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  2. LGBTQ employment discrimination in the United States

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    The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case as R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in a 6–3 decision on June 15, 2020, the Court held that Title VII protections pursuant to § 2000e-2(a)(1) did extend to cover sexual orientation and gender identity.

  3. County (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The structure and powers of a county government may be defined by the general law of the state or by a charter specific to that county. States may allow only general-law counties, only charter counties, or both. Generally, general-law local governments have less autonomy than chartered local governments. [36]

  4. Tax - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] In the United States, the IRS has about 1,177 forms and instructions, [49] 28.4111 megabytes of Internal Revenue Code [50] which contained 3.8 million words as of 1 February 2010, [51] numerous tax regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations, [52] and supplementary material in the Internal Revenue Bulletin. [53]

  5. Food insecurity and hunger in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) was established under the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946. In 2018 six million children experience food insecurity. [ 78 ] Feeding America estimates that around one in seven children or approximately 11 million, children experience hunger and do not know where they ...

  6. Civil service - Wikipedia

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    (U.S. Code Title V) As of January 2007, the federal government, excluding the Postal Service, employed about 1.8 million civilian workers. The federal government is the nation's single largest employer, although it employs only about 12% of all government employees, compared to 24% at the state level and 63% at the local level. [ 41 ]

  7. Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [17] [6] [18] Targeted texts may be held by a business such as a bookstore; a library, either a public library or one located in a school or university; or the school or university as a whole. [19] The entity requesting censorship may be an organization, private individual, or government official. [19]

  8. December 1974 - Wikipedia

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    A high school student shot and killed three people and an unborn child and injured 11 others in Olean, New York, after firing at bystanders from a third-floor window at Olean High School. Anthony F. Barbaro, 17, an honor student and member of the high school's rifle team, indiscriminately shot at people on the street from windows on the third ...