Labor Department moves to ease franchise liability for wage violations
From today’s Reuters News: The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday issued a proposal that would make it more difficult to prove companies are liable for the wage law violations…
McDonald’s Announces It Will No Longer Lobby Against Minimum Wage Hikes
From today’s CNBC News Online: McDonald’s will no longer take part in efforts to lobby against raising the minimum wage at the federal, state or local level, the fast-food giant…
Kavanaugh Seems Conflicted About Gerrymandering at SCOTUS Arguments
From today’s NPR News Online: The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on the question of whether there’s any limit on what the courts can impose on partisan redistricting, also known…
Facebook Halts Advertising Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints and Lawsuits
From today’s New York Times: After years of criticism, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would stop allowing advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of…
Op-Ed: Consumer rights are worthless without enforcement by the state
From today’s San Francisco Chronicle: 57 years ago, President John F. Kennedy made an impassioned pitch for stronger consumer rights. “If consumers are offered inferior products, if prices are exorbitant,…
Six countries give women the same work rights as men, US not one of them
From today’s Washington Post: A decade ago, no country in the world treated men and women equally under the law, according to a gender equality index from the World Bank.…
Spending Is as Easy as Pushing a Button. The Hard Part? Keeping Track.
From today’s New York Times: How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Tara Siegel Bernard, a personal finance reporter, discussed the…
FBI analyzed NC political operative in May, took no action to stop fraud
From today’s Washington Post: The FBI participated in a May surveillance operation of a GOP political operative at the center of an election fraud investigation in North Carolina, newly released…
Rap Sheets Haunt Former Inmates. California May Change That.
From today’s New York Times: After spending more than seven years in prison for robbery and auto theft, Jay Jordan tried to get work selling insurance, real estate and used…
US Soccer stars ‘confident’ of winning gender discrimination lawsuit
From today’s CNN International News: The US women’s national soccer team will “fight until the end” in its battle for equality, says one of the team’s co-captains Megan Rapinoe.With the…