A new book shows that paying frontline workers well makes good business sense. But that isn’t why it will happen.

We ought to be living in a country where service employees are paid a decent wage. Until that day arrives—tip, and tip generously.

Life at the economy’s bottom-most rung is no fun. When you go holiday shopping, please be patient and kind.

A new analysis from DCReport finds that the top American executives made an average of $151 million last year.

Workers in Maine, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., are campaigning to end the disparities between those who earn tips and other jobs.

The franchise model makes hurting workers inevitable.

The union-led movement has a plan to give fast-food workers a say on the job. California could make it a reality.

Kshama Sawant brought an uncommon passion to a successful stint on the City Council. It may now be her undoing.

Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

Democrats have to prove that the government can deliver for people. If they don’t, authoritarianism wins.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.

Wage increases and other rising expenses are being “passed on” to the consumer, we’re told. But we’re looking in all the wrong places for the true costs of how we live.

Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from working. Biden might be taking the bait.

“It’s not just a hashtag for us. All things are definitely on the table.”

On working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick co-workers, and people who just need a bathroom

The would-be maverick Democrat is trying to sink the minimum wage hike. Her threats are emptier than they seem.

The media is giving the CBO’s analysis short shrift, but the news is great for the economy and the working class.

The grocery giant shuttered two stores rather than follow a law requiring a $4 raise during the pandemic.

In the mid-2010s, the unpaid, coffee-fetching masses appeared to be rising up. But 10 years later, there are few signs that the entry-level revolt happened at all.