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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the debate over minimum wage intensifies nationwide, the spotlight now falls on Texas, where stagnant wages have deepened the struggles of low-income families. Despite economic growth in various ...

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 ...