Appeals court rules in favor of Right to Life Associated Press ...A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Wisconsin cannot enforce a $10,000 limit on donations received by independent political action committees...
Ohio GOP Forgets Its Zero Tolerance Pledge After Three Members Get In Trouble With The Law Think Progress ... DeWine, Kasich, and other Republican leaders have not attempted to enforce that zero tolerance policy when it comes to the three members who have had legal problems this year...
Detroit teachers union to fight cuts in potential test for Michigan's new emergency manager law Mlive.com ...The Detroit Federation of Teachers is preparing to fight a 10 percent wage cut imposed by state-appointed emergency manager Roy Roberts, setting up a potential test case for Michigan's newly-strengthened law...
Another bond rating agency takes dim view of state's budget solutions Minneapolis Star-Tribune ...On the heels of a "kick the can down the road" budget solution, Moody’s Investor Service placed Minnesota on a negative outlook for its bond rating...
Unions Joining Forces To Counter Christie Wall Street Journal ...In an unusual show of collaboration, New Jersey's public worker unions plan to join together to try to upend Gov. Chris Christie's signature accomplishment this year: cuts to their pensions and health-care benefits...
Region's jobless rate rises Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ...a confluence of factors -- including a rising number of jobs paired with an increase in the number of people interested in working -- may have pulled up the unemployment rate in the seven counties that make up the Pittsburgh metropolitan statistical area...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Today's Teamster News 07.11.11
Counties Want Feds To Stop Walker Freeze Of Family-Care WSAU.com ...The popular program offers a variety of health services designed to keep the elderly out of nursing homes, and disabled younger people out of institutions...
Minn. employees seeking work elsewhere Associated Press ...Many of the 22,000 public employees out of work in Minnesota’s budget impasse say they will get through the extended layoff by tapping into personal savings, making household spending cuts, and relying on a spouse’s income or unemployment checks...
GOP legislator sponsors Great Lakes water bill to fatten his own wallet Plunderbund ...Republican Rep. Lynn Wachtmann ...is employed as the President of Maumee Valley Bottling, Inc....Now why on earth would the bottled water industry care about unregulated daily withdrawals of millions of gallons of water from the Great Lakes?...
Is selling state services responsible? Scripps-Howard ...The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says 46 states and the District of Columbia have made severe cuts in state services, including health care (31 states), services to the elderly and disabled (29 states and D.C.), K-12 education (34 states and D.C.) and higher education (43 states)...
No, We Can’t? Or Won’t? (Opinion) New York Times ...The truth is that creating jobs in a depressed economy is something government could and should be doing...
Economy Faces a Jolt as Benefit Checks Run Out New York Times ...Unless hiring picks up sharply to compensate, economists fear that the lost income will further crimp consumer spending and act as a drag on a recovery that is still quite fragile...
Minn. employees seeking work elsewhere Associated Press ...Many of the 22,000 public employees out of work in Minnesota’s budget impasse say they will get through the extended layoff by tapping into personal savings, making household spending cuts, and relying on a spouse’s income or unemployment checks...
GOP legislator sponsors Great Lakes water bill to fatten his own wallet Plunderbund ...Republican Rep. Lynn Wachtmann ...is employed as the President of Maumee Valley Bottling, Inc....Now why on earth would the bottled water industry care about unregulated daily withdrawals of millions of gallons of water from the Great Lakes?...
Is selling state services responsible? Scripps-Howard ...The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says 46 states and the District of Columbia have made severe cuts in state services, including health care (31 states), services to the elderly and disabled (29 states and D.C.), K-12 education (34 states and D.C.) and higher education (43 states)...
No, We Can’t? Or Won’t? (Opinion) New York Times ...The truth is that creating jobs in a depressed economy is something government could and should be doing...
Economy Faces a Jolt as Benefit Checks Run Out New York Times ...Unless hiring picks up sharply to compensate, economists fear that the lost income will further crimp consumer spending and act as a drag on a recovery that is still quite fragile...
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