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If passed, HB 1024 would make the Evergreen state the first in the country to pay minimum wage to its incarcerated population.

This year in 23 states and 41 cities. washington state now has the highest state minimum wage, at $15.74, more than double the federal rate. hourly workers in michigan will now earn $10.10, an increase of 23 cents. >> i dont think 23 cents is going to make a difference in the world that we live in nowadays. >> reporter: californians will no longer be ticketed for jaywalking, unless theyre in danger of getting hit by a car. voters in colorado approved the legalization of so-called magic mushrooms...

Updatingitz outdated infrastructure in the back end to try to make it so this meltdown could have been avoided in the first place. >> pete muntean, good to have you on the case. thank you so much. well the new year ushering in you some laws that were passed during the mid term elections. so lets see what some of them are. people with nearly half of all states will see a hike in minimum wage. washington state now has the highest, $15.74 an hour. washington, d.c., however, continues to have the ...

Wage going to say the same as 7025 cents an hour for admin goes up to $13.80 an hour. washington $15.74 an hour that is the highest in the nation, doug. >> yes it is interesting because the federal minimum wage not changed into something like 12 years, bryan. many of the states of you just pointed out are considerably higher. but on the flipside theres something like 21 states i believe it is there actually lower than the federal. the federal guarantees a minimum. i think you will see some movem...

Fuel tank. thats all you see. no one comes out. they have a trap door inside of their vehicle. which is crazy. >> reporter: in atlanta, police arresting this man after allegedly stealing gas from cars. these reports coming as gas prices hit an all-time high. an average of $4.33 per gallon nationally. right now, in california, the highest prices in the country. $5.74 per gallon. while drivers there are feeling the pain -- >> this is ridiculous, crazy. have to put in some extra hours at work. >> r...

Now to the story on the minds of millions of you out there, the high gas prices. prices at record highs after president biden announced a ban on russian oil imports last week. but there is a sliver of good news. joining me now in santa clara, california, nbc news correspondent scott cohn. lets focus on the good, my friend. what is it? >> reporter: well, the good, alex, and this is all really, really relative, is that prices are starting to level off and in some parts of the country come down. if...

Filled up their car, so 14 gallons, 15 gallons for $89. thats the kind of thing we have been seeing here. you can look at the way the prices have been going nationwide. they are starting to level off. so $4.32 a gallon nationwide. as i said, $5.74 in california. that can be tough to take. >> were going to see a lot less driving. a lot of angry people. yeah, i myself was one of them. im a firefighter. so me driving to work, every time i fill up, its $100, if not more now. and yeah, kind of makes ...

Concerns. arguably, nowhere is the situation more dire than in the state of california, where fuel prices are among the highest in the country, averaging more than $5.70 a gallon, which is steep even for californians who are used to paying higher prices for gas. thats where we find nbcs scott cohn outside a gas station in san jose where the price of a gallon is almost $6 a gallon there. scott, there are some oil industry experts who are saying that prices have reached a peak at this point. what ...

The class of 2020, which clearly also had difficulties during the pandemic. a whopping 20% up on the last set of students to sit a—level exams in 2019. that debate about grade inflation is live and active here. the welsh government say they are certain these teacher assessed grades are valid and that they will stand the test of time. and asking everyone to remember what this cohort of students have been through. speaking to the students, it�*s a point they make. they say the majority of thei...

They say the majority of their learning of the past two years was done online. they didn�*t have the advantage of face—to—face teaching for much of it. they hope the class of 2021 will be remembered for their great achievement in a very tough time. more than half of a—level results have received top grades. more than 50%, 51% in fact, receiving a stars and or a5, 74% receiving a grades or b grades. students in this part of the uk have been picking up the results here. a number of them he...