Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday that it will adopt minimum wages that range from $15 to $24 an hour, with the highest pay going to hires in the most competitive markets. It currently pays a universal minimum wage of $15 an hour. The new starting-salary range is part of a company plan to spend an additional $300 million on its labor force this year that will also include broader, faster access to health care coverage for its hourly workers.
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An estimated 38.2 million TV viewers watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. That's according to Nielsen ratings for the Tuesday night address. The audience for Biden's speech surpassed the 37.2 million for Donald Trump’s last such address in 2020. But Biden's audience fell short of the more than 45 million who watched Trump’s first State of the Union speech in 2018. Nielsen says it was “important to […]
