Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she said, involving ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The old blues singer had it right: “When a lady gets the blues, she hangs her head and cries. When a man gets the blues, he grabs the train and rides.” The relationship between ...

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 ...

Prince Edward Island has made "very, very little progress" on child poverty, says one of the co-authors of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative's report on youth poverty in the province.

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 ...