Biden seeks 14 percent funding boost for DOL in FY 2022
By Rebecca Rainey 04/09/2021 11:00 AM EDT President Joe Biden wants to give the Labor Department $14.2 billion in funding as part of his 2022 budget request, a 14 percent boost from the previous year. In total, Biden is requesting an additional $1.7 billion for DOL, which includes increased funding for the agency’s enforcement arms as […]
Judge sets up ruling on Dakota Access shutdown for late April
By Alex Guillén , Ben Lefebvre 04/09/2021 03:09 PM EDT A federal judge on Friday said he plans to decide as soon as late April whether to order the Dakota Access pipeline to shut down as it undergoes a new environmental analysis. Details: Justice Department attorney Ben Schifman on Friday told Judge James Boasberg of […]
CDC declares racism ’a serious public health threat’
By Benjamin Din 04/08/2021 06:41 PM EDT The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday labeled racism as a serious threat to public health and said it would take steps to address the matter. “What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of […]
GOP tax writers concerned about Biden’s approach to global tax talks
By Bernie Becker 04/08/2021 06:49 PM EDT Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee said Thursday that they were worried about how the Biden administration was handling global tax negotiations and requested a briefing from the Treasury Department about the talks. “We are concerned that the OECD changes could directly reduce U.S. tax revenues […]
How Biden is empowering teachers unions on school reopenings — and what could trip them up
By Eleanor Mueller , Juan Perez Jr. 04/08/2021 12:58 PM EDT Teachers unions at the national and local levels are playing an outsize role in determining when, and how, schools bring students back into classrooms — but differences between them threaten to complicate President Joe Biden’s goal of having the majority of elementary students back […]
New friction felt over Planned Parenthood giving Covid shots
By Alice Miranda Ollstein 04/08/2021 05:00 AM EDT A new effort by Planned Parenthood to distribute Covid vaccines to underserved communities is reviving tensions with anti- abortion forces that have long protested the reproductive health group’s involvement in the pandemic response. Planned Parenthood is partnering with five states, including New York and California, to give […]
Parents want in-person classes. Summer school? Not so much.
By Juan Perez Jr. 04/08/2021 05:24 PM EDT A large majority of American parents say they want children learning in person next school year, according to a new poll from POLITICO and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And many parents want teachers to be vaccinated before returning to work and tend to side with […]
Trump aims to cover all Americans’ Covid shots
By Susannah Luthi , Rachel Roubein 10/28/2020 07:16 PM EDT The Trump administration on Wednesday released its plan for promising free Covid-19 vaccines for all Americans. What the plan would do: The sweeping plan aims to cover the uninsured, seniors and poor Americans, as well as people with employer-sponsored or other private coverage. But the interim final […]
72 percent of lower-income parents worry their kids are falling behind in online school, Pew study says
By Juan Perez Jr. 10/29/2020 12:10 PM EDT Lower-income parents are far more likely to worry their children are falling behind in school because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center study of public opinion about in-person classes and distance learning. The data released Thursday suggests income and class divides correlate with divergent […]
Port Authority’s $1.2B year-to-date revenue loss is worst in agency’s history
By Samantha Maldonado10/29/2020 04:11 PM EDT Updated: 10/29/2020 04:27 PM EDT The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s year-to-date financial losses are the worst the agency has seen, reflecting a $1.2 billion drop in revenue during the first nine months of the year. “This revenue loss, representing one of the worst financial downturns […]
