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Walmart, our nation's largest retailer, is cutting some 30,000 part-time employee's health care benefits, due to the rising costs for the company.
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Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?
Why Are Police Unions Blocking Reform?
Mon Sep 12, 2016
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newyorker.com
On August 26th, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand for the national anthem, as a protest against police brutality. Since then,...
Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave
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President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican...
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Why the New York Times’s Amazon story is so controversial, explained
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On Sunday, the New York Times published a massive exposé of Amazon's "punishing" work culture. The company, the Times alleged, "is conducting a little-known experiment in...
Special Report: For Islamic State, wheat season sows seeds of discontent
Special Report: For Islamic State, wheat season sows seeds of discontent
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As the season for wheat planting in Iraq wound down early last month, farmers in areas under the control of Sunni militant group Islamic State grew worried. More than...
How Mass-Produced Meat Turned Phosphorus Into Pollution
How Mass-Produced Meat Turned Phosphorus Into Pollution
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Excess phosphorus can run off into streams and lakes and become an ecological disaster.
Amendment To Farm Bill Could Be End To Humane Farming Standards
Amendment To Farm Bill Could Be End To Humane Farming Standards
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A proposed amendment to the $1 trillion federal farm bill is of concern to both states’ rights and humane farming advocates as Congress looks to finalize the bill passed in...
Plain Talk: Sad email underscores how GOP divides us
Plain Talk: Sad email underscores how GOP divides us
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Dave Zweifel of the Capitol Times writes about how a rural Wisconsin farm worker takes out her animosity on public sector workers. Her view "underscores how successful the...
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JOHNSON: Thankful for farmers, ranchers
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On Thursday, families across the country will gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving. I have much to be thankful for this year, including a loving wife, children...
Democratic Legislation that Benefits Farmers
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Positive Result\Benefit
Law
Rank
01/04/11
Small family farms selling locally exempted from federal regulations such as traceability and record keeping
Food Safety Modernization Act
12/08/10
$1.5 billion awarded to some 75,000 black farmers who were victims of discrimination in applying for farm loans from 1983 to 1997
Claims Resolution Act