Minimum Wage

“We're sick and tired of making poverty wages, the constant threat of in-store violence, and mandatory meal deductions."

The bump would help about 40 percent of California’s health workers, earning them on average an extra $10,352 a year.

“In the year 2023 a job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it,” Sanders said.

The minimum wage and House pay have remained the same since 2009 — but Republicans only want to raise one of the two.

“Workers brave thunderstorms, extreme heat events, and risk their lives to deliver for New Yorkers,” one advocate said.

The federal minimum wage hasn’t been raised in 14 years, a record-long stretch.

Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, plans to join Sanders to "make the moral case for raising wages."

Some executives can expect to receive monthly retirement checks larger than their workers’ median annual pay.

Republicans stubbornly defend $7.25 an hour in a state where more than one in four children live in poverty.

A working paper shows that large minimum wage increases can have positive effects on both earnings and employment.