Editor’s Note: Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at the Roe Institute at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank in Washington, DC. She is also a ...

An amendment to add an increase to the federal minimum wage to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill failed to pass in the Senate Friday. With eight Democrats joining the 50 Republicans in opposing ...

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Editor’s Note: Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, responds to economist John Komlos’ argument that we should raise the minimum wage to $15 ...

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Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia are raising their minimum wages in 2019. Hourly workers in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware ...

Less than 2% of the workforce and only about 9% of teenage workers work at or below minimum wage. About a quarter of minimum wage workers are ages 16 to 19 with younger employees not even counted in ...

The coronavirus pandemic relief bill passed by the House of Representatives this week would raise the federal minimum wage in steps until it reached $15 an hour in 2025. But an increase in the minimum ...

On Nov. 29, 2012, dozens of fast-food workers assembled at a McDonald's in Midtown Manhattan to demand better pay. Their demonstration kicked off a massive wave of protests for a $15 minimum wage.

Editor's note: This is an excerpt of Planet Money's newsletter. You can sign up here. It's a bold idea. It's simple. There's a catchy slogan: "The Fight for 15." Big names are lining up behind it: ...

State officials have finalized a new minimum wage scale slated to take effect next year, after a Michigan Supreme Court ruling set forward increases to the hourly minimum pay rates for workers ...