A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld Democratic former President Joe Biden's mandate setting a minimum wage that federal contractors must pay to their employees, which recently rose to $17.75 an ...

The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and has been that way since 2009. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) describes this ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding former President Joe ...

Although the minimum wage is not nearly as low as it used to be, America still has a long way to go toward fairly paying its lowest-income workers. The federal minimum wage is currently at $7.25 ...

violated the state’s minimum wage law. A jury found for Ferguson and the detainees in 2021, ordering GEO Group to pay $17 million in back wages. A federal judge added on another $5.9 million ...

As New Jersey ratcheted up its minimum wage on three occasions between 2019 and 2021, fast-food restaurants in the state responded by hiking menu prices to compensate. In neighboring Pennsylvania ...