Contrary to common beliefs, many Californians in low-wage jobs are in the later stages of their work lives. They also play a crucial role in taking care of the state’s aging population.
Low-income households are forking out more than half of their income on rent, analysis shows. Property data firm CoreLogic and ANZ bank found rents at the lower end of the market were rising faster than more premium offerings, with the 25th percentile rent lifting $53 a week in the past 12 months. The Housing Affordability […]
California will pilot a program to reduce climate emissions from buildings without displacing tenants. Facing a deficit, Gov. Newsom proposes slashing its budget by a third.
Eating healthy may not be an option for many low-income residents, according to a survey of Sarnia-area food prices.
Management companies sometimes deflect responsibility for the needs of older tenants with health problems, housing experts say.
The government has taken little initiative to collect data on such workers, which could have helped towards drafting a remote voting proposal.
A recent announcement of 245 new homes in Cornwall has sparked a debate among locals about the true meaning of 'affordable' housing and the impact of new developments.
As more cities and states debate abolishing subminimum wages for tipped workers, we’re keeping an eye on Washington, D.C., where the tip credit system is being phased out. Though food service staff shrunk last year, some current servers say their paychecks are much more stable. Plus, corporate defaults climb and the cost of Asian imports falls as the cost of goods from Mexico increases.
Tallahassee - Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a controversial bill that will prevent local governments from imposing wage requirements on contractors and requiring heat-exposure protections for workers.
A survey was conducted to determine the ten most desirable labor laws in other countries that Louisiana workers envy inspired by the "right to disconnect" law allowing employers to decline calls from their boss during their personal time.
We don’t have to agree or disagree with what happened at historic sites. But we do need to protect these old buildings because they are brutally honest in a way that our words can’t be.
An international team of health workers, vision specialists and sociologists reports that giving reading glasses to people with presbyopia in developing countries can boost incomes. Presbyopia is the leading cause of vision impairment and is usually attributable to aging. In their study, published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the group gave hundreds of pairs of reading glasses to people in Bangladeshi villages.