By Yasmin Tarver In his farewell address, President Joe Biden delivered a stark warning about the dangerous power of the ...

The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

A controversial pitch to raise New Mexico’s minimum wage to $17 an hour and do away with the much lower rate employers pay tipped workers has ignited fierce opposition from business advocates. House ...

Eliminating the U.S. Department of Education isn’t actually a cost-cutting move; it’s an economic attack that will hurt girls the most and send ripple effects through every household in America.

In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...

This analysis focuses only on full-time workers, meaning the wage gap for transgender individuals may be even larger, since they are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed. Transgender ...

Are you in the middle class? The salary range needed for keeping up with the Joneses depends on how many people live in your ...