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Research shows worksite immigration raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money. So far, ...

California’s landmark labor law aims to make nail salon workers, predominantly Vietnamese women, full employees rather than ...

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For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security.

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The DOJ has sued the entire federal district court in Maryland over an order that puts a temporary hold on deportations, ...

Since 1954, a provision in the tax code called the Johnson Amendment says that churches and other nonprofit organizations ...

A new working paper from economists Randall Akee, Maggie R. Jones and Emilia Simeonova categorizes tribal gaming as a kind of ...