September 3, 2010 - LABOUR Holyrood hopeful Matt McLaughlin has launched a campaign for a Scottish living wage of £7.15 an hour. Read more.

September 1, 2010 - As Labor Day approaches, many Americans are breathing a sigh of relief for the extra day off. On a day that celebrates unions and the eight-hour work day, plenty of people are feeling like their hard work isn’t exactly paying off the way it used to. Read more.

September 1, 2010 - It was standing-room only in the Aldermanic Chambers of New Haven City Hall Wednesday evening, as Yale community members and New Haven residents gathered to hear Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones’ ’11 plan to raise the minimum wage for city employees and corpora Read more.

September 1, 2010 - City Hall dispatched department heads and teamed with business at a passionate five-and-a-half-hour hearing with dire new warnings to try to stop a proposed expansion of the New Haven’s living wage law, predicting skyrocketing costs and unforeseen lawsuit Read more.

September 1, 2010 - NEW HAVEN — A proposal to dramatically expand the city’s Living Wage Ordinance drew dozens of supporters to City Hall Tuesday night for a public hearing on the controversial matter. Read more.

August 31, 2010 - After being out of work for more than a year, Donna Ings, 47, finally landed a job in February as a home health aide with a company in Lexington, Mass., earning about $10 an hour. Read more.

August 31, 2010 - The editorial on Esquimalt council's consideration of a living wage for employees and contractors was short-sighted (Aug. 28). Read more.

August 31, 2010 - We all know that the cost of living on lower Vancouver Island is high, so high that it often drives young families out of our communities. Read more.

August 31, 2010 - New York has long been a place of tremendous inequality. An estimated 660,000 millionaires share the city with a million and half New Yorkers living below the poverty line and a shrinking middle class. Read more.

August 31, 2010 - Despite a few signs of improvement, New York City’s economic outlook is for continued high unemployment for many months to come. Unfortunately, this will be the defining characteristic for many average New Yorkers. Read more.

August 30, 2010 - Joanne Holbrook, a single mom in Peoria, has to alternate which bills she skips paying for the month because she doesn't make enough money working with individuals with developmental disabilities at People Advocating for Respect and Consideration. ' Read more.

August 25, 2010 - On Aug. 12, the city's Economic Development Corporation announced its decision pay $1 million to Charles River Associates, a Boston-based consulting firm, to conduct a survey on the economic effects of a living wage law. Read more.

August 25, 2010 - Good jobs, thriving communities, a healthy environment can all be achieved in this country if we raise our hands and admit that we really do care about the working poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the general middle income public; that we are ready, wi Read more.

August 25, 2010 - Paul Sonn of the National Employment Law Project discusses the EDC's rigged living wage study on the WBAI Evening News with host Andrea Sears. Read more.

August 24, 2010 - Construction union UCATT have welcomed an initiative by Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband to cut taxes paid by companies who guarantee paying a living wage to workers. Read more.

August 22, 2010 - Miliband Tackles Low Pay with Tax Cuts Offer for 'Living Wages' Read more.

August 21, 2010 - Workers Should Earn a Living Wage and Old Age Pensioners Should Enjoy Better Pensions Read more.

August 18, 2010 - There is an ironic injustice in it all: a billionaire commissions a million-dollar study to consider the life chances of the poor. Read more.

August 18, 2010 - How can the city create wider community benefit by financing the arena and approving the arena district? Read more.

August 17, 2010 - King County and a labor union representing public employees have agreed that workers will forgo cost-of-living wage increases in 2011. Read more.

August 16, 2010 - The Ethical Trading Initiative has urged retailers sourcing from Bangladesh to "play their part" to make sure workers aren't the first to suffer when brands squeeze costs, cut prices within contract, reduce orders or make last-minute changes with little w Read more.

August 16, 2010 - Thousands of public service workers turned out for a one day strike to demand higher salaries at a time when corporate CEOs and top government officials are enjoying skyrocketing pay packages. Read more.

August 16, 2010 - Recent opinions expressed on the pages of The Baltimore Sun make it seem like the proposed 25th Street Station project in Remington is a done deal — and that the proposal as written is the only choice for Baltimore. Read more.

August 13, 2010 - A fight over legislation that would require a minimum wage for workers in subsidized developments will probably wait until at least next spring. Read more.

August 13, 2010 - After much fanfare, and a considerable time for meditation, EDC has announced it has selected a consultant for its ballyhooed study of the living wage concept. Read more.

