Low fast-food wages come at high public cost, reports say. October 15, 2013. By Michael A. Fletcher. Taxpayers are spending nearly $7 billion a year to supplement the wages of fast-food workers, ...

The Low Cost of High Wages. Nick Schou | Posted on December 7, 2005. Dov Charney, founder and CEO of American Apparel, the Los Angeles-based purveyor of high-quality T-shirts and undergarments, ...

SACRAMENTO — Low wages paid by the fast-food industry come with a high public cost for California taxpayers, academics and advocates for the working poor told state lawmakers. Workers at ...

Wal-Mart’s legendary obsession with cost containment shows up in countless ways, including aggressive control of employee benefits and wages. Managing labor costs isn’t a crazy idea, of course ...

Raising the $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage would reduce the $7 billion a year in welfare that the University of California, Berkeley, estimates is paid to low-wage workers.

In fact, low wages paradoxically generate a variety of negative employee behaviors that add to the overall cost of doing business. Although managers rarely calculate these costs, they often turn ...

The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers. Six mistakes that companies make—and how they can do better by Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman. From the Magazine (May–June 2023) Brian Finke.

This year, the report focuses on “the high cost of low wages” in Nashville — that is, that the city experiences a high cost of living because of its large number of low-wage jobs.

In a radical cost-cutting move, Circuit City announced recently that it was dismissing 3,400 of its most experienced employees. While Circuit City's offer to hire many of those salespeople back at ...

As the minimum wage battle continues, a bit of perspective may be in order. Henry Ford raised his factory workers' wages from $2.25 to $5 per day in 1914. In 1913 the company had hired 52,000 men ...