U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar have announced the appointment of 20 nationally recognized scientists to serve on the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Here is the list of DGA Committee members: Jamy Ard (Wake Forest School of Medicine) Regan Bailey (Purdue University) Lydia Bazzano […]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
According to Bloomberg, U.S. trade negotiators are working to replace aluminum and steel tariffs with “reasonable quotas Canada and Mexico can live with,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said. “The removal of the tariffs is in the interest of all, and we’re advocating to the administration to do that,” Perdue said at House Agriculture Cmte hearing […]
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently delivered his first budget address in which he proposed increasing spending on education, social services and public safety while also stabilizing the state’s crippling financial problems. But his plan to restore the state to financial health is ultimately predicated on moving Illinois to a graduated income tax – a process that […]
People who most intensely oppose genetically modified food think they know a lot about food science, but they actually know the least. That’s according to a peer-reviewed paper published in January in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, NPR reports. The survey, conducted by four universities, asked 2,000 people in Europe and the United States how much they […]
According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, WI Gov. Evers said the budget he introduces Feb. 28 will include steps toward raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour and dialing back the manufacturing tax credit to fund a middle-class tax cut. https://lnkd.in/dXa3bmg
MN Governor Tim Walz has released his 2-year budget proposal totaling $49.4 billion dollars for the next biennium, roughly a $2 billion dollar increase from the current biennium which ends June 30th. Proposed are new gas tax revenues, increased revenues through conforming to the 2017 federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), and maintaining the […]
IL Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a minimum wage hike into law Tuesday. The minimum wage would increase gradually every year, until it hits $15-an-hour in 2025. Currently, the state minimum stands at $8.25-an-hour. It increases from $8.25 by $1 on Jan. 1, and jumps to $10 on July 1, 2020. Then, it increases $1 each […]
IL Gov. JB Pritzker will lay out his budget proposal for the next year during a noon speech today. During his much anticipated budget address he is expected to highlight the state’s dire fiscal picture, while also proposing new streams of revenue and a boost in education funding, according to an administration source. The state […]
The IL House voted to pass a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 over the next five years. The proposal increases the current $8.25-an-hour base wage by $1 on Jan. 1. After a 75-cent jump July 1, 2020, it would increase $1 each Jan. 1 until 2025. Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, […]
The IL House Labor and Commerce Committee has passed a $15 hour minimum wage bill over opposition of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association and a broad coalition of business community partners. The bill, SB 1, passed the committee by a vote of 19-10-0 and now moves to the full House of Representatives for a vote that […]
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