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Long Island municipalities have reaped nearly $3.5 million in 2024 from the sale of recreational cannabis, with Babylon Town collecting $2.6 million and $871,000 going to Suffolk County, data from the Suffolk Comptroller's Office shows.

Wage theft is pervasive across all industries and income levels in the country, but workers who can least afford to bear the cost of lost earnings—particularly low-wage workers—are disproportionately vulnerable to wage violations.

The law, which takes effect Sept. 1, would set a maximum temperature, requiring public schools to take action, such as turning on fans and pulling down blinds if room temperatures reach 82 degrees.

Parents are barely managing the rising cost of child care, yet child care workers are unable to make ends meet. Families are trying to figure out how to afford nursing home care for an elderly parent, while nursing home staff are scraping by on minimum wages.

Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union launched a strike at seven of the company's delivery hubs less than a week before Christmas.

Twenty-one states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, raising pay for more than 9.2 million workers by a total of $5.7 billion. In addition, 48 cities and counties will raise their minimum wages above their state wage floors, mostly in California, Colorado, and Washington.