The United Way of Northwest Illinois has announced that Stephenson County has been awarded nearly $21,000 in Federal funds ...

Cindy Kramer, 38, works well over 60 hours a week juggling four different jobs in Staten Island, New York, to support her child and make ends meet. Two of those jobs are bartending.

As asylum seekers navigate the day labor sector, labor organizations are stepping in to help them advocate for their rights.

Generating Everlit Embed With the calendar’s turn to 2025, a number of new laws and changes have taken effect, both across ...

Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...

Illinois minimum wage is increasing on January, 1 st. Workers on hourly pay will see roughly a dollar increase, going from ...

In the 1942 film "Holiday Inn," legendary crooner Bing Crosby describes the stroke of midnight on New Year’s as "one minute to say goodbye before we say hello." In 2025, Americans in several states ...

Hundreds of new laws take effect in 2025, impacting the minimum wage and how Illinoisans can get IDs, cancel their gym memberships, manage subscription renewals, clear their criminal records, use ...

At least 293 new laws went into effect in Illinois at the start of 2025. Here are some that every state resident should know.

Minimum wages increased in 21 states on Jan. 1, and more hikes are expected later in the year. The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, a rate last adjusted in July 2009. However, states ...

Two young children where found unsupervised after a wellbeing check Monday night in the River North neighborhood, Chicago police said. About 12:50 p.m., officers conducting a wellbeing check after ...