DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 17: Private industry employer costs for employee compensation among the four regions of the country ranged from $31.66 per hour in the South to $40.69 in the West during June 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In the other two regions, hourly employer costs for employee compensation stood at $34.20 in the Midwest  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 -- The Broad Institute issued the following news release on Sept. 17: A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard COVID-19 diagnostic. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with their collaborators at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Ragon Institute,  more

MONTPELIER, VT, Sept. 18 -- The Marijuana Policy Project issued the following news release on Sept. 17: Today, the Vermont House of Representatives cast a final vote (92-56) in favor of S. 54 -- legislation that would legalize, regulate, and tax cannabis sales. House and Senate negotiators reached a final agreement on the provisions of S. 54 earlier this week. The bill will require a final vote from the Senate before it proceeds to the desk of Gov. Phil Scott, who has not yet indicated whether   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 (TNSRes) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with their collaborators at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Ragon Institute, have been working on a CRISPR-based diagnostic for Covid-19 that can produce results in 30 minutes to an hour, with sim  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 17 -- The Natural Resources Council of Maine issued the following news release on Sept. 16: A group of Maine residents and the Penobscot Nation will call on the Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) at their September 17th meeting to support a citizen's petition that will ban out-of-state waste from being disposed in State-owned landfills and enact greater environmental justice protections for those communities directly impacted by the state's licensing and permitting de  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, issued the following remarks on Sept. 16: * * * Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) joined representatives of the International Committee on Nigeria (ICON) along with former Rep. Frank Wolf (VA) and former NFL New England Patriots Tight End Benjamin Watson to raise awareness around the decades long atrocities being committed against Nigeria's Christian community by Boko Haram and other Islamist extremist terrorist organizations. She delivered the fo  more