Everything’s Coming Up COVID for Much Public Spending... Even as Virus Fades

Everything’s Coming Up COVID for Much Public Spending... Even as Virus Fades
Demonstrators participate in a protest outside of McDonald's corporate headquarters in Chicago, Ill., on Jan. 15, 2021. The protest was part of a nationwide effort calling for minimum wage to be raised to $15-per-hour. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Steve Miller
RealClearInvestigations
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For some special interests, a fading coronavirus pandemic poses a problem, but not always an insurmountable one.

Big Labor and its acolytes cite the virus as a compelling reason for doubling the minimum wage and forcing businesses to provide more paid sick leave, while the Biden administration is using the pandemic as part of its justification for overhauling immigration toward eventual amnesty for undocumented migrants.

Steve Miller is an author and journalist. After spending 12 years as an indie musician, Miller began his journalism career as a courts and cops reporter at the Dallas Morning News and as a national reporter at the Washington Times. He has worked as a national correspondent for The Daily Beast, People magazine, High Times, U.S. News and World Report, RealClearInvestigations, and several alternative weeklies including Houston Press and Miami New Times.
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