Minimum Wage

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.

Dispatch from the front lines of the war on caregivers.

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

Republican governors in state after state are cutting off the federal aid. They'd rather turn away free money than relieve pressure on the poor. 

Democrats have to get rid of the Senate filibuster and stop worrying about bipartisanship.

It’s not that people don’t want to work—it's that they don’t want to work for so little.