Roundup: Minimum wage bill dropped / Department stores struggle / Ford cutting 10% of staff

    Maybe next year: Sen. Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, scrapped his latest bid to raise Louisiana's minimum wage to $9 on Tuesday, saying he doesn't have the votes for passage. It marks the fourth year of …


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