Closing The Wage Gap

BY KEVIN STONE, NOVEMBER 20, 2019 PHOENIX – Seven months after Phoenix raised its minimum wage to $15 for full-time employees, the city’s part-timers are getting in on the action. The City Council on Wednesday voted to pay all year-round part-time workers at least $15 an hour, $4 more than the state’s minimum wage. The […]

The three-year old ride-hail app Juno will shut down Monday evening, parent company Gett announced today, citing “misguided” city regulations and a strategic shift toward the corporate transportation sector. A spokeswoman said the Juno app will go dark sometime around 6 p.m. Juno has been struggling for some time. Earlier this year, when it was

By Polly Toynbee Nov 19, 2019 In the dying days of the 2010 general election, too late, far too late, one event electrified the campaign. Citizens UK, the living wage community organisers, held a leaders’ hustings under the high dome of London’s Methodist Central Hall. In a heart-stopping moment, a 14-year-old girl, Tia Sanchez, stepped

By William Farley and Max Hulen The City of Ottumwa is considering investing in the development of a hotel property adjacent to the Bridgeview Center. The primary goal of the investment, as stated by Councilmember Mark Roe during his editorial board interview, is to attract visitor spending and offset the existing public subsidy to the