The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report, showing that the US added 50,000 jobs in December, and the ...

In a separate case in Oct. 2025, Agri Stats agreed to settle a lawsuit regarding an alleged conspiracy with US broiler and turkey companies to suppress worker wages. Additional coverage by ...

In the Great Lakes region, Michigan ranks third, behind $16 an hour in New York and $15 an hour in Illinois. Indiana and ...

While inflation remained well below the highs reached in 2022 and 2023, it also proved more stubborn than many forecasters ...

Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage in 2026, while 20 states will remain at the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

The Delaware Department of Labor is currently conducting its Annual Prevailing Wage Survey for state-funded construction ...

Around 5 million Americans have defaulted on student loan payments. Millions of student loan borrowers who are severely delinquent in their payments will see wage garnishments hit their paychecks in ...

The Trump administration will begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers in default starting in January, the Education Department told CNN on Tuesday. “We expect the first notices to be sent to ...

Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default. By Emmett Lindner The Trump ...

TOKYO—Japanese companies seem keen to raise wages again next year, despite many bracing for a tariff hit to profits, a central bank report shows days ahead of its next policy meeting. The findings, ...

The new year will see dozens of states, cities and counties raising the minimum wage locally, helping millions of Americans offset an increasingly urgent affordability crisis. On Jan. 1, 2026, the ...

“The September jobs report more than doubled market expectations — adding 119,000 new jobs to the American economy. In stark contrast to the disastrous Biden economy, almost all of these new jobs were ...