Many low-wage occupations— from restaurant servers to child care workers—are dominated by women. In every state, women make up the majority of workers earning under $12; the highest percentage is in ...

To Gould, the stable low-wage share contradicts that. “The weakness in wage growth is not driven by the mix of jobs being created but rather by labor market slack,” she notes.

Protesters with NYC Fight for $15 gather in front of a McDonalds to rally. Spencer Platt/Getty Images. It may be surprising to some that workers earning at or near the minimum wage get job-based ...

Among low-wage workers, earning less than $50,000 a year, it was 33 percent. Strowbridge’s first job, in the 1960s, paid 98 cents an hour, setting her out on a path of low-wage jobs that ...

Some big U.S. employers are giving their lowest-paid employees a raise. That's helped make low-wage workers one of the few segments of the workforce seeing an increase in pay.

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Low wages, high housing costs common denominator among homeless ... There was an image that was shared across the Internet recently of two men standing on the street holding signs.

Low-Wage Workers Now Have Options, Which Could Mean a Raise. The sharp rebound in hiring, ... Image. A Domino’s pizza outlet in St. Louis was looking for workers last month.

CEOs were asked: One element exacerbating the affordability crisis is Miami’s low wages. What efforts can be taken to boost them locally? Getty Images/iStockphoto CEOs were asked: One element ...

In “The Minimum Wage’s Racially Discriminatory Roots” (Upward Mobility, Feb. 17), Jason Riley cites a new Congressional Budget Office report, a 2014 analysis by Joseph Sabia and Richard ...