PROVIDENCE – The General Assembly's perennial debate over the minimum wage and its many permutations got its first major airing of the session on Wednesday, as House and Senate committees mostly heard ...

It dawned on me while watching news coverage of the recent quick-service strikes calling for a $15 minimum wage that the foodservice industry needs to educate its employees and the public about the ...

Michigan's hourly minimum wage is set to increase in 2026. Here's the current wage and how much it will be going up.

A new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that 40% of Americans now believe the minimum wage should be at least $15 an hour, up from 36% a year ago. That’s a strong sentiment. After all, who doesn’t want ...

The professor at the University of California, Berkeley, considers Trump's policies to be "simply the worst combination of stupidities" and denounces that many companies know it but are afraid to say ...

The minimum wage in the United States has been a contentious issue for decades, with its real value steadily declining since its peak in 1968. This decline has left many workers struggling to meet ...

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Despite it being widely known by anyone who can think two steps ahead that price controls have negative consequences, politicians can’t help but continue to promote price controls as policy. With ...

Republicans, for a long time, had the right idea on economics with their embrace of the free market. The phrase "Free markets, free people" has been often quoted as a description of the GOP's economic ...

Answering Joanna McPeak’s April 24 letter against raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, the less fortunate have expenses also, perhaps even more than the more fortunate at times. As a 67-year-old ...

In response to the Jan. 25 letter “Paying minimum wage today is cruel and immoral disgrace,” one must look no further than simple economics to understand why there’s overwhelming opposition to the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. national minimum wage rise is now seen more likely in the wake of Democratic gains in Tuesday's midterm Congressional elections, but views are mixed on whether this will ...