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Seattle's minimum wage for large employers was raised to $15.45 in 2018 and $16 in 2019. Studies of Seattle's workforce have shown no decline in employment and tangible benefits for workers. [77] The Fight for $15 movement has succeeded in several states and cities in raising the minimum wage to $15 or more per hour.
Minimum wage earners in half of the states across the U.S. will be getting a boost in 2024. Increases in the minimum wage will go into effect on Jan. 1 in 22 states, with three others rolling out...
Vice President-elect JD Vance cosponsored a bill in 2023 that would raise it to $11 per hour, while Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has proposed mandating a $15 minimum wage at companies that ...
Harris has made clear she would like to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour to combat income inequality and give millions of low-wage workers stability. This proposal aligns with more ...
The Raise the Wage Act of 2017, which was simultaneously introduced in the House of Representatives with 166 Democratic cosponsors, would raise the minimum wage to $9.25 per hour immediately, and then gradually increase it to $15 per hour by 2024, while simultaneously raising the minimum wage for tipped workers and phasing it out. [174]
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
Now, pointing to the state’s affordability issues, proponents of Proposition 32 would have you believe raising the minimum wage from $16 to $18 per hour offers a solution for entry-level workers ...
If the U.S. raised the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, for example, the country would lift an estimated 900,000 people out of poverty and raise the income for 17 million employees (roughly 1 ...