After beginning the year at 217,000, weekly initial unemployment claims hit 250,000 during June and spiked to 264,000 in ...

Activism / When one group of workers is terrorized or disappeared, it threatens all workers’ ability to fight for their labor ...

Maryland lawmakers overrode Gov. Wes Moore's veto to establish reparations commission while lynching truth commission members ...

Looking to end the "silos" that make navigating the state's bureaucratic maze of welfare and workforce programs overly ...

Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 sets federal standards for employees including minimum wage, child labor and overtime.

Panelists at Penn LDI webinar express mix of skepticism, cautious optimism about how well aligned the $50 billion federal ...

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Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income Americans. And if you didn't know all of that, you're not ...

The Trump administration wants the public to weigh in as it prepares for a review of the federal subsistence program in Alaska, an action that the state’s largest Alaska Native group fears will weaken ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Matt Damschroder is reminding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients of available career services as federal work ...

Government officials and education experts are right to express concerns about recent evidence of declining academic achievement among the students who struggle most. Researchers are exploring ...