California has approved legislation to gradually increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. Small businesses will have until 2023 to pay $15. New York too is gradually raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour. New York City will raise it to $15 by December 2018 and the suburbs...
Checks started going out in late August and will continue in batches every two weeks through the fall, with the latest round sent out Sept. 17.In order to qualify, you must have been a California resident for most of 2020 and still live there, filed a 2020 tax return, earned less th...
Most recently, a new round of debate heats up as Apple refused to deactivate the pass-protection feature on the IPhone previously owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, who, with his wife, murdered 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino California. It was not the first time Apple clashed wi...
On Saturday, August 21, CNN reported that the labor shortage we saw during the pandemic will most likely continue after the pandemic. Some companies, though opting to raise minimum wage and benefits, are being forced to outsource work overseas. However, this process is becoming more difficult wi...
followed by Latinos in Arizona (3,990 whites; 3,460 Latinos) and Nevada (2,320 whites; 1,700 Latinos) while for California this was the opposite (41,440 Latinos; 21,450 whites), which is likely a representation of the outdoor working populations in these states [43]. In Northern Italy...
percent of people who do not identify as non-Hispanic, white or have incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level. The bottom two rows compile the averages for each column for all facilities and facilities in California, Louisiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, and Tennessee...
Similarly, in California,Bolthouse Farmsfound itself brought into a PFAS consumer fraud class action lawsuit in which it is alleged that the company’s Green Goddess smoothie products are marketed as made with 100% real juice, yet the products in fact contain levels of PFAS. The lawsuit further...
RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) of Canada:It was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The constellation of three satellites will provide daily images of Canada’s vast territory and maritime approaches, as well as images ...
Thus was the birth of high-speed rail in California: the bill approved $9.95 billion in funding to the California High-Speed Rail Authority to link the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles via the Central Valley, with future extensions to San Diego and Sacramento. Continue reading“Let’s ...
housing costs are eating a larger share of household income than measured by CPI or many cost-of-living-indices. In addition, home prices (and the rents they imply) have proven to be a key impediment to household formation in expensive areas – witness the outflows from California now that...