(see Table 1) For example, a full-time $7.25 hourly wage meets slightly less than three-quarters of the income needed for a two-person household to stay out of poverty. A worker would need an ...

The largest and lowest-paid of Philadelphia’s four municipal unions fanned out across the city Tuesday, forming picket lines ...

Nearly a quarter of Americans are “functionally unemployed” according to a new report from the Ludwig Institute for Shared ...

Working For Poverty Wages. October 15, 2005. ... 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.

Monday was an important day for Pennsylvania: Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for state workers and state contractors’ workers to $10.15 per hour from ...

After adjusting for inflation, the average salary of a Head Start teacher increased less than 1% between 2010 and 2023, from $41,389 to $41,691, according to the Biden administration.

Parking lot workers make poverty wages as the industry rakes in profits in Philadelphia, according to a new report. The bulk of the private industry’s workforce in the city is Black, workers earn a ...

Despite this critical role, I have been shocked by just how poorly airport service workers are treated. We’re rewarded for our hard work with poverty wages, no paid time off, short staffing ...

Poverty wages, exploitative work conditions drive crisis in care for Texas' most vulnerable Caroline Ghisolfi Tony Plohetski Nicole Foy Austin American-Statesman ...