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Norcross, Education Leaders Introduce Bills to Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools, Save Education Jobs, and Recover Lost Time in the Classroom January 28, 2021, 2:59 pm | in
Norcross, Education Leaders Introduce Bills to Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools, Save Education Jobs, and Recover Lost Time in the Classroom
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03) and Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI-at Large) to introduce a package of education bills to reopen and rebuild our schools, save educators jobs and help students recover lost time in the classroom.
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Vermont Business Magazine In a press conference today, incoming Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) joined incoming Senate HELP Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) to announce the introduction of legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025.
The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 in five steps over the next four years. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
UNCF Achieves “Transformational Outcomes” for HBCUs, Inspired by Black Voices Cut Short
Final efforts, spurred by UNCF convincing Congress of racial inequality in country, can turn institutions around, relieve debt in bleak COVID period
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Today, Congress released details of the FY 2021 appropriations bills and the coronavirus relief stimulus. After much lobbying by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on behalf of all Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the students they serve, the following items, among others, are included in the legislation to fund the government for the rest of FY 2021 and provide emergency relief from the effects of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), having the ability to make transformative change on HBCU campuses:
Congressional committee leaders reach bipartisan deal on surprise medical billing legislation riponadvance.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from riponadvance.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Democratic and Republican leadership of three House committees and one Senate committee said on Friday they agreed on a method to resolve surprise medical bills, increasing the chances a fix is included in year-end funding legislation Congress is hustling to finalize this week.
Under the proposal, disagreements between health insurers and providers on how much to pay for surprise medical bills would be settled by an independent arbiter. The approach is favored by providers, while insurers had advocated for tying payments to median in-network rates, a strategy called benchmarking.
Passage of the deal is by no means assured, however, and payers are continuing to lobby Congress to tweak it.