WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on May 7, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * Unemployment rates were higher in March 2024 than a year earlier in 269 of the 389 metropolitan areas, lower in 89 areas, and unchanged in 31 areas. A total of 77 areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and 12 areas had rates of at least 8.0 percent. * * * Chart: Metropolitan area unemployment rates, March 2024 * * * ates  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 8 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody is demanding the U.S. Congress permanently defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency after a recent investigation revealed the agency continues to be tied to terrorism. The organization is linked to Hamas and incites hatred by spreading antisemitism. Attorney General Moody, with 23 other attorneys general, today sent a letter to Congress de  more

ARNOLD AFB, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Bradley Hicks, AEDC Public Affairs A pair of upcoming events are designed to provide those with entrepreneurial interests a plethora of information related to small businesses. These events, being collectively referred to as the 2TN Business & Workforce Innovation Summit, will take place on May 8 and May 10 at the Gossick Leadership Conference Center on Arnold Air Force Base, headquarters of  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a 24-state coalition in a letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to permanently cut all funding to the terrorist-embedded United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"). On October 7, 2023, dozens of UNRWA staff participated in the largest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust. UNRWA's ties to terrorism are  more

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in Iowa, Virginia * * * The Department of Labor has entered into a consent order and judgment, approved by a federal court in Iowa on May 6, 2024, with a Tennessee cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $649,304 in civil money penalties, hire a third-party to review and implement company policies to prev  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 8 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, in partnership with D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr, co-sponsored a multistate letter (https://www.mass.gov/doc/fy-2025-naag-letter-to-congress-in-support-of-legal-services-corporation-lsc/download) sent by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys gener  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 8 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined with other state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration's strict new energy-efficiency standards for refrigerators and freezers. The new rule was proposed by several advocacy groups and adopted wholesale by the federal Department of Energy. The effect of the rule will be to increase the costs of the appliances nationwide. "In its latest fede  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: For the past several months, the most visible component of the Proton Power Upgrade, or PPU, project for the Spallation Neutron Source, or SNS, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory was the construction of about 3,000 square feet of a curved concrete tunnel extension. The new section of tunnel will provide the turning and connecting point for the accelerator beamline betw  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A collection of seven technologies for lithium recovery developed by scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been licensed to Element3, a Texas-based company focused on extracting lithium from wastewater produced by oil and gas production. The technologies were developed through the Critical Materials Innovation Hub, a DOE Energy   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The Tennessee Military Department issued the following news release: Four Soldiers from Ashland City's Troop B, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, won first place during the prestigious 2024 Sullivan Cup competition at Fort Moore, Georgia, from April 29 to May 3. Held every two years, and hosted by the U.S. Army Maneuver Center, the Sullivan Cup puts the best M1 Abrams tank and Bradley crews from across the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and its foreign  more