The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for 15 years. That‘s $290 a week or $15,000 a year. And millions of workers–domestic caregivers, farmworkers, student workers, tipped wage ...

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 on Tuesday in both ...

The myth that raising the minimum wage reduces poverty will not go away, but it was at least dealt another blow by a recent National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by economists Richard V.

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 living. Now, as of March 2025, two proposed bills have been presented to the ...

LABOR REFORMS are needed to sustain the momentum of receding poverty and to ensure the economy’s benefits reach rural areas, analysts said.

Labor unions in Central Visayas are ramping up their call for a P200 wage increase, urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to promptly certify the proposal as urgent. They argue that the region ...

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 ...

The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines dared President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent the proposed P200 legislated wage increase.