wages
Why Do LA Unions Want an Exemption to the New $15 Minimum Wage?
A major LA labor activist says workers should trade the higher minimum wage for the ability to collectively bargain.
Will LA's $15 Minimum Wage Really Lead to Better Lives for Workers?
The wage increase is a major step for America's second-largest city, but it's not clear that that will actually make LA more affordable.
LA Just Decided to Raise Its Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour
The city council of the second largest city in American just passed a major minimum wage hike by a vote of 14-1.
Mexico Agrees to Pay Farmworkers Wages After Two-Month Strike in San Quintin
The San Quintin strike captured international headlines and pointed to poor conditions for farm laborers within Mexico's agricultural sector. Baja California police are accused of raiding laborers' homes before the government intervened.
Why British Soldiers Are Finding It Harder to Come Home
We talked to some soldiers overseas about the difficulties they face in traveling back to the UK now that their overseas wage subsidies have been slashed.
How the US Workforce is Changing - The Business of Life (Episode 1)
How does the new landscape of the US workforce affect us? We break down the issue in the first episode of 'The Business of Life.'
How the U.S. Workforce is Changing - The Business of Life (Season 1, Episode 1)
As income inequality increases, the growing millennial workforce is redefining what they want out of a job.
Debt-Ridden and Desperate, America's Adjuncts Are Attempting to Unionize
Part-time professors say that they struggle to earn a living wage, often have to take second jobs, and are sometimes just a canceled class away from real poverty.
Young Care Workers Are Looking After Britain's Most Vulnerable People for $5.30 an Hour
Care workers are embroiled in one of the largest illegal wage scandals this country has ever seen.
Here's Why the Green Party's 'Citizen's Income' Could Make You Even Poorer
Weirdly, being given "free money" by the government could make you less well off.
Report: Homes in Australia Got Even Less Affordable in 2014
Australia is approaching an "affordability ceiling", in the sense that the ceiling is the only part of the house you'll be able to afford.
Why Is Australia Obsessed With Being Middle Class?
While we idealise the middle as presented to us through the media, the reality is Australians are far more affluent than they want to admit.