Sean Higgins

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Missouri likely to become next right-to-work state

Missouri likely to become next right-to-work state

Sean Higgins · January 16, 2017 12:00 pm

New York creates 200-person task force to make sure employers are paying their workers enough. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

States focus on enforcing rising minimum wages

Sean Higgins · January 16, 2017 5:01 am

FAA approves L.A. Rams stadium project

FAA approves L.A. Rams stadium project

Sean Higgins · January 13, 2017 10:11 pm

Activist group Fight for $15 held rallies at Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants across the country Thursday. ( Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Union protests Puzder nomination for Labor Department

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2017 10:37 pm

Township north of Cincinnati would be the first in Ohio to enact the anti-union measure. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Right-to-work movement gaining ground in Ohio

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2017 8:59 pm

The billionaire financier bet the stock market would drop after Donald Trump won the presidency. (AP Photo Manuel Balce Ceneta)

George Soros lost $1 billion after election

Sean Higgins · January 12, 2017 5:12 pm

Transportation Secretary-designate Elaine Chao testifies on Capitol Hill at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

Transportation pick Chao sails through Senate hearing

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2017 6:58 pm

Transportation Secretary-designate Elaine Chao testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

Chao: Trump has no position yet on privatizating air traffic control

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2017 4:41 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced his wife, Transportation Secretary nominee Elaine Chao, at her hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

McConnell: ‘I regret that I have but one wife to give for my nation’s infrastructure’

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2017 3:51 pm

Liberal and conservative groups squared off Tuesday in battle to define the public image of Donald Trump's nominee to be labor secretary, fast-food businessman Andrew Puzder. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News)

Right, Left fight to define image of Labor pick Puzder

Sean Higgins · January 10, 2017 10:23 pm

Teachers union: Trump education nominee out to ‘undermine public schools’

Teachers union: Trump education nominee out to ‘undermine public schools’

Sean Higgins · January 9, 2017 6:19 pm

Right-to-work laws prohibit contracts between unions and management that force all workers to join the union or at least pay it a regular fee. Workers have no choice: They pay or are fired. (Russell Lissau/Daily Herald via AP)

Right-to-work laws pick up steam nationwide

Sean Higgins · January 9, 2017 5:01 am