Paychecks for minimum-wage employees will reflect increases in 19 states starting January 1. More than 8.3 million workers ...

The federal and Wisconsin minimum wage has remained at $7.25 an hour since its last increase in 2009. A full-time worker earning the current minimum wage falls below the federal poverty threshold.

Editor’s Note: Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington, DC. She is also a ...

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Editor’s Note: Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, responds to economist John Komlos’ argument that we should raise the minimum wage to $15 ...

State officials have finalized a new minimum wage scale slated to take effect next year, after a Michigan Supreme Court ruling set forward increases to the hourly minimum pay rates for workers ...

An amendment to add an increase to the federal minimum wage to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill failed to pass in the Senate Friday. With eight Democrats joining the 50 Republicans in opposing ...

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