WASHINGTON, July 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In May 2024, there were a total of 6,694,000 unemployed people and 8,140,000 job openings in the United States, yielding a ratio of 0.8 unemployed person per job opening. The national job openings rate was 4.9 percent. Fourteen states had 0.5 or fewer unemployed person per job opening: North Dakota (0.3 person), Vermont and South Dakota (0.4 person  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $427 million in funding for 245 airport-related infrastructure grants across 39 states to modernize and improve America's airports. The projects are funded under President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program, part of the $25 billion total included in the law for airp  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release on July 30, 2024: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $427 million in funding for 245 airport-related infrastructure grants across 39 states to modernize and improve America's airports. The projects are funded under President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program, part of t  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following dissent on July 30, 2024, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on a decision (Docket No. ER24-2144-000) involving PPL Electric Utilities Corp. and PJM Interconnection LLC: * * * I dissent from today's order granting the Abandoned Plant Incentive to PPL Electric Utilities Corporation (PPL) for certain transmission projects (collectively known as the Chanceford Project) which were approve  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The White House issued the following news release: On Tuesday, July 30, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 1105, the "Debbie Smith Act of 2023," which authorizes appropriations to the Department of Justice for each of FYs 2024-2029 in the amount of $151 million for the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program; Thank you to Representatives Wagner, Cohen, Hunt, and Cline, and Senators Cornyn, Graham and Klobuchar for their leadership. Thank you to the late Representa  more