If you aren’t caught up with the state minimum wage rate increases that went into effect on July 1, 2026, here’s your chance ...

Discover what the minimum wage was the year you were born and how much that paycheck would be worth today after decades of ...

Many business owners are welcoming the minimum wage increases that took effect on July 1, 2026, viewing fair wages as a powerful tool for employee retention and local economic growth. Advocacy groups ...

Sen. Chris Murphy introduced legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour in phases. Details on Texas impact.

Two states, Washington, D.C., and 14 localities increased their own minimum wage on July 1, lifting wages for 361,000 workers ...

This July marks 15 years since the federal minimum wage was last increased. Given the federal wage floor is not indexed to inflation, nor any other measure such as productivity growth, it’s been stuck ...

Representatives in Congress are starting a new push to raise the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour. A group of Democratic representatives, including Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Analilia Mejia ...

For anyone working a minimum wage job in this new year, they will be paid more in 22 states and in at least 40 cities and counties across the country than they were in 2023. The higher hourly rates ...

The federal minimum wage is long overdue for an increase, economist David C. Datelle writes.