Washington DC experiences taxation without representation. It's also missing from rhyming state songs. John Oliver and a group of singing children fix one of these problems.
The Washington football team's name is a dictionary-defined slur—and now the federal Patent and Trademark Office has been ordered to cancel its trademark registration.
A Los Angeles City Council committee voted unanimously to authorize a study on nearly doubling the minimum wage for employees of large hotels in the nation's second-largest city. The L.A. proposal is one of several municipal moves toward raising wages well above the 5-year-old federal rate of $7.25; at $15.37, it would set a local hotel industry wage floor far beyond the $10.10 proposed by congressional Democrats.
Walmart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private
employer, is fuming about a ''living wage'' bill
approved by the D.C. Council that has an unusual twist:
It would apply only to certain large retailers, forcing
them to pay at least $12.50 an hour, nearly 50 percent
higher than city's minimum wage of $8.25.
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