Minimum Wage

Saving the US economy begins with increasing the minimum wage, says economist Jeffrey Sommers.

Don't cut programs for the people who need them, cut those people's need for the programs.

Eugene Robinson: The president has a long agenda, but addressing the minimum wage is where he should start.

While we had been waiting at the obvious meeting placeu2014right in front of the storeu2014two buss-loads of protestors had arrived and been barred from entering the Walmart parking lot.

"Think globally, act locally," has been the philosophy that many minimum wage fighters have been adopting in their fight for a living wage.

The widely publicized Black Friday protests against unfair labor practices and low wages at Walmart are part of a growing national campaign that reaches deep into the grass roots.

Is it a crime to work? Or is it a crime to pay workers less than S8.50 an hour for grueling work and short their wages or fire them …

Walmart, the largest employer in the United States, can't seem to catch a break.

How free are you when you're paid poverty wages? Not very free at all.

A new study shows that women of color earn less than men of the same race and white women.