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The minimum wage is back in the news lately after President Obama pledged to raise it to $10.10 an hour for federal contractors in his 2014 State of the Union address, ...
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Click on states on that map to see exact minimum wage info by state. ... Oregon 14.70 Pennsylvania 7.25 Rhode Island 14.00 South Carolina 7.25 South Dakota
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.
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Jacquelyn Martin/AP Last month, President Barack Obama included in his State of the Union address a plea to Congress to raise the hourly minimum wage to $10.10. Some people support the idea.
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. [173]
The minimum wage will go up to $14.75 in the Portland metro area and $12.50 in rural counties. Next year it will go up based on Consumer Price Index.