Minimum wage

Commentary: Trump has assaulted workers' rights to life, limb and livelihood throughout his presidency. This should matter to Catholic voters, who have an obligation to consider a candidate's respect for the dignity of workers.

Catholic groups across Europe have echoed Pope Francis' call for a universal basic wage as part of recovery plans after the coronavirus pandemic.

For the third consecutive year, states in the Gulf South of the U.S. ranked near the bottom of a 2018 "social justice" index that measures poverty, racial disparity and immigrant exclusion.

NCR interview: Catholic entrepreneur discusses Burke, Viganò and Nienstedt; prospects for the church's new laws on sex abuse; and how he believes the free market complements Catholic teaching.

Decolonizing Faith and Society: We have not moved beyond colonial ways of thinking and being. Are most Americans today working to live or living to work?

Echoing what Pope Francis said during a Mass in May, the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said, "The struggle of working people, of the poor" is not first a "social or political question. No! It is the Gospel, pure and simple."

National investment in widespread infrastructure improvement would create jobs, raise wages and help create a more inclusive economy — key to eradicating hunger and poverty in the United States, a new policy recommendation by a Christian anti-hunger lobby says.