Mexico raises its still-low minimum wage by 12%, but it marks no increase in dollar terms
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Mexico raises its still-low minimum wage by 12%, but it marks no increase in dollar terms

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico announced Wednesday that it will increase its still strikingly low daily minimum wage by 12% next year. That is still only about $1.71 per hour, compared to a U.S. federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. However, many U.S. states have minimum wage rates that range from $10 to $16 per hour. Because living costs are higher along Mexico’s northern border with the United States, the official minimum wage is higher there.

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21 States To Raise Minimum Wage For 2025
3 months, 1 week ago

21 States To Raise Minimum Wage For 2025

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Millions of workers can expect a raise in the new year as state and local governments around the country increase their minimum wages. Looming minimum wage increases, as compiled by EPI: The federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour and prevails in any state that doesn’t mandate a higher minimum. The city recently approved an ordinance …

Arizona and Massachusetts to Decide on Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers
5 months, 1 week ago

Arizona and Massachusetts to Decide on Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers

Associated Press  

Two states will decide in November whether to allow businesses to pay tipped workers, like food servers, bartenders and bellhops, less than the minimum wage as long as customer tips make up the difference. In Arizona, Proposition 138 would allow tipped workers to make 25% less than the regular minimum wage, while in Massachusetts, One Fair Wage is proposing to …

Editorial: The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is poverty pay. It’s time to raise it
7 months ago

Editorial: The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is poverty pay. It’s time to raise it

LA Times  

It’s been 15 years since workers earning the federal minimum wage got a raise. That is poverty pay, and an increase to the federal minimum wage is long overdue. In 2016, he said he wanted to raise the federal rate to at least $10, but later said minimum wage hikes should be left to the states, which is effectively what’s …

Federal Minimum Wage Goes 15 Years Without An Increase
8 months, 1 week ago

Federal Minimum Wage Goes 15 Years Without An Increase

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Great Recession had just formally ended, Barack Obama was entering only his seventh month in the White House and the Black Eyed Peas were atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Gotta Feeling.” That’s what was happening in America the last time the federal minimum wage was increased on July 24, 2009 — the last of …

It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25
8 months, 1 week ago

It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25

NPR  

It has now been 15 years since the federal minimum wage rose to $7.25 toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The most recent hike to the federal minimum wage occurred on July 24, 2009, back when former President Barack Obama was still in his first year in office and the Black Eyed Peas topped the Billboard charts. According to the Bureau …

Beloved Mexican chain abruptly SHUTS 48 restaurants in California as state's $20-an-hour minimum wage has its first casualty
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Beloved Mexican chain abruptly SHUTS 48 restaurants in California as state's $20-an-hour minimum wage has its first casualty

Daily Mail  

Workers have posted the locations on Reddit - scroll down to see them California's $20-an-hour fast food minimum wage has its first casualty. Another expert said that Rubio's falls into the category of chains that are big enough to fall under California's rule - having 60 or more restaurants nationally - but not having thousands of outlets to bring economies …

Push in states for $20 minimum wage as inflation persists
2 years ago

Push in states for $20 minimum wage as inflation persists

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation. A bill in New York would raise the state’s minimum wage to $21.25 by 2026, and then adjust it each year going forward …

New Mexico legislators seek automatic increases to base wage
2 years, 2 months ago

New Mexico legislators seek automatic increases to base wage

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — Democratic legislators want to link New Mexico’s statewide minimum wage to an inflation index to provide potentially automatic annual increases. Draft bills from state Reps. Miguel Garcia of Albuquerque and Christine Chandler of Los Alamos were published Wednesday that would provide an automatic adjustment to the state’s minimum wage based on the consumer price index published …

New Mexico governor backs $15 min wage for school workers
3 years, 2 months ago

New Mexico governor backs $15 min wage for school workers

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham now backs a $15 minimum wage for school workers. A budget proposal from Lujan Grisham to the Legislature earlier this month had called for a $15 minimum wage for state workers, but not for school workers. And frankly, they just need to do it.” Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Nora Sackett …

