Democrats held a big financial edge as labor unions, liberal interest groups and wealthy donors opened their wallets.
For starters, he asked his Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join with AGs of 13 other states who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with EPA on August 10, 2012, asking for any and all correspondence between EPA and a list of 80 environmental, labor union and public interest organizations that have been party to litigation since the start of the Obama administration.
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Vast transfer programs are established to redistribute money to the poor, middle-class, rich, businesses, labor unions, lawyers, interest groups, and most everyone else.
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Not only would the women be awarded back pay, but because of precedent set in a 2010 National Labor Relations Board case, that back pay would be subject to a daily compound interest penalty, according to the Labor Relations Counsel.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is of particular interest to me these days.
The Australian Greens, and some Labor parliamentarians, want a public-interest test to govern changes in media ownership.
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There was also speculation in the mid-'90s that baseball's powers-that-be livened up the ball to spark fan interest during a time of labor strife.
As mentioned above, Bullard did say QE is a more direct, and preferable way, for the Fed to act (given nominal rates in the zero range and forward guidance as the other major tool), but said he sees asset purchases affecting labor markets in the same way as interest rate moves.
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Mr. Fisher notes that all states labor under the same Fed monetary policy and interest rates and federal regulation, but all states have not performed equally well.
The reforms would make it easier to apply for the National Interest Waiver as an exception to the Labor Certificate.
All eight are Labor-controlled, and all have shown more interest in delivering services such as health and education than in infrastructure investment.
California Democrat George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, says that even though conflicts of interest are pervasive in the industry, it wasn't his words particularly egregious that lenders would put active loan officials on the payroll.
More than 30 years ago the U.S. Department of Labor devised a mechanism for dealing with problematic conflicts of interest, governance and internal control issues within corporate pension plans.
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In "The Reading Hour, " a column that she wrote for the Bakersfield paper, Knief had also noted that this tale of migratory labor was bound to be "of more than passing interest" to local readers.
Sometimes the farmer pays for the labor in advance, or offers a loan, charging the parents interest of 1.5% to 2% a month.
According to Gould, the NFLPA disclaimed interest prior in 1989 when the NFL had no unfair labor practice claim filed, a sign that if the option to decertify or disclaim were just about the blocking charge, the NFLPA could have gone the decert route over disclaiming interest at that time (See Freeman McNeil v NFL where NFL free agency was eventually reached).
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He was also talking about some of the other provisions that we've set out in terms of hedge fund managers, who through a provision, a tax preference in the law, are allowed to have their income, which is designated income from their labor, be taxed at a capital gains rate -- called carried interest.
To do that, we follow an established methodology. (See Gomme and Rupert 2004 for a justification of this methodology.) We classify the compensation of employees as unambiguous labor income (UL), and we classify corporate profits, rental income, net interest income, and depreciation as unambiguous capital income (UK).
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