Barbara Ehrenreich was inspired to write her classic expose of low-wage life in America by punitive 1990s welfare laws. Today ...

A Trump administration attorney conceded it needs immigrant farmworkers in federal court as she defended a policy that would cut their pay.

Since December 2025, the following hospitals and health systems have said they plan to raise their workers’ pay. Editor’s note: This webpage was created Jan. 9 and is updated regularly. It was last ...

Labor and community organizers are aiming high. Some business groups are expected to campaign against a wage hike. Voter ...

The lawsuit, filed by the United Farm Workers in the U.S. District Court for Eastern California, challenges a federal wage rule tied to the H-2A agriculture visa program, which allows U.S. employers ...

Many states celebrate the civil rights icon on his birthday, March 31. Outrage and event cancellations have followed a New York Times report that he abused girls and women for years.

Madeleine Grynsztejn, director of MCA Chicago, is leaving after eighteen years, reports ARTnews. “She secured millions in funding and staged a Kerry James Marshall show.” Grynsztejn says “that next ...

The federal minimum wage currently sits at $7.25 an hour, as it has since 2009. A new proposal in New York City wants to establish a minimum wage that’s more than four times that amount. Nation’s ...

To mitigate the damage to the hospitality industry, the D.C. Council froze the base pay for the tipped minimum wage at $10 until this summer, when it will continue to rise. That c ...

Workers at franchised fast food restaurants got a big pay bump about two years ago. A UC Santa Cruz economics researcher suggests that may have come with a side of unintended consequences.