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News Tipoffs - Arkansas Editors Newsletter for Thursday April 11, 2024 ( 4 items )  

BLS - Southeast Region Issues Report Entitled 'Consumer Price Index, South Region - March 2024'
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, South Region - March 2024": * * * Prices in the South up 0.4 percent in March and 3.8 percent over the past year * * * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the South rose 0.4 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table   more

Ga. A.G. Carr Files Suit Against President Biden's Latest Lawless Student Loan Plan
ATLANTA, Georgia, April 11 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release: Attorney General Chris Carr has joined a seven-state coalition in filing suit against the Biden administration's latest lawless student loan plan, which will cost taxpayers an estimated $475 billion overall. "Despite the Court having already settled this issue, the Biden administration continues to brazenly violate the law," said Carr. "Georgia taxpayers have made it clear that they know it's w  more

Governor Lee, Tenn. Economic Commissioner McWhorter Announce Corky's Food Manufacturing, LLC to Expand Manufacturing Operations in Shelby County
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 11 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news on April 10, 2024: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and Corky's Food Manufacturing, LLC officials announced today the company will expand manufacturing operations at its 3006 Fleetbrook Drive location in Memphis. Corky's will invest $4 million and create 28 new jobs to add a second shift and additional  more

Iowa A.G. Bird Leads 13-State Lawsuit to Pull the Plug on Biden Electric Vehicle Handout and Defend Ethanol
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 11 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 13-state coalition in a lawsuit to pull the plug on Biden's electric vehicle handout and defend ethanol. In Biden's most recent attack in the war on gas vehicles, he is creating a rule that overstates the efficiency of electric cars by more than six-times. Biden's illegal boost to electric vehicles hurts car owners, car manufactu  more