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Since December 2025, the following hospitals and health systems have said they plan to raise their workers’ pay. Editor note: This webpage was created Jan. 9, and will continue to be updated regularly ...

Advocate Health is pumping $776 million into higher pay and expanded benefits for its 165,000 employees, setting a systemwide minimum starting wage of $18.85 an hour as health systems nationwide ...

In an hourlong debate hosted by ABC-7 Chicago in partnership with Univision and the League of Women Voters, U.S. Rep. Raja ...

As of Sept. 30, 2025, Florida's minimum wage is $14 an hour for non-tipped employees and $10.98 for tipped employees. That's ...

See which states are giving minimum-wage workers a raise — and how much.

Stratton called for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court, accusing the conservative-leaning body, which includes three justices appointed by Trump in his first term, of “rubber-stamping” his agenda. She ...

An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s ...

The Jambar What really is the debate surrounding livable wages? Is it that part-time employees working retail jobs should ...

President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled with wildly inaccurate and often ...

Millions of U.S. workers will start the new year with higher pay as minimum wage increases take effect across the […] ...

One state lawmaker wants to nearly triple the state minimum wage—from the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to $20 an hour.Senate Bill 179'ssponsor Sen. Na ...