More important stats to think about before you vote exactly one month from today (OMG!): For the first time since January 2009, the nation's unemployment rate dropped below 8.0 percent to 7.8 percent. That's a [...]

Paid sick days save companies money in long run Re: "The fix is on D.C. sick leave audit," Sept. 30 The Employment Policies Institute's Michael Saltsman makes several false assumptions when he questions the validity [...]

Men have lost more jobs than women over the course of the recession—in large part because male-dominated industries like construction have suffered some of the most dramatic drops. But male employment has also recovered at [...]

"When Jeanne Majors, 63, took an early retirement in December 2005, she assumed that she would pick up a part-time job and be in good financial shape. She didn't know that her future would quickly [...]

Nearly four years after the District enacted a law that made it mandatory for most workplaces to offer paid sick days to employees, advocacy groups and researchers are ramping up pressure on the city to [...]

The gap between women’s and men’s pay remained about the same for the fourth straight year in 2011, as both genders got slammed by lower wages. Women earned 77 cents for every dollar a man [...]