August 12, 2010 - Proponents of a living wage mandate believe the study is a delay tactic by officials intent on killing momentum for two City Council bills linking wage mandates to city-funded projects that have each gained a majority of support from city council members. Read more.

August 12, 2010 - The city Economic Development Corp. has selected Boston-based Charles River Associates to conduct a $1 million study on the impact of living wage policies across the country and how they might affect the Big Apple’s economy. Read more.

August 9, 2010 - A front-page article in the Wall Street Journal presents a fascinating mystery: Despite persistent high unemployment, some employers are having a tough time filling jobs. Read more.

August 9, 2010 - Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young signed a petition today asking the council to reconsider a living wage bill introduced by Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke. Read more.

August 9, 2010 - Investment in real job creation and a living wage for everyone is what’s needed instead of hand-ringing about ‘long-term welfare dependency’ and trying to force people off benefits into scarce, low-paid work, the Green Party said today. Read more.

August 8, 2010 - Campaigners against sweat shops have called on Britain’s biggest High Street retailers to support higher wages for factory workers in Bangladesh, after a week of violent clashes there. Read more.

August 5, 2010 - In his speech delivered to the AFL-CIO Executive Board on August 4, 2010, President Obama explains how providing living wages are important for the economy and for all working families Read more.

August 4, 2010 - A majority of New York’s city council members back a bill that requires developers who get public tax subsides to pay at least $10 an hour for the permanent jobs created. Read more.

August 3, 2010 - After Hong Kong’s legislature approves a Statutory Minimum Wage bill, trade unions and employer associations are engaged in a heated debate. Hong Kong’s Catholic diocese tells the various parties and public opinion that the heart of the matter is not econ Read more.

July 29, 2010 - The Living Wage NYC Campaign says a majority of city council members in New York now support the Fair Wages For New Yorkers Act. Read more.

July 29, 2010 - Garment-workers unions and labour-rights organisations have reacted with indignation and disappointment at the newly-proposed increase of minimum wage in Bangladesh' garment industry. Read more.

July 28, 2010 - On Monday July 26, 2010, every member of the Nassau County Legislature voted to protect a $1 Living Wage increase for thousands of low-income Long Island workers. Read more.

July 26, 2010 - Bowing to pressure from auditors, the organization that oversees economic development in New York City has agreed to hand over more than $20 million in rental payments each year to the city. Read more.

July 26, 2010 - NEW YORK - The battle over the Living Wage Law is expected to heat up again today in Nassau County on Long Island. A special session of country lawmakers has been called to determine whether a one-dollar-an hour pay increase can be put on hold. Read more.

July 26, 2010 - I have great respect for Jay Hancock and in the words of an old country western song was almost persuaded by his reasoning on why a living wage hourly salary for 3,000 Baltimoreans laboring at big box retailers is counterproductive to the local economy (" Read more.

July 24, 2010 - No Happy Anniversary for Minimum Wage Workers July 24: Value of minimum wage lower than 1956; Faith, community, business coalition calls for raise Read more.

July 23, 2010 - 'We believe that the Living Wage for Families Campaign will help reduce poverty and foster healthier communities.' - Bruce Cook. Read more.

July 23, 2010 - Baltimore’s living wage bill sputtered in committee Thursday night, but the councilwoman who pushed the measure said Friday she will fight on. Read more.

July 22, 2010 - The Baltimore City Council is slated to hear testimony today on a controversial proposal to require large retailers in the city to pay employees a "living wage" — currently, $10.59 per hour. Read more.

July 21, 2010 - One day before a City Council subcommittee will meet to consider living-wage legislation governing large employers, a public opinion and strategy firm called Lake Research Partners has released a poll indicating that Baltimoreans support such legislation Read more.

July 21, 2010 - The Baltimore City Council is considering a new law to guarantee that the city’s major retailers, like Walmart and 7-Eleven, pay employees decent, living wages. Read more.

July 19, 2010 - West Hollywood, California (July 19, 2010) - The consequences of local Unite Here 11 persuading the West Hollywood city council to impose a Living Wage codicil as part of the development agreement with the Sunset/Doheny Hotel developer Richard Weintraub a Read more.

July 18, 2010 - 'Living wage' fight brings both positive and negative attention to retail union chief Stuart Appelbaum Read more.

July 16, 2010 - Later this month, the New York City Industrial Development Agency will consider lucrative subsidy packages for two of the world’s largest corporations: “big four” accounting firm Deloitte, LLP, and Thomson Reuters, a multimedia news and information provid Read more.

