The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is worth $2 less today than it was in 1968 when adjusted for inflation. That's one of the findings...

America has been tilting toward an economy that benefits primarily the 1 percent. For America to work we need an economy that benefits the 100 percent. Combining an enhanced EITC and minimum wage moves us in that direction.

At least one part of the labor force has expanded significantly since the recession hit: the low-wage part, made up of burger flippers, home health...

The number of Americans working for minimum wage has grown significantly since the recession hit; the Times spoke to six men and women about how they get by.    

Two former interns filed a lawsuit against Condé Nast on Thursday, saying the company failed to pay them minimum wage at their summer jobs at...

A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not...

The growing profits of some of the nation's largest corporations and wealthiest people in America result from the labor of people whose work is rewarded with poverty level wages. That makes no economic sense. And it's just plan wrong.

Minimum wage workers haven’t seen their pay go up much in the past 50 years, but that doesn't mean they're less valuable to their employers....

As we’ve discussed here many, many times, restaurant wait staff often rely on tips because their base pay is generally far below the minimum wage level. Since tipping is an anomaly overseas, waiters in most other countries are paid a living wag

Raising the federal minimum wage would have an unexpected effect on how much women earn relative to men, according to a recent analysis from the...

Here's an outside-the-box proposal to get our young people back in the workplace: Let's make teens less expensive for employers to hire. Let's lower their minimum wage.

The Bank of Spain's recommendation reflects concern that a year-old overhaul of labor laws had made the economy more competitive but failed to encourage hiring, leaving about 27% of the nation unemployed.

MADRID, May 31 (Reuters) - Spain's central bank urged the government on Friday to quickly sell two of its nationalised lenders and consider speeding up a planned increase in the retirement age and scrapping the minimum wage in some cases.

Whether he likes it or not, teen pop star Justin Bieber has been enlisted in a fight against President Barack Obama's proposal to raise the...

NAIROBI, May 28 (Reuters) - Kenyan members of parliament, already among the world's best-paid lawmakers, voted on Tuesday to increase their salaries to more than 130 times the minimum wage in...

Aim is to increase GDP 50 per cent over three years, cut unemployment from 21 per cent to 8 per cent and raise the minimum wage 40 per cent

Recent debate about raising the federal minimum wage raises the question of how workers fare in states that already have levels well above the federal minimum.

While Governor Rick Perry brags about Texas' low unemployment rate being one of the lowest in the country at 6.2 percent, 4.6 million Texans live in poverty in a state where $16,242 a year is the poverty line for a family of three.

Here’s a letter to an e-mail correspondent: 23 May 2013 Mr. Denis D___ Dear Mr. D___: Thanks for your e-mail explaining your “black hole theory of the minimum wage.” A critical part of your theory, as I understand it (with help from

Tax dollars may fuel the economy, but they can also exacerbate inequality

A majority of Goodwill entities in the United States pay people with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage, while these same Goodwills simultaneously spend tens of millions of dollars per year on executive compensation and travel-related ex

Swedish fashion retailer says the country’s minimum wage – the lowest in the world – should be revised annually in the wake of the factory collapse

Besides the fact that $7.25 is a pitifully meager wage to pay your employees, the number of exemptions to the federal minimum wage is positively staggering.

Following worker protests and a decision by the Bangladeshi government to reevaluate the minimum wage, the lone national association of garment manufacturers on Monday shut...

Bangladesh's government has announced a plan to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the worst industrial disaster in the country's history killed 1,127. The news came shortly before the search for bodies officially ended. Rescuers have b

Bangladesh's government, facing pressure to improve standards in the garment industry following last month's deadly factory collapse, announced plans to increase the $38-a-month minimum wage.

Officials in Bangladesh have set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for garment workers following a factory collapse that claimed over 1,000 lives....

By Farid Hossain, Associated PressDHAKA, Bangladesh -- Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focus

Claudette Wilson, a worker at a Detroit-area Burger King, feels she needs more than the state's minimum wage of $7.40 an hour to get by....

James A. DornPresident Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 per hour and index it is misguided. It would reduce job opportunities for low-skilled workers (especially minorities), incentivize employers to switch to labor-saving me

Ross Kaminsky sees through economically (and historically) uninformed assertions that “capitalism is killing our morals.” Jim Dorn sees through economically (and historically) uninformed assertions that minimum-wage legislation is a boon

LISBON (Reuters) - When Nelson Craveiro lost his minimum wage job selling soft drinks last October due to Portugal's raging economic crisis, he dared not imagine that his fluent German would soon get him a better-paying job without the need to emigra

When Nelson Craveiro lost his minimum wage job selling soft drinks last October due to Portugal's raging economic crisis, he dared not imagine that his fluent German would soon get him a better-paying job without the need to emigrate.

James A. DornSenator Edward Kennedy once called the minimum wage “one of the best antipoverty programs we have.” Jared Bernstein, former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, thinks “it raises the pay of low-wage workers with

Here’s the video from the debate I (Russ) did recently with Intelligence Squared on the minimum wage. My opening statement is the first one and goes for six minutes, the length we were given. Then the other three participants (Jared Bernstein,

We're losing the better-paying jobs making things and gaining minimum wage jobs in retail. America is becoming a nation of clerks who work for someone else selling goods made somewhere else.

Fast-food restaurants are facing a number of challenges. Could the Fair Minimum Wage Act do them in?

Small businesses embrace a higher minimum wage, a VC doles out sage advice, and innovation comes to two products that don't need it: beer and donuts.A round-up of stories to read this week:The Minimum Wage Hike DebateAs soon as President Obama said t

AB 10, which would give California its first minimum wage increase since 2008, was approved by the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on a party-line vote.SACRAMENTO — California's $8-an-hour minimum wage needs to go up, says Watsonville D

SACRAMENTO -- A bill to raise the minimum wage in California from the current $8 an hour to $9.25 over the next three years and...

A survey about the minimum wage shows up important disparities between two groups that appear to have something in common: They both claim to represent you.Some two-thirds of small businesses want to increase the minimum wage. Or, 93% of small busine

An op-ed published on Yahoo! Finance by Robert Weinstein is the latest effort by conservatives to discredit the social safety net, with Weinstein arguing that minimum wage does more harm than good. Once again I will answer the question of whether the

Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They'd have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from '50s TV sitcoms working dow

The Walton (Walmart) heirs now have as much wealth as up to 40 percent of all Americans combined, and Walmart's sales have been slowing down....

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A minimum wage does more harm than good, and yet, we continue to hear from well-intended people that we should raise the minimum wage. The latest call was in the Wall Street Journal, which had an opinion piece, "Time to Upgrad

Are Germans really poorer than Spaniards, Italians and Greeks? - Vox EU Some (more) crushing news for goldbugs - FT Alphaville Iceland and China Enter a Free Trade Agreement - NYT Time to Upgrade America's Miserly Minimum Wage - Ralph...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Several labor unions say that more than $400,000 in contributions by Walmart since 2001 helped bring about the creation of an unusual...

Business secretary accepts Low Pay Commission recommendations on adult and youth rates, but rejects proposed freeze on apprentice rate

The full audio of the minimum wage debate at Intelligence Squared debate is now up. Go here and look on the right side of the page.

It's no secret that the retail sector depends on minimum-wage labor -- when President Obama proposed raising the federal minimum wage in his State of the Union address, the National Retail Federation was one of the first groups to express i