You might think the job market is awful, but that's only because you're hung up on trivialities like "money." If you can just learn to do without a li...

In this week's issue, Saki Knafo looks at the plight of America's working poor through the eyes of one young man struggling to build a career in the fast food industry. And since this week marked the launch of our newest international edition in Japan, we're featuring photos from our tour of the gardens, temples and shrines of Kyoto.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken where Joseph Barrera works stands at a busy intersection in the working-class Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up, down ...

Last week's employment report was discouraging but not as bad as many might think, given the role that unusually cold weather played in dampening gains.

A college degree doesn’t guarantee anyone a big paycheck anymore. About 284,000 Americans with college degrees were working minimum wage jobs la...

WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - Too much of the recent growth in U.S. employment has been concentrated in low-wage and temporary jobs, leaving the ...

WASHINGTON — As they struggle to get ahead, many low-wage workers are not taking advantage of job training or educational programs that could he...

WASHINGTON -- The national unemployment rate ticked down to 7.7 percent from 7.9 percent in February as the economy added a relatively impressive 236,...

There's an interesting debate going on right now as to factors behind the rise in the inequality of earnings that's been a fixture of our job market for decades (with interesting and germane variations, as you'll see).

We need to be looking for ways to do better for workers, and one obvious place to focus is on improving the jobs that are being created during this fragile recovery.

Despite the clear national interest, low-wage jobs were an important topic missing from the long election season's discourse.

NEW YORK -- The latest jobs report is a reminder of something that's been easy to forget these past few years: America is slowly getting back to work....

The kids aren’t feeling alright. Nearly 40 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 self-identify as lower class, a 14 percentage point boost since 2008, ...

August was a weak month of hiring with just 96,000 new jobs created. While many industries added jobs, they largely came in low-paying fields. ...

During her speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, first lady Michelle Obama painted her husband as a president who has created jo...

Hope you're all having a nice Labor Day weekend! But while enjoying the time off, shopping for mattresses or whatever, please take a moment to remembe...

Jobs that can sustain a middle-class lifestyle are disappearing, as low-wage jobs take their place, according to a new study by the National Employmen...

Ronald Reagan famously said, “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won.” With 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — now coun...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in a century, most of America's largest cities are growing at a faster rate than their surrounding suburbs as y...