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As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

A FAQ on the economics of increasing wage floors

Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

“Today, there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.”

How Trump’s first year in office hurt women and what states can do to fix it

The first time since 1964 that New York City has set a minimum wage standard for private sector workers and other top labor stories in New York City. Mayor Mamdani addresses the $12 billion budget gap left by his predecessor Mayor Adams.

Nineteen states will increase their minimum wages on January 1, boosting earnings for more than 8.3 million workers by a total of $5 billion. In addition, 47 cities and counties will raise their minimum wages.

We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past. Here are 7 reforms to create a broadly shared prosperity and an affordable future.