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Workers at large hotels and car services outside the SeaTac International Airport, just south of Seattle, became eligible yesterday for a wage increase to $15 an hour after a groundbreaking ballot initiative to significantly raise the minimum wage passed last November.
In 2014, the AFL-CIO is not letting up on a road map to citizenship for aspiring Americans. Join us by texting COMMIT to 235246 (standard data and message rates may apply).
Some of the nation's newly minted mayors may be eager to tackle their political agendas, but a more immediate challenge calls: a new year's snowstorm hitting their cities.
The grieving family of the 17-year-old Colorado girl fatally shot by another student at school have expressed a powerful emotion toward her killer: forgiveness.“My wife and I forgive Karl Pierson for what he did,” Michael Davis said Wednesday night during a memorial for his daughter, Claire.
In a move that will make stand-up comics rejoice and the rest of the world sigh "Oh, Canada," Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made good on his threat to run for re-election and filed candidacy papers Thursday."My track record speaks for itself," Ford, 44, told reporters at the City Hall election office.
Authorities are investigating after a shoe containing a human foot was found on a South Florida beach Wednesday.The foot was found by a beachgoer at Peck Lake Beach near the north end of Jupiter Island around noon, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office.
Authorities are investigating after a shoe containing a human foot was found on a South Florida beach Wednesday.The foot was found by a beachgoer at Peck Lake Beach near the north end of Jupiter Island around noon, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office.
Could you live on $15,000 a year? Some 3.5 million hourly workers who earn the minimum wage do (some make even less).
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
The Chinese consulate in San Francisco was heavily damaged after an unidentified person set fire to the main gate, the consulate said in a statement on Thursday, in a rare attack on a Chinese mission overseas.
