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Internet Association Opens Texas Office And Hires State Government Affairs Southern Region Director

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Hines will also cover Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, which include an additional 1,366,000 American internet sector jobs. The internet sector represents 10.1 percent of the U.S.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

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But support from the states dissipated quickly as parents (and then legislators [PDF]) raised the privacy concerns. Most notable was the situation in Louisiana, where parents discovered that Social Security numbers were being used to classify students in the database.

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New Battlefront: Same-Sex Spouse Benefits and the National Guard

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National Guard units in states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and Michigan have offered federal benefits to all Guard spouses despite the differences between state and federal law on same-sex marriage. This is not what equal treatment under the law looks like.”

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Tobacco Grower Associations Take Stand Against Child Labor

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Months after Human Rights Watch (HRW) drew attention to tobacco farmers who use child laborers in the United States, two trade groups—the Council for Burley Tobacco (CBT) and the Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina (TGANC)—adopted policies actively discouraging their members from using child workers.