Near-historic price increases for basics like food and gas have drawn scrutiny to a question at the heart of the economy: How much money must a worker make to stay afloat? The price of eggs has risen ...

Raising the minimum wage stands to benefit millions of American workers, supporters say, lifting them out of poverty and increasing workers’ family resources, but it has remained untouched for over a ...

Butler Hospital workers, including nurses and mental health staff, are on strike due to unfair labor practices. The strike, the longest hospital lockout in Rhode Island history, centers around low ...

Hannah Bernhard, middle in black, walks with others during a rally at UMass on Thursday afternoon, at which 200 union members lobbied for better wages and full staffing. Nick Chavez, the treasurer of ...

For both proponents and opponents of an increase to the minimum wage, Monday’s Congressional Budget Office projection was a mixed bag of outcomes. The proposed Raise the Wage Act would increase the ...

One of the questions often asked of economics students by non-economics students is why does not the government just raise ...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sells his “$30 by 2030” minimum wage plan as a lifeline for the working class, but it’s really a career-ender for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who hold entry-level ...

The Massachusettes Institute of Technology has developed a Living Wage Calculator in order to help individuals, communities, employees and others estimate the local wage rate that a full-time worker ...