living wage

At the conclusion of our weeklong Tacoma Connects series, we sat down with three influential residents to get their thoughts on the future of Tacoma.

Low-income residents Washington state are disproportionately burdened by debt, according to a new report by the grassroots advocacy group Alliance for a…

If you’re a restaurant server in Texas or Mississippi, you probably earn $2.13 an hour from your employer. That’s the federal minimum wage for people who…

Since San Francisco set a higher minimum wage for its airport workers back in 2000, the city has seen a positive effect, officials from San Francisco…

At the beginning of the year, the minimum wage in the city of SeaTac jumped to $15 an hour for workers at large hotels and parking lot companies. But…

Port of Seattle commissioners are pushing back against pressure from other elected officials to adopt the SeaTac living wage ordinance at Sea-Tac…

Airport workers are urging Port of Seattle commissioners to adopt the $15 per hour minimum wage that voters in the city of SeaTac passed last November.…

Seattle Mayor-Elect Ed Murray? has issued an executive order to move toward a $15 per hour minimum wage for all city employees.Announcing the order at a…

Seattle’s newly-elected Socialist city council member KshamaSawant isn’t wasting any time. At a news conference Tuesday, Sawant boldly promised “2014 will…

Dozens of fast-food workers and activists took to the streets Thursday for a day-long march in support of $15 minimum wage.The march began in SeaTac,…