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...Antiquities or National Monuments Act--which enables the President to protect sites like California's Muir Woods, New Mexico's Gila cliff dwellings and the Grand Canyon--as well as the Pure Food and Drug Act and a meat-inspection law. On Feb. 17, T.R.'s daughter Alice marries Ohio...
...Roosevelt from the start. He turned out to be the first President to aggressively use the powers of government to set rules for the headlong U.S. economy and the men he called "malefactors of great wealth." When President William McKinley chose T.R. as his running mate in 1900, Ohio Senator Mark Hanna, the business-friendly G.O.P. power broker who had engineered McKinley's rise, was horrified. "Don't any of you realize," Hanna raged at fellow Republicans, "there's only one life between this madman and the presidency?" As Governor of New York, the job he occupied before joining McKinley...
...TIME.com tracked down two of the key players in this legislative face-off and asked about the new development. In the Speaker's lobby off the House floor today, House Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio told TIME.com the move was not designed to scuttle immigration reform this year...
...easy. Opponents of living-wage proposals argue that they will do more economic harm than good. The Employment Policies Institute (EPI), a Washington think tank known for its industry funding and pro-business positions, released a study in March claiming that a proposed bill to raise Ohio's minimum wage (at $4.25, one of the lowest in the country) could lead to a $308 million hit on the Ohio economy and the loss of 12,000 jobs. John Doyle, EPI's managing director, says that state and federal earned-income tax credits and worker training would be more effective...
Studies cited by liberal-leaning research organizations such as the Economic Policy Institute, the Fiscal Policy Institute and Policy Matters Ohio, however, show that minimum-wage laws rarely lower employment. "We now have 19 states that have raised their minimum wages above the federal minimum, and nothing like that kind of effect has occurred," says Jared Bernstein, senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute. "In the best research done by nonpartisan academics, the impact of moderate wage increases on job growth and displacement is about zero...