Truthout
Minimum Wage
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/A-Living-Minimum-Wage-400x300.jpg)
|
A Living 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 …
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/Dean-Baker-Economic-Policy-in-a-Post-Piketty-World-400x300.jpg)
|
Dean Baker | Economic Policy in a Post-Piketty World
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 …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Boosting the Minimum Wage to $10.10 an Hour Should Be a No-Brainer
Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/01/All-Work-and-No-Pay-400x300.jpg)
All Work and No Pay
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 …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Waving Free-Market Flag Brings Out Worst In Capitalism
We should be thinking outside of the box of capitalism — in particular, supporting the emerging solidarity economy.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Economists Hit Back in the Minimum-Wage Wars
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 …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
The Desperation of the Vanishing Middle Class
The underlying problem with financial advice is that, even in the best case, it rarely works.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
The Fight for $15 Finally Comes to Portland
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..
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/Beyond-the-Minimum-Wage-Interview-With-Jobs-With-Justices-Sarita-Gupta-400x300.jpg)
Beyond the Minimum Wage: Interview With Jobs With Justice’s Sarita Gupta
How do we use the enthusiasm around raising the minimum wage to promote a more robust vision of economic democracy.
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/How-Does-Yasiin-Beys-Mathematics-Add-Up-Now-306x300.jpg)
|
How Does Yasiin Bey’s Mathematics Add Up Now?
How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song "Mathematics" changed in the 15 years since the song's release?