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December 20, 2015

Fast food workers to escalate wage, union demands

Fast food workers say they're prepared to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation, starting with a national convention in suburban Chicago where more than 1,000 workers are expected to discuss the future of the effort that has spread to dozens of cities in less than two years.

December 20, 2015

Nevada education system ranked last in nation, report says

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s state ranks last in the nation in education for third year in a row, according to a children's well-being report released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

December 20, 2015

Unions ending forced-dues collection of home healthcare workers

The Supreme Court ruling that freed home healthcare workers from coercive unionization in Illinois has led to unions ceasing automatic deduction of union dues from non-members in other states.

December 20, 2015

New health exchange boss in New Mexico survived controversy in Idaho

The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange has hired a new executive director who received positive recommendations for running the exchange in Idaho, despite controversy over a no-bid contract that was granted and then rescinded last fall.

December 20, 2015

Iowa county’s voter rolls filled with deceased residents

Betty Ellis doesn’t know why 100 dead people were registered to vote in Wright County.

December 20, 2015

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn anti-violence spending didn't pull big votes

An analysis shows that Gov. Pat Quinn's troubled anti-violence program, which critics have called a "political slush fund," didn't do him much good in his 2010 campaign.

December 20, 2015

Hawaii’s highest-in-the-nation energy costs stay intact by politics, monopoly

If residents of Hawaii are going to have affordable electricity, the state needs to break up Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., the parent of the Hawaiian Electric Co., a former lawmaker contends.

December 20, 2015

Cuomo announces deal between Transit Authority and unions

There will be no railroad strike in New York this weekend. A settlement, first announced Thursday, has been reached.

December 20, 2015

Homeless in Hawaii? Lawmaker wants to give you a free flight home

A Hawaii state representative says it’s time state taxpayers give the homeless a ticket to ride .

December 20, 2015

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson says border crisis is ‘abuse of federal power’

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., says the federal government isn’t being honest about the wave of unaccompanied child immigrants crossing the Mexican border.