Effective January 1, 2021, the minimum wage will rise in these states to help hourly workers get an adjusted cost of living increase. The amount of increases vary across the country, with ...

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 ...

Former President Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to raise the federal minimum wage for government workers to $15 an hour. The executive order was signed on April 27, 2021, and was implemented on ...

In 2009, it increased to $7.25 per hour and remained at this level for more than 12 years. In the past two years, 27 states and a number of cities passed legislation raising the minimum wage in those ...

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

The national minimum wage today is just over $7 an hour. But a provision in a landmark labor law from nearly 90 years ago ...

In recent years, Congress has repeatedly blocked efforts to raise the federal minimum wage. In 2019, the House passed a bill raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. In 2021, this same wage was ...