living wage

How did one factory challenge the apparel industry’s sweatshops? The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the only factory in the global south…

On the December 14th edition of Your Call, we’re talking about how poor and low-income communities are being affected by the Bay Area’s economic boom.1 in…

If you want to hire a worker in Oakland, you’re going to have to pay a little bit more these days. At the beginning of the month, Measure FF, overwhelming…

D’Wana Stewart is a native San Franciscan. She graduated from June Jordan School for Equity, a small high school on the southeast side of the city. Now…

Jennifer Piallat has worked in most every aspect of the restaurant industry – dishwasher, waitstaff, chef, manager – and those experiences have informed…

Tomorrow, voters in two key cities in the Bay Area will weigh in on measures to increase their minimum wage. Both Oakland and San Francisco have…

KALW's Todd Whitney researched what it really costs to live in the Bay Area. He and Ben Trefny sat down to check out the results."So we're talking nearly…

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, San Francisco passed a variety of measures to help low wage workers try to keep up with the rising cost of living. The…

Income inequality has become a key political issue in the Bay Area, and across America. The federal minimum wage has stayed at $7.25 an hour since 2009.…

On today's Your Call, we’ll look at how consumers can go beyond boycotts in order to help garment-workers. It’s been fifteen months since 1,137…