Meta Platforms led a rally in Magnificent Seven stocks on Wednesday, but the Nasdaq couldn’t overcome a chip stock clobbering. The Nasdaq fell 0.7%. The S&P 500 dropped 0.2%. The Dow fell slightly.

The minimum wage rate in Los Angeles increases by about half a dollar to $18.42 per hour, according to a city document. Workers in unincorporated Los Angeles County will see a minimum wage hike from ...

Oregon’s minimum wage is going up on July 1. The standard minimum wage will increase from $15.05 to $15.55 per hour. Minimum wage in the Portland Metro area will increase to $16.80 per hour, and the ...

SEOUL, June 29 (Reuters) - South Korea on Monday laid out a sweeping industrial strategy centred on semiconductors and artificial intelligence, as President Lee Jae Myung unveiled over $576 billion in ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday touted his minimum wage bill that aims to gradually increase worker pay from $7.25 to $25 hourly. “I think our party should have bigger ideas. I put one on the ...

Oliver Tree’s family has established a new foundation, as per the late singer’s wishes, to provide grants to young artists. Just two weeks after Tree died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at the age of ...

A charitable foundation set up by the estate of the late musician and viral performance artist Oliver Tree has been launched, with its website offering awards grants to “support creative art projects ...

(NEXSTAR) — There’s a new effort in Congress to take the federal minimum wage to a level it has never been before: $25 an hour. If it were to pass, it would be the first time the federal rate has ...

Senate Democrats moved June 25 to propose more than tripling the current federal minimum wage, introducing legislation that would raise it to $25 an hour over the next five years. The "Living Wage for ...

Minimum wage would go to $25 an hour under a new proposal from a Democratic Senator. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, introduced legislation Thursday that would raise the minimum wage through a ...

The minimum wage would be raised to $25 an hour under a new bill to be introduced by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) on Thursday, in a bid to enthuse the working-class voters who have abandoned the ...