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California Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California's leadership on the national stage SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom again seized the national spotlight this year as he signed some of the most ambitious laws in the country to raise worker wages and to force companies to disclose a wide range of climate emissions, efforts that further cement the state's — and the governor's — status as a leader on a host of liberal causes. But the Democrat disappointed some progressive advocates as he vetoed high-profile bills to give unemployment benefits to striking workers, require courts to weigh a parent’s support of their child’s gender identity in custody proceedings and decriminalize some psychedelic drugs. He also supported a controversial bill to force more people into mental Health or addiction treatment, a proposal aimed at addressing the state's persistent homelessness crisis. His actions on more than 1,000 pieces of legislation — nearly 15% of which...

The number of children employed illegally has jumped 69% since 2018, government data shows. Jose Velasquez Castellano said he first worked on a farm when he was 8 years old. At age 13, he began working shifts as long as 12 hours each summer in a tobacco field. "My mom was going through a little rough patch financially," Castellano, who grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, after emigrating from Mexico, told ABC News. "I didn't want to be there -- I wanted to be back home playing outside like my other friends." Children aged 12 and older in the U.S. are legally permitted to work long days in tobacco fields outside of school hours in part because child labor laws are relatively lax in agriculture compared to other sectors. Castellano, an undergraduate student at Tufts University, is raising alarm about a recent rise in the use of child labor and a Republican-led effort in some statehouses to relax child labor law, allowing child ren to work longer hours with ...

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remains at healthy levels that continue to show a strong U.S. labor market The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week but remains at healthy levels that continue to show a strong U.S. labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims were 232,000 for the week ending May 27, an increase of just 2,000 from the previous week. The weekly claims numbers are considered representative of the number of U.S. layoffs. The four-week moving average of claims, which flattens out some of the week-to-week volatility, fell by 2,500 to 229,500. Since the pandemic purge of more than 20 million jobs three years ago, the U.S. economy has added jobs at a furious rate and Americans have enjoyed unusual job security. That’s despite interest rates that have been rising for more than a year and fears of a looming recession. In early May, the Fed raised its benchmark lending rate for the ...