Bonnie Walls fell into a spiral of unpaid debt after her husband died in 2022 and she lost his income. Bills for cancer treatment and dental implants piled up as she struggled to get by on her red...

The Assembly is a digital magazine about the people, institutions, and ideas that shape North Carolina. Founded in 2021, we feature interesting, deeply reported, nuanced stories about our state. W...

LOS ANGELES (KNX) - The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating allegations that the captain of the East L.A. sheriff’s station passed over what he called an “angry Black” sergeant...

WASHINGTON - Tipped workers in D.C. will be getting a boost in their paychecks starting Monday all thanks to last year's passage of initiative 82 which eliminates the District's tip credit. FOX 5's...

Supreme Court Will Review Burden of Proof of Corporate ...Law.

Key Points The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a policy memo stating that it will now treat the deliberate nondisclosure of “significant” violations of t...

The last time I wrote about the federal minimum wage was 2016. At that time, Walmart had just announced that it was going to raise its hourly salary to at least $9.00 an hour – causing its stock t...

The Senate is likely to vote on S.B. 1177 any day now, a bill that would cripple restaurant employees’ livelihoods forever. As a former server growing up in Connecticut, I’m concerned that elimina...

A law allowing whistleblower lawsuits that claim wealthy people and corporations intentionally failed to pay taxes. The fine print of the state budget agreement is finally beginning to emerge ahea...