ROYAL OAK, Michigan (Reuters) -Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday the U.S. must raise its federal minimum wage, and she labeled the current mininum wage ...

Vice President Kamala Harris said for the first time Tuesday that she backs hiking the federal minimum wage to at least $15 an hour, after blasting former President Donald Trump for dodging a question ...

Child poverty rates have increased in the U.S. despite rising incomes, the Census Bureau has announced. Overall, the percentage of Americans experiencing poverty fell from 11.5 percent to 11.1 percent ...

"The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which means that the person who is working a full day and full weeks will make $15,000 a year, which is essentially poverty wages," Harris told ...

Dear Commissioner Barrick,I appreciate your desire to help alleviate poverty in our community and support families who ...

“So if we are going into high-poverty communities and paying poverty wages, that in fact perpetuates poverty.” There’s just one problem with this new rule: It doesn’t come with new fundin ...

“We feel that is a living wage in the current economy and within the Twin Cities,” Kerr said. “A lot of other public sector employees in the Twin Cities pay at least $20 an hour, so not only would it ...

Earning $7.25 an hour "is a poverty wage, and it's bad for business as well as workers," Sklar added. The renewed focus on worker pay comes amid polling that shows many people continuing to ...