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Earlier this month, Rep. Mark Takano of California reintroduced the “Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act” into Congress, returning the idea of a four-day week to the minds of our lawmakers and the American public. Takano first introduced the bill proposing a 32-hour week in July 2021, but the bill did not advance past introduction.  The reintroduction...

There is no language in the amendment regarding property taxes.

Today, Secretary Blinken announced his selections for the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Since its establishment in 2011, the Board

Governor Hochul announced the appointment of Lee Perlman as Chair of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation, which operates the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side, as well as the Senate confirmation of incoming Commissioner at the Department of Civil Service and President of the Civil Service Commission Timothy Hogues.

David Card and Joshua Angrist, who earned their Ph.D.s at Princeton, have been awarded Nobels for providing “new insights about the labor market.”

Stain Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.

He embarked on a massive spending agenda that expanded federal safety net programs and seeks to add government benefits for college, child care, health care and paid sick leave. “Big government is back, and it’s back under the auspices of this quote-unquote national emergency,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The activist approach to governing imbues Mr. Biden’s union agenda. The president gave multiple plugs for unions in his address to ...