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 ...

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 ...

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 ...