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 ...

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 ...

The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 for more than ten years. That’s $290 a week, $15,000 a year. In that time, the cost of living has continued to climb, leaving millions of families ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2009, the North Carolina minimum wage has stagnated at $7.25 per hour despite the continuously increasing cost of ...

The Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board in Bicol (RTWPB-5) has approved a P40 daily wage increase for minimum ...

The 2017 poverty threshold published by the U.S. Census ... Advocating for political and systemic change, such as a higher minimum wage, depending on your political leanings, may help make a ...

California families can't live on minimum wage ... standard with his “living wage" bill “I introduced SB 352 to develop robust discussions about cyclical poverty and affordability in ...

and the new minimum wage increase could push some families over that limit. The $20 per hour wage could also push several California families over the income threshold for other programs ...