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The new Employment Rights Bill, which confers greater rights and protections on employees from day one, is also adding to employers' reluctance to take on new staff.

Critics have called the effort a naked power grab by Missouri conservatives, the new map upending a status quo that, according to an analysis by Princeton University’s Gerrymandering Project, does not confer any partisan advantage.

The real “root cause” of the war in Ukraine is Russia’s inability to accept that centuries of empire do not confer the right to dominate former colonies forever.

With the bill pending, Republicans conferred behind closed doors and quietly dropped the bill.

“But they also have a suspicion that, because of their wealth and because of the benefits that it confers on that person, they don’t really know how the average person lives.”