Elderly people in Puerto Rico are going to have to start paying for leisure activities. Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed a law Thursday that eliminates the free passes to those who are 75 and up at public events.
This week, the “study hit the fan” for Facebook, as the world of online media picked up on the controversial Facebook emotion research that we reported early last Saturday and a privacy group filed a formal complaint with the FTC. Meanwhile, Twitter could introduce an integrated “Buy Now” button, Vine added “Loop Counts” and YouTube was found to be more popular than television.
Immigration into Chile jumped 24 percent last year as workers from countries like Colombia, Peru and Spain came to the wealthiest country in Latin America looking for jobs.
Former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson has joined a new company that will make marijuana-based products. Now that two states have legalized recreational marijuana use and multiple states allow its medicinal use, new business ventures are springing up.
The film industry may begin to take crew safety more seriously following the death of a 27-year-old camera assistant and the indictment of three producers of the independent film "Midnight Rider."
Some businesses are open, others are closed The Fourth of July is America's Birthday and many Americans are with their families or taking vacations, but what about businesses and stores? Are they open or closed today? Mail Services There will be no mail delivery on the Fourth.
Higher paid Latino jobs have watched their weekly earnings grow 4.4 percent from $1,604 to $1,675 since the beginning of the Great Recession to date — 2007 to 2013. The same is not being experienced those earning lower wages who saw their weekly wages fall by 9.4 percent or $278 to $252 according to Pew Research Analysis.
S&P 500 eyes 2,000 level. The Dow Jones industrial average hit 17,000 Thursday for the first time thanks to a better-than-expected jobs report. Thursday, an abbreviated trading session and the last trading session of the week, saw the unemployment rate fall to 6.
Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain, won a groundbreaking and controversial case in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week regarding contraception coverage to its employees.
For the first time in its three-year run, Jay Z's Made in America music festival will be held outside of Philadelphia and come to Los Angeles where it will be simultaneously held in both cities on Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30-31.
NASA on Tuesday approved the production of rocket believed to be the most powerful to ever launch in history, which will explore areas beyond our moon including near-Earth asteroids and Mars by the end of the decade.
The U.S. Labor Department released its June 2014 Employment report on Thursday showing the latest job gains and losses and reporting 288,000 jobs were added in June. A separate report showed the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent, down 2 percent from last month. The number of unemployed persons decreased by 325,000 to 9.5 million. The Hispanic unemployment rate remained steady at 7.8 percent.
Unemployment dropped to 6.1 percent, numbers not seen since 2008. The U. S. economy has seen unprecedented job growth this year and that will benefit both the economy and the unemployed if the trend continues.
On Wednesday, workers from Florida's agricultural industry asked Congress to work on immigration reform so the businesses will have an adequate number of workers.
This is a big step for the US Burger King came up with a new way to let its customers have it their way as the fast-food chain joined the LGBT community in a celebration of gay pride by packaging their famous Whoppers in special wrappers and calling the burger "Proud Whopper" instead.
Tim Draper, of 'Six Californias', wins. Not long after the U. S. Marshals Service (USMS) announced updates about its recent auction of Bitcoins that were seized from the online black market known as Silk Road, the federal agency announced that a single bidder has emerged as the take-all winner.
