“No minimum wage is truly a living wage, but any increase in the wage floor is good for workers,” Yannet Lathrop, a senior ...

In the Great Lakes region, Michigan ranks third, behind $16 an hour in New York and $15 an hour in Illinois. Indiana and ...

Twenty-two states will raise their minimum wage in 2026, while 20 states will remain at the $7.25 federal minimum wage.

This year, for the first time, more Americans will earn a minimum wage of $15 per hour or higher than will earn the federal ...

Standing in the middle of Hartford’s trendy Pratt Street, Gov. Ned Lamont (D) lauded the latest hike of Connecticut’s minimum ...

Four of Iowa's neighbors raised their minimum wage at the start of 2026. See how Iowa's minimum wage compares.

The study, led by Slawa Rokicki, an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, found that a $1 or greater ...

In total, 88 jurisdictions — including 22 states and 66 cities and counties — are slated to increase their minimum wages at ...

A number of states crossed the $15-per-hour threshold that’s long been used as a rallying cry among worker advocates.

A state representative from Louisville hopes the 2026 legislative session will be the one he can get a bill to raise the ...

The state’s minimum wage goes up by $1 to $15 an hour on Sept. 30, thanks to a constitutional amendment Florida voters passed ...