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Minimum wage
Keeping up with cat-flation and the rising minimum wage
Feb 14, 2023
The entrepreneur behind a Florida cat cafe hopes 2023 brings reduced costs and many more adoptions.
With salaries rising, how much do minimum wage increases matter?
Jan 4, 2023
Private-sector wages are up about 5% over the past year. But gains guaranteed by government can't be lost during an economic downturn.
SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry on the Fight for $15’s 10-year anniversary
Nov 28, 2022
“What gives me hope is something that seemed impossible in 2012 is now very possible,” Henry told Marketplace.
How inflation cuts into the value of the federal minimum wage
Jul 18, 2022
The federal minimum wage has been changed since 2009, when Congress raised it from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour.
The difference a higher minimum wage makes
Jan 20, 2022
A record number of states and cities are raising their minimum wage this year, according to a tally from the National Employment Law Project.
Many states and cities to raise minimum wage in the New Year
Dec 24, 2021
Will employers notice? Many are already raising wages for their workers because of the labor crunch.
Nobel Prize Economist David Card on testing Econ 101 theories in the real world
by
Daniel Shin
and Rose Conlon
Oct 12, 2021
UC Berkeley Economist David Card reflects on his now Nobel Prize winning research.
For public good, not for profit.
Rent for a two-bedroom on a minimum-wage income is out of reach in every state
Jul 19, 2021
A study finds that the disparity is the worst in California cities.
What if the U.S. had a national maximum wage?
by
Janet Nguyen
May 20, 2021
The average CEO makes hundreds of times more money than the average worker. A maximum wage policy would narrow that gap.
If Congress won’t raise wages for all workers, what are some other methods?
by
Janet Nguyen
Apr 30, 2021
This is the longest the U.S. has gone without seeing an increasing to the federal minimum wage. President Joe Biden is increasing it for child care workers in his American Families Plan, and for federal contractors through executive order.