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The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

Adjusted for inflation, men who work full-time year-round saw their wages go up 3%, while women who work full-time year-round only saw their wages go up 1.5%.

Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.

After nearly a year of organizing for raises, an end to mandatory meal deductions & safer working conditions, thousands of Waffle House workers at over 1,500 stores across the South have won an increase in base pay of more than $3/hour plus more.

Microsoft and Starbucks as exceptions to corporations’ union busting; Starbucks baristas as beacons of bottom-up organizing.

After tipped workers in Washington and New York won ballot box and legislative wage victories, their battles had only begun.

The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.

The AI boom began with an unprecedented feat of tedious, repetitive, precarious labor. As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.