The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for 15 years. That‘s $290 a week or $15,000 a year. And millions of workers–domestic caregivers, farmworkers, student workers, tipped wage ...

Find out more in our report. Overall, nearly half (45 percent, 47.8 million) of private sector workers in the US lack a single day of paid sick leave; 80.6 percent of low-wage workers lack access. The ...

Curious what it takes to be a member of the recently-created Auto Task Force? Thanks to an email sent out by Harry J. Wilson, a newly-hired Task Force worker, there's no need to wonder. Some ...

Still, it will probably strike you as a relatively small increase for such arduous work, especially given that the average field wage is still just $11 per hour. It may seem to you that low-skill ...