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 Ali Bianco | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – As countless Ukrainians begin to leave their homes following the Russian invasion, conversations have spurred around the Capitol about President Biden potentially designating the country for Temporary Protected Status. All the while, countless Central...
by Grace Deng | Feb 22, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – A divided Senate education committee on Feb. 10 advanced the nomination of Washington education administrator Glenna Gallo to lead the U.S. Education Department’s special education program. “I think she’s fabulous,” said Ilene Schwartz, professor of...
by Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — It seems a foregone conclusion that President Donald Trump will be acquitted of impeachment charges by the Republican majority in the Senate. But that didn’t stop a group of frustrated current and former Republicans who want Trump to be removed from...
by Sylvan Lane | Feb 12, 2014 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON—Five years after the Great Recession stalled the American economy, senior citizen entrepreneurship might be what the United States needs to kick the slow recovery into another gear. Now, the Senate is trying to figure out what needs to be done help “encore...
