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 ...

Millions of Americans in states that include Pennsylvania remain stuck at a wage floor unchanged since 2009, while childcare ...

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 matters because the federal minimum wage has been held at $7.25 per hour for 17 years.

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

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 ...

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