The order from Biden raised the minimum wage for workers on federal contracts to $15 an hour with regular increases, and the U.S. Department of Labor then adopted a rule implementing the wage hike.

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

In 2021, the Democrat-aligned Economic Policy Institute think tank said that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 would ...

As of Dec. 29 the University of Rochester has increased its minimum wage for class I jobs to $15.50, and accordingly ...

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 ...

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