Efficiency wages boost productivity by paying above market rates to retain skilled workers, reduce turnover, and foster loyalty. Learn how it impacts business success.

Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...

On the campaign trail, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani pledged to increase the city’s minimum hourly wage, from $16.50 to $30, by 2030. The increase would be phased in, with automatic annual hikes ...

A wave of state-level increases will lift minimum wages in many parts of the United States in 2026, affecting workers from coast to coast. While the federal baseline remains $7.25 per hour under the ...

Abstract: In practical applications, the difficulty of multi-view data annotation poses a challenge for multi-view semi-supervised learning. Although some graph-based approaches have been proposed for ...

More than 5 million student loan borrowers in default may have a portion of their paychecks withheld. On May 5, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education announced that nearly 195,000 student loan ...

We offer a unifying empirical model of covered and uncovered currency premia, interest rates and spot and forward exchange rates, both in the cross section and time series of currencies. We find that ...

One of the many ways that business leaders are adapting to inflation and economic uncertainty is by helping employees with innovative payroll tools. Earned wage access programs— powered by fintech ...

While workers across many jurisdictions have already seen minimum wage increases with the start of the year, thousands more across over a dozen cities and states will see a pay bump heading into July ...

The Trump administration is touting gains made by blue-collar workers in the first few months since the start of President Donald Trump's term began in January. Administration officials noted that ...

In President Donald J. Trump’s first five months in office, real wages for hourly workers have seen their largest increase under any administration in nearly 60 years — and we’re just getting started ...