inequality

employees

Why raising the minimum wage isn’t the best way to reduce inequality

Walmart is giving more than one million of its employees a raise later this month as part of a plan that will lift all but its newest hires to at least $10 an hour.

women

Lawmakers, not lawbreakers: director Sarah Gavron on ‘Suffragette’

British film director Sarah Gavron's latest feature film, "Suffragette," which opened in the U.S. Friday, and debuts in East Coast theaters this weekend, is a gritty period-piece about the English women who struggled for nearly 70 years for the right to vote. Starring Carey Mulligan,