McDonald’s raises minimum pay at corporate locations as workers in 15 cities plan strikes for $15 hourly wage
3 years, 10 months ago

McDonald’s raises minimum pay at corporate locations as workers in 15 cities plan strikes for $15 hourly wage

The Independent  

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GOP senator rejects $15 minimum wage saying he once earned $6 an hour, or $23 with inflation
4 years, 1 month ago

GOP senator rejects $15 minimum wage saying he once earned $6 an hour, or $23 with inflation

The Independent  

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Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'
4 years, 1 month ago

Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism'

NPR  

Costco To Raise Minimum Wage To $16 An Hour: 'This Isn't Altruism' Enlarge this image toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco plans to edge up its starting wage to $16 an hour starting next week, CEO W. Craig Jelinek said on Thursday, revealing plans that would propel his company ahead of most of its retail competitors. Sponsor …

AOC calls Republicans’ $10 minimum wage pitch ‘legislated poverty
4 years, 1 month ago

AOC calls Republicans’ $10 minimum wage pitch ‘legislated poverty

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shot down a pitch from Republican lawmakers …

$15 minimum wage debate: Everything you need to know
4 years, 1 month ago

$15 minimum wage debate: Everything you need to know

CNN  

CNN — House Democrats have included a minimum wage hike in their latest Covid relief bill, although a ruling from the Senate parliamentarian means it can’t be included in the final package. Because so many states have their own, higher minimum wage, relatively few American workers make the federal minimum wage. More than half of states – 29 – have …

Minimum wage and inflation: These two charts show how much workers have fallen behind
4 years, 1 month ago

Minimum wage and inflation: These two charts show how much workers have fallen behind

CNN  

CNN — With Congress already battling over hiking the minimum wage to $15 an hour, President Joe Biden likely raised a few eyebrows when he recently said that thefederal minimum wage would actually be $20 if it were indexed to inflation. While the President bungled two different statistics at a CNN town hall last week, the thrust of what he …

Opinion: Biden’s push for a $15 minimum wage is a great start
4 years, 1 month ago

Opinion: Biden’s push for a $15 minimum wage is a great start

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Pamela Loprest is a senior fellow and labor economist in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. The Biden administration has called for an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of its emergency Covid relief package. Evidence shows that a graduated increase of the minimum wage to $15 an …

Biden Plans To Raise Wages For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers Without Congress
4 years, 2 months ago

Biden Plans To Raise Wages For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers Without Congress

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democrats in Congress hope they can find enough votes to pass a $15 minimum wage bill and send it to President Joe Biden’s desk. Under a campaign proposal that Biden has reaffirmed since taking office, government procurement rules would be changed so that workers employed under federal contracts would have to be paid at least $15 per …

Biden, Democrats hit gas on push for $15 minimum wage
4 years, 2 months ago

Biden, Democrats hit gas on push for $15 minimum wage

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, testing President Joe Biden’s ability to bridge Washington’s partisan divides as he pursues his first major legislative victory. Including the wage increase, Murkowski said, “complicates politically an initiative that …

Mexico's minimum wage to rise 15% over business objections
4 years, 3 months ago

Mexico's minimum wage to rise 15% over business objections

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday the business …

Mexico is increasing its minimum wage by 15% starting Jan
4 years, 3 months ago

Mexico is increasing its minimum wage by 15% starting Jan

Al Jazeera  

The Mexican government announced on Thursday it is increasing the minimum wage by 15 percent in January, bringing it up to the equivalent of roughly $7 a day. The Mexican government announced the country’s daily minimum wage will rise by 15 percent in January to the equivalent of about $7 a day. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday …

Column: A strong endorsement of the $15 minimum wage from the Congressional Budget Office
5 years, 8 months ago

Column: A strong endorsement of the $15 minimum wage from the Congressional Budget Office

LA Times  

The Congressional Budget Office, that nonpartisan arbiter of the impacts of federal legislation, reports that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would increase the wages of 27 million Americans and lift 1.3 million out of poverty as of 2025. Overall, the CBO says, “For most low-wage workers, earnings and family income would increase, which would lift some …

