by Kate Walter | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Longtime progressive lawmakers and labor advocates are hopeful that the Biden administration will be more emboldened to expand overtime pay rules in the coming months after a recent Supreme Court ruling in an employment law case and if the president’s new...
by Avani Kalra | Jan 25, 2023 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate leadership expressed their support for abortion rights at a press conference Tuesday, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the seven-month anniversary of Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Majority...
by Maia Pandey | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Communities and healthcare providers urgently need federal funding to address twin mental health and substance abuse crises, healthcare experts and advocates told senators on Tuesday “Almost 130 million Americans live in areas with less than one mental...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 24, 2014 | Education, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Dayana Torres doesn’t like preaching to the choir. The 19-year-old president of Dreamers of Virginia, Torres is one of the leaders of an effort to allow undocumented immigrants who live in Virginia to pay in-state tuition at the state’s public...
by Jeanne Kuang | Feb 11, 2014 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON—A Congressional Budget Office report that spurred a partisan economic argument last week continued to pit Democrats and Republicans against each other Tuesday. At a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Douglas Elmendorf, head of the non-partisan CBO, said the...