Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she said, involving up to 80 hours a week of mental and physical labor that doesn’t end ...

Families aren’t failing the poverty line—the poverty line is failing them. How outdated metrics mask today’s economic reality ...

IATSE B-192, which represents the group of 70-odd workers, is currently negotiating a first contract with theater management. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Amid negotiations with their ...

The idea that a family earning six figures could still feel poor sounds absurd until you start tallying rent, child care, ...

A group of farmworkers are suing over a new federal policy that's expected to shift $2.46 billion in annual wages from ...

Bargaining negotiations between long term care workers represented by CUPE and the Houston government broke down yesterday, leading the union to begin the process to file for conciliation. “It’s ...

Current levels of poverty wages and income inequality threaten the global economy with losses that will burden investment portfolios for decades. Conversely, higher wages lead to increased ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...

The minimum wage workers at the hospital are distraught about the employer’s refusal to bargain a fair wage increase Minimum wage. No benefits. No pension. That’s the reality for the 20 cafeteria ...

Can you afford to live in Mississippi? Most people need to make more than the federal minimum wage to afford groceries and pay bills without help. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's living ...

Virginia's poorest workers need a raise. The state's hourly minimum wage of $5.15 has not changed since 1997, although inflation has eroded its value by 17 percent since then. Minimum-wage earners in ...