Protesters took to the streets of New York in 2017 for the Fight for $15 campaign for a higher hourly wage. Erik Mcgregor/Getty Images The current federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 13 straight years now; the last increase was July 24, 2009. Many states and localities have taken matters into their own hands…
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa speaks with reporters in the Senate subway in Washington, DC, on April 9, 2019. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Sen. Chuck Grassley wants to peg the child tax credit to inflation. The changes he seeks so far are far less sweeping than what most Democrats support. The Grassley proposal does…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D). Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images NYC launched a student-loan forgiveness program for behavioral health workers. To qualify, the workers must be employed at NYC Health + Hospitals for at least three years. The program will close when it reaches $1 million in student loans forgiven. Student-loan relief might be on…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images Fed Chairman Jerome Powell doesn’t have to kill every stock market rally, according to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.That’s because the Fed is likely to raise interest rates to its neutral target of 2.5% this week, he said.“The risk/reward is skewed to upside in 2H, [and] if…
Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser and Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Drew Angerer/Getty Images and Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Rep. Matt Gaetz has been characterizing abortion rights protestors as ugly and physically grotesque. Now, even the president of a major anti-abortion group says his comments are “hideous.” Gaetz, under investigation…
Google has started making good on its promise to update and optimize 20 of its apps for tablets. The tech giant has rolled out a number of new features for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep, which all take advantage of tablets’ larger screens. They’re tools you can use to make it easier to…
The Play Store is officially 10 years old, and Google is eager to mark the occasion. On top of a new logo in line with the tech giant’s current aesthetic (see above), there’s a promotion starting July 25th that offers 10 times the usual Play Points to rewards program members who make purchases. Google launched…
Anker has revealed its third-gen gallium nitride (GaN) chargers, just over a year after the previous batch. The company is branding the new lineup of power bricks and portable chargers as GaNPrime. Anker said it worked with several partners to create products that last longer and are more sustainable. It claims the GaNPrime is the…
A TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s excellent Vertigo (DC) comic book series, The Sandman, will arrive on Netflix very soon. It tells the tale of Dream (the eponymous Sandman), who is released after being held captive for 100 years and sets out to restore order to the Dreaming – the place we go to when…
If you have a printed document and need a digital copy then not to worry as you can easily scan paper documents with your phone. You might not know but you can capture a digital scan with your phone in a matter of seconds then turn it into a PDF and save it to the…