July 14, 2010 - This June the City of Chicago approved Wal-Mart's bid to open up dozens of new facilities, beginning with grocery stores in the city's chronically underserved South side. Read more.

July 14, 2010 - Working a low-wage retail job in New York City isn’t easy, but for people like Romeo Ilboudou, a stock manager at the high-end clothing retailer Scoop NYC, discrimination, wage theft, and hazardous conditions made it even lousier. Read more.

July 13, 2010 - An hour delay and an oppressively stuffy Buffalo Common Council chamber Tuesday evening heated up an already-spirited public debate over how the city should proceed on its massive Canal Side development at Buffalo's Inner Harbor. Read more.

July 13, 2010 - Call them prescient: A week after the news breaks that Wal-Mart has finally found a viable place to locate in the District, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has a poll out with evidence that D.C. residents support making big box stores pay a l Read more.

July 12, 2010 - The White House is looking at a new policy that would give an advantage in bidding on government contracts to companies that offer generous benefits and good pay. Read more.

July 12, 2010 - Some 2,500 people work at the retail shops and food outlets at O’Hare and Midway airports, and most of them do not make a living wage by the standard of the Chicago Jobs and Living Wage Ordinance ($11.03 an hour). Read more.

July 9, 2010 - The city’s largest merchants would be forced to pay their workers at least $10.57 an hour, more than three bucks above what state law requires, under a bill pending before Baltimore City Council. Read more.

July 9, 2010 - Michele Mattingly writes an interesting essay on the cost of living in NYC-and utilizes a, "Self-Sufficiency Standard," as a guide: "Last week saw the release of the 2010 New York City Self-Sufficiency Standard, a report that determines how much it takes Read more.

July 8, 2010 - Last week saw the release of the 2010 New York City Self-Sufficiency Standard, a report that determines how much it takes to get by in the city. Read more.

July 8, 2010 - All cleaners working on London Underground are now to be paid the so-called London Living Wage. Read more.

July 7, 2010 - The retailer brings hope and change to a struggling neighborhood. Read more.

July 6, 2010 - Tube union RMT said on Wednesday that it had secured a massive victory for low-paid workers as London Underground cleaners won their fight for the London living wage. Read more.

July 6, 2010 - By requiring federal contractors to treat workers fairly, such as by paying them a living wage, the president could create far-reaching positive effects on the economy. Read more.

July 2, 2010 - Three measures seek to raise prevailing wages for contracted personnel at public utilities, increase penalties for employer who violate labor laws and offer protections for domestic workers. Read more.

July 1, 2010 - For the first time in the nation, Wal-Mart has agreed to a higher wage standard at a new store to be built in Chicago, Illinois. The retail giant’s commitment was part of an agreement to assure City Council support for zoning approvals, on which the Counc Read more.

June 28, 2010 - This weekend, in response to the hottest legislative issue in City Hall right now, the Daily News ran two opinion pieces on a bill that would guarantee living wages to all workers at city-subsidized development projects. Read more.

June 28, 2010 - For New York City families, increases in the cost of living have far outpaced wages, according to a report to be released Tuesday by a national organization working to advance economic equality for women and their families. Read more.

June 28, 2010 - Cuts will not stop efforts to end in-work poverty, say campaigners Read more.

June 27, 2010 - Should working people in New York City be guaranteed a living wage when their employers are recipients of large subsidies from the taxpayers? That is the central question at stake for the City Council and Mayor Bloomberg. Read more.

June 17, 2010 - "One thing we know: If women can't make a living wage, they can't support their families," said Carol Penick, executive director of the Women's Fund of Mississippi. Read more.

June 16, 2010 - City could get stores if Daley breaks logjam on living wage demand Read more.

June 16, 2010 - Retail Action Project members Irene R Romero and Tyi Jones speak about living wages and the importance of of the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act! Both have worked at Yellow Rat Bastard and have seen the benefits of unionization. Read more.

June 14, 2010 - Metro government's lowest-paid employees stand to make an extra $3 an hour under a living-wage measure approved by a key Metro Council committee today after a noisy debate. Read more.

June 14, 2010 - The poor need not always be with us. That goal can be achieved if we ensure that workers are paid enough to feed their families. Read more.

June 13, 2010 - Increasing workers’ wages to a living wage (now $11.35/hour for Buncombe County) provides just the sort of stimulus our local economy requires. Research demonstrates that workers who earn a living wage rely less on social services and public benefit progr Read more.

June 11, 2010 - Miami Beach's lowest paid employees will see a pay raise nearly a decade in the making after elected officials voted to obey the city's own laws and increase its living wage. Read more.

