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The Obama administration’s announcement last week that it was making a slight shift on immigration policy, to target employers who hire illegal workers rather

A bill to create a Tier 5 of federal unemployment benefits to help those who are languishing in long-term unemployment will be submitted in Congress sometime next week. The bill would add an additional 14 weeks to available unemployment benefits.

A new study from the libertarian CATO Institute concludes that legalizing the more than eight million undocumented workers in the United States would have

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that TeleTech, a Colorado-based company, was within its rights when it fired a woman–with a valid medical marijuana card–when she tested positive for marijuana. The woman, who was fired in 2006, sued and lost on an 8-1 vote, with the court saying that even with a valid medical marijuana card and even with no claims from the company that she was working while impaired, the company was still within its rights in firing her. TeleTech, headquartered in Englewood, has more than 50,000 employees worldwide.

Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, rescinded two of its endorsements to Democrats yesterday, claiming their Republican challengers better represent

From RedState’s Erick Erickson, who really doesn’t love Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) McConnell is, in his mind, Darth Vader — the man who oversaw the loss of

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has unveiled a new webpage that explains the Federal Reserve System’s dual mandate of achieving maximum employment while

Most reporters I know are on tenterhooks today to see what happens in the first round of presidential elections in Iran. The Guardian is reporting a large

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research recently released a study (PDF) showing that a shocking number of poor women with children do not receive adequate

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a multimillion-dollar ad attacking Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) last night as part of its nationwide effort to spend $75

My colleague notes that the House just passed the Senate extension of federal unemployment benefits, as the Senate did last night. The bill now moves on to

Tomorrow, the federal extension of unemployment benefits held up for two months in the Senate should pass. On a call with reporters this afternoon, Sens. Jack

La Raza announced late Friday that it was calling off its boycott of Arizona which has been in place since SB 1070 became law in May 2010. The organization said the boycott served its purpose of stopping Arizona from passing additional laws, and that it was effective in stopping some other states from passing immigration laws. La Raza said it is now time to focus on national immigration reform.

As I reported earlier, and in my piece that just went up now, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is

The Washington Post reports that Maryland is poised to legalize same-sex marriage, possibly in the next few weeks. A bill on the Senate floor, SB 116 (PDF),

The news coverage today is all about how the greedy auto workers and their unions refused to accept the oh-so-reasonable compromise proposed by Senate

A federal judge has issued an injuction blocking certain provisions in Georgia’s new immigration law from taking effect, as they were scheduled to do on Friday.

As the administration stepped up enforcement of immigration laws this year and laid the groundwork for broader reform, these five individuals had the greatest influence on the immigration debate.

There’s much to recommend in this Fred Barnes retrospective of the Bush presidency: like the president, Barnes is a political animal who sees Republican

A new government study paints a grim picture for young adults. Hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses, alone or in combination, increased dramatically among 18- to 24-year-olds between 1999 and 2008. Researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, published their findings in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs after examining hospitalization data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a project of the U.S.

A lead sponsor of North Carolina’s proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is under fire this week for allegedly falsifying his medical credentials and

Rep. Ben Ray Luján was critical of the budget plan put forward by Republicans and unveiled by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., Tuesday, saying on the House floor that the budget “makes the wrong choices for hard-working families.” Luján, who represents New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, also said the proposed Republican budget “ends Medicare and Medicaid as we know it by privatizing Medicare