LABOR
Mail Carriers Call For Financial Fix: More than 9,100 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers met in Minneapolis this week to discuss their union’s future.
HEALTH CARE
The state of Minnesota is expanding health care coverage to thousands of uninsured children. The new initiative, first approved by the Legislature in 2009 and finally implemented this month, will erase barriers such as waiting periods and monthly insurance premium payments for some 16,000 children from lower-income families across the state.
NPR: GOP Says Coverage For The Uninsured No Longer The Priority.