Recent research suggests that wages below legally established minimum wages are surprisingly prevalent. This column reviews ‘wage theft’ in the US and its impact on the wage gains workers might ...

Governments’ embrace of high minimum wages is not a fad. It reflects the favourable attitude of many economists towards the ...

The professor at the University of California, Berkeley, considers Trump's policies to be "simply the worst combination of stupidities" and denounces that many companies know it but are afraid to say ...

Oklahoma voters will head to the polls next June to decide whether or not the minimum wage should increase for the first time ...

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

The corks have been popped, the calendar pages turned and a day that promised fresh starts also brought with it some pay bumps for millions of Americans. Hourly minimum wages increased in 21 states on ...

Despite it being widely known by anyone who can think two steps ahead that price controls have negative consequences, politicians can’t help but continue to promote price controls as policy. With ...

The minimum wage won't increase anymore unless the General Assembly takes action The minimum wage hit its peak of $15 an hour this year Resistance to increasing the tipped minimum wage was fierce ...

The most recent hike to the federal minimum wage occurred on July 24, 2009, back when former President Barack Obama was still in his first year in office and the Black Eyed Peas topped the Billboard ...

Minimum-wage workers in 21 states will see a bigger paycheck come the new year. They're among the many thousands of laws changing as a new year begins. Those wage increases will impact an estimated ...

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. national minimum wage rise is now seen more likely in the wake of Democratic gains in Tuesday's midterm Congressional elections, but views are mixed on whether this will ...