“The list is how a child speaks up. It’s their voice. It’s their hope in written form,” Madeline Lillis tells PEOPLE Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE ...

If you live in the City of Los Angeles, you can get seven trees for free from City Plants, a nonprofit fighting the urban heat island. City Plants’ goals are to improve energy efficiency and increase ...

In a viral TikTok with more than 12 million views, Lillis weighed in on donor responsibility Growing up in a single-parent household with a younger sister who had “severe special needs,” Madeline ...

The Valley Transportation Authority has partnered with Our City Forest to offer free trees to properties in the City of Sunnyvale. This partnership is designed to restore and enhance greenery around ...

The new year will see dozens of states, cities and counties raising the minimum wage locally, helping millions of Americans offset an increasingly urgent affordability crisis. On Jan. 1, 2026, the ...

Actors Kim Woo-bin and Shin Min-a to marry after 10 years of dating Actors Shin Min-a, Kim Woo-bin continue philanthropic streaks ahead of Saturday nuptials ...

Some workers will receive pay boosts next year as higher minimum wage regulations take effect in 22 states and 66 cities and counties across the U.S., a change that could help low-income households ...

(NEXSTAR) — Despite attempts in Congress this year, the federal minimum wage will remain unchanged in 2025. In nearly two dozen states, however, that rate is set to climb in 2026. Since 2009, the ...

Mike Martin and his family were looking for their next home in the East Bay when a listing came open on Thompson Avenue, Alameda’s “Christmas Tree Lane.” Martin had long been taking his kids to the ...

Minimum wage earners in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) will receive a P35 increase in their daily pay starting December 30. The increase will raise the region’s daily minimum wage to P505 ...