A tax rebate program approved during the Idaho special session this year has sparked an idea: why not send more rebates to families? In September, state lawmakers approved a program that sent $300 to individuals and $600 to joint tax filers, in order to spend down the state s record budget surplus. A collaboration between the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy and PODER of Idaho, the Elevate Idaho Families Coalition, is exploring how that rebate impacted households. Estefania Mondragon is the executive director of PODER of Idaho. .
Airport service workers rallied in Washington, D.C., Thursday to demand Congress pass legislation ensuring they receive a livable wage with stronger benefits. The Good Jobs for Good Airports Act would set national wage and benefit standards, including guaranteed sick days, for service workers at any airport receiving federal funding. Sen. .
STORY EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/8 at 3 a.m. EST. Some service workers at Logan International Airport were to go on strike today to protest alleged unfair labor practices. .
Leaders of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee want to change the narrative about agriculture in America. FLOC members who gathered in Toledo, Ohio, for FLOC s 14th quadrennial constitutional convention voted to re-elect President Baldemar Velasquez to a 14th term. Nearly 200 delegates attended, and seasonal farm workers from North Carolina represented the largest contingent with 83 delegates voting. .