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... the policy "provides important safeguards for elections, helps to increase voter participation and makes sure that every eligible voter has an opportunity to participate.” In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the policy is "one of the major reasons that Wisconsin has among the highest democratic participation in the nation ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS ANCHOR: A new Wall Street Journal analysis finds ticket prices at the nation's ten busiest airports-- including Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver-- have been stable, increasing around 1 percent on average from 2007 to 2014 -- while airlines reduced the number of passenger seats available by 1 ...
... who writes about financial planning to pay for college for Forbes, Sara Goldrick-Rab (@saragoldrickrab), a professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Daniel Porterfield (@DanPorterfield) President of Franklin and Marshall College, Jamey Rorison (@IHEPTweets) Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and ...
... Energy. The Canadian company operates the largest crude oil and liquids pipeline system in the world. Line 5 is 645 miles long. It stretches from Wisconsin across Michigan's upper and lower Peninsulas and terminates in Ontario, Canada. The 30-inch pipeline splits into two 20-inch lines when it ...
... Obama proposed raising the overtime salary threshold to $50,400 in an op-ed for the Huffington Post. And yesterday, Obama headed to La Crosse, Wisconsin to lay out his proposal. "Now, this is an issue of basic fairness,” Obama told a crowd, "If you work longer, you work harder ...
... Republican race, Trump said Mexican immigrants are "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." Video by PBS NewsHour The businessman has refused to back down, although he insists his remarks were misconstrued. "My statements have been contorted to seem racist and ...
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... a podcast and public radio program, looks into why life in the oil fields has become so risky. JENNIFER GOLLAN, Reveal: When Brendan Wegner left Wisconsin for the Bakken oil fields, his parents had no idea North Dakota was the deadliest place to work in America. KEVIN WEGNER, Father of ...
President Obama's long-sought trade deal is in limbo after a key part of the bill was defeated. The House effectively rejected a combination of proposals that would have given the president fast-trade trade authority. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., talks to Judy Woodruff from Capitol Hill about why he voted against it.
When Darian James walks across the South Carolina State campus in her hometown of Orangeburg she sees a place where much of her life to this point has played out. It's the place where she went to preschool through middle school. She also sees the place that won her over, despite a desire to get...
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