Something remarkable happened in the years immediately preceding and, especially, following the pandemic: Wages for poor workers began rising much faster than they did for the rich. That era may have ...

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Your car registration is due, the electric bill is three weeks past due, and your next paycheck is still six days away. The payday loan place down the street is open right now. It feels like the only ...

Since 2010, companies such as Walmart, Uber Technologies, and DoorDash have given employees a portion of their earned wages prior to payday by partnering with EWA companies or offering the services ...

Ours is a nation with a draconian income gap. Over the past four decades, the richest of the rich -- the 1% -- have rapidly increased their earnings, almost 27 times as fast as the income of the ...

While New York City and San Francisco are often in the headlines for their affordability issues, the crisis stretches far beyond these major metros. In fact, a recent report by the National Low Income ...

In a panel discussion at Rose State College last year, I explained that increasing the minimum wage was akin to using a sledgehammer to perform open heart surgery — it just doesn’t make a lot of sense ...