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Minnesota winters get awfully cold, and with the cost of heating, food, rent and other bills, the state's effective minimum wage of $7.25 an hour just isn't enough for hardworking residents to survive. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport workers, both those in unions and those who aren't, are stepping up to fight for a fair living wage that pays them enough to survive the harshest months of the year. Watch the video above to learn more about their efforts.
To me, what happened to Jessica Robles is the true spirit of our country: When someone's down on their luck, we don't throw dirt on them...we give them a leg up and a bit of a helping hand. Such a better way to go, don't you think?One Mother Did Something Illegal to Help Her Kids, and This Cop Was Totally, Unexpectedly Cool originally appeared on Upworthy's Workonomics channel.
The United States is negotiating two huge, problematic trade agreements—one with Europe (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership), and another with countries around the Pacific (Trans-Pacific Partnership). Both dramatically extend the North American Free Trade Agreement model.
A church van driver was killed and 11 passengers were hurt when a suspected drunken driver ran a stop light and collided with van late Sunday in Indianapolis.The group was making their way from the Jesus House Prayer Temple to another church according the NBC affiliate, WTHR.
Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport is all clear after the discovery of a written bomb threat prompted an evacuation Sunday afternoon.The airport announced the “all clear” just after 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET).
Two single-engine aircraft carrying skydivers collided 12,000 feet above Superior, Wis., on Saturday evening, sending one plane plummeting to earth in flames – but all nine jumpers and both pilots survived, said one of the jumpers.
Authorities are investigating the death of a man who somehow became consumed in flames Thursday during a Halloween festival in a Los Angeles neighborhood and later died of his injuries.
A security threat at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport prompted an evacuation Sunday afternoon, the airport said.Airport and law enforcement officials "are responding to a threat received around 4:00 p.m. The terminal has been evacuated," the airport said on a post on its Facebook page.
The application page of the Obamacare website — stricken with glitches for weeks — will go offline daily while a technology team works to resolve problems, the government said Sunday.The Health and Human Services Department said that the application page of HealthCare.gov will go offline from 1 a.m.
A 68-year-old man who walked into his longtime wife’s Ohio hospital room and fatally shot her — allegedly "out of love" — intends to tell jurors he was mentally impaired at the time, his attorney said.Jury selection in the case accusing John Wise of aggravated murder starts on Monday.
