by Max Zahn | Apr 6, 2018 | Personal Income
Americans stashed rather than spent their initial earnings boost from the recently passed Republican tax cuts, putting off the economic surge many onlookers expected. Consumer spending grew at a sluggish 0.2 percent pace in February, the first month companies adjusted...
by Max Zahn | Mar 5, 2018 | Personal Income
The Trump tax cuts spurred a sharp increase in Americans’ take-home pay at the outset of 2018. After-tax income grew at a rate of 0.9 percent in January, the fastest growth of any month since December 2012, according to a report released by the Bureau of Economic...
by Raul Hernandez | May 30, 2016 | Personal Income
by Raul Hernandez When Seattle lawmakers committed to gradually raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, Chase Gunther worried that his job prospects would suffer. Working as a line cook in a Seattle restaurant, Gunther was hesitant at the idea that other restaurant...
by George Goss | May 26, 2016 | Personal Income
By George Goss Cash-strapped New York laborers like Carlos Vega formed the rank and file of Fight for $15, the nationwide campaign to raise the minimum wage. But despite winning a once-inconceivable victory—convincing New York to raise its minimum wage to $15 by...
by Barbara Marcolini | May 23, 2016 | Personal Income
by Barbara Marcolini When warm summer weather arrives, inviting New Yorkers to go out, Annamaria celebrates. The busiest season for catering means the waitress will work seven days a week and save money for the winter, when work is scarce. Since she arrived...
by joshuakeefe | May 23, 2016 | Personal Income
By Josh Keefe Rackspace Hosting, a San Antonio-based cloud computing company, is one of many companies moving the world’s data to the cloud. Its OpenStack cloud computing platform was launched in 2012. IBM, Intel and Hewlett-Packard adopted the technology for use in...
