By taxing companies that pay poverty wages, state and local governments can help cover federal cuts to safety net programs low-wage workers rely on.

Typical pay at the largest low-wage employers is so low that workers can’t cover basic necessities and often have to rely on public assistance.

In a typical year, over 60 percent of American households get refunds from the IRS. People get refunds if too much money was ...

A first-generation college student fears other young people from working families won't get the financial aid she's relied on for her education.

Here’s what the folks at the Post are not telling you: If you’re an average American taxpayer, you’re paying federal income ...

At a People’s Summit during the G20 leaders meeting in South Africa, activists challenged health care profiteering and other ills of a global economy for the 1%.

Labor activists are exposing deadly conditions for Indonesian workers who process battery nickel for Teslas and other electric cars.

At the beginning of the 20th century, African Americans owned at least 14 million acres of land. By the 21st century, 90 percent of the land had been stolen from them. Now, African Americans only own ...

In mid-September the Census Bureau released its latest report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, current through 2011. Poverty as officially measured, the Census ...

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol began “Operation Metro Surge” targeting the Twin Cities nearly two months ago. Since then, they have taken the lives of Renee ...

The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed by the narrowest of margins in Congress and signed into law by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since ...