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The husband of a brain-dead, pregnant woman filed suit Tuesday to force a Texas hospital to remove her from life support.Marlise Munoz, 33, was 14 weeks pregnant when she collapsed in her home in November from what doctors believe was a pulmonary embolism.
A gunman opened fire Tuesday morning at a New Mexico middle school, authorities said. At least four children were taken to the hospital, two in critical condition.Police said the shooter was in custody. The shots were reported just after 8 a.m. local time at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell.
Well, that seems to be the sentiment of many pundits, at least. The rest of us care more about what economists, people who have actually scientifically studied things like the minimum wage, have to say. More than 70 economists today released a letter asking the president and congressional leaders to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 per hour and indexing it to inflation for the future. The economists who have signed the letter include the AFL-CIO's chief economist William Spriggs, seven Nobel Prize winners and eight former presidents of the American Economic Association.
A gunman opened fire Tuesday morning at a New Mexico middle school, police said. A hospital reported two victims, both children.Police in Roswell reported on their Facebook page that the shooter, at Berrendo Middle School, had been apprehended. The school was placed on lockdown.
In a classic union representation election that pitted anti-union managers and consultants against an energetic organizing team, workers at Sacramento-based Sunoptics chose to be represented by Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1245.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
Women. Labor leaders like AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Emerita Arlene Holt Baker, National Taxi Workers Alliance Executive Director Bhairavi Desai and National Domestic Workers Alliance Director Ai-jen Poo are some of the women Bryce Covert mentions in her article for The Nation, How the Rise of Women in Labor Could Save the Movement.
The retired Tampa police captain accused of gunning down a man texting during a Mark Wahlberg war movie will be arraigned on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday in a Florida court.Curtis Reeves Jr.
This story is part of a week-long series on women and the economy based on "The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink."Carrin Jade is a lawyer, a yoga teacher, a freelance writer and — in her spare time — a mother to two young children.
MIAMI -- Charges of battery and stalking against Jennifer Capriati were dropped by Florida prosecutors on Monday after the retired tennis player completed community service and an anger-management class.
