Dionne Searcey and Robert Gebeloff, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—The middle class that President Obama identified in his State of the Union speech last...
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s minimum wage will rise to the highest in the nation on Jan. 1. The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/1dcGPu6) that the minimum...
(CBS News) – Fast-food workers in more than 150 U.S. cities are expected to walk off their jobs Thursday, the latest in a series of protests...
Nathan Layne, REUTERS (Reuters)—A group of Walmart employees pushing for higher wages said on Friday they were planning protests at 1,600 Walmart stores nationwide on Black Friday,...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would likely save taxpayers $39 billion in spending on...
Susan Berfield, BLOOMBERGBUSINESSWEEK.COM (BloombergBusinessweek)—Wal-Mart (WMT), the country’s biggest private employer, has been criticized by activists and by its own workers for not paying living wages or providing full-time...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been floating at or above the 17,000 mark in the past two months – an...
Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer break over and elections ahead, Congress is beginning an abbreviated September session with must-do tasks of preventing...
JOSEPH PISANI, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Police handcuffed dozens of protesters who blocked traffic in dozens of cities across the country on Thursday in...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Barack Obama renewed his push for Congress to raise the minimum wage Monday in a buoyant accounting of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 60 percent of small business owners with employees favor increasing the federal minimum wage...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist President Obama would like the national minimum wage to rise to $10.10 an hour. By executive order, he has already raised...
[CNN MONEY] Ikea is acting on its own to lift the minimum wage, and it’s doing it in a unique way: The U.S. average will be...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist There has arisen a peculiar phenomenon over the past seven years. Conservative legislatures in states such as Florida and Wisconsin...
JOHN BACON, USA Today SEATTLE (USA Today)—Martina Phelps says the Seattle City Council’s historic vote Monday to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour could...
NEW YORK (USA Today) — Hundreds of fast food workers walked off their jobs in dozens of U.S. cities on Thursday — reportedly forcing at least...
MANUEL VALDES, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — They’ve crowded into stuffy rallies at a Seattle union hall, protested in front of fast food restaurants, marched down...
[Washington Post] WASHINGTON — With the Republican-led filibuster of a Senate proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, Democrats moved swiftly to...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked an election-year Democratic bill on Wednesday that would boost the federal minimum wage, handing a defeat...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Civil rights groups, labor organizer and their allies are stepping up pressure on Congress to pass legislation...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist During his State of the Union address, President Obama promised to use the power of his pen to achieve the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist One of our country’s most cherished values is the idea that if you work hard you can get ahead,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 would lift nearly 1 million low-wage workers out of...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by Congress’ nonpartisan budget analysts seems to have thrown Democrats onto the defensive after it concluded that...
