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Mar 29 2023
Opinion
The Statistically Flawed Evidence That Social Media Is Causing the Teen Mental Health Crisis
The social psychologist and New York University professor Jonathan Haidt wants journalists to stop being wishy-washy about the teen girl mental health crisis.
"There is now a great deal of evidence that social media is a substantial cause, not just a tiny correlate, of depression and anxiety, and therefore of behaviors related to depression and anxiety, including self-harm and suicide
Reason
Mar 28 2023
News
Judge Orders Bureau of Land Management To Resume Oil & Gas Lease Sales In N.D. - KVRR Local News
Judge Orders Bureau of Land Management To Resume Oil & Gas Lease Sales In N.D. BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — U.S. District Judge Daniel Traynor in Bismarck has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to resume quarterly oil and gas lease sales in North Dakota. Attorney General Drew Wrigley says the court’s order directs BLM to comply with federal law and do what Congress commanded it to do. He
KVRR
Feb 03 2023
Analysis
Why the US labor market seems to be unbreakable
The US added 517,000 jobs in January, according to new data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate fell to a nearly 53-year low at 3.4%.
This beat expectations for the US to add 185,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to rise to 3.6%, according to economists polled by FactSet. Meanwhile, average hourly earnings rose by a modest .3% in January, after rising by .
Quartz
Mar 22 2023
News
Idaho Hospital to End Labor Services Because of ‘Political Climate'
An Idaho hospital announced it will end its labor and delivery services in mid-May, “obliquely referring to recent restrictions on abortion” as one of its reasons, ABC News reported on Wednesday. In a press release on March 17, Bonner General Health in Sandpoint said it will no longer be providing obstetrical care due in part to the state’s “legal and political climate.” Bonner General Health
Breitbart News
Mar 15 2023
Opinion
The GOP Has Become the Pro–Child Labor Party
In February, The New York Times published a front-page report from Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Hannah Dreier that shed light on a shocking reality: migrant children are being illegally exploited in staggering numbers, working brutal jobs in kitchens and factories, hotels and slaughterhouses across the United States.
And despite identifying as “the party that protects children,”
The Nation
Mar 01 2023
News
Biden nominates Walsh successor at Labor
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his labor secretary nominee, Julie Su, is a “real leader” who has supported unions, enforced worker safety and protected the victims of human trafficking. “Julie is the American dream,” Biden said in remarks at the White House. “She’s committed to making sure that dream is in reach for every American.” The daughter of an immigrant mother who
Boston Herald
Mar 24 2023
News
Georgia unemployment holding steady despite inflation pressure, says Labor commissioner
Joblessness in the Peach State stood at 3.1% last month for the seventh month in a row and was half a percentage point lower than the national unemployment rate of 3.6%. Georgia had the highest labor force participation rate in the Southeast at 61%. “It is clear that Georgia means business,” state Commissioner of Labor Bruce Thompson said of the latest numbers. “Due to sustained investments in
The Telegraph (Georgia)
Mar 19 2023
News
Idaho hospital blames abortion politics for closing of labor and delivery department
An Idaho hospital made the decision to axe its labor and delivery department, saying the "political climate" made it too difficult to keep it staffed. "Highly respected, talented physicians are leaving. Recruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficult," Bonner General Health, located in Sandpoint, Idaho, said in a social media post Friday. "The Idaho Legislature continues to introduce
Fox News (Online News)
Mar 22 2023
News
Idaho hospital says it is ending labor and delivery services amid 'political climate'
An Idaho hospital said it will no longer be providing obstetrical care due in part to the state's "legal and political climate." In a news release, Bonner General Health in Sandpoint -- 400 miles north of Boise and serving about 9,000 people -- said it would end its labor & delivery services by mid-May. "We have made every effort to avoid eliminating these services," Ford Elsaesser, BGH's
ABC News (Online)
Feb 16 2023
News
Oklahoma AG to prosecute marijuana 'ghost owner' cases in partnership with Bureau of Narcotics
The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office will take on the prosecution of a former governor appointee accused of aiding illegal "ghost owner" marijuana grow operations, AG Gentner Drummond announced this week. A multicounty grand jury indicted Canadian County attorney Matt Stacy in Garvin County last year, and his case is one of three in the jurisdiction the AG's Office is partnering with the
Tulsa World