Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from the Economic Policy Institute

Teachers Are Winning Raises. They’re Still Losing Ground.

A record pay gap with other professions and rising costs are making it increasingly difficult for schools to attract and retain talent.

Capital & Main

How Much Money Would Workers Have If the Minimum Wage Kept Up With Inflation?

If minimum wage matched 1968 purchasing power, you'd earn $421,200 more over 30 years. With productivity adjustments, the gap reaches $670K-$1M in earnings.

GOBankingRates

America’s teachers are being priced out of their communities − these cities are building subsidized housing to lure them back

For much of the 20th century, teaching was a stable, middle-class job in the U.S. Now it’s becoming a lot harder to survive on a teacher’s salary: Wages have been stagnant for decades, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, and teachers earn 5% less than they did…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

All the states where minimum wage will rise in July

This summer, Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C. will increase their minimum wage for more than 880,000 workers, collectively

The Independent UK

Trump Touts ‘No Tax on Overtime.’ But He Just Made It Harder for Millions to Earn Overtime.

Department of Labor “walked away from” rule that expanded overtime to 4 million workers, says former agency head.

Capital & Main

Trump Promised to Fight for Workers — Instead, He’s Undermined Them

100 days in, the self-styled champion of the working class has delivered layoffs, trade wars and an erosion of worker protections.

Capital & Main

95,000 Texas children are waiting for state help to pay for day care

Adding more funding to scholarships is just one way experts say state lawmakers could address Texas’ child care crisis.

The Texas Tribune

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

CEOs losing pay are still really rich

Top execs are paid mostly through stock incentives, and their pay has ballooned far beyond their workers' earnings

Salon

Fact check: Are weekly wages in the US ‘lower than 50 years ago’?

No. Senator Sanders’s data relies on a blip in 1973. Economists show wages are actually higher now than 50 years ago.

Al Jazeera

‘Zombie-like’: the US trade agreement that still haunts Democrats

The working class saw Clinton’s support of Nafta, which cut most tariffs between US, Mexico and Canada, as ‘a betrayal’

The Guardian - US

Trump would weaken child labor protections in second term, report warns

Project 2025, a conservative playbook for a second Trump term, advocates for rolling back child labor protections, report also cites

The Guardian - US

Why Biden’s Chinese EV Tariffs May Succeed Where Trump’s Failed, For Now

The new tariffs could be great for the U.S. auto industry. The risk is automakers will use them as an excuse to slow-walk their EV plans.

InsideEVs

UAW strike: Possible "paradigm shift"

Americans like unions again — but few workers actually have one. The UAW is betting it can shift that dynamic

Salon

UAW goes on strike for first time ever

"CEOs gave themselves 40% pay increases in the last four years," United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain said

Salon

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol

As Republican-led states roll back the alcohol service age so teens can serve hard drinks, they also put them in danger

The Guardian - US

We last raised the US federal minimum wage 14 years ago. This is unacceptable

The minimum has been an unlivable $7.25 an hour under three presidents. Today’s wage is worth less than at any point since 1956

Tribune News Service

With workers scarce, some states seek to loosen child labor laws

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — In the past two years, lawmakers in at least 11 states have sought to loosen child labor laws to help employers fill empty jobs, even as federal officials and news investigations suggest that many minors working in manufacturing, meatpacking and construction jobs are being exploited or hurt.

The Guardian - US

‘My name is cleared’: the US workers fighting back against union busting

Organizers say an increased unionizing drive has been met with threats and retaliation – and now the Senate wants answers

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Biden Administration

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.