When Marie-Pier Tremblay moved from Quebec to Boston in 2012, working a job was not in the cards. There were legal hurdles to working in […]
Minimum Wage
Rising Inflation Squeezes Low Income Workers
In early March, Mayte Molina, 34, did a double-take at her higher-than-normal supermarket bill. Quickly adding how it would offset her weekly budget, she put […]
What else is stopping Puerto Rico from recovering economically, besides the delay of hurricane relief funds?
After completing her master’s degree in advertising in 2018, Camila Del Pilar thought that getting a job in her field would be easy. It wasn’t. […]
Five Things To Watch in Puerto Rico’s Economic Activity Index
At the end of this month, the Economic Development Bank of Puerto Rico (EDB), will publish March’s Economic Activity Index (EAI) of the island. This […]
The Cost of Minimum Wage in Home Care
For JoAnn Holmes, a 65-year-old home health aide with 30 years of experience, getting by on $10 an hour was always difficult. It got harder […]
Restaurant prices soar in Seattle as $15 moves closer
When Tom Douglas first heard about the plans of raising the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 an hour, he knew what it would mean […]