Wages

More And More Workers Claim Companies Are Withholding Pay

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Great Speed Up, Wages, Labor Law, Wage Stagnation, Slideexpand, Unpaid Overtime, Overtime Pay, Labor, Video, Wage and Hours Lawsuits, Salary, Overtime, Wage and Hour, Business News

Do American companies have a problem with paying their employees? A growing number of workers seem to think so. Collective action lawsuits alleging...

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U.S. Factories Rebounding On The Backs Of Low-Wage Workers

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Factory Output, Video, Low Wages, Unemployment, Worker Output, Wages, Manufacturing Wages, Manufacturing, Productivity, Business News

American manufacturing may be starting to bounce back, but the workers responsible for the turnaround aren’t seeing much of a pay off. U.S. manu...

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Biz Leaders To GOP: Minimum Wage Raise Is 'Past Due'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Albany, Video, Andrew Cuomo, Labor, Minimum Wage, Costco, Low-Wage Workers, Workers, Wages, Low Wage Jobs, Economic Crisis, Gop, New York, New York City, Politics News

As lawmakers in Albany, N.Y., contemplate a boost to the state's minimum wage, a group of business leaders came out Thursday in support of hiking the ...

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Blocking Labor Department Wage Rule Condemns Young Americans to Unemployment

Ross Eisenbrey | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Labor Force, Visa, H-2b, Wages, Maryland, Worker, Seafood, Unemployment Numbers, Minimum Wage, Seafood Industry, Maryland Blue Crab, Guest Workers, Youth Unemployment, Business News

It is time for Congress to permit a true test of the labor market, a real opportunity for more U.S. workers to hear about and consider taking seafood-processing jobs like crab picking.

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Latinos And The Good Jobs Crisis

Algernon Austin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Latinos, Poverty, Good Jobs, Income Inequality, Retirement, Wages, Health Insurance, Hispanics, Unions, Latino Voices News

If Latinos are to fully recover from the ravages of the Great Recession, they will need not simply jobs, but jobs that lead to increased earnings over time and that also have good benefits. In short, they will need what we call "good jobs."

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Poverty and Unemployment: The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration

David Coates | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Poverty, New Deal, Wages, Stimulus, Job Creation, War on Poverty, Inequality, Austerity, Politics News

Back in the 1930s, it took FDR two goes to get his New Deal up and running. It is time for the Obama Administration to take heart from that, and have a second go itself.

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Revenge Of The Geeks

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Overtime Pay, Unpaid Interns, Walmart, Geek Squad, Video, Diana Wang, Wages, Fiscal Times, Taco Bell, Novartis, Labor Department, Worker Productivity, Class Action Lawsuit, Hearst Corporation, Best Buy, Business News

If some workers get their way we may witness the real life version of Revenge of the Nerds -- or in this case, geeks. Geek Squad workers have file...

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Are You Earning Less Than You Used To?

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Wage Growth, Unemployment, Gdp, Wages, Economy, Nelp, Business News

WASHINGTON -- American workers are earning more money than they used to, but the rate of wage growth has been slowing down since the Great Recession t...

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Being a Nanny in a Post-Bill of Rights State

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Caribbean Nannies, Caribbean Domestic Workers, Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, Labor, Wages, Business News

The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights ushered in a new era for nannies and house-keepers in New York. Or did it? It has been almost a year and a half si...

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States Where Incomes Are Rising The Fastest

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: North Dakota, Oil Industry, Wages, Oil, Personal Income Growth, Personal Income, North Dakota Oil Boom, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Business News

They don’t call them oil booms for nothing. An oil rush in North Dakota has helped the income of the state's residents grow at a rate significant...

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One In Two College Grads Can't Find Work

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Young People Jobs, Job Market, Unemployment, Wages, Entry Level Jobs, Underemployment, Jobs, College Grads Jobs, Underpaid, College Graduates, Class of 2012, Money News

WASHINGTON — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young colleg...

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The College Majors That Make You Richest

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: National Association of Colleges and Employers, Science, College Majors, Careercast, Math, Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Wages, Yale, Business News

In a challenging job market, college graduates face an uncertain future. That's not to say they have no control over the situation. Majoring in ma...

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The 10 Hardest-Working Towns In America

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Claritas and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Hiring, Total Cereals, Compensation, Worker Productivity, Mri, Corporations, Wages, Parade, Business News

With relatively few Americans in the workforce, those who do have a job are working harder than ever these days. But which city’s got its nose press...

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Sure You Can Get A Job, But It Won't Pay Much

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Job Market, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Economics, Job Market Recovery, Wages, Economy, Employment, Jobs, Jobs Report, Unemployment Report, Video, Business News

The job market these days is sort of like that old Catskills joke: The food is terrible, and the portions are so small. The jobs are lousy, and the...

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The Minimum Wage Is Not a Living Wage

Thom Hartmann | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Minimum Wage, Wages, Federal Minimum Wage, Health Care, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Money News

Economies grow when working people have money in their pockets -- not when the super-rich are given trillions of dollars in tax cuts and are expected to trickle that money down to the rest of us. It's time to put in place a real living wage that a family can actually live on.

