In 2024, the California Fast Food Council—composed of worker, industry, and government representatives—instituted a $20 minimum wage for workers at large chain fast-food restaurants. The Council is ...

One proposal would see a $24 minimum wage in Rhode Island by 2027.

The minimum wage is increasing in 22 states in Washington DC. Let's talk about what that means for workers. These changes go into effect in 2026, most of them on January 1st, and for people who are ...

Minimum wage workers in Missouri got a pay boost on January 1. But just across the border, the Kansas minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25, the same as the federal rate, with no planned increases in ...

The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has not budged since 2009, essentially leaving it to states to set meaningful minimum wage increases. Money; Getty Images Minimum-wage workers in 19 states ...

Many U.S. workers are ringing in the new year with a raise as new minimum wage increases take effect in states and localities across the country on Thursday. More than 8.3 million workers are expected ...

When minimum wages were first established in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), agricultural workers were exempt. Over time, amendments to the rule brought groups of farmworkers under minimum ...

A $25 minimum wage proposal in D.C. could push some restaurant workers into Northern Virginia in the short term and, in the ...

Michigan workers who earn minimum wage will see their pay increase with the arrival of the new year this week, whether on regular pay or a tipped pay scale. A flurry of court decisions, followed by ...