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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.
Looking ahead: Again, the minimum wage in Tennessee hasn’t budged since 2009, when the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 took effect. An effort to boost the state’s minimum wage to $12 by ...
Jackson received public attention in early 2006 as a sponsor of a bill to increase Tennessee's minimum wage to $1.00 an hour above the then-federally required $5.15/hr. Unlike many other states, Tennessee has never had a state minimum wage requirement in excess of the federal rate.
[163] [164] In 2016 New York and California became the first states to pass legislation that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour in each state, [165] [166] followed by Massachusetts in 2018. [167] In April 2014, the U.S. Senate debated the minimum wage on the federal level by way of the Minimum Wage Fairness Act.
The 2010 minimum wage is emerging as a midterm election issue. Connecticut GOP U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon put that in play by recommending the nation review it. In her state it's $8.25.
Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...
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Alamy Last week, California became the first state in the U.S. to pass a law creating a double-digit minimum wage, with Gov. Jerry Brown signing legislation that will increase the current $8 per ...