minimum wage

Democrats’ hopes of including a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as the Senate prepared to debate its own version of the House-passed aid package. Four days after the chamber’s parliamentarian said Senate rules forbid inclusion of a straight-out minimum wage increase in the relief measure, Democrats seemed to have exhausted…

Senate Democrats will abandon plans to help raise workers’ pay in Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan.

Top Democrats are drafting new plans that would penalize big corporations that pay their employees less than $15 an hour.

The fight for a $15 federal minimum wage hit a major roadblock Thursday when a Senate official said it shouldn’t be included in the latest stimulus package.

Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour, putting its starting wage above rivals like Amazon, Target and Best Buy.

The debate over raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour is gaining steam, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weigh the benefits and consequences. 

Raising minimum pay could help provide more money now to workers around the country. It could also help boost their Social Security benefits down the line.

President Joe Biden’s effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour could provide a welcome opportunity for someone like Cristian Cardona, a 21-year-old fast food worker

President Joe Biden campaigned on raising the national minimum wage to $15 per hour and attached a proposal doing just that to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief bill.

A third of small business owners anticipate layoffs if Congress increases the federal minimum wage to $15, according to a new CNBC|SurveyMonkey survey.

Congressional Budget Office finds Democrats’ plan to increase federal minimum wage to $15 per hour would benefit 27 million American workers.

President Joe Biden said it is unlikely a $15 minimum wage provision makes it into the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 stimulus package.

“When you lift wages for women, who would be the majority of those getting a raise, that helps to shrink race and gender wage gaps.”

New legislation introduced last month aims to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 and could lift the wages of nearly 32 million Americans.

The Democratic push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour has emerged as an early flashpoint in the fight for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package

President Joe Biden signed two executive orders on Friday to address the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the hardships and health risks essential workers are facing in the pandemic, many profitable companies are still not paying them a living wage. Molly Kinder of the Brookings Institution joined LX News to discuss why companies, and particularly the retailers that have thrived during the pandemic, should be offering hazard pay to workers risking their health and the health...

The pandemic has highlighted how many people in America are living close to the financial edge. For years, working one full-time job has not been enough for many minimum wage workers to get by. Should a full-time job in America guarantee a living wage? NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway explores how the system is working against our essential workers.

New year, new laws. What happens on Beacon Hill may seem a million miles away, but it can affect your everyday life. New Year’s Day brings some added protections for Massachusetts workers — with more on the way later in the year — and people making minimum wage will find they’re getting a pay bump. Here’s a look at...

College students say raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will make a huge difference in their ability to pay for school and maintain a work-school balance.