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A Ohio Woman turns herself into police after security camera video of her stealing a toy from a child’s grave goes viral. WKYC’s Shannon Kantner reports.
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Expanding Family and Medical Leave to Small Firms, takes a look at one of the most common arguments against requiring small businesses to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)—that doing so would provide an undue burden on those small businesses. Not surprisingly, the anti-working families’ argument is dismissed by the evidence.
The FedEx truck that collided with a college tour bus in Northern California was not on fire before the crash that killed 10 people, investigators said Friday.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, briefs the media and takes questions in Washington, DC
In a victory in the ongoing fight against prison privatization and the big business behind mass incarceration, three companies have agreed to pull $60 million in investments out of the GEO Group Inc. and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the two largest private prison corporations in the United States. The three companies are investment groups Scopia Capital Management LLC, DSM and Amica Mutual Insurance Co. GEO Group and CCA currently own 75% of the private prison industry in America, and the investments were withdrawn after a campaign by ColorofChange.org put pressure on them and 147 other companies, Think Progress reports.
Jonathan Law High School was locked down Friday after an altercation sparked a stabbing that left a 16-year-old girl dead.
On Saturday’s Citizenship Day 2014, the AFL-CIO and the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) will help eligible immigrant workers across the country become U.S. citizens. AFL-CIO locals will assist NPNA in putting on some of their large-scale naturalization workshops in 15 cities around the nation.
Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).
Thirty-five tons of Little Debbie snack cases were scattered along Georgia highway early Friday morning after a tractor-trailer overturned.The accident occurred at 3 a.m., leaving a sugary trail of Cosmic Cupcakes and Cloud Cakes beside Interstate 75 in Bartow County, NBC affiliate WSB-TV reported.
A group of Ohio working families staked out House Speaker John Boehner's district office yesterday, reminding him he needs to renew unemployment insurance for the more than 2.8 million workers and counting who lost this vital lifeline. In Ohio, 65,000 unemployed workers lost these benefits.
