this week at state: april 19, 2019

During the trip, Ivanka Trump and Administrator Green announced new W-GDP deliverables, met with women entrepreneurs in the coffee and cocoa industries, and other private-sector and bilateral partners to promote the initiative's three core pillars aimed at driving women's throughout..

popular vote movement gains momentum in states

“An attempt at an Electoral College workaround is gaining momentum in the Mountain West,” NPR reports. . “Democrats in Colorado and New Mexico are pushing ahead with legislation to pledge their 14 collective electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote — no..

monthly review

With the intense anticommunism of the early years of the Cold War, the time of the “Berlin blockade,” and the Korean War, little attention was paid by the mainstream western press to the composition of the new West German government. Accusations that the new West German..

road to immirgration reform - opinion

Eventually the new W Visa program would be capped at a maximum of 200,000 workers per year, but the number of visas would fluctuate, depending on unemployment rates, job openings, employer demand and other data collected by a new federal bureau. . ..

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states’ budgets squeeze could mean higher taxes for you

Falling oil prices are threat to the finances of oil-producing states such as Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.. For example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York all have high..

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the best and worst states for a life well-lived

Natural resource booms have allowed states like  New Mexico, Montana, and West Virginia to avoid the earnings losses most other states faced between 2000 and 2010, and their HDI rankings remained low, indicating vast resource holdings do not translate into improvements at the..

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