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Daniel Luzer

news editor

Daniel Luzer -- News Editor. Daniel previously worked as the Web editor at the Washington Monthly and as an editorial fellow at Mother Jones. His work has appeared at Mother Jones, Salon, Pacific Standard, the Washington Monthly and Columbia Journalism Review.

(It's pronounced Loot-zer.)

Two New York City manicurists on Thursday filed a proposed class action lawsuit claiming four nail salons routinely violated minimum wage and overtime laws, days after a New York Times investigation revealed rampant wage theft and hazardous conditions in the industry.
Although the majority of children are vaccinated, at some schools, rates are well below the 92 percent needed to maintain the group immunity required to protect those who cannot be vaccinated or who have weak immune systems. Under a bill passed Thursday, California parents who do not vaccinate their children would have to home-school them.
The auto company says the money will lead to about 2,600 new white-collar jobs at the Warren Tech Center.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System is placing a portion of its U.S. timber holdings up for sale in the latest sign of a larger strategic re-evaluation inside the nation’s largest pension fund.
For seven years, industry and lawmakers sparred over costs, deadlines.
Gov. Larry Hogan announced Thursday that he will withhold $68 million in funding for high-cost school systems and use at least part of the withheld money to fund public-employee pensions, which the administration has named as one of its top priorities.
The system has resumed an old strategy to prevent more smoke incidents in tunnels.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's top educational priorities — the expansion of prekindergarten and the creation of so-called community schools — are being paid for entirely with taxpayer dollars. Credit
As part of the governor's $115.3 billion budget plan, tuition is capped for California residents over the next two years, while out-of-state tuition could increase by as much as 8 percent in each of the next two years and 5 percent in the third year.
After tens of millions of dollars, the New York governor's plan has created fewer than 100 jobs.