Starting Jan. 1, thousands of workers will be getting a few cents more per hour, which comes at a time when prices are ...

Fact checked by Betsy Petrick Key Takeaways The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. Washington state has the highest state minimum wage, at $16.66 per hour.Four states will raise their minimum ...

For both proponents and opponents of an increase to the minimum wage, Monday’s Congressional Budget Office projection was a mixed bag of outcomes. The proposed Raise the Wage Act would increase the ...

The federal minimum wage has not increased in over 15 years. The federal and state minimum wages are both $7.25 an hour, ...

In the U.S., people cannot legally work for less than the federal minimum wage. However, at a low rate of $7.25 per hour, many believe it’s impossible to make enough to survive and have called on ...

Our nation’s paltry federal minimum wage of just $7.25 hourly is rightly criticized as far too little to sustain a worker, let alone a family, in 2025. That’s bad enough, but did you know that there’s ...

Workers earning minimum wage are getting an income boost in some parts of the U.S., thanks to higher pay rates that went into effect this month. Connecticut, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, D.C., all ...

Republicans, for a long time, had the right idea on economics with their embrace of the free market. The phrase "Free markets, free people" has been often quoted as a description of the GOP's economic ...

Raising the minimum wage can increase the number of jobs with good benefits and chances for career advancement, according to a new analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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

Costco will raise its starting rate for hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals such as Amazon, Target and Best Buy. Costco has around 180,000 ...