Business Insider

I was raised to believe women could have it all. I stayed home to raise my kids and had to go back to work at 49 to get out of debt.

I grew up being told that women could have it all: a career and kids. Still, when I had kids, I chose to stay home with them and devoted myself to motherhood. The pandemic crushed my husband's job, ...
Yahoo

I was raised to believe women could have it all. I stayed home to raise my kids and had to go back to work at 49 to get out of debt.

Still, when I had kids, I chose to stay home with them and devoted myself to motherhood. The pandemic crushed my husband's job, and we struggled financially. At the height of the pandemic, I found ...
WUWM

Will Wisconsin get a raise? The campaign for a $20 minimum wage

A coalition of labor and progressive groups are pushing to raise Wisconsin's minimum wage to $20 per hour. Wisconsin's minimum wage currently stands at $7.25 per hour, the federal minimum. The Living ...
Los Angeles Times

California’s incarcerated firefighters, who earn about $1 per hour, may soon get a hefty raise

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California lawmakers unanimously approved a plan to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage of ...
TechCrunch

Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps

How can startups and developers actually monetize their AI products? A startup called Koah, which recently raised $5 million in seed funding, is betting that ads will be a big part of the answer. If ...
Outside

'The American Southwest' Film Is a Wild Ride Down the Mighty Colorado River

Ben Masters and his team spent 80 days at the edge of the Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona, their cameras trained on a condor nest as they waited to capture footage of a chick taking its first flight.
Yahoo! Sports

Unimpressive Benjamin Sesko already looks like the odd man out to raise Man United concerns

For the second time in four days, Benjamin Sesko was the last in line. The final outfield Manchester United player to take a penalty in the shootout at Grimsby, the 20th out of 20, was the last ...
Yahoo

'They need to get outside': DeSantis, Trump rhetoric belies beauty, reality of Big Cypress

OCHOPEE — There is mud and there are mosquitoes, plenty of both, along this stretch of The Florida Trail. Mostly, though, it is stunning scenery punctuated by Florida's natural treasures — species of ...
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I was raised to believe women could have it all. I stayed home to raise my kids and had to go back to work at 49 to get out of debt.

At the height of the pandemic, I found myself rummaging through the last drawer of the dining room sideboard, desperate to find the velvet pouch that housed my mother's heirloom silverware. I'd tucked ...
The Washington Post

Bowser moves to bolster D.C. police, seeking an end to federal control

The city will work to increase the department’s depleted ranks to 4,000 officers, while providing raises of 13 percent. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) on Wednesday projected confidence in the city’s ...
BND

Private water providers expand, raise prices in metro-east. Some are pushing back

Since 2013, Illinois American Water has added 85,000 new drinking and waste water customers in the Metro East, as the company’s footprint now sprawls from Waterloo in the south to Grafton in the north ...