Alexa Kissinger is a student at Harvard Law School.
President Obama returned to Elkhart, Indiana, a town of about 50,000 near South Bend, and the site of his first major domestic trip as president in 2009. At the time of his first visit, the county’s unemployment rate had soared to almost 20%, and the Administration presented Elkhart as a symbol of the many communities suffering due to the recession. In yesterday’s town-hall event, President Obama touted the economic gains seen in the small county, and towns like it, where joblessness has dropped to about 4% (lower than the national average), the foreclosure rate has diminished, and manufacturing has picked up.
The Federal Reserve released its latest Beige Book, reporting modest economic growth since the last Beige Book. The Fed found that since the number of jobs and people available to work has been shrinking, labor markets are tightening, pushing wages up. Providing regional economic anecdotes from its 12 districts, the Beige Book was not a comprehensive data release, but provided some insight into the Fed’s outlook on consumer spending, the housing market, manufacturing, inflation and other key areas.
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July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
In Today’s News and Commentary, the Supreme Court green-lights mass firings of federal workers, the Agricultural Secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farm workers, and DHS ends Temporary Protected Status for Hondurans and Nicaraguans. In an 8-1 emergency docket decision released yesterday afternoon, the Supreme Court lifted an injunction by U.S. District Judge Susan […]
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.