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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]
When the New York State Wage Board announced that the minimum wage in New York City would be raised to $15 an hour by December 31, 2018, Patrick McGeehan argued in the New York Times that it was a direct consequence of the Fight for $15 protests, and that "the labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three ...
The White House Office of Personnel Management issued a directive Friday to raise minimum wage to $15 for many civilian government employees. The change went into effect on Sunday, Jan. 30. The...
At the time, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would have reduced the number of people in poverty by 900,000 and increased the pay of about 27 million workers, according to a ...
The highest state minimum wage in 2024 will be Washington state, at $16.28, up from $15.74. A close second is California, which is raising its minimum to $16 from $15.50 on January 1.
Because the Republican Party has opposed raising wages, the federal real minimum wage is over 33 per cent lower today than in 1968, among the lowest in the industrialized world. People have campaigned for a $15 an hour minimum wage, because the real minimum wage has fallen by 43% compared to 1968. [112]
Looking ahead: An increase to Nebraska’s minimum wage to $15 is planned, with the hourly wage rising to $12 in 2024, $13.50 in 2025, and $15 in 2026 PiotrSurowiec / istockphoto Nevada: $11.25
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.