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Lindsay Ruck, a server at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport restaurants, pauses in Terminal 3 as she is anticipates the vote on Arizona Prop 138 on minimum wage Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Should the minimum wage be lower for workers who get tipped? Two states are set to decide
By KAVISH HARJAI - Associated Press
Sun,10/20/24-11:42PM , 143 Reads
Mel Nichols, a 37-year-old bartender in Phoenix, Arizona, takes home anywhere from $30 to $50 an hour with tips included. But the uncertainty of how much she's going to make on a daily basis is a constant source of stress.
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President Joe Biden speaks in Raleigh, N.C., Jan. 18, 2024. Twenty-three million families will either have to pay more for internet or cancel their subscriptions altogether if a federal subsidy program to help with the monthly bill runs out of money in April, 2024. The potential expiration of the program comes as Biden recently touted his administration's goal of internet for all in North Carolina, where more than 900,000 families receive the benefit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Biden's vow of affordable internet for all is threatened by the looming expiration of subsidies
By KAVISH HARJAI - Associated Press
Mon,02/05/24-8:00AM , 70 Reads
President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on shaky ground.
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Jade Piros de Carvalho, director of the Office of Broadband Development in the Kansas Department of Commerce, talks about the need for broadband internet service across the state with a map of state grants for projects, Wednesday Dec. 13, 2022, in the department's offices in Topeka, Kansas. States are facing a tight deadline for proposing corrections to the federal government map that spells out which areas lack broadband service. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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States contend with short timeline to correct broadband map
By KAVISH HARJAI - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,12/21/22-11:49AM , 250 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation's largest-ever investment in high-speed internet.
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