Minimum Wage

Peter Van Buren took an unlikely fall into the minimum-wage world when he lost his job in 2012. He gives us a first-hand look at what it's like to …

Let's finally get globalization to work for people and begin - perhaps with anti-sweatshop campaigns - to organize for a global minimum wage.

A living wage must mean a minimum wage that rises to meet the higher living standards of each new generation to be a living threshold, not a dead hand …

If we want to counter the rise in inequality that we have seen in recent decades we are going to have to find mechanisms other than a "global wealth …

Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.

This week, Bill speaks with Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, about the group's fight for better wages and working conditions for America's 10 million restaurant …

We should be thinking outside of the box of capitalism — in particular, supporting the emerging solidarity economy.

Funded by the restaurant industry, a conservative foundation and unnamed others, the group has taken out full-page ads warning the public that increasing the minimum wage would worsen unemployment …

The underlying problem with financial advice is that, even in the best case, it rarely works.

Portland's awkward silence on $15 was finally broken when Portland activist-professor Nicholas Caleb recently announced his candidacy for city council, his top platform plank being the $15 minimum wage..