June 9, 2010 - As Ruben Diaz Jr. stepped onto a sidewalk in the South Bronx, his shiny black shoes the color of his air-conditioned Tahoe, a flock of violins began to play. Read more.

June 9, 2010 - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Junior and President of the Real Estate Board of New York Steve Spinola debate the proposed living wage bill on Wednesday's edition of "Inside City Hall." Read more.

June 9, 2010 - Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, today announced a 25p increase in the London "living wage", bringing to £7.85 the hourly rate that Londoners are judged to require to lift them out of poverty. Read more.

June 9, 2010 - Crain's is reporting that EDC, of all people-is commissioning a study on the impact of living wage. What's next, a study by DEP-an agency with a long advocacy against the use of food waste disposers-on the impact, what else, of food waste disposers on the Read more.

June 8, 2010 - Tensions are rising over living wage. The Bloomberg administration's plan to study the effects of living wage laws came under attack today from a set of Council members and City Comptroller John Liu, who called the effort a "sham." Read more.

June 8, 2010 - A host of city officials today accused the Bloomberg administration of trying to rig the results of a living wage study, Erin Einhorn reports from our City Hall Bureau: Read more.

June 8, 2010 - A study to examine the economic viability of a living wage requirement was approved by the city’s Industrial Development Agency board today, but city officials, including Comptroller John Liu, are already raising questions about whether it will be truly i Read more.

June 8, 2010 - Economic Development Corp. gets $1 million to study impact of pay floors for city subsidized projects; comptroller and council members criticize effort. Read more.

June 7, 2010 - A Living Wage Rally was called by the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store union on the steps of City Hall in New York City on May 25. Read more.

June 6, 2010 - Having gutted so many small, rural communities of their local stores, Wal-Mart then moved to the burbs where they performed well and now they are into the final phase of their growth plan – the invasion of urban areas. Read more.

June 3, 2010 - ALBANY — The state Senate passed a bill this week that would require public utility companies to pay prevailing wage for cleaners, security guards, doormen and other service workers, but opponents of the bill worry that the added cost may be passed along Read more.

June 3, 2010 - When it comes to labor issues, the policy mantra during recessions - and recoveries - is that wages are off the table. The argument sounds formidable: the economy is too weak, employers are only starting to dip their toes in the water, and any attempt to Read more.

June 3, 2010 - Politicians are rallying behind the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, which would mandate living wages be paid at development projects receiving government subsidies. Read more.

June 2, 2010 - Leadership contender, Ed Miliband has launched his 'Living Wage' campaign to highlight why, when some of the leading company chief executives can make millions, there security guard or cleaner, doesn't get a living wage. Read more.

June 2, 2010 - In a city of secret economies, few are as vital to the life of New York as the business of nannies, the legions of women who emancipate high-powered professionals and less glamorous working parents from the duties of daily child care. Read more.

June 2, 2010 - With the shift in our city’s economy from manufacturing to service jobs, the percentage of low-wage workers has reached record, if not epidemic, levels. Nearly one-third of working New Yorkers are struggling to stretch their paychecks to cover high prices Read more.

June 2, 2010 - City Officials and Community Groups demand Fair Wages Read more.

June 2, 2010 - For too long, the Bronx has been tagged as the county with some of the highest poverty rates in the nation. This is not going to change if workers are earning poverty wages. Read more.

June 1, 2010 - A new study confirms this isn't an easy area to live in for people who don't rake in a ton of cash, not that the information is much surprise to residents. Read more.

May 31, 2010 - A monumental shift regarding how developers relate to working class New Yorkers was introduced in the City Council this week. Read more.

May 30, 2010 - Readers, I need your assistance. Please help me understand why a proposed bill that would guarantee a living wage for New Yorkers working on city-subsidized projects is controversial. Because I really don't understand. Read more.

May 28, 2010 - In a city starkly divided between the haves and have nots, community activists are demanding an honest day's pay for New Yorkers who work at businesses profitting on the taxpayers' dime. Read more.

May 28, 2010 - At a press conference held on the steps of City Hall today May 25th, workers, community groups, and elected officials met to launch the Living Wage NYC campaign, spearheaded by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Ret Read more.

May 27, 2010 - Developers lost out on the chance to build a mall at the Kingsbridge Armory because they wouldn’t guarantee a living wage for workers there. Read more.

May 26, 2010 - Two Bronx politicians are picking up the torch from the living wage campaign that was at the heart of last year's battle over the Kingsbridge Armory. Read more.

