President-elect Donald Trump selected D-List fast food CEO Andy Puzder to head up the Labor Department. 

Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates is unwelcome and unnecessary. As admitted in its statement, investment remains soft, growth is only moderate and inflation expectations are little changed. Moreover, the economy confronts financial head-winds from the recent jump in long-term interest rates and an even stronger dollar.

Fight For $15 movement supporters in New York City are using a Workers Forum to begin to chart the course for making $15 an hour real in New York.

New Jersey Education Association President Wendell Steinhauer says the quarterly pension payments law signed Thursday is an important step toward greater state responsibility on pensions.

Gov. Chris Christie had repeatedly vetoed the legislation but relented and signed it.