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Minnesota Budget Bite's Katherine
Blauvelt
Yesterday, Minnesota Public Radio
highlighted a measure of unemployment (called the U-6 by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics) that gives a more comprehensive
picture of unemployment than the more widely reported
unemployment rate.
It also reveals a bleaker employment outlook for
workers. As Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic
Development analyst Steve Hine said in the MPR story: "The
U-6 measure shows the extent of the hard times. This has been an
incredibly deep recession."
Read
the Article Here.
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Tell
Your Senators to Move on the Clean Water Restoration
Act!
For three decades, the Clean Water Act protected America's
waters from industrial pollution, oil spills, sewage and
outright destruction. Recent interpretations of the law have now
put protection of drinking water sources for 110 million
Americans in jeopardy.
Big polluters will be talking to our Senators, claiming the
Clean Water Act should not cover numerous wetlands, streams,
rivers and lakes that have been protected under the Clean Water
Act. In just one year more than 500 enforcement cases have been
dropped by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and
Justice Department.
We cannot go back to the days of dirty water. Congress must
reverse this damage and pass the Clean Water Restoration Act
this year.
Take
Action Here.
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2009
Legislative Session Ends with Mixed Results: Victory for Clean
Water Funding, But Lack of Global Warming Action Disappoints
Clean Water Action
The 2009 legislative session provided moments of celebration
and disappointment this year for our water. Clean Water Action
earned several victories this session by helping pass
legislation to protect children from exposure to harmful
chemicals and to preserve dedicated funding for cleaning up our
water resources.
Read
More Here.
Klobuchar
Bill Uses Minnesota as Model for Improving Food Safety
Nationwide
Pioneer Press
Minnesota's disease detectives cracked
two national salmonella outbreaks caused by tainted peanut
butter and jalapeno peppers last year. Now, U.S. Sen. Amy
Klobuchar wants to take their successful approach nationwide.
The senator announced Thursday that she
wants to create regional centers through a food safety bill that
would promote the best approaches to solving outbreaks and teach
them to food safety officials in other states. Klobuchar said it
is unacceptable that some states take months to identify
potential outbreaks, allowing tainted food to remain on shelves
and to sicken more people.
Read
More Here.
Planned
Parenthood Clinics See More Clients Struggling to Pay for
Care
West Central Tribune
As the recession has deepened, Planned Parenthood is seeing
growing numbers of women at its clinics in Minnesota, North
Dakota and South Dakota struggling to pay for birth control and
other reproductive health care
Read
More Here.
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State Supreme Court Starts
Oral Arguments Monday
Please, Let This End Soon |
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