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U.S. unemployment rose from an annual average of 4.0% in 2024 to monthly readings around 4.1–4.3% in early-to-mid 2025, with the December 2024 jobless rate at 4.1% and August 2025 at 4.3% (monthly) — ...
The reviewed reporting contains in a White House ballroom accident; available articles describe demolition and construction activity but do not report accidents or injuries. The demolition of the East...
By 2021 a mix of cities and a few states (or parts of states) had reached $15/hr through local or state schedules — notably New York City and Seattle had citywide $15+ floors and several states/cities...
Medical and psychological conditions shape ICE hiring through a formal pre‑employment medical exam that evaluates whether a condition could cause incapacitation or impair performance; mental health is...
Undocumented workers are generally covered by core federal labor laws—like the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many anti‑retaliation provisions—and can seek agencies’ enforcement or private suits ...
President Obama’s November 2014 “Immigration Accountability” executive actions packaged a set of administrative directives that expanded temporary deportation relief for specific groups, reshaped enfo...
Federal reporting shows the Trump administration changed which graduate programs the U.S. Department of Education would treat as eligible for the higher “professional” loan caps created by the One Big...
Payroll teams commonly trip over overtime rules, time-tracking gaps and employee misclassification — mistakes that trigger under/overpayments, back wages and reissued W‑2s (payroll error rates cited a...
Federal law makes child trafficking among the most severely punished crimes in U.S. statutes: sex trafficking of children under 18 is prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. §1591 and related statutes that carry p...
The U.S. work‑visa process usually starts with a U.S. employer petitioning USCIS (often Form I‑129) and can require a Department of Labor labor certification (PERM) depending on the category; after pe...
The Department of Education (ED) justified its 2025 changes primarily as efforts to “break up the federal education bureaucracy,” improve administrative efficiency, and “return education to the states...
The Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing the eligible set from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and ...
The available reporting and advocacy posts show that the U.S. Department of Education’s 2025 rulemaking would sharply narrow which graduate programs are treated as “professional degrees,” cutting the ...
Federal reclassification of which graduate programs count as “professional degrees” under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has prompted immediate pushback from higher‑education groups, professio...
Coverage in the provided sources shows multiple reclassification rules in 2024–2025 (e.g., EPA clean‑air source reclassification, DOL overtime/employee reclassification, and federal cannabis/hemp sche...
The 2025 reclassification and related policy package sharply narrowed how new H-1B petitions from abroad are handled by imposing a $100,000 payment requirement for petitions filed on or after 12:01 a....
Reclassification decisions affect different industries depending on which "reclassification" is meant: securities/promoter reclassification chiefly affects listed companies and their investors (corpor...
Undocumented workers in U.S. hospitality generally retain core workplace protections—minimum wage, overtime, anti‑discrimination, and some safety and retaliation protections—even though immigration la...
Several federal actions and proposed rules in 2025 seek to reverse longstanding, narrower interpretations of PRWORA that had kept programs like Head Start, some workforce services, and other federal g...
Continuing resolutions (CRs) function as the most frequent tool Congress uses to prevent government shutdowns and thereby blunt immediate disruptions to immigration services, but they produce . The re...