Voters in GOP-controlled states are passing progressive policies at the ballot—only to watch Republican legislators repeal them. Will it change how voters choose candidates?

Fox News’s anti–Zohran Mamdani segment ran like a campaign ad.

Scott Bessent used his confirmation hearing to make clear that he cares about the rich and the rich only.

Incredibly, it’s still legal to pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage. The Labor Department just moved to end the practice—daring Trump to undo it.

Experts warn that proposals to exempt taxes on tips and end taxes on Social Security benefits would have long-term negative effects.

Top of the list: How do we keep a straight face when you pretend to be an inflation hawk?

Still, service workers in Nevada cheered Trump’s proposal to eliminate taxes on tips.

The archaic practice is standing in the way of across-the-board reforms that are necessary to end the exploitation of the industry’s workforce.

A new book shows that paying frontline workers well makes good business sense. But that isn’t why it will happen.

We ought to be living in a country where service employees are paid a decent wage. Until that day arrives—tip, and tip generously.

Life at the economy’s bottom-most rung is no fun. When you go holiday shopping, please be patient and kind.

Workers in Maine, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., are campaigning to end the disparities between those who earn tips and other jobs.

The franchise model makes hurting workers inevitable.

The union-led movement has a plan to give fast-food workers a say on the job. California could make it a reality.

Kshama Sawant brought an uncommon passion to a successful stint on the City Council. It may now be her undoing.

Paying tribute to the late economist who, with David Card, changed America’s mind about the minimum wage.

Democrats have to prove that the government can deliver for people. If they don’t, authoritarianism wins.

Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

The much-beloved author turns 80 today. Her seminal works on economic inequality remain both timeless and timely.

Wage increases and other rising expenses are being “passed on” to the consumer, we’re told. But we’re looking in all the wrong places for the true costs of how we live.