A well-known factoid in American economic debates is that wages used to grow with productivity, but they don't anymore. There's a particularly famous chart, courtesy of the Economic Policy Institute, ...

This week’s Chart of the Week features an excerpt from our latest Chartbook, a mammoth Yahoo Finance project in which dozens of economists and strategists send us a key chart and say why it’s ...

New data showed inflation outpaced wage growth for the second consecutive month in May. Three major sectors still have higher ...

Variations in minimum wages across the United States has gained renewed attention following New York’s most recent increase on January 1. The raise, announced in December by Governor Kathy Hochul, ...

As the calendar turns to 2023, workers in more than half of all states have something to look forward to this year: a higher minimum wage. That's occurring as the federal minimum wage stands pat at $7 ...

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden patted himself on the back for his administration’s efforts to reinvigorate “an economy that hasn’t worked for the working ...