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This is a big week for Walmart workers who are on strike in 20 cities, led by the Walmart moms. But when low-wage workers go on strike, they miss out on valuable pay. Moms are taking an especially big risk by going on strike. They know this all too well, as they're striking to protest the retaliation, punishment and bullying of their co-workers who speak out.
Ohio's highest court has agreed to hear the case of a death-row prisoner whose 2009 execution was halted after two hours because officials failed to get a needle into his veins.
The new curfew bans children under the age of 14 from being on the street after 9 pm and threatens parents of violators with a potential fine. WBAL’s Kai Reed Reports.
More teens die in car crashes than from any other cause, yet many teenagers are not protecting themselves by wearing seat belt. NBC's Erika Edwards reports.
A new report from Demos details how America's retail businesses keep millions of working women and their families in poverty. The report, Retail’s Choice: How Raising Wages and Improving Schedules for Women in the Retail Industry Would Benefit America, shows how low pay, erratic scheduling and weak benefits have a disproportionate affect on women, who make up the bulk of the retail workforce. One of the purposes of the report, according to Demos, is to shift the debate about gender inequity away from female executives to the lowest-paid positions in the most common occupation in America. Demos estimates that retail industry practices lead to more than $40 billion in lost wages annually.
Scientist hope the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator will provide insight on how to move larger payloads, such as robots and people, onto Mars. KHNL’s Ramsay Wharton reports.
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour, which will become the highest minimum wage in the country. The new plan will be phased in over seven years and would give workers a 61% increase over the current state minimum wage. The wage also will be tied to inflation, and by 2025, the lowest-wage workers in Seattle are projected to see their salaries double.
The morning began with a game of hide-and-seek among three 12-year-old girls in the park. But a far more sinister plan — inspired by an online horror meme — was in the works, Wisconsin prosecutors say.
The morning began with a game of hide-and-seek among three 12-year-old girls in the park. But a far more sinister plan — inspired by an online horror meme — was in the works, Wisconsin prosecutors say.
More than 1,000 United Steelworkers (USW) members, their families, allies, lawmakers and U.S. Steel Corp. officials rallied Monday outside the company’s Lone Star, Texas, plant to spotlight the dumping by foreign manufacturers of specialty steel products vital to energy production and to urge the U.S. Commerce Department to enforce the nation’s anti-dumping trade laws.
