White House to miss deadline for report on 'fiscal cliff' budget cuts The Hill ...Under the terms of the Sequestration Transparency Act signed in August, President Obama was to tell Congress by Friday how the administration plans to implement the $109 billion in automatic cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act...
U.S. Jobless Rate Drops for the Worst of All Reasons Bloomberg ... The share of working-age people who are either working or looking for work—known as the labor-force participation rate—fell to its lowest level since September 1981...
Unhappy Anniversary: Republicans Have Blocked The American Jobs Act For One Year ThinkProgress ...The plan included stimulus spending in the form of immediate infrastructure investments, tax credits for working Americans and employers to encourage consumer spending and job growth, and efforts to shore up state and local budgets to prevent further layoffs of teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public safety officials...
'Coal-Gate' Shines Spotlight on Danger to Public Lands SustainableBusiness.com ... Just a few months back environmental groups sent a letter to the US Bureau of Land Management requesting that they cease ‘auctioning’ public assets to a single bidder...
Hostess employees to vote on new contract Journal Tribune ...Hostess Brands CEO Greg Rayburn made a stop at the company’s Biddeford bakery Friday to take questions from and listen to the concerns of the approximately 410 employees who work there regarding a proposed five-year union contract...
Phillips 66 Bayway refinery workers to vote on contract Friday Reuters ...Members of the Teamsters Union at Phillips 66's 238,000 barrel-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, will vote Friday on whether to ratify their latest labor contract, as recommended by the union's executive board...