May 26, 2010 - A few weeks ago, a small city just east of Vancouver did something unprecedented in Canada—it enacted the country’s first living wage bylaw. Read more.

May 26, 2010 - With a rally on the steps of City Hall, a broad coalition of lawmakers, community groups and labor unions has launched the Living Wage NYC campaign, centering around a bill introduced to the City Council on Tuesday. Read more.

May 25, 2010 - More than 20 City Council members are signing on to a bill that would require workers at any new city-subsidized real estate project to receive a "living wage," $10 an hour plus benefits or $11.50 an hour without benefits. Read more.

May 25, 2010 - A "living wage" bill is being introduced in the City Council today, led by a set of Bronx elected officials, and the legislation itself is now up on the Council's web site. Read more.

May 25, 2010 - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg walked toward City Hall on Tuesday, squinting into the sun, as dozens of protesters standing on the steps turned toward him to shout a battle cry. Read more.

May 25, 2010 - Mayor Bloomberg's comments on a new bill being considered by the City Council are not just disingenuous, they're also flat out wrong. Yesterday, Bloomberg slammed the new bill--which would require employers to pay living wages to all workers at city-subsi Read more.

May 25, 2010 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg voiced strong opposition Monday to a City Council bill that would require developers on city-subsidized projects to pay workers at least $10 an hour, saying it would prevent businesses and their jobs from spreading into the neighbo Read more.

May 25, 2010 - Mayor Bloomberg picked an opportune time — at least for retail union boss Stuart Appelbaum — to arrive back at City Hall this morning after hosting a tech-business event on West Houston St. Read more.

May 25, 2010 - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday laced into a City Council proposal to require developers getting city subsidies of $100,000 or more to pay employees $11.50 an hour, or $10 with benefits. Read more.

May 24, 2010 - As the City Council prepares tomorrow to field a bill on higher wages for workers on projects that receive public funding, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is funding a cable ad to draw attention to the subject. Read more.

May 24, 2010 - Developers on city-subsidized projects would be required to pay workers at least $10 an hour under a City Council bill expected to be introduced this week, months after council members scuttled plans for a mall inside the Bronx's Kingsbridge Armory becaus Read more.

May 24, 2010 - New York City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito discusses how living wage and prevailing wage can help both the bottom lines of businesses and workers and their families. Read more.

May 24, 2010 - At a May 24 Marketplace of Ideas forum, Comptroller John Liu issues his support for City Council efforts to improve job and wage standards for employers that receive taxpayer subsidies. Read more.

May 24, 2010 - Two City Council members from the Bronx are set to introduce legislation that would require developers who receive taxpayer subsidies to pay workers at least $10 an hour, plus benefits. Read more.

May 24, 2010 - In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $10 an hour, nearly $3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receivin Read more.

May 24, 2010 - NEW YORK - A coalition of City Council members plans to introduce a bill this week that would guarantee workers in public development projects at least $10 an hour citywide. Read more.

May 23, 2010 - A fierce debate over city-mandated wage levels that derailed the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx late last year is set to spread across the five boroughs. A bill that will force projects that receive any subsidies from the city to pay Read more.

May 19, 2010 - Robert C. Lieber, the former Wall Street executive who has guided the Bloomberg administration’s economic development efforts during the recession, told his staff on Wednesday that he would step down as deputy mayor in June. Read more.

May 18, 2010 - With the Senate on the verge of voting on financial reform legislation, there are many who fret about the impact that reform will have on New York City's economy. Read more.

May 14, 2010 - Breaking away from the electeds for just a minute, The Daily Politics caught up recently with Stu Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Read more.

May 14, 2010 - The Good Jobs Bill along with Paid Sick Days, and the upcoming Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act is designed to ensure that City policy, resources and money are harnessed to promote responsible development that will make it possible for New Yorkers to live d Read more.

May 14, 2010 - A series of new realities about the places Americans live "further put to rest the old perceptions of cities as declining, poor, minority places set amid young, white wealthy suburbs" announces a new study by the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookin Read more.

May 13, 2010 - Staff at the National Gallery have staged a lunchtime walk-out to demand the £7.60 per hour London Living Wage. Read more.

May 13, 2010 - Miami Beach's lowest paid workers are one step closer to a hard-fought raise. Read more.

May 12, 2010 - Labor and Community Groups Rally for Living Wage and Good Jobs Read more.

May 5, 2010 - Baltimore City is currently considering a bill which would require major retailers — any company making more than $10 million a year in profit — to pay workers a "living wage" of at least $10 per hour. Is this a courageous and innovative stand for workers Read more.

