By Connor Wolf California truck drivers went on strike Monday to demand what they say is rightful full-time employment. With the help of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, California truckers claim companies have been misidentifying them as independent contractors when they should be listed as full-time employees. This employment status has caused drivers to miss…
Well here’s something you don’t see every day. California is actually lifting one of its limits on what people are allowed to do. A new law signed by state Governor Jerry Brown last Saturday removes a ban on using currencies other than the U.S. dollar. The move is in response to the growing use of…
By Jonah Bennett Published: July 1, 2014 Taxes are set to decline in many states across the nation Tuesday, in an effort to encourage businesses to relocate and hire new employees, USA Today reports. For the majority of states, July 1 is the beginning of the fiscal year, at which point tax cuts can be introduced, and…
NEW YORK, NY–Nationwide, companies have been shattering the minimum wage argument by providing their employees with higher wages and benefits. In South Dakota, Walmart employees are making $17.40 per hour, while Starbucks recently offered free tuition for some of their employees. Now Ikea has decided to join the trend, announcing last Thursday that it is…
By Jonah Bennett The heightened controversy over the status of the US Export-Import Bank has been taken up by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday in an effort to come to terms on whether the bank’s charter will be renewed in September. The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), an 80-year-old federal agency, provides government-backed loans to…
By Blake Neff A new survey of teachers in 34 countries finds that teachers in the United States work harder than their colleagues around the world, but are also happier than them. The survey was conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a global economic organization that primarily consists of Western, high-income democracies. The…
Taxi cab drivers in Washington D.C. are protesting against freedom by staging a major protest in the district. The streets of the capital are totally jammed with cabbies honking and creating a ruckus. Drivers are protesting against Uber and Lyft, which allow people to summon a car service on their mobile phones and pay with…
By Michael Bastasch The Obama administration’s foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline may be pleasing environmentalists but it’s damaging economic and political ties between the U.S. and its biggest trading partner: Canada. The Canadian government has been lobbying the Obama administration to approve the pipeline for years now, but the White House has been bowing…
By Greg Campbell Despite calls for boycotts from people upset about Colorado’s new laws on gun control and legal pot, the state broke almost every tourism record in 2013, with out-of-state visitors spending more than $4 billion for the first time. That’s a 12 percent increase over 2012, reported Visit Denver, the city’s tourism and convention bureau,…
By Jonah Bennett A bipartisan plan backed by Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy and Tennessee Bob Corker has been proposed to help maintain the struggling Highway Trust Fund. The Corker-Murphy plan would raise the gas tax by 12 cents over two years, indexing the tax to inflation. The last time gas taxes were raised was in 1993,…