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The new proposed three-year contract includes pay increases between $18,000 and $20,000 during the contract, with annual raises and contributions to pensions and retirement health care. Union officials said the deal would pay nurses "on par with other Long Island nurse wages."

The $228 million plant in Mastic is in addition to $1 billion in sewer infrastructure projects planned in Suffolk in the next three years, County Executive Edward P. Romaine said at the plant Monday.

The Department of Education (DOE) accounts for about 3.5% of the entire federal budget and provides crucial funding for public K–12 schools, narrowing some of the huge gaps between needed resources and state and local revenue.

After Transportation Security Administration officers learned their union contract would no longer be honored, Copiague resident and longtime TSA employee Thomas Schoregge was told his union office at Kennedy Airport would be closed and he had to report back to "the line."

Timothy McLaughlin, a national representative for the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000 federal workers nationwide, said in a phone interview that he receives calls daily from New York-based employees fearing for their jobs or confused by the conflicting direct

The cost of the overall tax cut is large enough to put huge stress on other parts of the economy, no matter how it’s paid for. The most damaging way to pay for this would be to enact large cuts in spending programs that provide benefits to economically vulnerable families.