May 4, 2010 - There is a spirit of resistance amongst the millions of underpaid and overworked New Yorkers, and once a year, thousands of them join together in the streets of Manhattan to celebrate the real International Workers’ Holiday, May Day. Read more.

May 3, 2010 - Opponents of Remington Walmart had asked for living wage stipulation Read more.

April 28, 2010 - Despite the recession, a number of large development projects are still in the works in New York City. Plans are under way for two large housing developments on the Williamsburg waterfront and the city is also working on plans to develop new, mixed-use pr Read more.

April 28, 2010 - News that Walmart is considering the Related Cos.-owned Gateway II shopping center reprises the battle between the developer and a retail workers union over the Kingsbridge Armory last year. Read more.

April 27, 2010 - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suffered an embarrassment last December when the City Council rejected a major developer’s plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars transforming an unused armory in the Bronx, the city’s poorest borough, into a shopping mal Read more.

April 27, 2010 - The agency responsible for economic development under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has failed to turn over to the city more than $125 million in payments, taxes and fees, according to an audit conducted by the city comptroller to be released on Wednesday. Read more.

April 21, 2010 - During a meeting of the New York City Central Labor Council late last year, union leader Barbara Bowen congratulated a coalition of service-industry unions and community groups for pushing the City Council to defeat the Bloomberg administration's redevelo Read more.

April 15, 2010 - President Obama states that his most important job is helping the American worker find a job with a living wage. Read more.

April 13, 2010 - This is the continuation of a "Subsidies in the City." Read more.

April 13, 2010 - ix years ago, Manhattan Laminates received tax breaks from the city's Industrial Development Agency, the financing arm of the city's Economic Development Corp. In a deal that will span 25 years ending in 2029, Laminates has already received $197,000 in pu Read more.

April 12, 2010 - Hundreds of thousands of workers are being cheated by U.S. employers who blatantly violate the laws that are supposed to guarantee workers decent wages, hours and working conditions. Read more.

April 8, 2010 - City comptroller favors living wage requirement in government-subsidized realty developments; also won't rule out supporting added taxes on Wall Street bonuses. Read more.

April 6, 2010 - The City Council might require buildings that receive tax breaks to pay their staff higher wages. The real estate industry opposes the idea. Where does the mayor stand? Read more.

April 6, 2010 - Many of the most economically marginalized workers -- those with everything at risk, including their jobs, their livelihoods, and their ability to provide for themselves and their families -- must additionally contend with such unethical, illegal and mora Read more.

April 5, 2010 - In a 180-degreee turn from a Labor Department under the Bush administration that tried to gut overtime rules for millions of workers, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis has unveiled a new campaign to inform workers about their pay rights and to put a stop to wag Read more.

April 5, 2010 - The Labor Department is encouraging low-wage and immigrant workers to turn in employers who are shortchanging their pay, as part of an expanding effort to enforce wage and hour rules. Read more.

April 5, 2010 - For more than a year, an exhaustive battle raged over the future of developer Larry Silverstein's towers at the World Trade Center, with the Port Authority, Silverstein Properties, the city and the state fighting over just what to build, and how to fill a Read more.

April 5, 2010 - At a time of massive revenue shortfalls and harsh budget cuts for New York, it's rare to find a policy that produces public benefits without painful costs. Read more.

April 4, 2010 - Real-estate mogul Steve Ross found one of the few upsides to owning one of the city's premier properties in a severe recession -- he won steep tax reductions for his Time Warner Center holdings when he joined a record number of property owners challenging Read more.

April 3, 2010 - When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the world stopped for a moment. Shaken, confused but searching for a way to continue the fight, civil rights leaders decided to continue King's Poor People's Campaign by building a tent city Read more.

March 29, 2010 - Nearly a billion dollars were stolen in New York City last year, & the thieves aren’t even worried about getting caught. Read more.

March 26, 2010 - The push for the creation of a city wide living wage law is beginning to gear up-and the Observer has the story... Read more.

March 23, 2010 - Frustrated by what they say are plutocratic policies that have squeezed the neediest New Yorkers, the City Council’s most liberal members are establishing a new bloc to champion a progressive agenda on housing, economic development, labor and civil rights Read more.

March 22, 2010 - More than 200 people drawn from the capital’s largest civic alliance called on Oxford Street department stores Saturday to pay the hourly wage described by London’s mayor as “the basic pay rate” for the city. Read more.

