The Teamsters Union, representing shuttle bus drivers for tech companies, have kicked up pay for drivers from $18 dollars an hour to $25 after signing contracts with Apple and other Silicon Valley companies, part of a “domino effect” to organize the tech sector.
From The Fiscal Times: Should we keep 10,000 Syrian refugees from coming into the United States? It’s all anyone can seem to talk about in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Which is odd. I figured the political discussion
BELFAST – A British exit from the European Union (EU) would not wreck Northern Ireland’s economy, the minister widely expected to be named the province’s next leader said on Monday, urging London to be bolder in its renegotiation with Brussels.
California employers added 41,200 new jobs in the month of October, as the Golden State’s employment production continues at a 50 percent higher pace than the nation as a whole.
The Nevada High-Speed Rail Authority has approved XpressWest, which wants to build a 185-mile high-speed rail line between Victorville and Las Vegas, as a franchisee.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s “woefully inadequate” anti-money laundering system has left the country wide open to corrupt money and terrorism funds and needs radical overhaul, a leading anti-corruption group said on Monday. Each year billions of pounds of dirty money
The CalPERS Board voted to refuse California Gov. Jerry Brown’s modest demand to decrease their expected pension investment returns by a tiny 0.2% year, because the impact would have increased pension contribution costs by about $1.2 billion across nearly 800,000 employees–about $125 per month, on average.
New reports show that Africa’s middle class is closer to 18 million people than the previously estimated 300 million. To make matters worse, they are all located in a very small area of the continent.
The Board of the Los Angeles Airport Commission voted unanimously to build at taxpayers’ cost a ritzy private lounge to cater to the whims of uber-wealthy Hollywood celebrities, sports figures, diplomats and politicians seeking to avoid mixing with taxpayers.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has declared that with a 20 percent jump this year, Los Angeles is still leading the nation in homelessness–despite $25 billion a year in welfare spending going to the L.A. region.
LONDON – British public finances recorded the worst deficit for any October since 2009, leaving Chancellor George Osborne (pictured above) a challenge to meet his borrowing goals as he prepares a major review of government spending. Britain’s headline public borrowing rose
San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.
Americans can help 12 refugees in safe havens overseas for every one single refugee brought to the United States, according to a new report from the Center of Immigration Studies (CIS).
Health insurance industry expert Bob Laszewski says the threat by insurance giant United Health to quit Obamacare is proof that the program is a “huge failure” with the middle-class.
On Tuesday, the Reason Foundation published a study outlining a $700 billion plan to fix L.A.’s notorious traffic gridlock.
Jimmy Panetta has his sights set on taking back the 20th district congressional seat once held by his father Leon Panetta, who recently served as Secretary of Defense in the Obama administration. The incumbent, Democrat Sam Farr, is retiring.
Weeks away from a deadline, President Barack Obama sought to build momentum Wednesday for a potentially legacy-burnishing global climate change agreement by arguing that bold climate action will be a boon for businesses in Asia and around the world.
The New Jersey senate is preparing to take up legislation which not only requires every gun store to stock at least one smart gun but also to display said smart gun “in the dealer’s salesroom” too.
Early in his campaign, now top-tier Republican presidential candidate, Ben Carson, supported ethanol—a position for which I called him out. It has long been thought, that to win in Iowa, a candidate must support ethanol. However, in a major policy reversal, Carson told a national audience during the CNBC GOP debate that he no longer supports subsidies for any industry, including U.S. ethanol producers.
Despite El Niño generating three times the amount of snow in Mammoth in the first half of this month as it did for the entire month of November last year, California’s failure to build infrastructure means most rain will be lost to run-off and flooding.
When I first met Jeff Landry in 2011, I thought I was just going to meet another member of Congress. Boy was I wrong.
The rumor mill indicates that the 155 acres that Apple quietly acquired near San Jose International Airport are enough for the R&D center for its “Project Titan” self-driving cars.
Tesla claims it will sell a half million vehicles a year when its $35,000 Model 3 is introduced in 2017, but the network of charging stations in California is already imploding with just 160,000 registered electric vehicles.
Beyond the horrific deaths, injuries, and panic from seven coordinated terror attacks in Paris, the consequences of France’s 9-11 will likely be a serious deflationary recession and right-wing nationalism spreading across Europe.
As the city of Baltimore continues to deal with the aftermath of the tens of millions in damage caused by this summer’s riots, the city has been hit with a $75 million budget shortfall for the next fiscal year, a report says.
