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  2. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Labor was established within the Department of the Interior on June 27, 1884, to collect information about employment and labor. Its creation under the Bureau of Labor Act (23 Stat. 60) stemmed from the findings of U.S. Senator Henry W. Blair's "Labor and Capital Hearings", which examined labor issues and working conditions in the U.S. [6] Statistician Carroll D. Wright became ...

  3. Hubert Humphrey - Wikipedia

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    The father also served briefly in the South Dakota state legislature and was a South Dakota delegate to the 1944 and 1948 Democratic National Conventions. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In the late 1920s, a severe economic downturn hit Doland; both banks in the town closed and Humphrey's father struggled to keep his store open.

  4. List of acts of the 116th United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    A bill to permit States to transfer certain funds from the clean water revolving fund of a State to the drinking water revolving fund of the State in certain circumstances, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 116–63 (text) 116-64: October 9, 2019: Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Exercise Act of 2019

  5. Timeline of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency (1964)

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    President Johnson says the legislation updates the Davis–Bacon Act and "sensibly provides that wage determinations shall, in addition to cash wages, take account of prevailing benefits such as medical and hospital care, pensions and workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance, vacations, holidays, and other such factors." [96]

  6. Springfield race riot of 1908 - Wikipedia

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    With costs to transport and feed the state militia, during the violence, the total cost to the state was $265,000 (about $7 million in 2018). [ 5 ] The family of Scott Barton sued the city for $5,000 (roughly $125,000 in 2018), as did the family of William Donnegan.

  7. Lee County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The decline of both has resulted in high unemployment in the county and a decrease in population since 1940, which was the peak. Using the slogan Where Virginia Begins , the county has attempted to increase its heritage tourism industry by emphasizing its role in the route used by settlers going west through the Cumberland Gap , at Lee County's ...

  8. Christian views on alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.