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Jade DeLucia is a typical 4-year-old girl. She wears her hair in pigtails. She cuddles her stuffed animals. She hugs her parents and likes chocolate pudding.But for about two weeks, things weren't looking so bright for the Iowa girl. Jade got a life-threatening case of the flu, 291

Katelynn Hudson started working at a fast-casual restaurant when she was 18 years old. It was her income as she tried to get herself through school, but minimum wage was not enough for her daily needs.“I was not able to afford food for myself," she says. "I could not pay my rent, I couldn’t pay bus fare. It was very difficult, and if I couldn’t provide for myself. I wouldn’t be able to provide for a family."Hudson now has a 2-and-a-half-year-old son, and she says she wouldn’t be able to support him if it wasn’t for a recent change in her pay. Illegal Pete’s in Denver, Colorado has raised its minimum wage from to within the past three and a half years, transforming that minimum wage into a living wage.“It covers lodging, food, paid time off, education, savings, basically the ability to pay one job and plan for the future,” Illegal Pete’s owner Pete Turner said.However, it doesn’t come without a cost. “The biggest challenge is an immediate hit to your expense line, to your payroll line,” Turner said.Turner says the last time he raised employee pay it cost him about million. However, he sees it as an investment. The idea is to create a productive work environment, where people are more committed to the customer and the company. Pete says he’s saving money by not having excessive employee turnover.“The rule of thumb for losing a front-line worker and then having to rehire and retrain is like ,500 to ,500 an employee,” he says.Growing in store count and store volume with workers who stay, Turner says his decision to raise minimum wage has been worth it so far. But he does admit it hasn’t been easy. And for some small business owners, the idea while appealing, seems unrealistic.“Everyone, I think, can agree that the minimum wage [needs] to be higher," says business owner Erika Righter. "However, in order for that to work, people need to then prioritize shopping locally."Righter is the founder of Hope Tank in Denver. Everything the store sells is connected to a local grassroots organization, giving Righter a lot of experience with small businesses.She says she would love to pay her workers more, but she thinks there’s a disconnect between the priorities of community and the way people spend their dollars.“I think you can’t shop Amazon all the time, and want the minimum wage raised,” she says.According to Righter, many local businesses pay their employees before themselves. She says there simply isn’t enough profit to pay them more, making an increase in minimum wage a bit of a concern.“As the owner, I struggle to stay above water financially myself,” Righter says.Robel Worku works for Colorado People’s Alliance, an organization that fights for justice in economic issues.“I think the argument is that if those costs go up, it’s harder to keep their doors open,” Worku said.Worku says COPA was recently able to help get a Colorado bill passed that gives authority to local governments to increase minimum wages.“The federal minimum wage has stayed stagnant at around .25 for the past 10 or so years, and even beyond that hasn’t raised much within the past few decades,” Worku said.Numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor show there was a steady increase in minimum wage from 2007 to 2009, raising it by a .40, but there hasn’t been a raise since. And before that, the last raise was 10 years prior in 1997. Worku says his organization believes everyone should be afforded the right to earn a livable wage, which is around per hour in Denver, Colorado. However, he understands that number changes from city to city, making it difficult to assess a specific amount for the federal minimum wage.“I don’t know if there’s like a gold-standard number in mind, but one of the reasons we’re excited about the local wage option legislation is that it allows local governments to make those decisions for themselves,” Worku said.So far, Worku says places that have raised minimum wage like Seattle and Chicago have seen an economic boost in the local economy. “So for instance, if you run a restaurant or a bar, you rely on folks having a disposable income to be able to come spend,” he explained. For Hudson, having a disposable income is a new comfort in her life. She says she’s very happy she can provide for her son and that money isn’t a giant cause of stress anymore.“This is the first time in my life I have seen stability, and that’s really amazing for me to think of,” Hudson said. 4457

In Westfield, Indiana, the city and surrounding areas are cashing in on youth sports. This Midwest town has about 40,000 full-time residents. On most weekends, however, that population more than doubles with families traveling in from across the country to play to big time competitive sports, and they're spending big bucks during their stay.“If you count hotels, gas, food, league fees, everything, ,000 to ,000 give or take,” parent Mike Williams of Imperial, Missouri says about the annual cost of competitive sports. With that kind of money, Westfield city leaders are capitalizing on what’s known as “sports tourism."To play ball, teams come to Grand Park, a massive multi-use sports complex that the city built a few years ago by investing million, turning hundreds of acres of cornfields into dozens of soccer fields and baseball diamonds.“Prior to Grand Park being here, we were kind of city without an identity,” says Westfield city spokesperson Vicki Gardner. “But now, you go places and you say Westfield and they say, ‘Grand Park.’”Gardner tells us investing in youth sports is paying off. Since its inception a few years ago, Grand Park has had a 0 million economic impact on the surrounding area. It's a number that city leaders hope to grow.“We’ve been in business for not even three years and we see about 2.5 million visits a year and we account for 92,000 hotel stays and that’s a conservative number,” Gardner said. “When people come here, they’re blown away by what they see and that’s a challenge. So, we got to get out there and let them know, tell the story of Grand Park, tell the story of Westfield.”Bub’s Burgers is one of many nearby businesses reaping some of those financial rewards. With its sales tripling during tournament time.“It’s controlled chaos but it’s constant,” Bub’s Burgers employee Jillian Isles says. To help fill these ball players’ bellies, this burger joint has added 30 jobs. But with economic growth comes growing pains. There’s new construction by entrepreneurs who are trying to cash in on spillover from the sports complex.Locals say more visitors means more traffic, but that it also means more money. “The fact that it developed so much in the last year, two years, they needed a barbershop here,” says Eli Resendez, who opened up Barbershop 32 down the street from Grand Park a few weeks ago. Resendez says he picked this location to hopefully capture customers from the visiting teams.“Most of my clientele this morning were out-of-towners,” he says. “Because of it, I have been able to thrive here very easily.” That easy money has more cities thinking about following Westfield’s business model and hoping to hit a home run in the growing sports tourism industry. 2746

Jed Allan, star of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and several soap operas, died at the age of 84, according to the actor's fan page on Facebook."So sorry to post the very sad news of my fathers passing tonight," his son, Rick Brown, 237

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