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In 1984, Clinton secured the creation of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority (ADFA).This organization was authorized to sell government-backed tax-exempt bonds to finance investments related to the growth of private businesses in the state. Per ADFA records, between 1985 and 1992, the state used $90 million of bonds to support roughly 70 ...
When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in The New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
A similar bill in Georgia has stalled, with constituents expressing concern to Georgia lawmakers about the financial impacts of such a bill. [15] [16] [17] A meeting on the bill was cancelled. [18] Supporters of the bill have stated that the bill would be "gutted" by the inclusion of anti-discrimination clause. [19]
On the evening of March 21, 2018, the text of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 [1] was released. The text was posted to the web site of the United States House Committee on Rules at 10:00 p.m. [2] H.R. 1625, formerly the TARGET act, was used as a legislative vehicle for the appropriations bill. [3]
The first federal campaign finance law, passed in 1867, was a Naval Appropriations Bill which prohibited officers and government employees from soliciting contributions from Navy yard workers. Later, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the civil service and extended the protections of the Naval Appropriations Bill to all ...
On February 19, 2019, Pritzker signed into law a bill that raises the state minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, making Illinois the fifth state in the nation and first state in the Midwest to do so. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] The bill includes a tax credit for small businesses to help them deal with higher costs of labor and maintains the ability of ...
The precise form of this provision varies from state to state. Indiana has a state debt prohibition with an exception for "temporary and casual deficits," but no balanced budget requirement. The governor is not legally required to submit a balanced budget, the legislature is not required to approve appropriations that are within available ...
But three months after the bill was signed, Recovery.gov offers little beyond news releases, general breakdowns of spending, and acronym-laden spreadsheets and timelines." The same article also stated, "Unlike the government site, the privately run Recovery.org is actually providing detailed information about how the $787 billion in stimulus ...