Maryland’s pending law to increase the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 by 2017 is getting nicked and chipped by the efforts of business lobbyists. The biggest hole is the General Assembly’s support for exempting theme parks from the state’s higher minimum wage.

Looking forward to $400 a week in unemployment benefits is hardly Easy Street for the long-term unemployed. Since December, two million long-term unemployed don’t have even that.

If you’ve tried using the popular Uber car service app and been stymied by sky-high temporary surge prices, you can at least take comfort in the knowledge that some of that money is going to some very good causes.

Adolph Reed has written about themes of liberalism before, but he brings them together in the March 2014 edition of Harper’s in a devastating critique of the politics of the left and the politics of President Barack Obama.

I have noticed lately that a lot of small organizations are closing. Granted, this is mere observation, for the theme among them is that most started having problems during the recession.

Over his two decades at the helm of the California Community Foundation, which lasted until around 2004, Jack Shakely probably had plenty of opportunities to go head-to-head with members of Congress about nonprofits, philanthropy, and charity. Do you think the experience might have made Shakely just a little jaded?

It was a little late in getting released, but the FY2015 budget proposal of the Obama administration went live yesterday. If it were to be adopted as-is, it would be of huge interest to nonprofits and foundations, but it may have a political half-life of mere seconds.

A report by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman finds that in 2012, $154 million intended for nonprofits ended up with telemarketers, raising new questions for consumers and nonprofits about how to better monitor this fundraising approach.

According to documents filed in February, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation cancelled its grant to the Akron-based University Park Alliance based on the allegation that the UPA, and executive director Eric Anthony Johnson in particular, engaged in “deception.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a statement saying the recent release of teacher evaluation results in Florida can only cause harm.

President Obama seems to have lost the support of the nation’s largest and most influential Latino advocacy organization, the National Council of La Raza, over the issue of deportations.

Spotify has launched a creative app that encourages online users to support their favorite charities with a new music sharing game.