Professor Jacob Vigdor has conservative bonafides and raised progressives' ire with his past research on the minimum wage. But now he's all in for Washington to tax the rich.

Seattle turned into a vastly riskier place to live for poor people. It became nearly impossible to afford even the cheapest market-rate housing.

Vigdor is a professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance with a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He said ...

“I was unaware of everything, I was unaware of minimum wage, unaware of what I should have been making,” Bello said. To address situations like this and other mistreatment domestic workers can face, ...

President Donald Trump has rescinded a Joe Biden executive order that required federal government contractors to pay workers a minimum hourly wage of $17.75. The repeal came late Friday in a ...