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As Republicans in Congress prepare for a possible backlash this fall against President Donald Trump, their counterparts in the Kentucky legislature are grappling with a similar threat from the state's teachers and public workers. This spring, thousands marched on the state Capitol in a protest that shuttered more than 30 school districts across the state and pressured lawmakers to remove some of the most hated proposals from a pension bill that would have taken away cost-of-living raises.
Abortion-rights advocates are intensifying efforts to make it easier for women to get abortions amid a new wave of state-level bans and restrictions expected to occur under a reconfigured U.S. Supreme Court. The efforts include boosting financial aid for women needing to travel long distances to get an abortion, and raising awareness about the option of do-it-yourself abortions.
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a government probe into the bank's creation of mortgages riddled with flaws that the U.S. Department of Justice said contributed to the financial crisis that helped unleash the Great Recession, the government announced Wednesday. Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a government probe into the bank's creation of mortgages riddled with flaws, which the U.S. Department of Justice said contributed to the financial crisis that helped unleash the Great Recession, the government announced Wednesday.
Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Ann Wagner wrote in USA Today that they are introducing legislation to modernize our more than 80-year-old public pension system - Social Security - to make it more flexible and better able to meet the needs of today's workers. This is welcome news.
U.S. Senators Joe Donnelly and Dean Heller introduced the bipartisan National Senior Investor Initiative Act of 2018 today in the Senate. The proposal, which is aimed at protecting seniors from financial crimes and scammers, would create a dedicated task force within the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen protections for seniors who make investments.
Innovative Program Leverages Downtown Growth to Make Direct Investments into Neighborhood Businesses Across City's South, West and Southwest Sides Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the third round of investments from the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund directly into 33 small businesses in Chicago's South, West and Southwest Sides. The businesses receiving a total of approximately $5 million in investment include a Grand Boulevard grocery store, a North Lawndale restaurant and a Little Village fruit market.
George Wallace is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News . He has ranched and farmed in the West all his life.
Thousands protested in central Moscow on Sunday against a proposed increase to the retirement age and the crowd chanted slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin whose approval ratings have been dented by the bill. The rally organized by the opposition Libertarian Party chanted "Putin is a thief" and "away with the tsar," slogans common at anti-Putin and anti-government protests.
T he state official overseeing the race, a known voter suppressor, won a GOP runoff this week to be the nominee. If past is prologue -- and in the world of elections it often is -- the race for the next governor of Georgia may be one of the dirtiest of 2018.
Maryland's U.S. senators say the Social Security Administration is demonstrating "hostility towards its workforce" in the way it is implementing recent executive orders signed by President Donald J. Trump . Trump signed the orders in May with the stated goals of promoting accountability, rooting out poor performers and negotiating union contracts more advantageous to taxpayers and the federal government.
House Republicans have launched an effort to expand the massive tax law they muscled through Congress last year, aiming to make permanent the individual tax cuts and small-business income deductions now set to expire in 2026. The pre-midterm elections push, which clicked into gear Tuesday, is portrayed as championing the middle class and small businesses.
If you were embroiled in a dispute over claims for benefits or federal enforcement actions, your case would probably end up before an administration law judge . These judges - of whom there are more than 1,900 across the federal government, 1,600 in the Social Security Administration alone - oversee trial-like hearings and adjudicate a range of administrative and regulatory questions.
The chairman of the House committee on appropriations will appropriate the unpaid share of local government units amounting to more than P1 trillion following decision by the Supreme Court. Davao City first district Rep. Karlo Nograles said however that they will wait first for the final and executory decision of SC on the said decision as this involves a huge amount to be paid by the national government to LGUs.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen visited the Londonderry maker of honey wines Moonlight Meadery today. She stopped by to illustrate how local companies are impacted by the Trump administration's trade policies.
Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA. Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA.
As 3D printers become better and more affordable , more and more entrepreneurs become interested in how they can contribute to their small businesses or provide avenues for brand new businesses altogether. Being able to manufacture products without the same staff, machinery, and space requirements opens all new avenues of productivity and profit.
"You have to, especially in an environment like this, you have to work to earn trust a and I've worked very hard to do that," the first daughter and adviser to the president said Wednesday at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "And I don't want to call out names because a lot of people who engaged with me in the most substantive way have done so because they know that I'm not going to violate their confidence and share their perspectives publicly."
They've got this Charlie Brown-like optimism - or naivete - that one day they'll actually kick that football a or win an election. Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it would put resources into Joe Cunningham's race to win the 1st District congressional seat.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. will lay off more than half of its employees and will no longer offer fixed-rate home mortgages, Michael W. Perry, the bank's chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement Monday. Perry also announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has downgraded IndyMac's lending status from "well-capitalized," which means the bank can no longer accept brokered cash deposits without a waiver by the FDIC.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan's joint fundraising committee said Friday it had raised almost $10 million during the second quarter of 2018 as he and other Republicans try to keep control of the chamber in a challenging environment for their party in November's elections. The committee, called Team Ryan, said it has raised more than $70 million so far in the 2017-18 election cycle.