NEW YORK, NY – The Dow Jones industrial average has closed above 16,000 for the first time ever. This marks yet another milestone for a stock rally that has surprised even some of the raging bulls of Wall Street. But why is it so high? The Dow added 109 points. Investors were heartened by a better-than-expected drop in first-time…
Tim Pearce The Seattle city council voted 7-2 to repeal its less-than-a-month-old ‘head tax’ on the city’s businesses Tuesday in a win for employers, The Seattle Times reports. On May 15, the council unanimously approved an annual tax of $275 per employee to fund housing programs for the city’s homeless population. The tax was expected to net…
By Connor D. Wolf During a Los Angeles City Council hearing Friday, organized labor continued its push to have unionized companies exempt from a measure to raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Last week the city council voted 14 to 1 on a tentative agreement to raise the city’s minimum wage. Though some specific…
By Micah J. Fleck In response to the outrageous rise in price for EpiPen, the star product of parent company Mylan, consumers are not happy. They are leaving the company’s patronage in droves and instead turning to alternatives such as Adrenaclick. The main reason why these alternatives are not big sellers is because they are…
By Micah J. Fleck Hillary Clinton was recently asked by a supporter at a campaigning event if she would agree to not take any special interest money from fossil fuels groups – because she herself had campaigned on a pro-green energy platform. Regardless of what one may personally think about the green energy initiative, it’s…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: The United States has finally struck the government of President Bashar Al-Assad with fifty to sixty cruise missiles on airfields controlled by the Syrian regime. This is the first time the U.S has directly attacked the Syrian regime, though the U.S has not been on friendly terms with them. This…
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