Time - International (2019-09-02)

As the humanitarian crisis at the southern border has grown, the President and his allies have called for the U.S. military to b ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 In July, it was reported that the Trump Ad- ministration was calling up over 2,000 more troops to support t ...

The economic warning signs are flashing yellow. In Germany, the U.K., Italy, Brazil and Mexico, growth has stalled. In Japan, bu ...

Christina Munce waits tables at Broad Street Diner in Philadelphia, where she’s worked for more than eight years PHOTOGRAPHS BY ...

Economy Living on Tips LOW WAGES. MINIMAL BENEFITS. By Alana Semuels and Malcolm Burnley/Philadelphia UNPREDICTABLE HOURS. FOR M ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 AfTer An eighT-hour shifT on her feet, shuffling between a stuffy kitchen and the red vinyl booths of Broad ...

while declaring the economy still strong, said the Administration is examining vari- ous options to bolster the economy. Still, ...

Munce works eight-hour shifts at Broad Street Diner for $2.83 an hour; her tips are supposed to get her to $7.25 an hour, but th ...

40% of the workforce that falls under fed- eral tipped- minimum-wage rules, which includes nail-salon workers and car-wash atten ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 always find a job waitressing,” she says. This is true of many service jobs, says David Autor, an economist ...

seem to ever get ahead. During a recent shift, she was staring down a weekend where she’d need cash for a cake for her daughter’ ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 construction and government workers; its department that enforces wage-theft com- plaints was formed in 201 ...

Two-thirds of tipped workers in America are women, and female waitstaff make less than men do 31 ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 LIVING IN LIMBO DNA tests could help migrants identify loved ones separated at sea. But politics stands in ...

Walid Khalil Murad waits in the foyer of his German- language school in Sankt Wendel, a southern German town, on July 25 PHOTOGR ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 There is 3-year-old Nishtiman, with eyes like her father’s and the same stub- born spirit, and his sons Nas ...

peace- and justice-based institutions like the International Criminal Court— reflecting the expansion of its mission. Today it e ...

Time Sept. 2–9, 2019 her second child and on vacation in Thai- land with her 1-year-old daughter Mira when a tsunami crashed int ...

Robins, who traveled to the Greek island of Lesbos for research during the crisis, describes a similar situation there. In the s ...

The Bonnet Carré Spillway opens on May 10, sending floodwater into Lake Pontchartrain PHOTOGRAPH BY GERALD HERBERT ...