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...
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...
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...
Think a higher minimum wage is a job killer? Think again: The states that raised their minimum wages on January...
Ikea will announce Thursday a plan to raise its average minimum wage at U.S. stores to $10.76 an hour, a...
Two weeks ago, the Seattle City Council made national headlines when it voted to raise that city’s minimum wage to...
The United States is facing new international pressure to raise its minimum wage. In its annual review of the U.S....
The Massachusetts House passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017. The...
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
After the Seattle city council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next...
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed...
In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought it would be appropriate to point out a gift millions of moms would...
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
Maryland’s minimum wage will rise to $10.10 over the next four years under a bill passed Monday night. Gov. Martin...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
Hey, Corporate America, are you befuddled as to why you are widely considered the mustache-twirling villain in the tragicomedy that...
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...