President Donald Trump today directed several government agencies to develop plans for redirecting federal funds in an effort to expand school choice. "Parents want and deserve the best education for their children. But too many children do not thrive in their assigned, government-run K-12 school," Trump said in the executive order.

The Trump administration continues to reverse decades of civil rights and equity work,” a legislative researcher said.

In a new study from WalletHub, each of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia were ranked based on unemployment rate statistics from December 2024 to key dates in 2024, 2023, 2020 and 2019.

JBS USA and Perdue Farms will each pay $4 million for employing children through third-party staffing agencies, officials announced this week.

Minnesota farms employ both undocumented migrants and foreign-born workers who are in the United States on a provisional or temporary basis.

The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in State of Texas v. Plano Chamber of Commerce, struck

The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor ... Department said investigators found that another slaughterhouse cleaning company called QSI had employed 54 children at 13 meatpacking plants in eight ...

Pena argues that shocks to the labor market from mass deportations, the pressures of tariffs on incoming foodstuffs, the aging of the farmers themselves, and fewer farms being passed down to the next generation, all will contribute to higher prices.

Perdue Farms and JBS have settled with the Labor Department after relying on migrant children to do dangerous work in their slaughterhouses. Most of the money will be used to help the children.

The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an agreement with Perdue Farms Inc. to address child labor violations at its Accomac, Virginia plant.

JBS USA Food Co., one of the nation's largest meatpacking processors and slaughterhouses, has agreed to a joint initiative with the U.S. Labor Department t