As a case-in-point of the apparent disconnect between some restaurant workers struggling to earn a living wage and their employers, McDonald’s Corp. recently shut down its controversial "McResource" Website. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

As 2014 gets under way, 14 states have voted to increase the minimum wage for hourly workers.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was raised by struggling immigrant Hispanic parents, her father an alcoholic and her mother something of an absentee parent. Yet she managed to be accepted to Princeton and is by any standards a classic American success story. So reports The New York Times.