“We define wages as hours worked,” plaintiff attorney Richard Hayber told the Second Circuit. “We have no exclusions in our statute, like the Portal-to-Portal Act has. There is no such thing as a ...

US wages have been on the rise, but it sure hasn’t felt like it. For more than two years, persistent and pervasive inflation has taken big bites out of Americans’ paychecks.

With inflation easing, the wages of working-class Americans are finally moving into the plus column. Average hourly pay for production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up four-fifths of ...

By most accounts, wages have risen faster than inflation in the 2020s. Yet, for many Americans, it doesn’t feel that way. A closely watched Index of Consumer Sentiment, published by the ...

Wages outpace inflation. The Consumer Price Index, a measurement of the change in price of goods and services, has increased 20.8% since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Bureau of Labor ...

California prison officials have proposed doubling wages for incarcerated workers, from a minimum of 8 cents an hour to a minimum of 16 cents an hour.