Minimum Wage Raises Coming To 18 States On New Year’s Day
7 years, 3 months ago

Minimum Wage Raises Coming To 18 States On New Year’s Day

Huff Post  

Fast-food workers with the Fight for $15 campaign have rallied in cities around the country for higher minimum wages. Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Minimum wage workers in 18 states will get a pay hike next week when higher wage floors go into effect around the country for 2018. With the federal minimum wage remaining just $7.25 per hour, more and …

Donald Trump's Stance On The Minimum Wage Is Indecipherable
8 years, 8 months ago

Donald Trump's Stance On The Minimum Wage Is Indecipherable

Huff Post  

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has said that U.S. wages are both too high and too low. And in a primary debate, he infamously said that American wages were already “too high,” suggesting hiking the minimum wage would be bad for the economy. After those words were used against him to great effect, Trump later said that U.S. wages were …

California lawmakers reach historic agreement to raise minimum wage to $15
9 years ago

California lawmakers reach historic agreement to raise minimum wage to $15

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy California lawmakers have reached …

News of a minimum wage hike deal in California is met with relief -- and anxious arithmetic
9 years ago

News of a minimum wage hike deal in California is met with relief -- and anxious arithmetic

LA Times  

Miguel Sanchez, 43, works at Tortilleria San Marcos in Boyle Heights. He said an increase in the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour would give him some breathing room, but he doesn’t plan to quit his second job. Behind the counter of Tortilleria San Marcos in Boyle Heights, news that lawmakers and unions had arrived at a deal that …

Low wages, trade deals luring auto plants and jobs to Mexico
9 years, 11 months ago

Low wages, trade deals luring auto plants and jobs to Mexico

Associated Press  

DETROIT — Mexico has become the most attractive place in North America to build new automobile factories, a shift that has siphoned jobs from the U.S. and Canada, yet helped keep car and truck prices in check for consumers. The cost savings also should allow automakers to add expensive fuel-saving features to meet stricter U.S. government gas mileage requirements without …

Poverty, income levels drive minimum wage debate
11 years ago

Poverty, income levels drive minimum wage debate

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — “Give America a raise!” President Barack Obama implored Congress in his State of the Union address. Obama and Democrats in Congress are making a big push to raise the federal minimum wage. “It will give businesses customers with more money to spend.” Obama has endorsed a bill to gradually raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour …

The last arguments against raising the minimum wage are gone
11 years, 1 month ago

The last arguments against raising the minimum wage are gone

LA Times  

In a sensible world, the newest government study of the economic effects of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would end the discussion. “Our view is that ‘zero’ is a perfectly reasonable estimate of the impact of the minimum wage on employment,” Jason Furman, the White House’s chief economist, said during a conference call with reporters, citing several …

Democrats Won't Budge On $10.10 As New Minimum Wage
11 years, 2 months ago

Democrats Won't Budge On $10.10 As New Minimum Wage

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON -- While they're willing to haggle over the finer points of a minimum wage hike, congressional Democrats said Tuesday that they will not lower their nominal proposal of $10.10 per hour as some Republicans have asked, saying they don't want to lock in a wage floor that's too low. "We're willing to negotiate," Sen. Tom Harkin, who proposed the …

Two-Thirds Of Americans Support Raising Minimum Wage: Poll
14 years, 5 months ago

Two-Thirds Of Americans Support Raising Minimum Wage: Poll

Huff Post  

Two-thirds of Americans support raising the minimum wage to at least $10 an hour, according to a new poll. "This poll is yet another affirmation that maintaining a strong minimum wage is a core American value," said National Employment Law Project director Christine Owens in a statement. "Americans overwhelmingly support a minimum wage rate that will help working families make …

Congress debates minimum wage hike
18 years, 8 months ago

Congress debates minimum wage hike

China Daily  

U.S. law has guaranteed most workers a minimum wage since the 1930s. Minimum wage workers in America: food service, hotel workers,and sales clerks all earn at least the federal minimum wage of $5.15 per hour, a figure set in 1997. Economic Policy Institute statistics predict a minimum wage increase would affect about 15 million people in a workforce of 150 …

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