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

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.

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

Many Americans prefer employing U.S. teens over migrant workers and child labor build responsibility and work ethic ...

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 on Tuesday in both ...

Robert C. Scott and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced new legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would raise the country's minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2030. Supporters of the legislation ...