More importantly, the New York law grants enforcement power to the state's Department of Labor.

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The U.S. Treasury, which has done yeoman's work on this front but been smothered in recent years by the "soft power" diplomacy of the State Department, needs a freer hand to run down North Korean offenders.

FORBES: Freedom's Edge

This simultaneously increases the power of state governments and of the federal department of education.

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