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Nearly two dozen states, cities and local municipalities will see some form of a minimum wage increase starting July 1.
Washington, D.C. will raise its minimum by 45 cents to $17.95 an hour due to an automatic inflation adjustment, impacting an estimated 62,200 workers, or 7.5 percent of the city's workforce. The average worker there will earn about $727 more per year.
Los Angeles’ minimum wage hike for workers in the tourism industry could potentially do more harm than good. In May,
July 1 saw 15 states and cities nationwide implement minimum wage increases, with at least one city raising the rate to $20 an hour.
Los Angeles hotel operators are fighting a $30 minimum wage hike that was passed by the city council, amid a struggle with “profitability.”
The Longmont City Council spent Tuesday evening reviewing economic data and discussing the logistics of a community feedback event aimed at gathering input from businesses and workers who would be
Our nation’s paltry federal minimum wage of just $7.25 an hour is rightly criticized as far too little to sustain a worker, let alone a family.
GOP lawmakers reject both statewide and county-specific wage increases, contradicting their own arguments while neighboring states prove minimum wage hikes don't hurt employment