
State Farm seeks emergency rate increase averaging 22% after L.A. fires
State Farm General, California’s largest home insurer, asked state officials for an emergency rate hike averaging 22% Monday, claiming the Los Angeles County fires have put the company in tough…
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Padilla hopes to increase firefighter pay, create affordable housing for disaster response
WASHINGTON — While firefighters continue to battle the Los Angeles County fires, California’s Sen. Alex Padilla is introducing a package of bills to increase their pay and create housing for those…
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US mortgage rate inches up to 6.93%, fourth straight increase – Orange County Register
By Matt Ott | The Associated Press The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked up again this week, remaining at its highest level since July. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate…
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UC enrolls record number of Californians; steadies Black, Latino students
The University of California enrolled a record number of Californians in Fall 2024, while UC Berkeley joined UCLA in bucking national trends at elite institutions that saw declines in new…
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California to require insurers to increase home coverage in wildfire-prone areas – Press Enterprise
FILE – A fire burns a house in the Mountain fire, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Camarillo, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) FILE – A firefighter watches as flames…
Read More »Worried your employees want to quit? Here’s an easy way to increase engagement
Giving workers the chance to explore cross-functional roles and new challenges can drive engagement and build stronger teams. The post Worried your employees want to quit? Here’s an easy way…
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L.A. to boost pay for nonprofits at its homeless shelters
The Los Angeles City Council hiked the rate that it pays for services at many of its homeless shelters on Friday, in an attempt to keep nonprofit contractors from pulling…
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L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for hotel and LAX workers
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to hike the minimum wage for more than 23,000 tourism workers, handing a huge victory to labor unions whose members have struggled to…
Read More »CA Minimum Wage Set to Increase in 2025
by Jennifer Shaw | | December 2, 2024 Yes, the California minimum wage is going up again. Effective January 1, 2025, all employers, regardless of size, must pay workers at…
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Missouri Votes to Increase State Minimum Wage and Provide PSL
Missouri voters have approved a state ballot measure that will increase the state minimum wage starting in 2025 and provide employees in the state with paid sick and safe leave,…
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Election stress: Crisis hotlines see enormous increase after Trump win
The 2024 election may be over, but its effect on some people’s mental health is starting to become clear. Two major crisis hotlines saw huge increases in contact before and…
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Half of voters polled favor Measure A sales tax for homeless services
In the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election, a measure that would double the county’s quarter-percent homeless sales tax was closing in on the majority it needs to pass,…
Read More »Trump’s Plans Could Increase U.S. Debt While Raising Costs for Most Americans
A new analysis finds that Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump’s plans would both add to the deficit, but Mr. Trump’s proposals could create a fiscal…
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Lawyers trying to increase access to justice see promise in generative AI
For lawyers working to close the justice gap, generative artificial intelligence could be a real game changer. According to a 2022 study by the Legal Services Corp., 92% of low-income…
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China approves retirement age increase amid demographic challenges – JURIST
China’s top legislative body made a landmark decision Friday to gradually raise the statutory retirement age, a move aimed at addressing the economic strain from a shrinking workforce and an…
Read More »DOJ Report Highlights Increase in Jail Population to Pre-Pandemic Levels and Continued Systemic Issues
A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that, as of midyear 2022, while at least 30 percent (or 197,000 people) of the jail population was convicted,…
Read More »You Get A Pay Increase, And You Get A Pay Increase, And… – See Also
You Get A Pay Increase, And You Get A Pay Increase, And… – See Also – Above the Law Skip to content × Love ATL? Let’s make it official.Sign up…
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UK police note 1,353 percent and 140 percent increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic offenses – JURIST
The UK’s Metropolitan Police made a statement Friday outlining a spike in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic hate crimes across London between October 1 and 18 in light of the ongoing Israel-Hamas…
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