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Cesario Estrada "Cesar" Chavez (/ ˈtʃɑːvɛz /; Latin American Spanish: [ˈtʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor unionist and political activist. Along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers ...
119th Congress House member pin The 119th United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It convened on January 3, 2025, for the last 17 days of Joe Biden's presidency and will continue during the first two years of Donald Trump's second ...
In April, Lloyd George introduced the first health and unemployment insurance legislation, the National Insurance Act 1911, which Churchill had been instrumental in drafting. [146] In May, Clementine gave birth to their second child, Randolph, named after Winston's father. [147]
William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Douglas was known for his strong progressive and civil libertarian views and is often cited as the most liberal justice in the U.S. Supreme Court ’s history. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 ...
The state government is Arizona's largest employer, while Banner Health is the state's largest private employer, with more than 39,000 employees (2016). [citation needed] As of May 2025, the state's unemployment rate was 4.1%. [116] Seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment in Arizona was as follows: [113]
Nebraska (/ nəˈbræskə / ⓘ nə-BRASS-kə) [18] is a triple-landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Wyoming to the west; Colorado to the southwest; Kansas to the south; and Missouri to the southeast and Iowa to the east, both across the Missouri River. Nebraska is the 16th-largest state by land area, with just over 77,347 square ...
Champaign (/ ˌʃæmˈpeɪn / sham-PAYN) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in the state outside the Chicago metropolitan area. [4] It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, which had 236,000 residents in 2020 ...
Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah Louisiana[pronunciation 1] (French: Louisiane; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) [b] is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is bordered by Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the 50 U.S. states, it ranks 31st in ...