Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims for the week ending Jan. 21 rose by 21,000 to 377,000, compared with the previous week’s revised figure of 356,000, the U.S. Department of Labor said. The less volatile four-week moving average was 377,500, a drop of 2,500 from the [...]
Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is promising a legal challenge to federal rules the Obama administration reaffirmed Friday requiring health insurers to provide women with a range of preventive health services, including birth control, without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or deductible. The Department of Health and Human [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Initial unemployment claims dropped to 352,000 during the week ending Jan. 14, their lowest level in nearly four years. First time claims for jobless benefits dropped by 50,000 from the previous week’s revised tally of 402,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to close 259 offices nationwide as part of a program to cut costs and improve service. In a statement that coincided with the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual meeting, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced changes to his [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – First time claims for unemployment compensation benefits during the week ending Dec. 31 dropped by 15,000 from the previous week to 372,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The less volatile 4-week moving average also fell, registering a decrease of 3,250 to [...]
Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The 2011 curtain on the ongoing political drama in Washington came down on Friday as President Barack Obama signed a bill extending payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits for two months, and urged Congress “to keep working without drama” to extend them through [...]
Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The U.S. lawmakers were further pressurized by President Barack Obama on Monday not to let the middle class Americans down and give their nod to the continuation of tax cuts as economy limps back into recovery zone. Addressing journalists at the Brady press [...]
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe warned on Friday about an alarming rise in anti-Semitism in European countries in the past three years. The organization held a conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss an increase in hate crimes that appears [...]
Linda Young – AHN News Writer Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Initial jobless claims during the week ending Nov. 12 dropped to 388,000, the lowest level since April. That number was down by 5,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 393,000 first time claims for unemployment compensation, according to the U.S. Department of [...]
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Bogota, Colombia (AHN) – The president of Colombia and Mexico’s former foreign minister this week suggested that legalizing some recreational drugs might be the only way to stop the violence and smuggling associated with drug cartels. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said legalizing cocaine and marijuana would “take [...]
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