President Barack Obama is on a roll. A bankroll, that is. In a proposal that could cover nearly 5 million workers, the president said Monday that he wants to require overtime pay for employees who make up to $50,400 a year, reports The Washington Post. The changes would go into effect next year and would […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Cleveland Browns Pro-Bowler, Josh Gordon is changing career paths, for now. The wide receiver has taken a job as a car salesman. Gordon is serving a 16 game suspension from the NFL. He expressed interest in playing for the Canadian Football League, but the CFL blocked that from happening due […]

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South Carolina’s News Channel 6 in North Augusta reported recently on the case of Debra Harrell, a working mother jailed for leaving her 9-year-old daughter at the park…

For those who don’t know what Tinder is, it’s a dating app that’s, which I heard, mostly used for hookups. (That means the sex.) You swipe right on someone’s profile, that means you like that person; swiping left means you don’t. If you like someone, and they like you back — yes!  – it’s a […]

What is going on in the LA County lockup?! According to TMZ, Chris Brown is in a special section of the jail that houses famous inmates. Chris has allegedly been working on music with the guy in the cell next to his even though the two can not even see one another! They have reportedly […]

  CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – Ohio’s unemployment rate was 6.1 percent in March 2014, down from 6.5 percent in February, according to data released Friday morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 600 over the month, 5,282,300 in February to 5,282,900 in March. The […]

88 percent of minimum wage workers are at least 20 years old, and a third are age 40 or older, according to an article published by the Economic Policy Institute. Additionally, one-fifth of all U.S. children have a parent who is a minimum wage earner. Currently, the federal minimum wage is set at $7.25 hour, […]

If you want to be a real-life Oliva Pope or America’s next Black president then you may be in luck! The Obama is administration is looking for undergraduate and graduate Black students to gain work experience in the Oval office. The White House Initiative’s Year-Round Internship Program is interested in interns who want to work […]

*Former “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” star Janet Hubert is using legal action to help cover treatment for “intense spasms” and “strange chattering” that have prevented her from finding work. RadarOnline.com reports Hubert has filed a lawsuit against the American Federation of Television and Radio Acts and the AFTRA Health Fund over claims that she […]

  *Mo’Nique has been out of the public eye since the cancelation of her BET talk show in 2011. But today we learn the Academy Award winner is looking to come back with yet another talk show, this time for national syndication. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress and comedienne who won a best […]

CLEVELAND – Drivers traveling through the intersection of St. Clair Avenue and East 45th Street in downtown Cleveland Tuesday morning had to feel bad for a group of construction workers who were working out in the frigid elements. Workers for Terrace Construction, bundled from head to toe, completed a sewer repair that could not wait. […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A new internal audit shows the Cleveland Fire Department is over budget on more than $1 million in overtime alone and city leaders have found more firefighters barely working but getting paid full salary and benefits. Last night 19 Action News revealed firefighter Calvin Robinson worked only 12 days in 2 1/2 years. The […]