From Cooks To Accountants: Hilton Extends Paid Parental Leave To All
In the two-story breakfast room on the 25th floor of Hilton's Conrad Miami, Florance Eloi mans the omelet stand in front of a panoramic view of the sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean. The bubbly Miami...
View ArticlePoverty Wages For U.S. Child Care Workers May Be Behind High Turnover
In Greensboro, N.C., Eyeisha Holt spends her days as a full-time child care worker at Head Start. But after a decade's work in early education she still earns only $11.50 an hour — barely enough, she...
View ArticleAccess To Abortion Could Be Curtailed Under Trump Administration
Amy Hagstrom Miller of Whole Women's Health had been having a banner year. Her organization, based in Charlottesville, Va., operates several abortion clinics around the country and brought a legal...
View ArticleThis Family Doesn't Agree On Trump — But They Await His Presidency Together
The most contentious presidential campaign and election in memory has many people dreading the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Some have even canceled plans , unwilling to face family members on the...
View ArticleAbortion-Rights Groups Challenge Restrictions In 3 States
There's no shortage of speculation about how the incoming Trump administration, whose appointees so far are staunch abortion opponents, might crack down on access to the procedure. But reproductive...
View ArticleOhio Gov. Kasich Mulling State Abortion Bans
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: And now we're going to take a look at a story in Ohio, where the state legislature this week passed a new law banning abortion at six weeks...
View ArticleActivist Groups Expect More States To Take Up New Anti-Abortion Measures
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Texas isn't alone in this. Its regulations requiring the burial of aborted fetuses are part of a wave of such measures nationwide. NPR's...
View ArticleLawsuit Challenges Fetal Burial Rule In Texas
Abortion rights groups filed suit Monday to stop the state of Texas from enacting a rule on Dec. 19 that requires fetal remains to be buried or cremated after miscarriages or abortions. The lawsuit...
View ArticleCrowds Eager To Pass Through Security To Witness Trump Inauguration
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Inauguration Day here in Washington, D.C., and already thousands of Donald Trump supporters are gathering at checkpoints along the Mall...
View ArticleAs Obama Clean Power Plan Fades, States Craft Strategies To Move Beyond It
There have been no executive orders yet to undo President Barack Obama's signature climate plan, but many officials and environmental groups consider it as good as dead. The Clean Power Plan is on hold...
View ArticleBig Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables
Kevin Butt's job is to find cleaner ways to power Toyota. One of the hardest places to do that is at the automaker's sprawling plant in central Kentucky, a state where nearly 90 percent of electricity...
View ArticleMarchers Unite To Take On Trump's Climate Policies
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets Saturday in Washington, D.C., and cities across the globe, for the People's Climate March , demanding action on protecting...
View ArticlePublic To EPA On Cutting Regulations: 'No!'
As part of President Trump's executive order to review "job-killing regulations," the Environmental Protection Agency last month asked for the public's input on what to streamline or cut. It held a...
View ArticleEnvironmental Protection Agency To Eliminate Obama's Clean Power Plan
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The Trump administration says it will move formally to repeal President Obama's key climate change policy tomorrow. EPA Administrator Scott...
View ArticleCoal Jobs Have Gone Up Under Trump, But Not Because Of His Policies
President Trump made coal jobs a core of his presidential campaign, repeatedly vowing to bring back "beautiful" coal despite the industry's decades-long decline. And in pockets of the U.S. during...
View ArticleTrump Touts Pruitt's 'Great Job,' But EPA Rollbacks Have A Long Road Ahead
As allegations mount of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt violating ethics policies and misusing taxpayer money, President Trump has repeatedly defended him. "Scott is doing a great job!" he said in one...
View ArticleEPA Chief Scott Pruitt Prepares For Questions On Ethics Allegations
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies on Capitol Hill tomorrow, and it could be a make-or-break appearance. It'll be his first time in front...
View ArticleEPA Chief Pruitt Faces Tough Questions On Capitol Hill
Updated at 2:54 p.m. ET EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt faced withering criticism from congressional Democrats on Thursday, with one lawmaker calling him "unfit to hold public office." But Republican...
View ArticleFlooding And Rising Seas Threaten America's Oldest Farmland
Bob Fitzgerald lives on the edge of a flat field that's just a few feet above sea level. It's the same spot on Maryland's Eastern Shore where his ancestors settled before the U.S. became a country....
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