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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council got more than two dozen state legislators to voluntarily take a drug test—all while making the point that the tests have been a major success for the contracting industry. The idea behind the initiative?

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JULY 6, 2015

With Senate Bill 277 (SB 277), California joins Mississippi and West Virginia in barring nonmedical exemptions for childhood vaccinations. The proposed bill moved from a lawmaker committee through the Senate, back to the committee, and then finally to the State Assembly. The Role Associations Played.

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JUNE 4, 2014

A study from Stanford University found that a proposed ban on purchasing sugary drinks with food stamps would cut the obesity rate among people ages 18 to 65. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the response to a flood of recent studies that have drawn media coverage, including: Food stamps for soda?

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APRIL 26, 2017

Organizations that focus on the importance of data are concerned about proposals to limit the budget of the agency that counts every person in America every 10 years. “It’s very easy to open a new business in New York City, but putting it in some small town in West Virginia is much more difficult,” Fienberg said.

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