Category Archives: Press

When Charlene Hess got sick with a digestive illness, she went to the hospital as an independent 67-year-old who lived alone in her gated community in Sacramento, Calif. When she left, she needed help — doing everything. With help from her daughter, Jennifer Gunn, the two discovered there are people — in this case two […]

Berkeley might soon join San Francisco as having the highest minimum wage in the U.S. The City Council on Tuesday is slated to take the first step toward hiking the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $10.55 an hour, in an effort to help low-end workers in one of the Bay Area’s more expensive […]

By Jeanna Smialek Gina Deluca says she was shocked when she moved to New Mexico from California and discovered that her hourly wage as a waitress fell to a federal minimum of $2.13. Her old state required at least $6.75 for all workers at the time. Read More

By John Arensmeyer Small businesses are oft-times at the center of political debates — whether they’re knockdown drag-out fights, amicable conversations or something in between. One of the reasons small businesses are central to so many issues and why politicians curry their favor is because of how integral they are to our economy. Small businesses […]

By Tom Post Two completely unrelated pieces of news hit me this morning and made me wonder about how we treat employees. Read More

NEW YORK — Small business owners support raising the federal minimum wage because they believe it will help the economy and, in turn, enable small companies to hire more workers. That’s the finding of a survey released Wednesday by the Small Business Majority, a group that advocates on behalf of small businesses. Two-thirds of the […]