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 ...

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

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 ...

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

On the national level in 2022, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 years old was $15,230. Kansas is one of 20 states that matches the federally mandated minimum wage rate of $7.25/hr.

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.

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

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 ...