Berkshire Hathaway Chair Warren Buffett has spent years arguing that raising hourly pay alone will not magically fix poverty.

Labor organizations and advocates are calling for D.C. to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour — including for tipped workers. Leaders of the " DC Living Wage for All Campaign" said they're filing an ...

Many of the lower-wage, working-class people understand that the typical minimum wage does not provide them enough to live on, they should also understand that small stores and businesses can only ...

A new bill proposes raising the federal minimum wage to $25 by 2031. Here’s what that could mean for Alabama workers and ...

A report suggests Oklahoma needs more wage investigators to enforce a higher minimum wage if voters approve State Question ...

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed a $15 minimum wage into law, but an economist warns the mandate will force businesses to cut jobs and raise prices.

Providers who care for Pennsylvania’s older and disabled residents say years of Medicaid funding stagnation has left them struggling to offer higher pay than fast food restaurants and convenience ...

You’re reading The Financial Page, John Cassidy’s weekly column on economics and politics. In the early nineteen-nineties, when Arindrajit Dube was growing up in Seattle, where his parents were ...

As New Yorkers struggle with rising rents, grocery bills and health care costs, the question facing state leaders is simple: Are we going to address the root causes of the affordability crisis, or ...