Boosting the federal minimum wage would be great news for the workers who’d receive a higher paycheck. Not so much for those who’d be out of a job. That anxiety sums up much of the debate around increasing the minimum wage.

To prepare for “snowmageddon,” Ana Navarrete stocked up on diapers Monday afternoon. She and her ex-boyfriend, Pedro Blanco, perused the baby aisle of a CVS drug store, having left their two-month-old son with a babysitter. As the snow piled up on Hillside Avenue, Navarrete thought about her

President Obama is directing federal agencies to provide employees with six weeks of paid leave.

The holiday shopping season is the best time of the year for big retail chains across the United States. But not so much for the people who stock the shelves and ring up the Christmas sales. As holiday gift-seeking shoppers return, retail businesses are hiring. But that does not necessarily mean

24 million. That's the estimated number of Americans who would stand to benefit from raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. And this year there were many signs that those who struggle the most have reason for optimism: 2014 has seen an explosion in activity around raising the minimum

One of the issues that helped fuel last week's national fast-food workers strikes is the growing income disparity between rank-and-file workers and the chief executives in charge of those multi-billion-dollar companies.

Nearly half of the nation's employers investigate job applicants' credit histories as a condition of employment. As a result, New Yorkers struggling with debt -- medical bills, school loans or car payments -- are often shut out of jobs. This unfair barrier to employment can be dismantled by

Like millions of retirees who assumed their companies had taken care of them, Ronald Tussey never thought that his retirement plan might be flawed.

The soaring pay of corporate chief executives is spurring efforts to pass laws to limit their compensation and close the widening gap in earnings between workers and top executives. Such laws have been proposed in at least three states, including Massachusetts, as well as in Switzerland. Proponents

For a moment last week, it looked like Walmart CEOs were getting enlightened. The company promised to “ end minimum-wage pay” for its lowest-paid sales workers and touted a plan to ‘”invest in its associate base” and maybe even offer more bonus opportunities.