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Ohio's minimum wage is $10.45 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.25 plus tips for tipped employees. Senate Bill 256, sponsored by Sen. Louis Blessing, increases the minimum wage 44% for both ...
While it might have made for a decent photo-op, Donald Trump’s visit to McDonald's highlights a glaring weakness that the Harris campaign should exploit: his stance on the minimum wage.
Rachel Greszler from the conservative Heritage Foundation writes that low wage-workers and the economy at large are hurt more than helped by upping the minimum wage.
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]
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.
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 ...
History of the US federal minimum wage. Lower line is nominal dollars. Top line is inflation-adjusted. [1] [2] The Raise the Wage Act is a proposed United States law that would increase the federal minimum wage to US$17. [3] [4] Versions of the bill have been introduced in each United States Congress since 2017.
The federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour and prevails in any state that doesn’t mandate a higher one. It hasn’t been raised in 15 years, primarily due to Republican opposition.