of $35,568, adjusted for inflation, would be equivalent to a salary of about $26,300 that year. The new rule will benefit retail, fast-food restaurant and home-health-care workers, as well as other lower-paid workers. Many employees in those industries have been paid just above the $23,660 threshold. They are then required to work overtime without extra pay.But many worker rights group and left-of-center economists criticized the Trump administration s move for covering far fewer workers than an earlier proposal issued by the Obama administration in 2015. Under the Obama administration, the Labor Department prop
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stanley thermos st originally appeared on Slate.Rick Santorum doesn t doubt that President Obama was born in this country, but he does doubt whether he believes in it. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech Thursday, the likely presidential candidate argued that because Obama does not believe America plays a special role in the world, he is unfit to lead America. Santorum s speech offered a 10-point plan for reviving American foreign policy, including protecting defense spending from cuts, support for Israel and better intelligence capabilities. At its heart though, the speech was guided by the notion that America can prosper only if its leader promotes the belief that it is a unique moral force in the world, promoting freedom and fighting evil in countries like Iran, Venezuela, and China. One of t
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