By introducing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is demonstrating ...

Not only do tipped workers often end up making less than the minimum wage, but their lower floor also makes their livelihoods ...

Montgomery County government employees will soon see a significant bump in their pay after officials voted to raise the ...

Mesa Public Schools has a new spending plan in place at a time of unprecedented shaky finances hitting districts nationwide. The Governing Board last week approved a $520-million maintenance and ...

The 900-page bill eliminates a 2006 program called Grad PLUS, which allowed students to borrow money up to the full cost of attendance.

Nathan Hill performs countless tasks for his 16-year-old son. Some tasks are small — things most people “take for granted that our kids can do,”​ Hill said. Others could mean the difference between ...

Solar generation is up 32 percent through the first six months of 2025 compared with the same time last year, according to preliminary data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It is up a ...

Huge surprise raises for county supervisors are prompting tough questions about how annual budget deliberations could better engage taxpayers as new fiscal year public budgets kick in across OC this ...

But by the spring of 2011, he had a feeling that there was a new underappreciated risk: the debt of the federal government ...

Social Security's cost-of-living adjustment could rise 2.7%. But Medicare Part B premiums are set to rise even more, eating most of the COLA.

As Texas schools face at least $600 million in federal funding cuts, multiple mental health programs, particularly those implemented in response to the pandemic and mass shootings, are at risk of ...