Andrea Muñeton has been a Head Start educator in California for 14 years. The work is important but greuling, she said, involving up to 80 hours a week of mental and physical labor that doesn’t end ...

Near-historic price increases for basics like food and gas have drawn scrutiny to a question at the heart of the economy: How much money must a worker make to stay afloat? The price of eggs has risen ...

Butler Hospital workers, including nurses and mental health staff, are on strike due to unfair labor practices. The strike, the longest hospital lockout in Rhode Island history, centers around low ...

Raising the minimum wage stands to benefit millions of American workers, supporters say, lifting them out of poverty and increasing workers’ family resources, but it has remained untouched for over a ...

Hannah Bernhard, middle in black, walks with others during a rally at UMass on Thursday afternoon, at which 200 union members lobbied for better wages and full staffing. Nick Chavez, the treasurer of ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA [email protected] Poverty is pervasive. Poverty has negatively affected the lives of ...

In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that “8.5 percent of the global ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Workers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport returned to the picket line Tuesday demanding respect and better wages. Tuesday's rally came ahead of American Airlines' annual ...