But, for now, it’s all we've got.

For a party looking to woo back working-class voters, there’s no better issue for Democrats in 2024 than building union strength.

It’s not a minimum-wage increase, but for many it would have a comparable effect.

Blame Covid over the short term, lousy wages over the long.

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

The latest jobs report shows that while unemployment remains freakishly low, real wages are falling—thus shifting power back toward management.

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

There are now over 100 pilot programs nationwide offering families direct cash support.

Two Washington Post articles this week suggest we’re “returning” to a time of savage inequality. Returning?!

We used to think a silver lining to economic downturns was that inequality halted. But new research suggests recessions speed inequality up.

The franchise model makes hurting workers inevitable.

By virtually every objective measure, Democrats do better. It’s not even close. So why doesn’t America know it?

The grim first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.

Covid initially drove wages up, especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of capital’s dethronement of labor.

Some economists deny that “wage-price spirals” exist. They do. But we’re not in one. And in a way, that’s a shame.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.

From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.

A lighthouse keeper, a deep-ocean researcher, a park ranger, and a “Snoozetern” on the pitfalls of “doing what you love.”

Rather than focus on normalizing weeping on the job, why not just make jobs suck less?