Maine policymakers can improve the state’s economy and democracy by enacting these 10 recommendations to build worker power.
While President Trump boasts of creating the “best economy ever,” Wisconsinites are experiencing something far different.
Despite the economic expansion, union density has continued to fall across demographic groups, industries, and occupations, as well as in most states.
This Center for American Progress video explains why forced arbitration agreements make it harder for workers and consumers to challenge predatory practices, wage theft, and discrimination.
Workers are standing up for a living wage and a union. Here is why the union is so important.
Karla Walter, Associate Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, testifies before the New York State Fast Food Wage Board.
As city minimum-wage laws are beginning to pick up steam, evidence suggests that raising the minimum wage does not harm local jobs.
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst’s extreme position on the minimum wage has no place in the Hawkeye State.
The federal minimum wage has not been raised in more than five years. Here are six facts explaining why Congress needs to raise it to $10.10 an hour.
Evidence shows that increasing the minimum wage is good for workers, their families, and the economy.
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would lower government spending on federal nutrition assistance by $46 billion over the next 10 years.
Americans have a moral imperative to raise the federal minimum wage.