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| Jun 7, 2023 | House Proposal Would Restore Expanded And Improved Monthly Child Tax Credits | Portrait Of Excited Elementary School Pupils On Playing Field At Break Timegetty |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Safety issues incubate disaster in food and beverage supply chains | Food production safety has been in the news in recent months, and not for good reasons.
In June, the Food and Drug Administration opened an investigation into the third death of an infant potentially tied to the recall of formula from the A... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | FDA to review food program structure for potential overhaul | Dive Brief:
The FDA will conduct an independent investigation of its entire Human Foods program, Commissioner Robert Califf announced Tuesday afternoon. FDA is partnering with the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the evaluation. A report and rec... |
| May 23, 2022 | ‘We’re sorry to every family we’ve let down’: Abbott CEO explains the company’s role in the U.S. baby formula shortage | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
Abbott CEO Robert Ford has apologized for his company’s role in the nationwide baby formula shortage and promised ... |
| Feb 4, 2022 | DeLauro, Mace, Advocates Praise House Passage of Amendment Banning Mink Factory Farming | WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Nancy Mace (R-SC-01) today secured their bipartisan amendment to the America COMPETES Act that would ban the factory farming of mink.
"The factory farming of mink threatens p... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Chair DeLauro Delivers Floor Remarks in Support of the America COMPETES Act | Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of the America COMPETES Act.
The America COMPETES Act is a historic package. It makes strategic... |
| Mar 4, 2021 | Parents are set to be some of the biggest winners under the Biden administration. Here are 4 ways Democrats aim to support families. | President Joe Biden. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Parents are set to be some of the biggest winners in Biden’s fiscal stimulus proposal.
Democrats are trying to expand relief for families through four key proposals.
They are a child tax ... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Here’s What Working Parents Should Envy About Norway (and It’s Not Just The Electric Cars) | Norway’s gotten a lot of attention since it became the target of actor Will Ferrell’s envy and ire in GM’s Super Bowl ads for beating the U.S. to become the world's biggest per-capita market for electric vehicles. The viral ads have sp... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Parents are set to be some of the biggest winners under the Biden administration. Here are 4 ways Democrats aim to support families. | President Joe Biden. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Parents are set to be some of the biggest winners in Biden’s fiscal stimulus proposal.
Democrats are trying to expand relief for families through four key proposals.
They are a child tax ... |
| Feb 12, 2021 | Congress Is Considering 2 Plans to Get More Money to Parents. Here's How Each Would Work | One of the few things that everybody in the U.S. still agrees on is that a country that seven of the world’s 10 richest people call home should not have nearly one in six of its children living in poverty. Another is that the largest econom... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Don’t let single-payer perfect be the enemy of the universal healthcare good | The healthcare industry doesn’t have a lot of fans among the American public these days. Polling by Gallup last year showed that only 34 percent of respondents have a positive view of it, ranking it near the bottom among industries.
Democra... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Rep. DeLauro to GAO: Do we need a new regulatory framework for cellular agriculture? | In a letter to the GAO dated March 28, DeLauro – who serves on the agriculture appropriations subcommittee – said: “I am writing to request that GAO investigate what regulatory framework, if any, exists for cell-cultured food products and... |
| Mar 10, 2015 | Congress Presses Uber And Lyft On Driver Background Checks | Ride-sharing companies are not strangers to Congressional inquiries. This week a group of Congressional Democrats hit the CEOs of Uber, Sidecar and Lyft with another letter, this time demanding the companies conduct more comprehensive backg... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | Many In Congress Opposed To Fast Track Authority: An Obsolete Concept For An Obsolete Trade Negotiation | We just noted how Congress had introduced a bill to give up its own Constitutional powers, abdicating them to the administration and the USTR to give it the full power to commit the US to massive trade agreements like the TPP and TAFTA/TTIP... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Jailbreaking and unlocking might be restricted in treaty pushed by Obama | BMiz reader comments 95 with 68 posters participating
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty pushed by the Obama administration could complicate efforts to loosen restr... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | Congress May Not Be So Eager To Simply Hand Over Its Own Authority To The Obama Administration To Approve TPP | We have all sorts of concerns about the TPP Agreement (Trans Pacific Parntership), but as we’ve discussed (both recently and in the past), a huge concern is over “trade promotion authority” or “fast track authority,” in which Congress compl... |
| Democrats push forward with temporary $3,000 child tax credit, but some want to make increase permanent | In the latest stimulus package, Democrats are moving ahead with plans to provide American families with $3,000 per school-aged child over the year next. Although the increase would be temporary, some lawmakers want to see a permanent boost ... |
| Asian American and Pacific Islander women face a $267,760 lifetime salary shortfall due to the pay gap | An Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander woman has to work 15 months to earn what a white man makes in one year, according to the National Women’s Law Center.
AAPI women are typically paid just 92 cents for every dollar paid t... |
| Budget reconciliation offers new opportunity for paid family leave. ‘People have been imagining this forever,’ expert says | The upcoming budget reconciliation process provides a window for Democrats to address key issues on their agenda.
Experts say that a federal paid family leave program is high up on that list.
Here’s how that plan could shape up, and what it... |
| House Democrats say GOP caved to Musk in funding bill, protecting his China interests | House Democrats Jim McGovern and Rosa DeLauro accused Republican colleagues of bending to Elon Musk’s demands in sinking a bipartisan funding bill.
Congress passed a stopgap funding bill instead on Saturday, but discarded a provision to scr... |
| President Biden says closing gender pay gap is ‘a moral imperative’ as House passes Paycheck Fairness Act | The Paycheck Fairness Act, which aims to eliminate the gender pay gap and strengthen workplace protections for women, passed the House of Representatives on Thursday in a 217-210 vote.
The bill, which was reintroduced by House Democrats in ... |
| Don’t let single-payer perfect be the enemy of the universal healthcare good | The healthcare industry doesn’t have a lot of fans among the American public these days. Polling by Gallup last year showed that only 34 percent of respondents have a positive view of it, ranking it near the bottom among industries.
Democra... |
| House raises child tax credit to $3,000, but only for a year | The House of Representatives passed the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package on Saturday, which included a temporary increase for the child tax credit.
The House’s American Rescue Plan increases the child tax credit for 2021 to $3,000 per ... |
| Some Asian American and Pacific Islander women face a $1 million salary shortfall due to the pay gap | Equal pay day comes later for Asian American, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander women.
An AAPI, or AANHPI, woman has to work 15 months to earn what a white man makes in one year, according to the National Women’s Law Center.
Based on toda... |
| Popular acne products from Proactiv, Clinique and Target contain cancer-linked chemical benzene | Hand sanitizers were tainted by benzene. Sunscreens and dry shampoos too. Now acne treatments are joining the list of widely used consumer products found to contain high levels of the chemical linked to cancer.
Acne products from brands inc... |