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Is The Era Of Cheap Chinese Labor Coming To An End?

Reuters | Posted 06.03.2012

Read More: Yuan, Nike, Wages, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dell Inc, Afl-Cio, Wintek, Hewlett-Packard, Sony Corp, Pegatron, Working Violations, Ipads, Labor, Video, University of Hong Kong, Apple, Iphones, Reuters, Free Labour Association, Foxconn, Sacom, China, Business News

* Apple, Foxconn deal adds to view low cost era is over * Deal coincides with rising wages, tighter labour force * Worke...

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'Spain Is Going To Stop Being A Problem'

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, European Debt Crisis, Video, Economy Minister Luis De Guindos, Spending Cuts, Wages, Greece Debt Crisis, European Union, Euro Zone, Spain, Austerity Budget, Olli Rehn, Tax Hikes, Copenhagen, Euro, Business News

THE PLAN: Spain's new conservative government has unveiled a (EURO)27 billion ($36 billion) deficit-reduction package that it hopes will convince its ...

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Union Blasts Target Closure

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Jobs Crisis, New York Organized Labor, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wages, Jobless Crisis, Target, Jobs, Ufcw, New York, Labor, New York Unions, Business News, Organized Labor, Unions Target Vote, Unions, Business News

Back in June when workers at a Target store just outside New York City were about to vote on whether to unionize, employees received an ominous pamphl...

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How Johnny Depp Helped Gulf of Aden Pirates Go Legit

James Doran | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Economics, Wages, Johnny Depp, Pensions, Pirates, Teachers, New York City, Somali Pirates 401k, Somali Pirates Health Insurance, Pirates of the Caribbean Movie, Somali Pirates Retirement Plan, Somali Pirates Income, Pirates of the Caribbean, Cruises, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Aden Pirates, Somali Pirates, Economics of Piracy, Dangers of Piracy, Impact of Piracy, Somalia, Real Life Pirates, Somali Pirates Benefits, Somali Pirates Death, World News

Johnny Depp has a lot to answer for. The "mockney" drawl, the swagger and the healthy disdain for maritime authorities he perfected as Captain Jack Sparrow lent a cachet to piracy that had eluded the profession for centuries.

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In These Cities, The Rent Really Is Too Damn High

24/7 Wall St. | Michael B. Sauter, Charles B. Stockdale | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: National Low Income Housing Coalition, Income Inequality, Wages, Rent, Nlihc, Renters, Income, Recession, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: The homeownership rate dropped to 66 percent of all households in the fourth quarter of 2011 — the lowest rate in over a decade....

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The Logic and Fairness of Greece's Program

Olivier Blanchard | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Debt, Eurozone, Unemployment, Competitiveness, Olivier Blanchard, Greece, Income Inequality, Wages, Private Sector, Financial Crisis, European Union, Imf, Europe, Recession, Euro, Business News

To get back to health, Greece needs two things. First, a lower debt burden. Second, improved economic competitiveness. The new program addresses both.

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New York GOP Wants To Repeal Wage Theft Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Albany, Labor, Video, Low-Wage Workers, Low Wages, Wage Theft, Wages, Gop, Labor Unions, Unions, New York, New York City, Republicans, Politics News

Republican lawmakers in New York state are working to undo a 2010 anti-wage theft law that labor activists hailed as a landmark piece of legislation p...

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What The One Percent Majored In

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Earnings, 1 Percent, Wages, Median Earnings, College Majors, u.s. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, Median Pay, Business News

College graduates earn almost one million and a half dollars over the course of a 40 year career on average, compared to about half that for those wit...

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Steve Jobs and American Jobs

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Labor Unions, Unemployment, Steve Jobs, Wages, Manufacturing, Jobs, Apple Labor, Great Recession, Recession, Apple Foxconn, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Business News

Throughout the first decade of the new century, before the recession hit, wages lagged behind living costs for the vast majority of Americans -- because the top one percent were capturing such a large share of the economy's total productivity gains. Some of this trend was the result of globalization undercutting the bargaining power of U.S. workers; some of it resulted from weakened trade unions and minimum wage laws lagging behind inflation. So when we finally climb out of this jobs recession, perhaps we can belatedly confront these deeper trends. How to do that? Unions, wage regulation, progressive taxation, and government using existing powers that it seldom exercises. But what about manufacturing? This brings me to the other Jobs of my title, the late Steve Jobs.

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What $25/Hr Wages Will Buy in Rural America

Christopher Hytry Derrington | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Outsourcing, Living in Rural America, Rural USA Workers, Slidefreestyle, Rural Outsourcing, Rural America, Wages, Slidepollajax, Rural America Wages, Small Business America, Small Business News

Critics have accused onshore outsourcing firms like mine of paying rural employees "peanuts" and "slave wages" in order to compete with offshore outsourcing firms. They've said our team members' salaries "couldn't possibly be enough to live on." We disagree, so we decided to put our claims to the test.

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