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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvania-based free market think tank released its latest report grading state public sector labor laws on Tuesday, tracking how government unions have worked to advance pro-union legislation at the state level in the wake of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers and representatives from the banking and capital industries praised the Trump administration’s policies boosting economic growth in a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The Trump administration will invest more than $100 million into school lunch initiatives across the country, the White House said Monday.
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(The Center Square) – Mississippi, Wyoming and Arkansas lead the nation in car crash fatalities, according to a new report
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Change in America’s trucking may not fully be tangible when the new Freedom Haulers initiative is up, running and thriving.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate has released its version of the five-year farm bill and plans to mark it up in committee Thursday, finally making progress on the critical agricultural policy package.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration has unveiled “Freedom Haulers,” a new hiring campaign meant to accelerate the process for U.S. veterans seeking employment in the trucking industry.
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Reporting from The Center Square
As the third school year for the Arkansas Children’s Educational Freedom Account Program (EFA) nears an end, it’s safe to say the program is succeeding.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved the revised 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, sending the bipartisan bill to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Only days after urging the U.S. Senate to confirm Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence, President Donald Trump ordered senators to halt the process until Congress confirms a replacement U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.
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