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At least one person is dead and 44 others have been sent to local hospitals after a Pennsylvania bus crash, NBC News affiliate WBRE reported.Fifty people were on the Greyhound bus that crashed at about 1:40 a.m.
The AFL-CIO applauds President Barack Obama for nominating Janet Yellen as the next chairwoman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Professor Yellen is a brilliant economist with a strong record of leadership as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Yellen also will be the first woman to serve as the chair of the Federal Reserve. We commend President Obama for breaking the glass ceiling at this critical public institution.
A federal board’s investigation into the fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people in the Texas town of West in April has been suspended due to the government shutdown, Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said on Tuesday.Thirty-seven of the U.S.
Jennifer Epps-Addison, J.D, the executive director of Wisconsin Jobs Now, has been named winner of the 2013 Edna Award.The Edna Award, which carries a $10,000 prize, honors women age 35 or younger who have distinguished themselves as leaders of the social justice movement. It is named after Edna Berger, the first woman organizer of The Newspaper Guild-CWA and the inspiration behind the Berger-Marks Foundation.
This year’s D.C. Labor Film Fest—Oct.11–17 at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, Md.—is taking place at a time when even a normally impervious establishment press has noticed that most Americans’ economic lives are in a long-term decline. There are just too many 20-somethings still living with their folks, too many young college grads working in jobs requiring no more than a high-school diploma, too many middle-aged workers dropping out of the labor force after failing to find employment, too many 60-somethings with insufficient savings to retire and way too many American workers with dim, if any, memories of getting a raise.
A cargo plane carrying the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers will land at Dover Air Force Base Wednesday morning, greeted by loved ones whose grief is laced with outrage that even they have not been spared from the government shutdown.
An unusually early and enormous snowstorm over the weekend caught South Dakota ranchers and farmers unprepared, killing tens of thousands of cattle and ravaging the state's $7 billion cattle industry — an industry left without assistance because of the federal government shutdown.
A Maryland foundation is stepping into the breach to cover death benefits for the families of fallen service members that were suspended during the government shutdown — including the families of five killed in Afghanistan over the weekend.
The father of a 9-year-old boy who sneaked onto a flight to Las Vegas last week said his son had been a problem child for years – but said he couldn’t understand how the boy was able to board the flight.
A billionaire couple who pledged up to $10 million to fund Head Start programs that could no longer serve kids due to the government shutdown was "incredibly, incredibly generous," but their donation is just a "stopgap," said the association's spokeswoman.
