Minimum Wage

U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the pandemic eases.

Currently, the minimum wage for federal workers is $10.95 per hour.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour for federal contractors

Advocacy group One Fair Wage is suing Darden Restaurants, alleging its tipping policy encourages sexual harassment and racial discrimination.

Financial literacy helps voters understand political issues like infrastructure and taxes, and make smart voting decisions, says former Senator Heidi Heitkamp.

It’s not only about the fight for a $15 minimum wage. In a post-pandemic world, the risk of low-wage jobs losses could accelerate.

Looking back in history, the fight for a minimum wage has been full of political struggle and labor conflict. Here are some notable developments in U.S. history

The South has never been hospitable to organized labor

Passing President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue package into law was the easy part for the Democrats.

The Senate’s Covid relief bill lowered enhanced federal unemployment benefits to $300 per week and excludes a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised new questions about how much financial support the government should give Americans. Some experiments may help provide answers.

Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package. Four days after the chamber’s parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a straight-out minimum wage increase in the relief measure, Democrats seemed to have exhausted…

Senate Democrats will abandon plans to help raise workers’ pay in Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

Top Democrats are drafting new plans that would penalize big corporations that pay their employees less than $15 an hour.

The fight for a $15 federal minimum wage hit a major roadblock Thursday when a Senate official said it shouldn’t be included in the latest stimulus package.

Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals like Amazon, Target and Best Buy.

The debate over raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour is gaining steam, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weigh the benefits and consequences. 

Raising minimum pay could help provide more money now to workers around the country. It could also help boost their Social Security benefits down the line.

President Joe Biden’s effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour could provide a welcome opportunity for someone like Cristian Cardona, a 21-year-old fast food worker

President Joe Biden campaigned on raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and attached a proposal doing just that to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief bill.