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News Tipoffs - Rhode Island Editors Newsletter for Tuesday April 02, 2024 ( 3 items )  

BLS: Unemployment Rates Higher in 28 States Over the Year Ended February 2024
WASHINGTON, April 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on April 1, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * From February 2023 to February 2024, unemployment rates increased in 28 states, decreased in 3 states, and changed little in 19 states and the District of Columbia. Rhode Island had the largest over-the-year unemployment rate increase (+1.1 percentage points) while Massachusetts had the largest over-the-year decrease (-0.7 percent  more

Mass. A.G. Campbell Co-Leads Multistate Effort To Vacate Trump Administration Rule That Eliminated Anti-Discrimination Protections In Health Care
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 2 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has co-led a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY), et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), et al., filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The amicus brief supports the plainti  more

Md. A.G. Brown Takes Action to Protect Access to Emergency Abortion Care
BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 2 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has joined efforts to safeguard Americans' access to abortion care during medical emergencies. As part of a multistate coalition of 24 attorneys general, Attorney General Brown filed an amicus brief (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/032924_Amicus_For_CA_NY_et_al.pdf) with the United States Supreme Court in Idaho v. U.S.   more