일한 대가를 받지 못한 노동자가 노동청에 신고합니다. 2025년 한 해 그렇게 집계된 체불액이 2조 678억 9,600만 원이고, 신고한 노동자는 26만 2,304명입니다. 체불액은 2023년 1조 7,845억, 2024년 2조 448억에 이어 3년 연속 최대치를 갈아치웠습니다.
In late 2021 Congress appropriated 42.45 billion dollars for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, the largest federal investment in broadband infrastructure to that date. NTIA notified the 56 states and territories of their allocations on 2023-06-30 and stated o…
Federal investigators found 5,766 minors employed in violation of child labor law in fiscal year 2023, up 88 percent from 3,073 in fiscal year 2019. Over the same five years the count of recorded child labor law violations rose from 3,748 to 7,624, a 103 percent increase, and it…
The 1922 Colorado River Compact apportioned 7.5 million acre-feet a year to the Upper Basin and 7.5 million acre-feet to the Lower Basin, with up to 1 million acre-feet more available to the Lower Basin, and a 1944 treaty added 1.5 million acre-feet for Mexico. Those shares rest…
People who arrive at a United States emergency department in psychiatric crisis are held in that department until an inpatient bed opens somewhere, and for a large share of them the wait is measured in days rather than hours. Among Medicaid-enrolled youths aged 5 to 17 across 44…
The Family and Medical Leave Act gives 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave, but only to employees who clear three tests at the same time — 12 months with the employer, 1,250 hours of work in the preceding year, and a worksite where the employer has at least 50 employees with…
An annual US drug shortages report, released on 2026-06-09, counted 75 drugs in shortage at the end of 2025, down from 98 a year earlier. The count fell and the shortages got longer: the average shortage ran 5.3 years in 2025, against 4.3 years in 2024 and roughly two years in 2…
At the end of 2025, 2,061 gigawatts of generation and storage capacity were actively waiting for permission to connect to the electric grid in the United States. The queue shrank 10 percent during that year, but it shrank because projects gave up rather than because they were co…
In Texas the rule of capture gives the owner of the land the water beneath it, and the owner may use as much of it as desired so long as it is not wasted or taken maliciously. Groundwater provides 54 percent of the total water supply of Texas, and availability is expected to fal…
In the United States the queue for a housing voucher is often not a queue you can join. One national tracker counted 213 Housing Choice Voucher waiting lists open until further notice as of 2026-06-01, against 893 lists that were open for at least one day at some point in the pr…