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New York Joins States Raising Minimum Wage

As the New York Daily News reported last Wednesday, nearly one million New Yorkers work full-time jobs, year round, for poverty level wages. A new New York law may help change conditions for some of these people as New York joined the growing list of states requiring that their workers be paid a minimum wage higher than the level set by the federal government, which is $5.15 an hour.

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Economy and Jobs Watch: November Numbers Still Lag Behind Need

The Bureau of Labor Statistics November Job Report shows a continuing disappointing trend in employment as the nation’s employers added 112,000 jobs in November, far below analyst projections of least 200,000 jobs. This report is a bit of a surprise after the October report showed a strong month with 303,000 jobs added. The 112,000 jobs, about what was added in September this year, is below the approximately 140,000 jobs per month necessary to keep pace with new workers entering the workforce.

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Bush Signs Bill Extending Internet Tax Moratorium

On Dec. 3, President Bush signed the Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act (S. 150), extending a moratorium on all taxation of Internet access and certain aspects of related electronic commerce through 2007. The bill is a result of a multi-year struggle over policy related to taxing Internet access and the development of broadband services across the United States.

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Bush Plans Economy, Tax Summit Dec. 15-16

The White House will host a two-day summit in Washington, DC, to gather expert opinions on a variety of topics related to the economy, including budget and tax reform, Social Security, extending expiring tax cuts and health care. The Dec. 15-16 summit will solicit input from the business community, including small businesses.

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Watcher: November 30th, 2004

Dec 1, 2004 by Guest Blogger

Federal Budget

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Latest Watcher

Dec 1, 2004 by Guest Blogger

Be sure to check out the latest issue of our biweekly newsletter The Watcher. Reg policy articles this time include the following:
  • Graham Defiant in Hearing While Dems Probe on Mercury
  • Critics Diagnose Systemic Maladies of FDA
  • NAS Biases Panel With Industry Interests

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Critics Diagnose Systemic Maladies of FDA

A Senate Finance Committee hearing on Vioxx and a series of studies by a leading medical journal reveal systematic breakdowns in FDA's evaluation of drug safety, prompting advocates to call for an independent agency to review drug safety. Drug Researcher Testifies: The System is 'Broken'

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Reg Round-Up

How to stay on top of appointments news and rumors • Learn about the mad cow scare — and the unaddressed weaknesses in safeguards against mad cow disease • EPA rollback killing children • And more news briefs and alerts! Do the Cabinet Shuffle: Who will be running the agencies in the next term of the Bush administration? Stay on top of the latest news and rumors in REG•WATCH, our regulatory policy weblog.

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Graham Defiant in Hearing, Dems Probe Mercury Rule

The last regulatory policy hearing of a House Government Reform subcommittee was split into two disconnected halves, as committee Republicans considered the White House's policy of inviting industry to suggest rollbacks of regulatory protections while Democrats assailed the Environmental Protection Agency's pending rulemaking for mercury pollution.

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NAS Biases Panel With Industry Interests

The National Academies biased a panel to study the risks from disposing coal wastes in abandoned mines by appointing six members with ties to the mining, coal, and electric utility industries, of whom two have subsequently stepped down after criticism from public interest groups.

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