Help wanted. The job: putting one of the nation’s most far-reaching salary disclosure laws into practice. Location: New York City. Just four months ago, city lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to require many ads for jobs in the nation’s most populous city to include salary ranges, in the name of giving job …
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Canceling student loan debt through executive action is “still on the table,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki, after the Biden administration once again delayed the restart of federal student loan payments earlier this month. The White House has faced continued questions about what the administration will do about …
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Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, knows firsthand the sacrifices of going to war and being a working mom. The Iraq war combat veteran and mother of two is using Women’s History Month to make a renewed push for her legislation to establish a memorial in the nation’s capital to …
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The House on Friday passed legislation that would ban discrimination based on hairstyle and hair texture. The CROWN Act, which was introduced by Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, would prohibit hair-based discrimination “if that hair texture or that hairstyle is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.” Hairstyles the …
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Washington — An armed 17-year-old male was arrested at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday night after he and another individual drove through a security checkpoint at the installation’s main gate, prompting a lockdown at the base. The incident took place as Vice President Kamala Harris and four members of President …
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Last year, approximately 140,000 workers went on strike, and about half were employed in the healthcare sector, according to a new “Labor Action Tracker” report by Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) . Across the country, hospital employees spearheaded some of the more significant strikes of the year: …
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Dr. Eric Lander, a top science adviser to President Biden, resigned Monday night. His resignation comes hours after White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed he had been investigated over a complaint that he mistreated staff. Politico reported on Sunday that an internal White House investigation found that Lander, a …
Read More »Washington — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will announce a relaunch of the government’s cancer “moonshot” effort, with a goal of cutting deaths from the disease by half. The so-called “moonshot” against cancer was first launched in 2016 with $1.8 billion in federal funds to be spread out over seven …
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President Biden has signed an executive order to make sexual harassment an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and to improve the military’s response to domestic violence and the unlawful distribution of intimate images. Establishing sexual harassment as an offense under the code was called for by the …
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President Biden will hold his 10th news conference as president on Wednesday, the day before he marks one year in the White House. Mr. Biden, who has held fewer press conferences at this point in his presidency than recent predecessors, is wrapping up his first year in office with some …
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