Bank of America is raising its minimum wage to $24 per hour ... The weighted average poverty threshold was $30,900 for a family of four last year, according to the data released Tuesday by ...

The federal minimum wage of $7.25 is literally a poverty wage, insufficient at 40 hours per week to exceed the federal government’s own poverty threshold. That means workers paid so little may ...

While the U.S. minimum wage was never truly a living wage, over time it has done less to reflect the true value of workers and no longer supports families in a way that promotes health and keeps them ...

About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 percent lives in or near poverty. A fulltime worker supporting a family of two on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...

They are the working poor. More than 170 countries have a set minimum wage, but it often falls short of what is needed for people to escape poverty. Instead of a minimum wage, there are growing ...