PORTLAND, Oregon — Oregon's minimum wage will increase 50 cents starting Wednesday. The state continues to have three separate minimum wages: a standard wage, a higher wage for the Portland metro area ...

Named after Confederate general and grand dragon of Alabama’s Ku Klux Klan, the Edmund Pettus Bridge stands as the backdrop to a dark moment in our country’s history. Bridges are central to the story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – Friends of Oliver Tree say they plan to carry out his “final wish” after the musician’s untimely death at 32 earlier this month. Tree, aka Oliver Tree Nickell, was reported to be among the ...