Restaurant Industry Pay: Taxpayers’ Double Burden
New report shows that while restaurant executives are fighting living wages for their workers, they’re also benefiting from tax subsidies for their own pay.
White House Says Raising Tipped Wage Helps Women
President Obama supports raising the tipped minimum wage and emphasizes that this move would help women, who make up the majority of tipped workers.
Wall Street Bonuses and the Minimum Wage
The New York financial industry’s bonus pool exceeded the annual earnings of the more than 1 million Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.
Tipped Over The Edge
A cutting edge forum on how raising the minimum wage and providing paid sick days for tipped workers will help mitigate inequality in Washington, D.C.
Fibs and Falsehoods: Darden Corporation Claims ‘No One Makes $2.13 An Hour’
A recent IPS op-ed on tipped wages has provoked an unfounded attack by the world’s largest full service restaurant chain.
$9.54 a Second: Why CEOs Fight on Wages
Surely the businesses that measure their executive pay in dollars per second can afford raises to bring their lowest wage workers above the poverty level.
Illegal Interns
Unpaid internships have metastasized into a labor market scourge.
We Won the War on Poverty, then Lost the Peace
If America could eliminate most serious poverty in the United States in the 1960s, surely we could do the same today.
A Bold New Call for a ‘Maximum Wage’
A national labor leader aims to expand the economic fairness debate.
Percolate-Up Economics
Every dime of a minimum-wage hike is spent by its recipients — circulating upward in our local economies as they increase their purchases of such basics as food, kids’ clothing, and health care.
Fix the Minimum Wage
Americans who work hard should be able to make a living.
America’s Skimpy Minimum Wage
Had the federal minimum wage risen at the same pace as the earnings of the highest-paid Americans, it would now be $26.96 an hour.