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News Tipoffs - Utah Editors Newsletter for Tuesday February 27, 2024 ( 4 items )  

BLS Mountain-Plains Region Issues Report Entitled 'Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Utah - 2023'
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Feb. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 26, 2024, entitled "Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization in Utah - 2023": * * * In 2023, the broadest measure of labor underutilization, designated U-6 (which includes the unemployed, workers employed part-time for economic reasons, and those marginally attached to the labor force), was 5.4 percent in Ut  more

Iowa A.G. Bird Leads 22-State Coalition Demanding Biden Administration Locate Missing Kids They Lost
DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 27 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Feb. 26, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes today led a 22-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration, demanding that it locate the thousands of missing migrant children it lost and quit handing them to probable traffickers. The Biden Administration lost more than 85,000 migrant children in just   more

National Park Service Selects Superintendent for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Lena Pace as superintendent of Arches and Canyonlands national parks. This group of parks in southeastern Utah preserve some of the most striking geologic landscapes and significant Indigenous cultural sites on the northern Colorado Plateau. Pace will officially begin her new assignment on April 7. The position also supervises the sup  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Joins Amicus on States' Rights to Create Environmental Policy
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 27 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the State of Montana in Held v. Montana. The brief, led by the State of North Dakota, supports Montana's position in an appeal over judicial overreach from a question of environmental policy set by the state legislature. The case involves a challenge to a Montana law that bans state entities from "considering the impacts o  more