Fast Food Worker To US Labor Secretary: ‘Either I Feed Myself Or I Feed My Son’
Meet Carlton, one of six service workers gathered at 71-year-old Austraberta Rodriguez’s home in Houston, Texas for breakfast with U.S....
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Wage Theft: The New American Crime?
Each week, millions of dollars are stolen from American families. The perpetrators act with impunity. There are no arrests, few...
Is Wal-Mart Treating Workers Like Pop-Tarts?
Wal-Mart loves keeping track of data. For instance, the retail giant’s researchers know that before and after major storms, customers...
Minimum wage laws aren’t just for workers with lowest wages
An extraordinary shift in wages paid to American workers took place from 2000 to 2012, a change that holds powerful...
Jimmy John’s Accused Of ‘Systematic Wage Theft’
Jimmy John’s, the “freaky fast” sandwich staple of America’s college towns, is being sued by two former employees for what...
Pregnant Worker: This Is How Walmart Treated Me
Candis Riggins has a new baby. But, since she got fired from Walmart, she no longer has her job or...
Guitar Center Accused Of Unfair Labor Practices
WASHINGTON — More than a year after its initial election victory at a Guitar Center store, the union representing the...
This Congressman Tried to Live on the Minimum Wage
(CNN) — Raising the minimum wage continues to be a top Democratic economic priority, insisting that higher pay is critical...
Labor Board Delivers Victory for Low-Wage McDonald’s Workers
In a ruling being hailed by union groups and wage rights advocates, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found Tuesday...
Fast Food Workers Vow Civil Disobedience
VILLA PARK, Ill. (AP) — Comparing their campaign to the civil rights movement, fast food workers from across the country...
States That Raised Minimum Wage Saw Faster Job Growth So Far In 2014
States with higher minimum wages saw faster job growth in the first six months of 2014 than states that have...
Equal Pay for Women Would Mean a More Secure Retirement for All
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 Twice As Likely To Live In Poverty
People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the...
Restaurant CEOs Make More Money in Half a Day Than Their Employees Make in a Year
Last year, according to a new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the CEOs of America’s top 25 restaurant...
Alan Grayson To Force Republicans On The Record On Minimum Wage
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) proposed an amendment to a House spending bill Tuesday that would raise the minimum wage for...
Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty Reduction Tool, Study Shows
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
Over One-Fourth of Men 25-34 Years Old Earned Poverty-Level Wages in 2013
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
Booming Business, But Falling Wages, in California Grocery Stores
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
This Is What Barely Making Ends Meet In America Sounds Like
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Executive pay is an insult to working families
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
MAP: How Fast Food Worker Strikes Ignited Across The Country
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
McDonald’s Protesters Arrested Outside Corporate Headquarters
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
The War on the Poor and Middle-Class Families (Video)
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
Here’s The Painful Truth About What It Means To Be ‘Working Poor’ In America
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
Fast-Food Strikes Go Global
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
UAW President Bob King: Americans are starting to catch on to ALEC’s anti-worker agenda
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Big Tobacco’s Secret Workforce: Child Farm Workers
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
Obscenely high CEO salaries are stark marker of U.S. wealth gap
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
LEAKED: Docs show how Wall Street giant guaranteed huge fees from taxpayers on risky pension investments
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
The Big Tip that America’s Servers Never See
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Inequality and the Global Race to the Bottom
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Doubling the Minimum Wage Is on the Agenda in Seattle—and Nationally
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
Fast Food Failure: How CEO-to-Worker Pay Disparity Undermines the Industry and the Economy
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
Prominent Republican: Women Need To Be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
Is a higher minimum wage a job killer? Not in these states
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
Half A Million People With College Degrees Are Working For Minimum Wage
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Hamburgled: Nine Out Of Ten Fast Food Workers Have Experienced Wage Theft
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.
Senate Republicans Unanimously Block Equal Pay Bill
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
Retirees Lose Last Shield Against Pension Cuts As Judge Approves Detroit’s Payoff To Banks
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
Wealth Inequality Is Now As Bad As It Was During The 1920s
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
The Next Domino’s To Fall: Pizza Chain Will Pay A Half-Million Dollars Over Stolen Wages
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
The Burger Chain That Pays $10 An Hour With Benefits
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
Lawmakers Take the ‘Minimum Wage Challenge’ to Eat Off a Reduced Budget for a Week
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
McDonald’s Systematically Steals Worker Wages, Lawsuits Claim
Workers in California, Michigan and New York this week filed six new lawsuits against McDonald’s claiming they were systematically shorted...
