Agricultural Industry Groups File Lawsuit Against DOL
Washington Update
U.S. Department of Labor
On Tuesday, October 8, the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) and nine co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) over its H-2A farmworker rule. The agricultural industry groups argue the regulation illegally gives migrants collective bargaining rights, restricts First Amendment rights of farmers who employ H-2A workers, and creates additional onerous burdens for employers and state governments. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, requests a permanent injunction of DOL’s Improving Protections for Workers in Temporary Agricultural Employment in the United States. Courts have stayed the rule in several states, but it could go into effect in dozens of other states.
U.S. Department of Education
On Thursday, October 10, at a White House event, Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University, announced that the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) has exceeded President Biden’s call to recruit an additional 250,000 adults into high-impact student roles by summer 2025 to support academic success for all students. These roles range from tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and wraparound/ integrated student support coordinators. As of the end of the 2023-2024 school year, an additional 320,000 adults have stepped into these roles in schools, exceeding the President’s goal and doing so a year early.
Researchers from the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University released a report analyzing RAND survey data that shows that during the 2023-24 school year, 136,000 adults stepped up to provide tutoring, mentoring, college and career advising, student success coaching in school settings. This finding builds on the 187,000 adults who stepped into these roles in the 2022-2023 school year. Over the past two years, schools, institutions of higher education, youth-serving organizations, and other community groups have worked together to successfully meet and exceed the Administration's challenge well before the summer 2025 deadline.
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Initial Jobless Claims
In the week ending October 5, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 258,000, an increase of 33,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 225,000. This is the highest level for initial claims since August 5, 2023 when it was 258,000. The 4-week moving average was 231,000, an increase of 6,750 from the previous week's unrevised average of 224,250. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.2 percent for the week ending September 28, unchanged from the previous week's unrevised rate.
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