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Florida has become the eighth state and the first one in the South to adopt a $15 minimum wage. The increase will be gradual, reaching $15 an hour in 2026.

Florida Just Passed A $15 Minimum Wage. Is The Time Right For A Big Nationwide Hike?

Florida became the eighth state and the first in the South to adopt a $15 minimum wage. Replicating this in other states and on the federal level remains a challenge.

President Trump, pictured June 5, signs a bill extending the time period for businesses to use funds from the Paycheck Protection Program. On Saturday he signed a bill extending the deadline to apply for the program.

Trump Signs Small Business Loan Program Extension

The Paycheck Protection Program, enacted to help small businesses dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, had expired Tuesday. With Trump's signature Saturday, the new deadline to apply is Aug. 8.

Iceland has found a shorter work week has improved the well-being of its workforce while not cutting into productivity.

Iceland Finds 'Major Success' Moving To Shorter Workweek

The results of two trials in Iceland found that a 35- to 36-hour workweek resulted in similar or greater productivity and improved well-being among workers.

When kids are too young for vaccines, like this 7-year-old girl, masks are critical in reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission. That's part of the newly updated Centers for Disease Control guidelines for the coming school year — and for any travel plans parents are making for summer.

CDC Updates Guidelines To Protect Kids From COVID In School. Plus: Vacation Tips

The updated guidance promotes vaccination for those old enough and says vaccinated children may not need masks. What about kids too young for vaccines? And as summer begins, what about vacation risks?

A sample ballot is shown using the Dominion Voting system, the machines that have been under attack by former President Trump following the 2020 elections.

Ohio County Rejects Dominion Voting Systems After Trump Supporters Balk

Commissioners in Stark County voted to reject a recommended purchase of Dominion voting machines. Former President Trump falsely accused the machines of switching votes for him to President Biden.

Driver's license photo of Ashli Babbitt. The 35-year-old Air Force veteran was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol Police Officer when she attempted to breach the Chamber of the US House of Representatives on Jan. 6.

Ashli Babbitt a martyr? Her past tells a more complex story

Former President Donald Trump and his supporters have sought to portray the woman who was shot by a police officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as a righteous martyr who was unjustly killed.

In this Oct. 30, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a COVID-19 testing facility in Valencia, Calif.

California Budget Proposes $15 Billion For Economic Relief

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan calls for using $15 billion of surging tax returns into economic relief.

A monument to the women of the Confederacy stands in front of the Mississippi State Capitol.

Jackson, Miss. lives in a world of high poverty and higher expectations

Jackson is the state capital, but it wrestles with poverty, infrastructural problems, including water issues, and a conservative state government.

Nipsey Hussle is part of a mural painted by Moses Ball featuring other local notable people on the wall of a bank in the rapper's Hyde Park neighborhood. In the wake of Hussle's March 2019 death, many murals of the beloved Los Angeles musician were painted in the Hyde Park neighborhood near his Marathon Clothing store.

Caught In The System

When rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in 2019, he was known as an advocate for the people in the neighborhood where he grew up and made his name. But the LAPD couldn't let his gang affiliation go.

Chris Van Gorder, Scripps Health CEO, inoculated Christian Dollahon, 66 from Oceanside with the Pfizer vaccine at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, in Del Mar, Calf.

San Diego County Coronavirus Cases Cross 200 For Seventh Consecutive Day

The number of new COVID-19 cases continued to increase, with more than 200 infections reported for the seventh consecutive day, San Diego County public health officials announced Wednesday.

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