Costco will raise its starting rate for hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals such as Amazon, Target and Best Buy. Costco has around 180,000 ...

Twenty-one states have raised their minimum wage in 2025, affecting more than nine million workers and thousands of employers. And there may be more to come: From Connecticut to Virginia, Democrats ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers across more than a dozen cities and states will soon receive higher pay, thanks to minimum wage hikes set to take effect July 1. More than 800,000 workers in two ...

This list of curated articles highlights efforts to pass a Worker’s Bill of Rights and a $20 minimum wage in Tacoma. Activists submitted signatures for a ballot initiative and filed a lawsuit against ...

Republicans, for a long time, had the right idea on economics with their embrace of the free market. The phrase "Free markets, free people" has been often quoted as a description of the GOP's economic ...