TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese wage earners' cash earnings rose in December and declines in real wages slowed for a second month, a positive sign for policymakers' plan to re-charge a recession-hit ...

Wages still haven't caught up with inflation, four years after the pandemic caused prices to soar and created a cost-of-living crisis for many households, a new study finds. Americans on average are ...

I’m less convinced about this K-shaped recovery than other people are,” Harvard's Jason Furman says. But look at the bottom of the scale.

Americans have consistently expressed concern about increased living costs, especially after inflation peaked at a four-decade high of about 9% in summer 2022. Although the year-over-year inflation ...

Yet, for many Americans, it doesn’t feel that way. A closely watched Index of Consumer Sentiment, published by the University of Michigan, fell to 67.8 in February, its lowest mark since last summer.

Two measures that economists most commonly use for inflation-adjusted wages show that wages are higher now than five decades ago. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.’s office pointed to a different dataset ...

The federal minimum wage has lost the ability to keep workers out of poverty; but this November, voters in multiple states will have the chance to ensure better wages. Activists in the restaurant and ...

Wages have largely lagged behind inflation over the past few years, a shortfall attributed to a post-pandemic price surge the effects of which continue to reverberate through the economy. According to ...

Higher minimum wages will go into effect on Jan. 1 across 22 states, giving an economic boost to almost 10 million workers, according to a recent estimate. The higher baseline wages will deliver ...

When corporations fail to pay workers for overtime, don't pay workers for all of their hours or pay below minimum wage, they are violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Often, these violations are ...

Looking at the duration of Joe Biden’s presidency and using the standard measures for comparing inflation and wages, inflation has increased 19.3% since January 2021 while wages have risen 16.1%. When ...