March 13, 2010 - Advocates for immigrants and the poor want the state to crack down on a type of robbery rampant in New York: wage theft. Read more.

March 12, 2010 - A coalition of labor unions, immigrant advocacy groups and nonprofit organizations in New York announced their support on Friday for newly introduced legislation that would greatly increase penalties against employers that violate minimum-wage and overtim Read more.

March 12, 2010 - At a SoHo press conference, politicians, union leaders and workers vow to fight back against employers who fail to pay a fair wage. Read more.

March 7, 2010 - The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent. Read more.

March 3, 2010 - The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. Read more.

February 26, 2010 - The White House is looking at a new policy that would give an advantage in bidding on government contracts to companies that offer generous benefits and good pay. Read more.

February 25, 2010 - The Obama administration is planning to use the government’s enormous buying power to prod private companies to improve wages and benefits for millions of workers, according to White House officials and several interest groups briefed on the plan. Read more.

February 10, 2010 - For the second time in as many days, Comptroller John Liu has announced plans to revamp a process related to real estate development. Read more.

February 4, 2010 - Optimism dominated Obama’s State of the Union address. He confidently stated that the financial system had stabilized, and economic growth had begun. Read more.

February 3, 2010 - Labor Secretary Hilda Solis defended her agency’s emphasis on enforcement against Republican charges that regulations hinder job creation at a Capitol Hill appearance on Wednesday, February 3. Read more.

January 29, 2010 - If you're one of about 317,000 unlucky New Yorkers, there's a good chance your boss screwed you this week. The average low-wage worker in the city loses approximately $58 a week—a total loss of more than $3,000 a year—thanks to employers who see cheating Read more.

January 28, 2010 - More than half of the low-wage workers in New York City are routinely being cheated of some of the meager pay that is due them, according to a report to be released on Thursday by the National Employment Law Project. Read more.

January 28, 2010 - Study finds low-income workers lose almost 15% of their earnings due to employers failing to pay required minimum wage, overtime and other protections. Read more.

January 22, 2010 - It took years of dogged community organizing and shrewd coalition-building around a clear vision for the city’s largest armory to position the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance, or KARA, to take advantage of timing, luck and maybe begin re-writing Read more.

January 21, 2010 - Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s State of the City address yesterday scored high marks for encouraging small-business growth, helping low-income New Yorkers with bank accounts, and aiding teens who’ve been jailed. Read more.

January 21, 2010 - New York City can revive its economy by helping Haitians and other immigrants get small business loans, creating jobs and other programs for at-risk youths, boosting anti-foreclosure efforts, and setting up neighborhood credit unions, Mayor Michael Bloomb Read more.

January 18, 2010 - As the nation commemorates King's 81st birthday today, they say he should best be remembered for his career-long focus on the poor. Read more.

January 15, 2010 - First came Kingsbridge: A highly unusual vote at the City Council, which shattered an approximately $300 million proposal from the Related Companies to morph a Bronx armory into a mall. Then came the Queens Center Mall: A call to beef up wages at one of t Read more.

January 13, 2010 - "It's better than nothing ..." That was the reaction of Walter García, a restaurant cashier in Jackson Heights, Queens, when we told him about the federal minimum wage increase that became effective on Friday Read more.

January 11, 2010 - Nearly a third of all adult workers in New York City are employed in low-wage jobs, but the Bronx is in a league of its own. Read more.

January 11, 2010 - British historian E.H. Carr once said something to the effect that while no serious scholar makes up the facts, they all choose which facts “to put on stage.” Read more.

January 10, 2010 - The City Council's December decision to turn down the Kingsbridge Armory project has been described as a stunning blow to developers. Crain's editorialized that “there are only losers here” (“An unmistakable political shift,” Jan. 4). Read more.

January 8, 2010 - Members of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance (KARA) watched in hushed suspense from the visitors gallery above the City Council chamber on Dec. 14. Read more.

January 7, 2010 - A retail developer in New York City has lost out on about $60 million in public subsidies because it and Mayor Mike Bloomberg refused to promise a living wage. Read more.

January 7, 2010 - Cash-strapped communities have a message for corporations that promised jobs in return for tax breaks: A deal's a deal. Read more.

January 6, 2010 - The beginning of the year also marks the beginning of a new City Council term, which means new projects and legislation in the works for the city, the Bronx, and the Riverdale/ Kingsbridge area. Read more.

January 6, 2010 - Can retail workers organize? Can they get a living wage? These may be philosophical questions, but to the thousands of retail workers who rely on their wages to support themselves, they are at the center of a grim reality. Read more.

