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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.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner refuses to collect “fair share” fees from public employees because he expects them to be found unconstitutional.
According to a Governing analysis, two-thirds of states' fuel taxes have failed to keep up with inflation, forcing lawmakers to revisit the politically fraught issue of raising taxes.
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States are plagued by a number of problems in hiring and retaining IT staff— especially cybercrime experts.
The current estimate for a ticket, $86 from Los Angeles to San Francisco , would result in one of the world's cheapest high-speed rail trips on a per-mile basis.
Jeremy Trentelman of Odgen, Utah, who built a cardboard fort for his children in his front yard, only to get a note from the city demanding that he remove the structure within 15 days or pay a $125 fine.
Jeremy Trentelman builds "a completely awesome box castle" in his front yard and gets a $125 fine from the city. Then the Internet trolls got involved.
Missouri state Rep. Gina Mitten, on state House Speaker John Diehl who recently apologized and sought forgiveness for exchanging sexually charged messages with a 19-year-old intern in the state Capitol.
House Speaker John Diehl issued a statement Wednesday apologizing and seeking forgiveness for exchanging sexually charged messages with a college freshman who worked as an intern in the state Capitol.
A majority of the Legislature's Taxation Committee voted Wednesday to reject Gov. Paul LePage's plan to eliminate Maine's income tax, citing a projected $1.8 billion loss in state revenue and no plan to offset it.
Though the state’s health exchange soon will consider boosting insurance assessments, Access Health CT officials said Tuesday Connecticut’s program is on sound financial footing — unlike many other state exchanges.
Chicago's beleaguered public school system faces a likely increase in borrowing costs, tough bank negotiations and even calls for emergency state oversight after a major rating agency on Wednesday lowered the school district's debt rating to junk status.
As the Obama administration prepares to change the way it enforces immigration laws, top officials have been conducting weeks of shuttle diplomacy, touring the country to try to re-enlist police chiefs and mayors in the cause of deporting people convicted of crimes.
An electronic train-control system designed to prevent the kind of accident that killed at least seven people Tuesday was not in place where Amtrak Train 188 crashed, as it was entering one of the sharpest curves on the Northeast Corridor.
Portion of Louisiana residents who identify as Christian, which is the highest rate of any state in the nation.
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