Minimum Wage

Historian Annelise Orleck traveled to Mexico, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, plus all across America, to interview low-wage workers fighting for better conditions and pay.

• By Peter C. Baker

While looking to lessen wage disparities, the government has instead enacted legislation that leaves behind a large swath of female workers.

• By Jen Thorpe

The state will have to make other adjustments to ensure a positive transition to the new wage, which stands to raise incomes for hundreds of thousands of workers.

• By Elena Gooray

A breakdown of the difference between $7.25 an hour and $10.

• By Francie Diep

In general, states with higher costs of living also have higher wages, but the relationship isn't perfect—and it works out well better than average, for Oregonians.

• By Francie Diep

An analysis of the restaurant industry yields some surprising results.

• By Jared Keller

A slew of states are tweaking their minimum wages this year. What happens next will change the way we legislate away poverty.

• By Jared Keller

This insistence that laboring people would be harmed by having the wages they demand is not just incorrect, it is paternalistic and condescending.

• By Alana Massey

Is New York—and the rest of America—failing the the Fair Labor Standards Act?

• By Tyler S. Bugg

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Katherine R. Jolluck

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Steven Greenhouse

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Sharan Burrow

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Lydia DePillis

Economic research suggests that raising the minimum wage doesn't automatically lead to a decline in employment.

• By Jared Keller

New technology is nudging Americans to be more generous at the till. For now.

• By Rachel Levin

Think you’re entitled to be paid for your unpaid internship? Here are resources you should know about.

• By Kara Brandeisky

Profits are being used to boost management earnings and pay dividends to stockholders, not improve worker wages.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

The way to fix tipping isn't to abolish it. Instead, it's time to do something about the minimum wage for tipped employees.

• By Jake Blumgart

A whole lot more than $7.25 an hour.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

The recent strikes show just how untenable the current makeup of the fast-food labor force really is.

• By Paul Hiebert