Misplaced loyalty can prove costly in politics, and
it seems state Labor has finally woken up to the fact when it comes to relations with the federal government.
Not exact matches
That the phrase «separation of church and
state» does not appear in the text of the Constitution assumes much importance, it
seems, to some who may have once
labored under the misimpression it was there and, upon learning they were mistaken, reckon they've discovered a key to solving a Constitutional mystery.
He
seemed to acknowledge the difficulty of the issue when he announced in May that he would ask the
state's
labor commissioner to convene a wage board to consider an increase for fast - food workers.
«Given the damaging and destructive tax and budget policies coming out of Washington that
seem to target poor and working class families, it's good to know that our
state has some countermeasures in place that actually help struggling New Yorkers,» said Ron Deutsch of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a
labor - backed group that lobbies for the working poor.
This certainly
seemed to be the case in the initial phase of the Common Core
State Standards, when the idea of «fewer, clearer, and higher» standards that were consistent across
states was supported by an unprecedented coalition of business, civil rights, government, and
labor groups (see McDonnell and Weatherford's (2013) article «Evidence Use and the Common Core
State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption» in the American Journal of Education for a detailed explanation of the varying reasons why so many different groups initially supported the Common Core).
It
seems unfair that the United
States, as other countries in the World, should have to compete with others elsewhere where very cheap
labor is their primary advantage.