San Diego County program offers financial aid to workers with successful wage-theft claims Wage theft is receiving renewed focus after local and state officials gathered at the County Administration Building to denounce the practice of withholding wages employees earned. The illegal ... 03/19/2024 - 3:10 pm | View Link
Justices Decline Review of State Officials’ Wage Law Liability The US Supreme Court declined to consider whether state officials can be held personally liable for violations of federal wage law such as the failure to pay minimum wage or overtime compensation. 03/18/2024 - 2:32 am | View Link
State comptroller addresses wage theft in the Rockford area Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza came to Rockford to talk about wage theft on public construction jobs on March 15th. Project First Rate hosted a public ... 03/15/2024 - 11:13 am | View Link
Even before most Americans woke up to the news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had "really" happened were running rampant online. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports on some.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz breaks down the argument Donald Trump's lawyer made about the First Amendment to get the judge to dismiss Trump's election subversion case in Georgia.
(NEW YORK) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.
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The eye-popping amount was a major show of Democratic support for Biden at a time of persistently low poll numbers.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.