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"We understand the real pressure on household budgets and have worked to keep increases to a minimum, while still ensuring there is funding to deliver essential improvements at reasonable cost."

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Rinderknecht, who moved to Florida after the fire, who was arrested Tuesday, was charged with destruction of property by means of fire and faces a minimum of five years in federal prison.

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In practical terms, Pearson said, this means measures like raising the federal minimum wage, passing Medicare for All and preventing corporations from automating away jobs that working-class Americans rely on.

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But she points out this is not the case for industries such as pharmaceuticals, where regulators require firms to hold minimum levels of stock.

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But there were no minimum quotas for female lawmakers, nor for those from the country's many ethnic and religious minorities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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