January 5, 2010 - The Queens Center Mall has received more than $48 million in tax breaks since 2004. “The mall stands to receive an additional $70 million to $80 million in tax breaks during the next 10 years. Read more.

December 24, 2009 - More than 25 workers in varying jobs at Elmhurst’s Queens Center Mall joined advocacy group Make the Road New York and several borough elected officials Sunday to protest their low wages and lack of benefits. Read more.

December 22, 2009 - Economic indicators may be bouncing back this holiday season, but the working poor aren't so lucky. As they're forced to work harder for less pay and bills pile up, the floor seems to be falling out from under them. Read more.

December 22, 2009 - The City Council dealt a final blow on Monday to a developer’s plans to build a mall inside the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, a significant defeat for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on a key project. Read more.

December 21, 2009 - As shoppers scurried to snatch up last minute gifts inside the Queens Center Mall, local elected officials and community organizations painted the shopping destination's landlord, Macerich, as the latest Grinch in the ongoing fight for living wages -- jus Read more.

December 20, 2009 - A key skirmish in the battle over living wage jobs takes place in Elmhurst at 11 a.m. today, when a cluster of community and labor organizations and local pols will gather at the main entrance of Queens Center Mall for a press conference condemning low wa Read more.

December 15, 2009 - By all measures, a press conference early Monday afternoon on the steps of City Hall appeared to be a victory celebration. Read more.

December 15, 2009 - When aides to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently sought backing from City Council members for a key development project, they heard something they were not accustomed to: No. Read more.

December 11, 2009 - Even if a deal is struck today on developing the Kingsbridge Armory into a $324-million shopping mall, the "living wage" dispute that threatened to derail it will continue to roil City Hall. Read more.

December 8, 2009 - This week, the New York City Council will vote on whether to proceed with one of the most exciting development projects in the city – the Kingsbridge Armory, the giant castle in the northwest Bronx that has been vacant for years. Read more.

December 8, 2009 - On Wednesday, December 9th the New York City Council will vote on whether to approve the proposed redevelopment of the historic Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a retail shopping mall. But unless the project's developer agrees to guarantee living wage Read more.

December 7, 2009 - As he begins his third and final term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has the chance to address one of the greatest economic and job crisis in New York's history and, in doing so, decide his own place in City Hall history. Read more.

November 29, 2009 - After promising “good jobs” during a recent campaign, how could a man with so many billions, and now fresh from a re-election victory, oppose a $10-an-hour wage? Read more.

November 19, 2009 - The pitched battle over how, when and whether to develop the Kingsbridge armory in the Bronx brings New York City to a crossroads. Read more.

November 17, 2009 - For a good hour at a zoning committee hearing on the contentious plan to redevelop the Bronx’s Kingsbridge Armory into a mall, council member after council member battered the Bloomberg administration and the developer Read more.

November 17, 2009 - When the city gives a private developer public subsidies, the surrounding community should benefit from the deal. In the Bronx, community residents are fighting to ensure that a new retail development, which is receiving tens of millions in public subsidi Read more.

November 2, 2009 - New York City has an economy shaped like an hourglass, with a large number of high-paying jobs on one end, a whole lot of low-wage jobs on the other end, and a narrow midsection where the middle-class jobs are supposed to be. Read more.

October 29, 2009 - Less than a week before Election Day, 5 citywide candidates for public office—minus billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg—spoke at a forum at Trinity Church on Wall St. on poverty, hunger and homelessness in New York City this afternoon. Read more.

October 26, 2009 - Boom and bust still characterize the local economy, and despite many ways in which Mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure has been an improvement over Guiliani's record, his economic leadership similarly has fallen short in ensuring that the benefits of growth Read more.

October 19, 2009 - Lately, more and more city governments, prodded by local activists, have been using their gatekeeper powers to successfully promote growth with equity, starting with wages. Read more.

September 15, 2009 - When I was elected to serve as Bronx borough president in April, I made it clear that I would be a fighter for the 1.4 million residents of this great borough. Being a fighter means standing up for what is right and just, and refusing to bow down to speci Read more.

August 27, 2009 - When city tax dollars are used to subsidize a private developer, community residents should benefit from the deal. That is the principle behind the fight to bring living wage jobs to the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx. Read more.

August 25, 2009 - Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz will soon announce whether he is going to support The Related Companies' application to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory. Read more.

July 17, 2009 - While the forthcoming increase in the minimum wage has workers rejoicing and retailers grimacing, the living wage debate continues to fester. Read more.