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On the C-SPAN Networks: Department of Commerce has hosted 89 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1987 News Conference. The year with the most events was 2001 with nine events.
President Donald Trump is testing the American economy’s ability to simultaneously withstand rapid-fire tariffs, a sharp decline in immigration and an overhaul of tax policy.
The Labor Department, citing budget deficits and claiming poor results, said that it was halting contracts on the 99 private-contractor-operated sites under its purview.
The Labor Department announced the award of almost $84 million in grants to increase the capacity of registered apprenticeship programs.
The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...
During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation (the “2024 Rule”) seeking to increase the salary threshold for overtime eligibility for the ...
The Department of Labor is cutting roughly $400 million in grants meant to provide states with funding to modernize their unemployment insurance systems.. The department confirmed the cuts in a ...
A top official in the Department of Labor this week informed all staff members that they could face criminal charges if they speak to journalists, former employees or others about agency business.