World press digest February 19: 'Pentagon experiments with electric brain stimulation'

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Check out some several stories worth reading. The US Air Force is experimenting with electric brain stimulation on several dozen volunteers in the hopes it may improve alertness and acuity in personnel who must spend hours monitoring drone footage and surveillance data.

A proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, championed by President Obama, could reduce total employment by 500,000 workers by the second half of 2016, although it would also lift 900,000 families out of poverty and increase the incomes of 16.5 million low-wage workers in an average week.