Minimum Wage

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..

How do we use the enthusiasm around raising the minimum wage to promote a more robust vision of economic democracy.

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?

Raising the minimum wage would give our economy much more bang for the buck than we get from the financial industry's yearly windfalls.

Women are three-quarters of workers in the largest, lowest-wage occupations.

While global garment industry revenue represents the lion's share of many countries' exports and GDP, the workers who make the garments almost never make a living wage - and …

Congressional Republicans and anti-union organizations have adopted the term “ambush elections” to describe new NLRB rules on union certification, but the real ambush of recent weeks was the GOP …

If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since its inception in 1968, it would now stand at $10.74 per hour.

Bob Pollin: A Recent Congressional Budget Office report claims that up to half a million jobs could be lost due to a minimum wage increase, but its claims are …

Working as a coalition, with groups on both sides of the border and groups working for both issues, proved essential.