A tight labor market and local minimum wages that are already close to the new $20 minimum are among the reasons.
Studies have repeatedly shown wage increases bring few job cuts and boost local economies.
Convicted for two killings he didn’t commit, Vasquez hopes legal reforms will lead to his freedom after 18 years behind bars.
While Biden’s billionaire tax fails to gain traction, states are taking the lead on wealth taxes.
The energy future of fossil fuel dependent Phoenix could be reshaped by a slate of clean energy advocates looking to upend a stubborn utility.
Proposal to drill oil and gas near Denver superfund site raises concerns.
New contracts will expire six months before the Games, giving workers an opening to pit public attention against employers.
Shepard Fairey calls the tagging of empty luxury towers a “poetic reuse of a failed space.”
Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled.
Rushed care and poor working conditions have led to demands for representation as revenues grow in the wake of the Dobbs ruling.