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2007
HNR: Unemployment Insurance Reforms Pass in House; President Threatens Veto (11/13/07) HNR: Legislation Would Overturn Court Pay Discrimination Ruling (8/3/07) HNR: Paid Leave Proposed for American Workers (7/23/07) HNR: Workers Lose As Senate Legislation Fails (6/29/07) HNR: Healthy Families Act Introduced (4/20/07) HNR: Bill Reducting Roadblock to Unionization Passes in House; Slower Going in Senate (4/20/07)
2006
WOW: Reality Check: Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System (6/23/06) CEPR: The Rise and Fall of teh Minimum Wage (1946-2006): The Federal Minimum Wage Is at Its Lowest Point in 50 Years (6/23/06)
2005
NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: Appropriations Bills Moving Towards Completion; Across-the-Board Cuts Threatened (11/11/05) HNR: Senate Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (10/28/05) HNR: White House Forced to Back Down on Davis-Bacon Wage Protections (10/28/05) HNR: Congress Enacts Legislation to Extend Medicare Premium Subsidies and Transitional Medicaid; Also Shores Up Shrinking Unemployment Funds for Gulf States (10/28/05) WashPost: Prevailing Wages to Be Paid Again on Gulf Coast (10/27/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) HNR: Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) NYT Op-Ed: Summer of Our Discontent (8/26/05) (on wages and employment) Washington Times Editorial: The Facts on Wage Trends (8/25/05) Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Low Wage Workers Seen As Growing Force (8/18/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) HNR: House Approves Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/1/05) HNR: Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education Moves in House (6/17/05) USAToday: States Say $5.15 an Hour Too Little (5/30/05) USAToday: Families, Medical Leave Act at Center of Hot Debate (5/25/05) HNR: Senate HELP Committee Approves Workforce Training Bill (5/20/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) HNR: C ongress Ponders Multiple Tax Cuts (5/20/05) WP: Retirement's Unraveling Safety Net (5/15/05) NY Times Op-Ed: The Young and the Jobless (5/12/05) AFL-CIO: Unions Fight Bush Administration Efforts to Limit Family Medical Leave (5/4/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP Op-Ed: Remember the Raise? (4/20/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) LA Times: Wages Lagging Behind Prices and Healthcare Costs (4/11/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) HNR: WIA Reauthorization Bill To Be Marked Up in Subcommittee (2/4/05)
2004
Nation: Working and Poor in the USA (12/17/04) HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) HNR: House Committee Approves Bill Funding Departments of Labor, HHS and Education (7/16/04) HNR: National Paid Sick Leave Legislation is Introduced in the House and Senate (7/2/04) HNR: House Passes Personal Re-Employment Account Bill (6/4/04) WP: Across America, War Means Jobs (5/11/04) NY Times: Growth of Jobs Reinforces Hopes of Sustained Turnaround (5/7/04) HNR: Senate Votes to Overturn Labor Department's Revised Overtime Pay Proposal (5/7/04) HNR: Department Of Labor Revises Overtime Pay Rule Proposal (4/23/04) WP: High Court Will Review Age Bias in the Workplace (3/30/04) WP: Overtime Pay Battle Threatens Trade Bill (3/24/04) HNR: Majority Of Senators Support Restoration Of TEUC (3/4/04) HNR: Transportation Reauthorization Bill Moves in Senate (3/4/04) NY Times Op-Ed: Total Poverty Awareness (2/21/04) WP: Bush Backs Off Job Forecast (2/19/04) CDF: Youth Employment Rate Fell to Lowest Level For January in 39 Years (2/18/04) HNR: CHN Releases Analysis of President's Budget (3/4/04) HNR: Congress Attempts To Restore TEUC Program (2/13/04) CBPP/EPI: Administration's Job Creation Projections Miss the Mark (2/12/04) WP: Senate Panel to Examine Overtime (1/20/04) NY Times Editorial: Gaming Overtime (1/20/04) NY Times Op-Ed: Call It the Family Risk Factor (1/11/04) NY Times: Bush Seeks Ways to Create Jobs, and Fast (1/10/04) => Back to Labor and Employment Main Page
