WASHINGTON -- Seeking to fulfill a long-standing Democratic ambition, a coalition of lawmakers introduced a bill on Tuesday that would raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. The measure, ...

A proposed federal act would raise the federal minimum wage law to $15 an hour on January 1, two U.S. senators announced on Tuesday. The Service Employee International Union was fighting for that wage ...

President Donald Trump has rescinded a key Biden-era executive order that had raised the minimum wage for federal contractors to $17.75 per hour, a move that labor advocates warn will negatively ...

July 24 marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage last was increased, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. First established in 1938, the federal minimum wage has plateaued at $7.25 per hour ...

The U.S. minimum wage has been frozen since 2009, leaving today’s workers with significantly less buying power than past ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A pair of lawmakers from each party are renewing a push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, the first such increase since 2009 that comes after prices and the cost of ...

U.S. Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) have introduced the Higher Wages for American Workers Act, which would more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2026.

Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., raised their minimum wage in January. Four more states are poised to do so later this year. Depending on location, new wages range from $9.95 per hour in ...

For months, the Trump administration has been waging a multi-front war on the working class: ending collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, ripping up signed union ...

June 10 (UPI) --The federal minimum wage would rise to $15 per hour, with annual cost-of-living increases based on inflation, in a proposed bipartisan measure. Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Peter ...