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The rationale behind the ban is simple: it’s unfair and useless to use a person’s credit history, which is often inaccurate or misleading, when assessing their job qualifications.

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[...] "You are in a Catch-22," said Emmanuel Caicedo, a senior campaign strategist with Demos, one member of a coalition of 79 labor and civil rights organizations that formed the NYC Coalition to Stop Credit Checks in Employment. "You can't pay your bills and so your credit is bad. And then you can

Election officials in Rhode Island are swiftly moving about the business of pro-voter reform.

With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, the share of Americans convinced that health care is a right shrank from a majority to a minority.

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In April 2015, Walmart implemented a $9 an hour minimum wage for all of its 1.3 million U.S. workers, and committed to pay all current workers at least $10 per hour by February 2016.1 This is an important step from the country’s largest employer and in particular for the retail industry, where low

Gender Pay Disparity is Particularly Stark for Women Retail Workers and Women of Color