Minimum Wage

More successful strikes help the entire labor movement. We should pay for them together.

Lag time is another phrase for the "democracy gap." It is the space between what most of the people want and need, and what those same passive people suffer and tolerate.

I grew up poor and undocumented. Here's what I've learned.

It would have been possible for Chipotle to avoid raising its burrito prices by paying its executives less. But Chipotle decided otherwise.

West Virginia and Kentucky activists vow to continue pressing Manchin and McConnell on democracy and economic reforms.

If you treat employees as cheap, then that's what you'll get. But if you view them as valuable assets, then that's what they'll be—and you'll all be better off.

Fast food depends on low wages and high turnover. That’s not just wrong, new research says—it’s lousy for business.

If you believe in its omniscience, the market is signaling corporations and businesses that employers must offer more.

Dispatch from the front lines of the war on caregivers.