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...
by Jade Gardener | Apr 29, 2016 | Personal Income
Since the end of 2015 and start of 2016 personal income has been a rather underwhelming. The March personal income indicator being released Friday, April 29th will give us an insight on expected trends in the economy. As the seasons goes from spring to summer here...
by Jade Gardener | Apr 21, 2016 | Personal Income
By: Jade Gardener On March 21 Aida Munoz, 28, of the Bronx rejoined the job market. The single mother of an elementary aged boy, Ms. Munoz considered herself under employed. As a member of the local metal lather unit 46, Munoz is now not only employed full time but...