While the federal minimum wage in the United States has remained unchanged at $7.25 per hour since 2009, many states and cities have taken matters into their own hands by raising their minimum ...
However, a handful of counties in the Buckeye State have seen their population boom in recent years. Ohio is the seventh most populous U.S. state, with a 2023 population of 11,785,935, according ...
Several Illinois counties that have explored the idea of secession might be welcomed with open arms in Indiana. Legislators in Indiana's Republican-majority General Assembly have introduced a ...
By the time a teenage DJ Jennings got his first job in a local log-sorting yard, people in Grays Harbor County, which reaches across the base of the peninsula to the Pacific, were boasting that ...
Local officials are responding after an Iowa senator said he plans to propose a bill in the Iowa Legislature for the state to purchase the nine counties along the southernmost part of Minnesota.
Iowa legislative leaders disagree on whether a proposal to allow the state buy nine southern Minnesota counties is an "outside the box" idea worth exploring or "frankly offensive" to Iowans with ...
Michael Bousselot said he will propose a bill in the legislature to buy "the bottom nine counties of Minnesota" — that would be Rock, Nobles, Jackson, Martin, Faribault, Freeborn, Mower ...