Even in Palin Country, Raising the Minimum Wage Is Wildly Popular
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
For Democrats, 2014 was supposed to be the year of the minimum wage. President Obama used his State of the...
It’s the classic Catch-22 of the doomed job search: How do you get a job? You need experience. And how...
Millions of Americans struggle to get by on low wages, often without any benefits such as paid sick leave, a...
MADISON — The chant “come on out, we’ve got your back!” echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful...
When Governor Jerry Brown signs Assembly Bill 1522, California will join a growing number of states where temporary or part-time...
The city council in Passaic, New Jersey unanimously passed an ordinance requiring paid sick leave on Tuesday night with a...
(Reuters) – U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and...
The California legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies legally responsible if the temp agencies and subcontractors they...
On Labor Day, families gather, politicians pay tribute to values of hard work, and some workers even get an extra...
Bringing to a close a summer-long supermarket standoff, a deal was reached late Wednesday to sell the majority stake of...
While wages have declined across all sectors in the years following the financial crash of 2008, low-paid workers have been...
Subway may claim to be the “leader in fast, healthy food,” but that alleged commitment to wellness often doesn’t extend...
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Jimmy John’s, the “freaky fast” sandwich staple of America’s college towns, is being sued by two former employees for what...
Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or...
WASHINGTON — More than a year after its initial election victory at a Guitar Center store, the union representing the...
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
States with higher minimum wages saw faster job growth in the first six months of 2014 than states that have...
The link is simple and clear: Women earn less than men in the workplace – almost $450 billion less in...
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...