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Full-time jobs used to keep people out of poverty.” ... State minimum wage increases in 2024* Alaska: $11.73, up from $10.85. Arizona: $14.35, up from $13.85. California: $16, up from $15.50.
The federal minimum wage has remained stuck at $7.25 since 2009, the longest period without an increase since the Fair Labor Standards Act first established a minimum wage in 1938. A full-time ...
Those who own small businesses say raising minimum wage is causing them to kill jobs and raise prices. Minimum wage boosts affecting 10 million workers in 22 states with varying outcomes Skip to ...
Minimum wage by state by year. In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. [4] The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but later found to be unconstitutional. [5]
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.
This group will see the largest minimum-wage increase in the country – $2.28 – with the state’s new minimum wage of $11.13 for all employers. Washington, DC, continues to have the highest ...
For example, they look at the 1992 increase in New Jersey's minimum wage, the 1988 rise in California's minimum wage, and the 1990–91 increases in the federal minimum wage. In addition to their own findings, they reanalyzed earlier studies with updated data, generally finding that the older results of a negative employment effect did not hold ...
In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act into law, which introduced the minimum wage at 25 cents per hour. It has increased some since then, but not much. While...