Last week, several researchers at the Federal Reserve posted an analysis of the minimum wage in New York state. In the grand sweep of the research and debate done on the minimum wage, both the ...

In certain circumstances, a minimum-wage law can make an economy more efficient. In other words, the economy can produce more goods and services to meet people’s needs from the same amounts of ...

The Economic Policy Institute, for instance, finds that if the minimum wage were raised to $10.10 an hour, almost 70 percent of affected workers would live in families earning less than $60,000 a ...

The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.The value of the minimum wage has risen in the last IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

In the course of just the past two days, the minimum wage jumped up in 21 states -- and odds are, you’ve got an opinion about that. So does the academic world, which has studied -- and argued ...

A graph measures the minimum wage over the years against household poverty levels. In 1968, the minimum wage for most workers was $1.60 an hour. An employee working at that rate for 40 hours a ...

The minimum wage promises to remain one of the most hotly contested political issues in American politics. The Congressional Budget Office recently provided its nonpartisan judgment of the ...

Someone I know had posted a link about a fast food CEO who said that higher business growth followed minimum wage hikes in California. According to KQED, Bill Phelps, chief executive of Wetzel’s ...

Three graphs show how ... As New York University economics ... No wonder this was the same period of time of intensified grassroots action to push for a $15 an hour federal minimum wage.

Turkish workers pushing for a solid minimum wage hike to cope with a persistent cost-of-living crisis face ... Erdogan's pivot to economic ... January, based on central bank graphs and ...

Over the last few years, New York state has passed a series of minimum wage hikes that are gradually phasing in: a three-year hike for tipped workers, started in 2013, from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour ...