Real wages—wages adjusted for inflation—have increased at a faster rate from 1971 to 2024 than inflation. Real wage growth is ...

Some types of wage theft are easier to identify than others, but the vast majority of unpaid wages go unreported and thus unrecovered. The Economic Policy Institute estimated that around $3 ...

There are five steps to claiming your wages, the Department of Labor said. There are eight types of common wage theft, according to an article from Business Insider.