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Lazarski said he expects the ruling to open the door to additional lawsuits by workers in similar situations as Troester. But he also expects lawsuits that "test the boundary of what this case says" to determine how much time spent doing work off the clock is enough to get paid ...
... of their patients are on Medicaid. For some, simply getting to a doctor’s appointment can be a challenge. JODILYN OWEN: If you imagine a woman who is working shift work and has no control over her schedule; she doesn’t have a car so she’s bound by a
... assistance. Penister's status is unclear, because Wisconsin's proposed changes would exempt anyone diagnosed with a mental illness or who is mentally unable to work. Republicans say work and other requirements will return Medicaid to its original intent — to act as a stopgap until people can find work. They ...
Much like the weather, some human stomachs change throughout the year. The gut microbes of the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer group in Tanzania, shift dramatically as their diet changes with the seasons, according to new research from Stanford University. When applied on a longer timescale, these trends could explain why ...
... bill Kasich was part of a group of Republican and Democratic governors who wrote a letter last week to Senate leaders calling for them to work in a bipartisan way to revamp the nation's complex health insurance policies. Another was Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, also a Republican. His decision ...
... very frustrated with the infighting, particularly between Steve Bannon and his son-in-law. And he said that he told them that they needed to work it out. We asked him if he planned on having the same team in six months. And he said, I like my team, but ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Friday's failure to get a House vote on replacing Obamacare is still reverberating tonight. But the president and his team are finding it difficult trying to shift to new topics. John Yang has our report. SEAN SPICER, White House Press Secretary: We're not saying its ...
Samuel Leizear, field education director at the West Virginia University School of Social Work, also conducts trainings on transgender issues for businesses and organizations that request them. When he began offering them about a decade ago, he received two to three requests per year. Now, he receives that number every ...
... break down how this policy could play out, and its implications — both for government spending and for accessing care. Q: How would a block grant work? So far, Trump hasn’t released details on his particular plan. But the basic idea is that states would get fixed federal grants that ...
As 2016 comes to a close, journalists and media outlets are confronting the questions raised by this year's election and planning for what comes next. James Geary, the deputy editor of the Nieman Foundation's Nieman Reports Magazine, joins the NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker to offer a post-election take on how the media can move forward.
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