On July 1, 2025, several states in the U.S. implemented a minimum wage increase, impacting over 880,000 workers. While not ...

The minimum wage across the United States ranges from $17 to as low as $5. ... Each state’s determination of the minimum wage may reflect the politics of the issue but includes other factors, ...

As part of his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, President Joe Biden is calling for the national minimum wage to be raised to $15 an hour. “No one working 40 hours a week should still be ...

President Joe Biden, along with other Democrats, have voiced support for an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour. But recent attempts – including a Senate vote on ...

This isn't a party issue because both parties have affiliated workers that that are getting the federal minimum wage. But, you know, I look at it like $7.25 in 2009. That's approximately $290 a week.

Cutting back on labor led to fewer hours for minimum wage workers, which in turn meant less money: about $125 per month in reduced take-home pay, the authors found.

The Senate rejected a bid by Democrats to advance an increase the federal minimum wage as part of President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, with senators in both parties registering their ...

In his speech at the Center for American Progress this week, President Obama devoted considerable time to an issue suddenly much in discussion: the minimum wage. This is not a new debate. In fact ...

With that view, it is therefore inevitable to all of us that the $15 minimum wage will be achieved, even if it is inconceivable to some it is inevitable to us.” “On this vote, the yeas are 219 ...

Congress just missed one of its best shots at improving health when the Senate failed to advance a bill that would have raised the minimum wage to US$15 an hour.Study after study has linked higher ...