HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania senator has introduced a bill designed to raise the Commonwealth's minimum wage to $15 per hour by next year, with annual cost-of-living adjustments thereafter. Senate ...

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For more than two decades, Denise Lugo has worked as a home care worker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, caring for elderly ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro again called for lawmakers to raise the state’s $7.25 an hour ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage by more than 100% — from $7.25 to $15 an hour — is being panned by area business owners. Most say they already pay workers more than ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on June 11 approved a plan to hike the commonwealth’s minimum wage using a regional approach that would establish a base pay of $15 in some communities and ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania would raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in 20 of its counties, and to $12 in the rest under a bill the Democratic-controlled state House passed Wednesday. It’s a new ...

The Republican opposition to raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage provides another example of hypocrisy, one that brings to mind Joseph Heller’s classic “Catch-22.” Democrats have long attempted to ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf raised the minimum wage by nearly $3 an hour, to $10.15, for state government employees and workers on jobs contracted by the state in an executive order ...