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Women will lose big if state and local governments can’t close coronavirus budget gaps

Leave a Comment / Working Women / By max cyril

The United States is on track to lose millions of jobs if the federal government doesn’t help state and local governments fill in budget shortfalls. Some of the jobs will be in the private sector as governments drop contracts and as public workers curtail their spending, but it’s a guarantee that government workers will be hard hit. …

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Immigration agency warns of furloughs amid cash crunch

Leave a Comment / furloughs / By max cyril

USCIS says it’s facing a $1.2 billion shortfall, but lawmakers say they’re still waiting on a detailed budget breakdown from the White House. The agency charged with administering the nation’s immigration system is facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall that it says will force thousands of furloughs in the coming weeks absent an emergency cash …

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When three days sick means losing a month’s grocery budget

Leave a Comment / sick days / By max cyril

Nearly two-thirds of private-sector workers in the U.S. have access to paid sick leave, but as with so many labor and economic statistics, that masks serious inequality: 87 percent of the top 10 percent of earners have paid sick leave, while just 27 percent of the bottom 10 percent do. And what that means is …

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If Trump Has His Way, You’ll Certainly Miss This Agency You Probably Don’t Even Know Exists

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, women's issues, Working Women / By max cyril

The Trump Administration has released its proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year. Who’s set to lose big if this budget comes to fruition? Women—specifically working women and their families. The only federal agency devoted to women’s economic security—the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau—is on the chopping block. The agency, which currently has a budget of only …

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Trump’s Family Leave: An Empty Envelope for American Workers

Leave a Comment / paid family leave, paid leave, Uncategorized / By max cyril

The White House budget dispels any hopes Trump might keep his promise to extend a helping hand to the nation’s millions of small business workers with a family and medical leave act that works for them. Instead, the Trump team hands American workers an empty envelope. Small business owners had reasons to hope: since the campaign, …

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People’s Budget Puts Forward An Aggressive Plan To Green Our Economy

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will formally unveil their fiscal 2017 People’s Budget on Tuesday, and when they do one of the key features they will tout is an aggressive plan to shift the country to a green energy future. “Climate change is no longer just a problem for a future generation — it …

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