It has been 44 days since Congress let federally extended unemployment benefits lapse for 300,000 workers per week. Now, more than 2.1 million have lost the subsistence-level checks. Today, the National Employment Law Project highlighted the case of one 17-year veteran of the banking industry:
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Don Blankenship, the pugnacious head of Massey Energy, will appear before the Senate Labor Committee Appropriations Sub-committee on Labor next Thursday, the committee just announced. He’ll be sitting on a two-man panel that will also include a long-time nemesis, Cecil Roberts, head of the United Mine More…
For environmentalists in the Appalachians, it was a roller-coaster week.
Just one day after the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to reassert its powers to protect mountain streams from the ravages of mountaintop coal mining, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved the broad expansion of such a project without More…
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