The measure would create different baseline hourly-pay levels depending on county size, with Philly reaching $15 by 2026 and smaller rural areas increasing to $12 by 2028.

A handful of states already have minimum wages at or above $15 an hour. Others have rates far below that benchmark.

The last time a President deployed the National Guard to a state over the objections of the governor was in 1965, when LBJ sent them to protect Civil Rights marchers in Selma in defiance of Alabama ...

Several state and local minimum wage rates will soon increase, beginning on July 1, 2025. This article provides the state and ...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is scheduled for arraignment on human trafficking charges in Nashville, Bannaroo kicks off in Manchester, and a live fish fell from the sky in East Tennessee. Missouri Senator ...

A business on Long Island is on a mission for change. Mark Cronin, the owner of Melville Sock Company, which employs people with various special needs, is calling on state lawmakers to right a major ...

The Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would move the needle on the state’s minimum wage after 15 years of fighting for increases. The bill, which takes an incremental approach to raising the ...

In Rhode Island, both the House and the Senate approved hikes to the state’s minimum wage on Thursday. Under the legislation, ...

The statement Hawley put out could’ve been written by Sanders, too, as it bore his signature mix of working-class virtue signaling and factual inaccuracy.

The House and Senate voted Thursday to approve bills in their respective chamber that would bump the minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2027.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is working to raise the national minimum wage to compete with the rising costs of everything.