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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released her economic growth agenda that will be included in her 2026 budget Monday, which included ...

The move to reinstate tipped minimum wage is part of a broader effort to make D.C. more business-friendly in the face of a ...

State representatives and union leaders are calling on the state to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour, up from the current rate of $7.25.

The stronger-than-expected advance in payrolls partly reflected stepped up hiring of transportation and warehousing workers ...

The U.S. is one of a handful of countries in the world without a national paid family leave policy. Rep. Stephanie Bice and her colleagues on the bipartisan Paid Family Leave Working Group introduced ...

Companies can now illegally pay federal contractors less than the current minimum wage and face no consequences.

Consider this as Part 3 counting previous articles on the same topic in this column, “The Laffer Curve of Philippine tobacco taxation” (May 22, 2023) and “The Laffer Curve of Philippine tobacco ...

Does it really matter that California's economy is the fourth largest in the world, since California isn't an independent ...

In the sweltering summer of the year 18 CE, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone ...

AI-driven "technology panic"—exacerbated by the disruptive efforts of Donald Trump's new administration in the US—gives the feeling that ... start of the Han dynasty in 202BC. This chart shows how ...

It's got to be a big issue." In Buffett's view, one of the best tools wasn't a minimum wage hike. It was the Earned Income Tax Credit, a benefit that boosts pay for low- to moderate-income workers ...