Minimum wage is on the ballot in 5 states this November. Here’s …
3 days ago · Ballot Measure No. 1 would raise the minimum wage to $13 in 2025, and to $14 in 2026. Alaska’s current lowest possible hourly pay is $11.73, so the increase would be significant for those at the ...
Minimum wage on the ballot in these 5 states - Yahoo News
2 days ago · The federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and has not changed since 2009. Currently, 34 states, territories and districts have minimum wages above the federal minimum wage, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The average state minimum wage in 2024 is $10.69, up from $9.85 in 2022, according to Ballotpedia
New minimum wage takes effect for California health care workers
5 days ago · Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law raising wages for the state’s lowest-paid health care workers to gradually increase to $25 an hour. Search Query Show Search News
California health care workers get a pay bump under a new minimum wage …
5 days ago · California’s minimum wage for most workers in the state is $16 an hour. Voters will decide in November whether to increase that gradually to $18 an hour, which would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the U.S., by 2026. Fast food workers in California must now have to be paid at least $20 hourly under a law Newsom signed last year.
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 for 15 years - NPR
Jul 24, 2024 · A proposal introduced in the Senate last year called the Raise the Wage Act of 2023 that would increase the federal hourly minimum wage to $17 over five years has not advanced.
The US minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. What that means ... - CNN
Nov 11, 2023 · An ever-shrinking number of workers in the US are paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour – and a growing chorus of unions, economists and even employers agree it’s out of step with...
Here’s where the minimum wage is increasing this year - CNN
Dec 6, 2023 · The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. And 20 states — including Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Alabama and Mississippi — still adhere to it. The push to raise it has gone...
Minimum-wage workers to get pay bump on Jan. 1 : NPR
Dec 26, 2023 · Target is raising its minimum wage to as much as $24 an hour. According to EPI data, nearly 58% of workers who will benefit from the coming wage increase are women. Nine percent are Black and...
In a Hot Job Market, the Minimum Wage Becomes an Afterthought
Aug 23, 2023 · Nationally, only about 68,000 people on average earned the federal minimum wage in the first seven months of 2023, according to a New York Times analysis of government data. That is less than...
New Year’s pay boost: These states are raising their minimum wage
Dec 31, 2022 · By January 1, hourly minimum wages in 23 states will rise as part of previously scheduled efforts to reach $15 an hour or to account for cost-of-living changes.