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Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
It's widespread knowledge that the minimum wage has stagnated and not kept up with the cost of living anywhere in the United States. But most people don't realize just how bad it is. The National Low Income Housing Coalition has calculated how many hours a week a minimum wage worker would have to work in each state to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent and found that you'd have to work at least 67 hours a week. In more than half the states, you'd have to work more than 80 hours a week. In the most expensive state, Hawaii, you'd have to work 177 hours a week—yes, more hours than actually exist in a week.
A woman driving on a Florida expressway pulled over screaming for help when her 5-month-old nephew stopped breathing on Thursday afternoon.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of the United States' most prosperous and largest cities.
A radiation leak at a nuclear waste storage site below the New Mexico desert has been plugged, but the facility will remain closed for at least the next three weeks, officials said late Thursday.
Good morning, and happy Friday. Here are six of the top stories we are following this morning at NBC News:1.
After weeks of bitter cold much of the Northeast got a break with sun and warming temperatures, revealing artifacts buried beneath the snow.
Same-sex marriage proponents are gathering steam.Recent high profile rulings on gay marriage tell only part of the story about the avalanche of lawsuits working their way through state and federal courts, challenging laws that ban or restrict same-sex marriages.
After starting ACC play 1-4, the Tar Heels have now won eight straight games.
While Kevin Durant has been largely spectacular this season, LeBron James may still be far and away the league’s best player.
