Minimum Wage

The Fair Minimum Wage Act in the House and the Minimum Wage Fairness Act in Senate would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2017.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: There's a growing trend among the world's major corporations to voluntarily increase their workers' wages.

Seattle's new minimum wage of $15 an hour - the highest in the nation - is the latest example of grassroots efforts to establish living wages at the local …

Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.

Women represent 72 percent of all workers in tipped-wage jobs - those with a federal minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour.

Rigorously empirical studies have consistently found no significant effects on employment due to minimum wage increases.

Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …

If there's one piece of data that people across the country have been talking (and arguing) about lately, it's the minimum wage.

Bill de Blasio's role in helping Andrew Cuomo attain the endorsement of the Working Families Party has opened up a space for a more vigorous and radical discussion of …

The first housekeeper elected to the city council in Providence, Rhode Island may be the voice needed to push local officials to raise the minimum wage of hotel workers.