Several years after various cities passed laws significantly increasing the local minimum wage, data shows both workers and the economy are better off. Earlier this…
American workers are some of the hardest-working in the world in terms of how much profit their labor makes for employers. But workers' wages have…
The media's obsession over the 3.1 percent increase in wages is an insult to American workers, most of whom never recovered from the recession. Republicans…
Amazon workers celebrating their employer's decision to give workers raises to $15/hour may want to hold off on their touchdown dance. The raises, which were…
Amazon, perhaps sensing the image of its warehouses as American sweatshops, is giving "damage control" raises to workers between 25 cents and 55 cents an…
There is a very real and critical role played by 24-hour breakfast joint Waffle House in FEMA's determination of how bad a disaster is. The…
(EDITOR'S NOTE, 9/9/18, 6:55 PM ET: This editorial was amended to specify the share of safety net spending for the middle 60 percent of Americans,…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is so wealthy he makes $15,000 in the amount of time it takes you to read a headline about how rich…
Amazon, which has a pattern of cruelly exploiting workers, has just become the second American company to top $1 trillion in market value. CNN reported…
Telecoms giant AT&T is at the top of its industry and making billions, yet the company is still firing thousands of American workers. In June…