weight that some consider a scarlet letter. doctors have used bmi or body mass index for decades for health assessments and now the american medical association is warning that that figure has significant limitations with a history of use for, quote, racist exclusion. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell is here to explain. meg, this is something we hear about in our doctor s offices, right, something that relates to your height and weight, heard it for years. what has the ama found about the limitations with this number? yeah, jim. this is really an extra push to a movement that s been going on for a while, looking at mbi not as a great measure of individual health risk. a metric invented in 1832 by a belgian statistician trying to characterize the average man. it wasn t until the 1970s it was adopted as a marker to measure
Testimony Before House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections: US miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the urgent need for Congress and President Biden’s administration to strengthen US labor law and regulations to protect children from hazardous work in agriculture.
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Protecting America’s Workers Act
Upcoming Congressional Hearing
Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates. On Thursday, April 29, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for
Ms. Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and
Ms. Seema Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor. In opening remarks, Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) criticized the Biden Administration for what he considers its abrupt and unprecedented firing of NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, questioning the independence and integrity of the General Counsel’s office after this action. He also expressed concern over Ms. Abruzzo’s involvement in the Agency Review Team for Labor and questioned Ms. Nanda’s “highly partisan” background.