WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following Monthly Labor Review article: By Justin Holt In 2021, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) for children in the United States was 5.2 percent, which was the lowest rate on record. Also, the SPM poverty rates for children from all racial and ethnic groups fell in 2021, and the greatest declines were for Black and Hispanic children. Research shows that this record-low SPM rate was corr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the following news release: * * * Up 1.7 Percent from the First Quarter * * * U.S. house prices rose 3.0 percent between the second quarters of 2022 and 2023, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (FHFA HPI(R)). House prices were up 1.7 percent compared to the first quarter of 2023. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for June was up 0.3 percent from May. "U.S. house prices apprecia  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2023: Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu announced the project selections for nearly $3 billion in climate resilience funding as part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics. The selections, through   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 30 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the federal government's actions to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for certain federal contractors. The policy was first enacted by presidential executive order in April 2021, and then implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor in November 2021 in the final rule, "Increasing th  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 30 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: Attorney General Brown today joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the federal government's actions to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for certain federal contractors. The policy was first enacted by presidential executive order in April 2021, and then implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor in November 2021 in the  more

LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 30 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the federal government's actions to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour for certain federal contractors. The policy was first enacted by a presidential executive order in April 2021, and then implemented by the U.S. Department of Labor in November 2021 in the final rule,   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Mike Gauthier, a veteran of the agency, as the new permanent superintendent of Lake Mead National Recreation Area beginning mid-September. Gauthier has been the acting superintendent at Lake Mead since December 2022. Gauthier will continue to manage the large, heavily visited park that straddles the b  more

SALEM, Oregon, Aug. 30 -- Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded schools, requires that schools act to prevent discrimination and harassment on campus. Today a coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia, led by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, announced that the states have filed an amicus (also known as a friend of the court) brief with the U.S. Ninth Circuit C  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: * * * Southern California Glaziers Plan Will Restore Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance * * * The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Southern California, Arizona, Colorado and Southern Nevada Glaziers, Architectural Metal and Glass Wor  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Aug. 30 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2023: Today, Governor Kristi Noem led ten of her fellow Republican governors in urging Congress to address the nationwide shortage of prescription drugs. Governor Noem and her colleagues submitted a letter to leadership in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The letter was addressed to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY),   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2023: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $808 million to help rural cooperatives and utilities build and improve electric infrastructure and increase electric grid reliability and security, connecting hundreds of thousands of people in rural areas. This funding will also help provide clean drinking water and sanitary wastewater s  more