Month: June 2025

A senior official in the department said that the programs being cut are not those that require congressional approval. The State Department will reportedly close 132 offices and eliminate 700 jobs as part of a restructuring and reorganization effort. The reported closures would equal about 17% of the agency. Officials told the Free Press that it is …

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The Trump administration has found itself in a dispute with Harvard University. It began when the President’s team sent several Ivy League universities a list of changes they expected the schools to make. The move is part of a new right-wing strategy which recognizes that we currently live under a vague, necessarily politicized system of civil rights law and aims to begin …

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In what is becoming an all-too-familiar story, another major Indian tech outsourcing company is under federal investigation for allegedly discriminating against American workers in favor of cheaper Indian labor. This time, it’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT outsourcing firm, and a favored contractor for major US corporations. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

America Last? US Probes Indian Tech Giant TCS for Discriminating Against American Workers—H1B Abuse Once Again at the Center Read More »

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced the cancellation of more than half a million government credit cards amid its crackdown on federal spending. Why It Matters DOGE first announced on February 18 that it was working with agencies to simplify federal credit card accounts and reduce administrative costs, estimating the federal government had …

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is telling health care providers, risk managers, and state medical boards to immediately update their treatment protocols for minors with gender dysphoria. In a letter on May 28, the agency said that it expects federally funded health care groups to follow its review that outlines the most up-to-date science to …

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Federal government scientists will likely be told to stop publishing in medical journals such as The Lancet, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a new podcast. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington on May 22, 2025. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Kennedy said that if that happens, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will …

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Companies are “quiet firing” employees to trim staff without having to make severance payouts or as a way to tamp down negative press or public perceptions associated with layoffs. That’s according to a recent ResumeTemplates survey of 1,128 business leaders, which found that 53% of companies are using quiet firing to push employees out in 2025. Quiet firing …

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The program spent more per student than Harvard training participants to earn $17,000 per year. The Department of Labor said Thursday that it will “begin a phased pause” of an almost $2 billion federal job training program that has persisted since 1964 despite a dubious record. The Job Corps houses a mix of runaway teens and …

Trump Administration To ‘Pause’ Scandal-Plagued, $2 Billion ‘Job Corps’ Read More »

49% of newly built apartments completed in the fourth quarter of 2024 were rented within three months—the fifth consecutive quarter with an absorption rate below 50%. New apartments are being completed at near-record levels, with the increase in supply keeping rents down and providing renters with more opportunities to negotiate concessions. Larger 3+ bedroom apartments …

New Apartments Are Sitting Vacant for Months, Giving Renters Power to Negotiate Concessions Read More »

The Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s administration immediately strip the legal right to temporarily live and work in the US from as many as half a million people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. Over two dissents, the high court cleared the Department of Homeland Security to end so-called parole programs that under Joe Biden’s presidency gave migrants …

Supreme Court Clears Trump to Strip 500,000 of Legal Status (2) Read More »