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U.S. federal department that regulates workers' rights and labor markets
The immediate controversy centers on a U.S. Department of Labor social post reading “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American,” which critics say closely echoes the Nazi-...
Available reporting in the provided documents links the name Otto (A.) Busher III to two very different contexts: a 2025 application listing for a Cheshire County Shooting Sports Education Foundation ...
Recent reporting and NGO work show that child labor remains embedded in many global supply chains — notably cocoa, textiles and food processing — and that both major brands and their suppliers have be...
The Department of Education in 2025 removed nursing from its list of programs counted as “professional degree” programs for certain loan-eligibility and aggregate loan‑limit purposes; the department s...
The last federally enacted increase before 2025 was in 2009, when the federal minimum wage was set at $7.25 per hour and remained unchanged for more than a decade . In 2025 reporting and analyses show...
Reporting in the provided sources is mixed: many news-style pages claim a new federal minimum wage will rise from $7.25 to $9.50 (with effective dates in October–November 2025) while several other, mo...
Teachers face a mix of state-level statutory changes (pay raises, discipline rules, contract and pension tweaks) and a major federal reorganization that is shifting Education Department functions to o...
Boeing’s recent relocations and layoffs have materially reduced employment in Washington: companywide cuts of 17,000 in October 2024 included 2,192 layoffs in Washington (2,141 in King and Snohomish c...
The Trump administration — particularly some agency social-media posts and campaign rhetoric tied to an “America First” theme — has produced slogans and imagery that critics and historians say echo fa...
Alexander Acosta resigned as U.S. Secretary of Labor on July 12, 2019 after renewed public and congressional pressure over his role as the U.S. attorney who negotiated a 2008 non‑prosecution agreement...
Alexander Acosta, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and later as President Trump’s Labor Secretary, approved a 2008 non‑prosecution agreement that let Jeffrey Epstein pl...
Alexander Acosta’s approval of Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 non‑prosecution agreement became the defining controversy of his public life: it prompted intense media scrutiny, a Department of Justice review, ...
Available reporting documents multiple routine health and safety citations at the Mar‑a‑Lago club — primarily food‑service and maintenance violations — including an inspection that found 15 kitchen in...
About were receiving continued unemployment benefits in early to mid-September 2025 according to official weekly reports and aggregations; the most frequently cited figure in the provided material is ...
Official U.S. government social posts in January 2026 have used language and imagery that multiple journalists, historians and extremism experts say echo well-known Nazi and white‑nationalist slogans,...
Women are substantially overrepresented in low‑wage or “low‑quality” jobs: in most U.S. states women make up at least 60% of the low‑wage workforce and in 2016 women were 2.5 times more likely than me...
Recent reporting and court records show repeated allegations against Cargill of child labor, forced or “slave‑like” labor, and worker‑wage harms in several countries and in its U.S. operations. Notabl...
Available reporting and public records in the provided results document health and kitchen inspections of Mar‑a‑Lago’s food service and note spa staff-related allegations tied to Jeffrey Epstein, but ...
United Airlines does not publish a single, current percentage figure for on its roster; available reporting and company announcements instead emphasize future diversity targets and training programs r...
The shift in unemployment dynamics between the Trump and Biden administrations in 2021 reflected a bundle of federal choices — emergency fiscal stimulus and pandemic aid, administrative reversals on w...