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On Dakota prairie, home of Trump’s DHS pick, immigration crackdown threatens way of life, economy
Gov. Kristi Noem’s heated rhetoric on immigration belies a stark economic reality in her own state: With unemployment at 1.9% — the lowest in the country — South Dakota faces an acute labor shortage ...
Trump isn’t the first to upend the federal workforce because of race
President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.
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Trump pardons anti-abortion activists involved in clinic blockades
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Related video above: Trump administration goes offense on ...
Brooke Rollins says she'll shield farmers from impacts of Trump's tariffs in ag secretary nomination hearing
Neither of Texas’ two senators serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee. But both Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz introduced ...
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The Latest: Seattle judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is remaking the traditional boundaries of Washington, asserting unprecedented executive power and daring anyone to stop him ...
Trump's RTO executive order: How the mandate will work and when federal workers may have to return to the office
Big changes are in store for federal workers who work remotely after Trump signed an executive order requiring RTO. Here's how the mandate might work.
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Unpacking the Biden Administration’s Last-Minute Antitrust Worker Protections
In another final act, the Biden FTC and DOJ replaced the 2016 Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals with new Guidelines on Business Practices that Impact Workers. The new guidelines lay ...
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House committee chair asks again for DOL IG to investigate alleged information sharing
The new leader of the House Education and the Workforce Committee renewed a call for the Department of Labor’s inspector general to investigate allegations that DOL officials shared retirement plans’ ...
Trump wants federal workers back at their desks. Why that may be harder than it sounds
It was no surprise when President Donald Trump this week issued a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies, essentially directing them to get their employees back to the office full ...
Number of Unemployed Claimants Hits 1.9M, Most Since Nov 2021
The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to 1.9 million last week, the highest level since November 2021, according to data released by the Labor Department on Thursday. This ...
Ferries become frontline in human trafficking prevention efforts
Seattle-based nonprofit Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking has been working with the ferry system since 2021.
Weekly first time jobless benefits filings rise to monthly high
The number of people filing unemployment benefits for the first time grew to a seasonally adjusted 223,000 last week, the highest one-week total in more than a month.