The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public sector unions Monday, ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois cannot be required to pay fees that help cover a union's costs of collective bargaining.
The burgeoning power of the Latino community in California was illustrated this week by the death of a minimum wage hike proposal in the state Assembly.
The first rule of free market capitalism is that it works at its own pace. The second rule of capitalism is that it does not take kindly to those who try to subvert the first rule.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled on Thursday to sign into law a measure raising the minimum wage to the highest of any U.S. state, $11 per hour, by 2017.
Kodak has been hit hard by the digital revolution – and so has its hometown Rochester, New York. Dave Stelfox meets the couple who captured the death of a company town
The U.S. economy contracted at a much steeper pace than previously estimated in the first quarter, but there are indications that growth has since rebounded strongly.
Primark are investigating an incident in which a shopper discovered a label that read "Forced to work exhausting hours" stitched inside a £10 ($16) dress she had bought from one of the retailer's outlets.
Justin Prim isn't just a bike messenger. He's part of a new wave of self-employed go-getters, some making six figures, who are capitalizing on something called "the sharing economy."
Call it the labor market version of aging in place: Since 2000, jobs traditionally done by teenagers, such as retail and food service, are increasingly shifting to older workers.
Their names are familiar to all of us: Cleveland, Flint, Youngstown, Saginaw, Gary, Toledo, Reading, Akron, Flint and Buffalo were all once booming manufacturing cities that were absolutely packed with thriving middle class families.
Instead of focusing on my decision to perform in porn to pay my tuition, let's start paying attention to what got me here: artificially inflated demand for college that pushes tuitions sky high
I can hear the family gathered outside, banging on the walls of the Mogambo Bunker Of Paranoid Hysteria (MBOPH), demanding that I unlock the door, come outside immediately, stop acting like a crazy person...
No disputes on the article from me. It points out that the "college education" and the attendant debt only assures more debt and dubious occupation opportunities.
The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Every now and again the apparatchiks who dutifully tend Washington's statistical sausage factories accidently let loose a damning picture of what actually goes on inside.
Either employers will give up and close or outsource the work or "insource" third world companies with their third world wage employees over here. Any way you cut it the American worker is fucked. Obama must love to destroy Americans.
A service called Rent-A-Gent lets women choose a male companion from a list of “smart and handsome men.” For $200 bucks an hour, men can serve as handymen, dates, or personal chefs.